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  1. shamizy

    General Fight Club

    I would go with Midnight Reaper and Isareth. Reaper has relevant typing with zombie in case you're running Gravecrawlers and it replaces itself once it dies. I like that it encourages aggressive play while having your opponent make decisions about whether it's worth it to let you ping yourself...
  2. shamizy

    General [UMA] Ultimate Masters

    I would imagine that it's probably powerful enough to be featured as a draftable land on its own. The only reason I have it in my ULD currently is because I have Volrath's Stronghold taking up a slot in the main cube and don't want to have two lands with the same color identity.
  3. shamizy

    General Fight Club

    I've tried them both in the past, I think Pridemate was on average better due to being a bear. Lone Rider reads better than it plays from my experience, you need to deploy it on curve or suited up to get the actual payoff. Otherwise it gets walled off by just about everything. I found it very...
  4. shamizy

    General CBS

    Might be me? I did bottom left and right of cards, easier to see when fanning through a pack.
  5. shamizy

    General Fight Club

    Have yet to test either, will run both in the near future, but if I had to choose I'd go with Cratermaker. Being able to represent a shock on a body + stop future colorless plays until it's dealt with for only 1 mana (and no tapping!) is really good. You can also sandbag it for post-combat...
  6. shamizy

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    Yeah, I just drafted Boros bears full of just commons and uncommons on Friday and kind of cruised to an easy 3-0 in my pod. Being able to punch through for a few points early plus chip away with that one guy that you can pay 1W to fly (I had 3) for that turn tends to get the job done. It was...
  7. shamizy

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    I'd love to hear more stories of it actually coming together because it is a sweet card, but I dunno if a 6 mana do nothing is where I would want to be. Seems like you'll have to sandbag a big of set-up just to go off the following turn, though admittedly if you win the game that's a pretty good...
  8. shamizy

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    The idea of Scourge is far more attractive than the actual gameplay. I tried to make it work for a very long time, but no one really bought into it and there were too many hoops to jump through for a not great payoff. It's more cute than effective and often times it was kind of hard to find an...
  9. shamizy

    GBS

    Headed up to Seattle for a long weekend between 11/7 - 11/11 later this year. Any recommendations? Also, anyone in the area want to grab a beer and/or play children's card games?
  10. shamizy

    General Current opinion on duplicates and other Riptidian/Waddellisms?

    The quality would be nice, but ultimately I don't like playing with cards that aren't official. Finding solutions and existing pieces that fit into what I'm trying to build is more interesting to me than having the perfect card to slot in at the ready. The most fun part of cube, for me, is the...
  11. shamizy

    General Current opinion on duplicates and other Riptidian/Waddellisms?

    I haven't updated it in quite a while, but I did have a post detailing my entire process along with photos in my cube thread around a year back. As far as customs go, I enjoy seeing and reading new designs but including them in an environment is just not my thing. It just feels kind of awkward...
  12. shamizy

    General Current opinion on duplicates and other Riptidian/Waddellisms?

    I like them more than AKH cycle duals, but my environment is also a bit more powerful and faster than one where those would truly shine. Coming into play tapped at all times is a bit of a turnoff because more aggressive decks will not be happy drafting them. What I like about the BFZ duals is...
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    General Current opinion on duplicates and other Riptidian/Waddellisms?

    When I first began constructing my cube around 4 1/2 years ago, I took many of Waddell's original cube ideas to heart and implemented them within my own environment and built a 360 offering with double fetch/shock manabase. The issue that crept up early in design was the ease with which greedy...
  14. shamizy

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    I'm feeling these:
  15. shamizy

    General Sunk Cost Fallacy and the impact on the evolution of cube design

    I don't agree with Tezz AoB. He's a powerhouse in environments with early artifact accelerants, but he's very very narrow otherwise and requires to be built around. If you can curve like two artifacts into him and have a ton of hits with the Impulse ability, he's incredible, but that requires...
  16. shamizy

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    Doom Whisperer isn't an ETB value engine, but it is above rate and way pushed for constructed play. I'm not as worried about it in Cube though; it's not particularly difficult to deal with provided you're running a less limited suite of removal. I just don't like how it's an above rate body with...
  17. shamizy

    General Spells Matter: Astonished With a Freedom

    The problem with Delver for me is that the circumstances to make it into a great card are limited. If you drop it early in the game and flip it over off a lucky reveal and manage to push in 6+ points of damage before defenses are up, it's awesome. If it's just a dorky 1/1 like it is most of the...
  18. shamizy

    Sets [C18] Commander 2018

    Commander wise this set is meh, but cube-wise it's been a gold mine so far. I'm already planning on trying out the following cards: Also thinking about putting in Thespian's Stage into my ULD just for wonky shenanigans with Turtle Island.
  19. shamizy

    General Fight Club

    Yeah, I'm with Aston on the Glint-Nest Crane. If you're in the market for a 1/3 that can also block in the air, the Crane is just better and has the upside of filtering and potentially drawing you another card. Augur of Bolas was a passable cube card for a long time. An unconditional ETB draw a...
  20. shamizy

    Sets [C18] Commander 2018

    I'm interested in trying out Saheeli, a nice support piece for UR artifact shells. Being able to turbo out something like a Myr Battlesphere + another relevant spell on T6 off her, a rock and maybe some artifact land(s) is very appealing. Adds even sweeter utility for the Artifact Lands I keep...
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