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  1. shamizy

    Card/Deck Tutor for a Tutor...

    Ranger-Captain of Eos Ranger of Eos Mystical Tutor Entomb Goblin Engineer I don't really run very many tutor effects, not a fan of going through the motions if there are too many available, but I do like the more narrow ones. The restrictions are what make them interesting and point drafters...
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    General Optimizing my mana base

    I currently run this as my main fixing suite for cube alongside other offerings: 20 Fetches 15 Shocks (10 Enemy for now) 5 BFZ Lands (Waiting on Enemy Cycle) Mixed Cycle (Manlands + Horizons Cycle) This has worked out pretty well for me. Double fetches I think is a must, it just adds so much...
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    General Zendikar Rising - Magic Panel

    Please god don't give me more hedron land art. It was cool the first go around, but I'm sick and tired of so many random cards having hedrons in theme. It made a lot of the Expeditions less impressive in BFZ with over-saturation. It's been played out like Bolas's horns were on Amonkhet.
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    General Show me your Simic decks

    Hydroid Krasis Hadana's Climb Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath Zegana, Utopian Speaker Simic had always been a somewhat problematic guild to design for over the years, but I think it's really shored itself up over the last two years. I've got a minor +1/+1 subtheme going on in Green with the...
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    General Fight Club

    I don't think they can hang in a higher power level, I definitely would not run these in my cube. They're neat with certain interactions, but they just don't get there unless you're in a very specific deck. The base bodies are just not something I'm interested in at all. I've played the hell out...
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    General Jumpstarting your cube drafts

    I think in the long run it'll be easy enough to sort with just stickers in the bottom left corner (just easier to parse with how most of us fan out a hand of cards). You can even double dip on colors by marking with numbers to denote which pack they came from (i.e. Red I, Blue II, etc.)...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Stifle has always felt way too narrow with it either being insane stopping an early fetch or really underwhelming being a dead draw late in the game. The best analog we have is probably just this guy: Nimble Obstructionist And it's mostly because he's never a dead card. Sure, you won't get...
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    General Jumpstarting your cube drafts

    I had initially brushed off Jumpstart as I won't be able to play the set in person anytime soon, but the concept of it is interesting enough to be worth exploring based off the packs you guys have been coming up with. Seems like a great way to get a quick game or two going between a few people...
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    General Midrange and You

    I feel like current Magic design just lends itself to midrange goodstuff as a default so it isn't really all that necessary to design with it in mind. There's not really an explicit midrange archetype in my cube, it just kind of gets there through a combination of good cards somehow. If I had to...
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    GBS

    Onder, it would be as you said if that were the intention of that post, but that's not what's being portrayed. Like dbs mentioned, equating the two movements is what's being done to legitimize one side and present them as two halves of one coin when that could not be further from the truth...
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    General CBS

    Noah is undoubtedly a scumbag, Nielsen is a little more tenuous. I don't think it's just something as simple as different political beliefs, some of the stuff that she was retweeting was abhorrent: I just think there's a HUGE chasm between someone who is supporting conservative values...
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    General CBS

    I'm not going to remove stuff of Nielsen's that I already have, but I'm not buying anything going forward if I can avoid it. Same with Noah Bradley stuff.
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    Card/Deck The Golgari Swarm (BG)

    The only cards I think I'm going to run forever in my Golgari section are Pernicious Deed and The Gitrog Monster. Deed is just a valuable roleplayer and unique effect, while Gitrog is just so much fun to play and slots into just about everything I want to be doing in those colors. I think the...
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    Card/Deck The Boros Legion (RW)

    It's definitely changed for the better. I pop in every now and then since I use mainly use Reddit for other subs, but around a month back things came to a head and the bigger dipshits ran away back to Discord once people started calling them out and they realized people were tired of their shit...
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    Card/Deck The Boros Legion (RW)

    Feather requires just so much extra leg work to get going. Neat card, but I don't think it's worth running a whole suite of cards that you'd otherwise be ignoring at a given power level. I think Winota is the cleanest and most efficient Boros card available right now. Clear signpost in draft...
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    General CBS

    I still pick up cards if they're at an alright price point and I want them. There's no rush in picking up cards now, aside from EDH which I still get to play via webcam. Not against proxying at all, but I just prefer to have the physical cards in my cube/decks.
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    Sets (M21) Testing/Includes

    Personally I prefer Wrenn and Six of all those options on a pure power level, but I think Radha is better if you're trying to smooth out draws in that archetype. They just provide you with different things. W6 will help you grind out a game, Radha seems like she'd be more proactive by giving you...
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    Sets (M21) Testing/Includes

    I've only got a handful of cards this time around: I like the Lieutenant's ability to slot into a handful of different archetypes and also serve as a form of pseudo-wrath protection. Relevant creature type, decent body, and great synergies to exploit. Slots right into decks that use...
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    General CBS

    Never was a fan of the Snapcaster promo, but it looks WAY better in that old frame. Hell, most cards do.
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    General CBS

    I've been thinking about the implementation of a Dimir Saboteur-lite archetype with so many more bounce spells in cube nowadays and thought a great intersection would work with Ninjas. Added Ninja of the Deep Hours and Mist-Syndicate Naga recently after reading so many good things about them...
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