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Managorger Hydra is super sweet IMO - triggering off everything and for both players means it gets out of control quickly and offers tough tradeoffs for the opponent - do they develop their board and grow it even further or try to contain it where it is? By contrast I'm not a fan of the smaller...

BROTHERS' WAR + The Dangers of Synergy At the start of the year I tried to take stock of the problems I had building a Cube that could fit everything I wanted. I realized that I could try splitting my big virtual box of cards into two shells - an Artifact Cube and a Graveyard Cube (modeled on...

A scalable Scales effect and payoff in one is everything I want in a card

aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhsfjsdfjlskdjsdglkjkjhkljl my biggest pet peeve

In Cube Karn is a very clunky way to find a card that you are more likely to want in your deck (if that card is important enough for you to jump through those hoops to find) that also incidentally hoses random artifacts for no good reason

I don't mean to frame it as a definitive criticism (or even my own - I haven't played the recent MTGO Cubes much - or a valid one!), just using it to illustrate various contrasting approaches to that question. In other news, Sam Black's most recent podcast episode is very good on being honest...

Yeah idk about Ashnod. Juiced one-mana sac outlet is up my alley but I feel like there will be a lot of asking what a Powerstone token is and disappointment when I hand them one

The Commander decks were previewed today and this thing stood out to me. As a six-drop it's not that impressive but the 'Scavenge' looks excellent to me - maybe this set can complete the artifact/graveyard crossover?

Not to mention that Ruinator will also be cast as an 'extra' threat from the GY while demanding their best removal spell. I'm happy with that exchange when I cast it the first time and don't need to cast it a second. It's going to be bad in most Cubes (most blue sections lean much more towards...

I didn't even realize my beloved Replenish was discussed here! A few ideas for it: Ones 1 Unholy Heat 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Currency Converter 1 Mox Diamond Twos 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy 1 Dig Through Time 1 Faithful Mending 1 Occult Epiphany 1 Lightning Helix 1 Prismari Command 1 Wrath of God 1...

Got a sudden chance to draft last week so the big box of cards I like came out again! A handful of the decks: Ones 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths Twos 1 Scavenging Ooze 1 Saffi Eriksdotter 1 Grim Flayer 1 Apprentice Necromancer 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods 1 Sylvan Advocate 1 Raffine's Informant 1...

How would you react to this Cube house rule: the Day/Night cards work as usual except that you 'freeze' the time if there are no day/night cards in play e.g. I play [[Graveyard Trespasser]], it's now day; my opponent does nothing and it now becomes night; I sacrifice it on my turn, it now stays...

Yeah a big part of Magic's current wordiness problem isn't just that the cards are more complicated or do more, it's that the simple and grokkable stuff still takes so long to express in Magic-ese. Shaving a few words off one of the most common rules phrases is a big and welcome development IMO

Ardoz is super cool. Murderous Redcap ho

Yeah, I remember being told in 2014 that I would get used to the new frame. Still haven't, doubt I ever will, give me some thicc 8th Edition borders anyday

My feelings on this are complicated. The game does feel different in a lot of ways and is clearly marketed at a different crowd now but how much of this is that the game or some aspect of it is worse rather than personal priorities and circumstances changing? I remember posting here in the...

Big fan of this, have happily used it in all 3+ modes Bannerhide Krushok

Jace, the Mind Sculptor This lad isn't what he used to be in Constructed. What about Cube? I keep flirting with including it again as a generally strong card that also supports a bunch of synergies but shied away in the past because it was so dominating if played/defended early and I want to...

POLYMORPHISM The card Polymorph used to be notable for a few reasons: the phallic imagery that prompted the art to be cropped in future printings, a local cheater's extensive collection of Mirage Polymorphs, and it's uniqueness. Despite a few clones later (including the creatively titled Mass...

-- Puts stuff back into your deck for effects that need that (Oath, Polymorphs, Elvish Reclaimer etc) -- One of the few ways to draw a card for free at instant speed -> good with Miracles and the Jolrael/Irencrag Pyromancer family of cards -- Buys back the 'big finish' card if you can mill...