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Yeah, that was very disappointing to see over at MTGS forums but it was expected. If X card can't break into some arbitrary top 4 within guild ranking at a given cube size, they won't even sniff it. Synergies be damned. They were all super hyped over new 2/3 pushed rare though while most of us...

Aetherspouts has too many situations where it just won't come through. What if your opponent is attacking you with just one big guy and holding back other attackers after seeing it in G1? Can you afford to keep up 5 mana for multiple turns? Evacuation just seems better to me if you're looking...

Fauna Shaman is great, a fixed Survival of the Fittest and that card is amazing. Useful for tutoring up a threat in the late game if you've drawn a dork on T6+, can fill the graveyard with cool reanimation targets as a discard outlet, and has a solid body to boot. I added the card like a month...

Mind Twist is some dumb shit, I'd probably pick that b/c I don't think I can lose if I destroy their hands unless they're super aggro and already dumped it on the field. Other than that, probably sword of Wolf and Mill or JTMS.

Heelcutter is so much better and more relevant, new goblin doesn't come close to matching it in utility or interesting play.

Ayli, Jori-En, or Oath of Nissa. Those are the three cards that I'm most interested in and definitely will be cubing in the near future.

Thanks, my cube is pretty high power level, but I've looked to pursue more synergy based strategies and whatnot. The mana is good enough to consistently go 3 colors with many decks, but 2 color pairs offer bigger rewards and more explosive decks if you stick within and read the signals for a...

Nah, as far as I know he didn't get a chance to pull off that line. It was mostly like one dork early in the game to ramp out though that line is definitely one I didn't see when I typed it up. I don't think I've ever seen facedown Rattleclaw in my cube, the dork --> Rattleclaw curve seems...

So we ran a two team draft where we had the 8 drafters alternate between the teams they were on. One team had two 3-0 decks (since we all ended being too hungry to finish another round). These were the lists, and there's a more detailed write-up at my cube thread: Ones 1 Sylvan Safekeeper 1...

Ran an 8-man draft earlier tonight, decided to try a few new things out. First, I used a different method of creating packs from normal to even out the color distribution a bit more. I saw this posted on Reddit a few days ago and it worked out pretty well for us tonight, probably my go-to for...

Fiery and Wretched are cool with actual play to them because all of the modes are actually live in many cubes, Verdant and Righteous aren't interesting enough for me to run (clearly way better in EDH), and Mystic Confluence is a better Cryptic like 90% of the time i.e. ridiculously overpowered.

Rule one of Riptide Lab: nothing is off-topic at Riptide Lab.

Grave and Inferno Titan were ridiculously strong, you're going to want to splash for them in almost every deck you end up constructing because they're such powerful finishers. I cut them both a long while back due to how uninteractive they were. Prime Time is fair and a great payoff target for...

I had Koth for a long while, but he wasn't too exciting. You only want him in one deck, he usually just animates a dude and bashes in before you create your emblem and ping the opponent to death. There just wasn't a whole lot of play to it. I've since gone with Chandra, Pyromaster and Sarkhan...

I don't have a dedicated mill theme so I'll see how it works out. The Eldrazi reset plan is just what I've taken from Sidisi EDH where Ulamog and Kozilek (and Gaea's Blessing) were the reset buttons after self-milling for a zombie army. I think with only old Kozilek in a 420 list it's good...

Looks like we might end up cubing tomorrow, about time I got off my lazy butt and logged the edits that I've made over the last few weeks (mostly tonight): OUT Icefall Regent Force Spike Misdirection Vampire Nighthawk Sidisi, Undead Vizier Doomwake Giant Nekrataal Night's Whisper Devour Flesh...

I'm currently running: Battle Screech Think Twice Chainer's Edict Faithless Looting Firebolt Nightbird's Clutches Reckless Charge Lingering Souls Unburial Rites I love Flashback, it and Cycling are my favorite mechanics to play with. I like how all of these have played and the jury is...

Refereshing take on cube design, love the article and the reasoning behind the changes. It's only a matter of time before 6 Brainstorm and 3 Birthing Pod. I can feel it.

TV is pretty good right now, I watch way more than I should. TV shows, Magic and basketball are my three hobbies that I devote way more of my time to than I should. I guess I'll start with Netflix offerings: Finished Master of None a few weeks ago at the beginning of winter break, it's a...

Yeah, not a fan of Putrid Imp either. It's the kind of card that will be a perennial last pick unless someone is building the reanimator deck. You want cards that can function well outside of one specific archetype or have enough support to make it a non-embarassing mid-pick. It's cool that it's...