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Reality Scramble A very cool/weird card that I'm obliged to mention in any retrace convo

Inchblade Companion/Expedition Supplier if you don't like Alchemy cards, but these ones could easily be 'real' and are compelling enough to be worth the effort IMO

Example WR Artifact deck (featuring some narrow and/or fake cards but also a lot of generically playable ones): Ones 1 Ephemerate 1 Galvanic Blast 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe 1 Shadowspear 1 Esper Sentinel 1 Fervent Champion 1 Rabbit Battery 1 Inchblade Companion 1 Thraben Inspector Twos 1...

Playing with Prowess, Sprite Dragon etc really drove home how big the difference between instant/sorcery and noncreature is

Yeah, I forgot the Hogaak from that sample list but that was my finding too - even though I was worried it would be too much it does such a good job of bringing these different strands together and is also cool as hell

I really like the WGx Earthcraft deck (you can see a Naya example in my thread here) that has been catching on around here recently and I look for ways to fold a lot of themes I like under the same umbrella: -- WR Artifacts can encompass Tokens(/go-wide), Equipment(/go-tall), Humans (a lot of...

The Laelia point got me thinking: when the Cube has so many format-defining custom cards, how do you want the 'top shelf' cards to be distributed between 'real'/custom?

new cards are cool they should make some every day

There's a good chance that Saw in Half is the only card I end up caring about from the set and we knew about it 9 months ago

Who gives a shit! Talk about the cool cards!

WARHAMMER 40K I wasn't expecting to write another set review this soon - I don't think I knew this set was even being previewed and released yet until a week or two ago? - but I was blown away by what we got. Each of the first few decks offered a Cube haul to rival the average retail set. The...

This Warhammer spoiler season is such an unexpected blessing. I like how I wrote off the Necron deck as a dud earlier today and now it has its own batch of cards I love that would rival a normal full set by itself

Riptide Lab Podcast fans in shambles

I think I like Old One-Eye? It's possible that it just stamps on any interesting part of itself with its raw numbers but if I'm pushing the envelope elsewhere I want my sixes to take over games and this one does that while tying into other themes I like and being splashable (an upside here since...

Draftapalooza - Baltimore A few weeks ago I made the trip to Baltimore to play in the SCG team event but also to hang and Cube as much as possible. Due to real life distractions my Cube wasn't quite as refined as I'd like and followed the 'here's a big box of cards I like' approach (especially...

DOMINARIA UNITED These Dominaria sets feel quite safe, with all that implies. You get the familiar warmth of the backdrop for Magic for much of its early-middle era and the proven mechanics from visits to Dominaria five or twenty years ago. A lot of mechanics are just riffs on kicker and every...

PROMOTING VARIETY IN CUBE Some thoughts on how to create more varied experiences in Cube: Macro-archetypes The first answer you hear to 'what types of deck are there?' usually involves aggro, control, and... something. In the early days of Magic this was combo, with a suggested...

The incentive problem is my biggest issue with Lands, which I really want to support as an archetype. In Vintage Cube you have to recur Strip Mine over and over or punk people out with Depths + Stage; otherwise the best you can do is Field of the Dead, which is repetitive in its own way and...

I don't really understand the obsession with Death's Shadow. It's a unique incentive but one that only works under the very specific constraints of on-demand fetches + shocks (just look at how it fell flat in Historic) and I think in practice it would be very hard to draft an appealing Shadow...

CONTENT ALERT I had the pleasure of joining Andy + Anthony on Lucky Paper Radio this week to talk about Constructed, Cube, the crossover there, and Cube as a form of personal expression https://luckypaper.co/podcast/112/