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You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about: Niv-Mizzet, the FiremindThe Locust God My favourite UR mini-theme at the moment is maximizing draw/discard triggers with Chasm Skulker, Drake Haven, TLG, and my pet card Alhammarret's Archive; I hadn't even considered Niv-Mizzet, and I...

Some big updates coming soon; for now I don't want the indignity of being pushed off Page 1 but, much more importantly, I got to Cube with Chris while I was in Toronto! Managed to 4-0 with this: Ones 2 Gravecrawler 1 Kytheon, Hero of Akros 1 Cryptbreaker Twos 1 Tidehollow Sculler 1...

ok but when did it have extort

Lots of you are prison abolitionists but some us want to watch the hope drain away as the villain's few outs end up in any zone but their hand, somehow. Ensnaring Bridge The basic problem with prison cards is they tend to be heavily polarized: either they do nothing and it's not fun, or they...

I don't think Rise is worth it unless you can cast Fall, but the card as a whole is super sweet so make the effort IMO Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver can lead to some really interesting boards but it also kinda busted especially in Cube. In general though I love the 'steal your opponent's cards'...

AFAICT we haven't discussed this yet: It's an awkward colour combination for it, but this card is ridiculous in any proactive deck: you refill your hand every turn while shutting down their reactive cards (e.g. against a blue deck, if they draw a land at the end of their turn they either...

I'm trying a lot of artifact subthemes at the moment so that might be warping my perspective but I've really liked this deck even in Cubes that don't give it explicit support. It's strong and interesting in its own right but also ties together other WR themes: the tokens/go-wide deck loves...

was just a general argument in favour of my dragony boi

'Eternal Dragon isn't good enough' is my litmus test for whether my Cube's power level is too high for my liking

I met him on Monday. I have no idea how to process this. Fuck.

Extricator is sweet, I'll have to try that Bygone Bishop has been a lot better than Mentor of the Meek for me. The type of deck that has a bunch of cheap creatures usually wants to curve out and use the relatively low cost of its threats to develop its board more and more quickly. Having to...

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The threat of it plays a big part - it effectively 'locks out' X/1s since you can always pick them off if it's worth spending a card on that, and if you have enough graveyard interactions the dredge can be roughly equal or even better than a card (also, decks that have a lot of cheap creatures...

those are cute i want one

Best green aggro card: Warden of the First Tree Green aggro is great but the whole point is that you don't have to (or get to) run many 1-drops*. Your 2-drops are strong enough (especially the gold ones) that you don't need to curve out perfectly to present a good offense. *I've seen...

IMO Innistrad is better at highlighting another important design principle: you can put as much cute stuff in your format as you want but it doesn't matter if you don't have the time/mana to cast your spells

In a Cd deck (i.e. a deck that's predominantly C), sure, but a CD card can fit in a Cd or Dc deck whereas 1DD is likely off the table in Cd and vice versa

Jason has a good argument about this

The Bant Flash decks in Standard with Advent, Snapcaster, Resto, Sphinx's Revelation, and a bunch of Charms were really fun. Torrential Gearhulk on Advent is a Cube bucket list item

That's been my experience with a lot of the Commander cards: they look sweet but it's hard to imagine a deck where they shine unless they're the best things going on