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Alright, my final testing/inclusion list with the set spoiled are the following cards: Decent number of cards to test out with this set. They're giving R/G colors some interesting tools to work with, I'm a fan of the simple designs of both Viv and Domri as I've pointed out...

Wow Kefnet is incredible. 4/5 flier for 4 is already ahead of the curve, having the god recursion is just gravy. Becomes nutty with any instant speed card draw letting you do normally sorcery speed stuff on your opponent's turn. Looters have even great utility with this on the field. Like Gnoll...

Pig is incredibly pushed. I will never play it in Cube, but I will laugh maniacally in EDH.

I'm quite interested in seeing this. The Monarch mechanic is a good way to encourage interaction and aggressiveness in multiplayer formats where players tend to turtle up and build up their bases before going off, but I haven't had good experiences with it in a 1 on 1 scenario. It's been...

Makes sense, I know a lot of people who prefer movies to TV shows as the escape for a little over 2 hours is just what they need, but series that can be 10+ hours long per season are much more difficult to get into. It's a little different if you do pick up the show early enough to where it's...

Nah, Jace isn't quite on that level of degeneracy, though he is quite powerful on his own. It really depends upon your environmental constraints however. If your aggressive decks have enough reach to actively pressure a card like Jace, then he can be contained. Where he'd really shine is in any...

Just making up for Battle for Zendikar 4 years later

Oh yeah, I've been playing that one for a bit now. Big fan of it, it has definitely overperformed. I especially liked the one time someone made Ghalta into a 24/24 for a one shot. I also think it's kind of important to have generic markers for archetypal support every now and then. Simic is just...

Not the biggest fan of planeswalkers, but there are some cool designs here that I'm digging. Both Domri and Viv looks excellent to me. Viv makes your opponent have something bigger or have the removal spell to push through whatever is protecting her and I also love how the 2nd ability...

I'm excited for new cube cards, I strongly dislike the entire concept of this product however. It's going to be so prohibitively expensive to pick up anything new that becomes a staple card at higher rarities. Such blatant cash grabs are just gross to me.

I think Mystic is far more interesting and it's not even close. Delver is pretty lacking unless you flip it right away and can begin applying pressure, Big Delver doesn't really do anything to fix those same issues. Mystic has deckbuilding potential, provides a more interesting puzzle to solve...

Aside from Cube and retail Limited, EDH is my preferred way to play Magic. It's pretty much the only format that still gives me the sense of discovery and wonder with wacky card combinations from when I started playing the game. It's nice to look at a new card and think whoa, that looks fun, how...

If I had to choose one of them, I'd go with Dig. Getting the 2 best cards out of the next 7 you were going to draw is much better than 3 randomly drawn cards. Like others have mentioned, the first delve spell is kind of a free roll in your typical Riptide cube, but you've got to work for the...

Assuming this is a real question and I'm not just wooshing. It's close, you're on the right track. It should be more like "confirmed your suspicions"; he's said something in line with what you were thinking in the first place.

I think I like Guardian better since it has a better base case scenario of a relevant body. They both function as your final payoff/anthem guys, but the 2/3 body on Captain is very lacking and I don't think you really want to take a turn off for Outlast if your goal is to go wide and then tall...

I'd go with Garrison ahead of Warboss, especially if you're playing Champion of the Parish and Thalia's Lieutenant in your list. You get more triggers because the tokens are also human, Garrison plays well with any go-wide strategies you have with anthems or something like Purphoros, God of the...

Drafted Swoopydo's cube blind without looking at the list, I think it came together pretty well: Ones 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim 1 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Ponder 1 Serum Visions Twos 1 Anticipate 1 Explore 1 Glory-Bound Initiate 1 Into the Roil 1 Mistmeadow Witch 1 Rampant Growth 1 Shelter 1 Sprout Swarm...

Agree completely with that post from Grillo, it's definitely a common mistake most cube designers make when trying to buff up their aggro suite. Lucky for us, we've gotten many cool toys to play around with to add variety and flavor to the various aggressive builds that people are capable of...

That Spectacle demon is incredibly pushed. Assuming you have an aggressive deck tailored to consistently play that on T3, which seems easy, it's just a boatload of damage on an incredibly efficient body. Why not at least make it a 4/3 or something? Nice round stats make it kind of difficult to...

Haven't posted anything in a really long time, but I might actually have a cube draft fire in about two weeks so stay tuned for that! For this post, however, I think I'm just going to touch upon a few cards from 2018 that I thought were interesting and lay out some shells/combinations within my...