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Torrential Gearhulk is the control savior we've been waiting for. All hail the Iron Giant.

I was thinking of a few changes for my cube with a Kaladesh patch and was thinking of how I would slot Pia Nalaar in. Pia and Kiran Nalaar have been great, but I don't want those back-to-back with such similar effects. Then I remembered this guy from Origins: Thopter Engineer When it was...

The lifestyle of a pro isn't glamorous in the least, especially if you're a hardcore grinder, but this guy just seems super depressed beyond Magic.

I just tried drafting the PT cube twice now. I got stuck midway through pack 2 both times and didn't know what to draft at all. Everything was too narrow or crappy or off color. I really don't understand how you navigate your way through unless literally everyone else at the table cements...

This is my biggest regret. I usually pick up foils early for cube and I had the U/B/R Gearhulks on my short list. I was busy Friday/Saturday and forgot about the PT till Saturday afternoon. By then it was too late, already spiked up to $45+. Hopefully they dip back down in a month to a...

Don't care for any of these to be honest, none of them really interested me. I really do not like the Pro Tour one, it's too narrow. You don't have a critical mass to build the synergistic decks from the early 00s without breaking singleton, not enough enablers to shape certain archetypes. The...

She's really badly positioned in the current meta. You can't really take a turn off to play her on curve when you're getting beat down by hyper aggro RW or facing down an Aetherworks Marvel flipping up a game-ending Emrakul or Ulamog. I think she's a good card, just not busted enough to warp a...

I emerged a Deep Fiend from an early Tasigur that last time we drafted. Then I held off my opponents removal with counterspells and Venser, Shaper Savant. It was amazing. It's such a sweet curve-topper.

That card is a lot less impressive when you aren't powering it out on the back of a devotion fueled Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx activation and can cast essentially anything you flip up.

Magic story articles are always hit and miss, but this week's episode was one of the better ones they've released. The parts in Kaladesh were whatever, but all of the scenes in Kamigawa were fantastic. Ajani probably has the most character development of any of the characters that we've come across.

Expedition Map is slow and not really worth it unless you have some super key piece to fetch up. Even then, a Map drawn past turn 3 is just so miserable. It shines more when the format is slower and you aren't punished for it (like in EDH).

There is definitely a point of oversaturation of fixing, but if you're clocking in around 40/360 or 50/450 then you're right on the money. You don't want anyone to every draft a really cool archetype but unable to play it due to a lack of fixing being available throughout the draft. Sure, if a...

Oviya is kind of a cool card, but it doesn't really fit into my cube at all. In a different environment with more of a focus on artifacts, it's probably sweet if you have a way to abuse the Servo production. For most of our cubes though, you probably have something better to do with 3 mana most...

I went 2-2 last night with a BWu deck without any real bombs. First two rounds were grindy, then I got smacked by better versions of my deck with actual bombs in the final two rounds. Didn't really open anything value and the deck wasn't all that memorable, still fun though. I think this will be...

The only problem I had with my land base was that splashing was too easy and double fetch/double shock made it so that you could play 3-4C decks without many real issues. Sure, you might stumble here and there trying to curve out with double CC costs at times, but the raw power of being able to...

Looks like Kaladesh cards are now in the database for images. What are you guys looking at adding on first glance? I've got these: Angel of Invention Torrential Gearhulk Noxious Gearhulk Gonti, Lord of Luxury Combustible Gearhulk Chandra, Torch of Defiance Contraband Kingpin Skysovereign...

I'm planning on running the UBR Gearhulks for sure. I'm a fan of all of their designs and can think of hilarious decks with the red one and stuff like Blasphemous Act, Bedlam Reveler or Delve cards being run alongside it. Having haste instead of first strike would have made the draw/damage...

I'm very very happy with the Masterpiece series. It's a cool thing if you open it, and it's going to cheapen the rest of the set if chase cards are reprinted each time. I'm all for being able to pick up my singles for cheaper, especially any foils.

I love this set so much. Artifacts were a fledgling theme that were kind of difficult to pull off with cool payoffs but not enough ways to get there, but we've gotten so many interesting cards. That hasty Mailbug is interesting for sure, but I have no idea what the average case would be. I...

I like the new Life Drifter, but gold slots are difficult to free up if it isn't supplementing an existing theme or bringing something interesting to the table. I like that this card exists, but I don't see myself using it in my cube any time soon.