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Nobody has shown yet that Thoughtseize taking your best card in a subpar draw creates any more non-games or negative variance than Bolt killing your T1 Birds in a mana-light draw or Mana Leak countering your one threat that you spent your whole turn to play. Those are effects that AFAIK...

Random brainstorming: Kolaghan's CommandSoul ManipulationGrim DiscoveryRise // Fall I've liked using these to give black a role in spell-heavy URx decks by recurring creatures that recur spells - Goblin Dark-Dwellers, Snapcaster, Jace VP, Torrential Gearhulk, Mnemonic Wall. With cycling they...

The original Modern Masters was beloved by a lot of the Spikiest pros and you could build a Cube modelled on that set that doesn't have to serve any other masters (e.g. making Blood Moon/Chalice of the Void 'more affordable' for Modern). A thoughtfully designed Pauper/Peasant Cube has a lot of...

One of my oldest memories of Riptide Lab is Jason making fun of me for loving Magus of the Tabernacle I'd have thought the information is most useful in Cube; in Constructed you usually know the rough contents of someone's deck after the first few turns and you know which cards are likely to...

I've also found Tog to be lackluster unless you deliberately support it but the Upheaval thing also works before then: cast it when you have 6 mana, make the first land drop, then when you play Tog it's basically The Abyss. I want to put in a good word for the Masticores but the heads-up...

I love Restore Balance (it's one of the decks I want to try for GP Copenhagen), you're a hero

Won a PPTQ with Marvel: Ones 4 Attune with Aether Twos 4 Censor 2 Anticipate 4 Woodweaver's Puzzleknot 4 Harnessed Lightning 2 Aether Meltdown Threes 2 Kozilek's Return 2 Rogue Refiner Fours 4 Glimmer of Genius 4 Aetherworks Marvel Sixes 1 Nissa's Renewal 1 Torrential Gearhulk 4...

maybe we aren't aiming high enough: Drake HavenAttunementBazaar of Baghdad

What are you hoping to do with it? The deck doesn't really need a sweeper (and if you want one you can play Anger of the Gods or something else that doesn't tax your resources). Save it for dinging your Hornet Nest for 18 IMO

^after three months I should probably get round to that anyway, updates! We found a local place that's convenient and free for Cubing so that's hopefully more regular now. The guy who has a lot of Cubes brought his latest creation, a mono-black Cube that was a rough draft but had a...

Overdue updates: - Went 10-5 with Marvel at GP New Jersey, format sucked and I misbuilt my deck badly but still had fun; North American GPs are a lot more relaxing for a number of reasons - Split a SCG IQ with this little number courtesy of Zac Elsik and random forum people: Ones 3 Mox...

I thought it was wholly advertent and now I'm disappointed

The more I hear about software development the more Magic reminds me of a piece of legacy code that has done the job very well but would look totally different if designed nowadays

how do we all feel about Purphoros nowadays?

adore the cycling lands, 'finding room' for these + creature lands + Temples is a struggle but who cares about voodoo accounting I'll just play what I want

the best things about the new masterpieces are the mild orientalism and the impossibility of recognizing them on coverage

Archfiend + Noose Constrictor is hilarious Cycling is so great

I'm there from the 12th-23rd and can be pretty flexible so lmk!