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  1. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    A few things, it worries me that you ended up with so many (4?) themes together in the same deck, but I'm also glad this could work out. It might be because of the drafting AI, but this gives me the impression I don't have enough cards of each theme to fully support the decks I'd want to. I'm...
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    General Speculation-Thread

    Let's take this off topic again: One thing I like about Rakdos that I thought of doing in a more artifact-centric version of my cube is to place an emphasis on baubles. Imagine a Combo-Control Rakdos deck with 8 Chromatic stars. The extra fixing/cantriping lets you play fewer lands. You play...
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    General Speculation-Thread

    Not a chance. If you deal X to an opponent and Mill them X, you'll kill them with damage before they mill out. Maybe three times if lifegain is strong, but I even doubt that. They won't provide two ways of killing your opponent at once that don't synergise. Maybe Instead of damage you mill? But...
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    A deceptively bad cube

    While writing the above, I felt I had surprisingly little to say, so I'll try again now, and just go through my thoughts, rather than the results, since I always like reading other's thoughts. I feel aggro/tempo decks might be too weak. And there's been talk about removal being too rare /...
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    General Speculation-Thread

    When ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player mills X where X is ~'s Toughness.
  6. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    Ok Grillo, now that I've digested it, and played it again (this time I think with fewer issues with removal), but 0-3 Sg (+1/+1 counter lifegain) did express that his games vs 2-1 My (WB Artifact Aristocrat Aggro) were very one-sided, which may be what has been mentioned about playing from...
  7. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    Sorting the decks into their card types per cmc is fairly quick, but I do that while doing other things. As for the actual typing? Each deck might take me about (lemme check... 2 minutes and 53 seconds). 5 minutes per deck might make sense, including the sorting, and the formatting (which is...
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    A deceptively bad cube

    I'm sorry again, Grillo, between today and tomorrow one evening is groceries, and the other is replying to you, but for now, draft report of saturday: [3-0] Me - BR Control This is me, cube extraordinaire! [2-1] Ay - BGw +1/+1 Midrange He often plays 5c control, and played Grixis control in...
  9. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    Apologies, Grillo. I typed the following up, and it took me about three times longer than expected, I won't be able to also answer your post today. Soon. Here's decks from the last draft: Along with some thoughts Wondered heavily about splashing blue, and also about the Warmonger's Chariot...
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    A deceptively bad cube

    Real quick: While I do have 34 creatures with toughness 4 or greater, a great deal of them are not as "big" as what we find in the penny pincher cube. The penny pincher cube 1.0 has 4 creatures with toughness 4 or more with less than 4 power: Auriok Salvagers Mnemonic Wall Kessig...
  11. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    Thanks for this. I did the same thing. Looking at 5 vs 6 toughness creatures. I totally missed 4, thank you. I'll have a look and report my thoughts.
  12. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    What would it need to work? I don't have baubles/sac artifacts, but it could work with artifact creatures. I finally had a (5 player) draft. I'll post more info soon, but one comment I got was that there seems to be a lack of removal, both mass and single target. Also that the removal seemed...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    :Salivates: I've cut mine for Recoup though because I run Burning Vengeance and its ilk.
  14. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    I've sat and thought hard of the making of build-around cards and realized that "Dynavolt Tower" are not it. Looking for replacement. Bosium Strip would be the ideal card, if not for the fact that it cares about graveyard order. Any colorless suggestions? Otherwise, I'll look at my list of...
  15. CaptnIrony

    A deceptively bad cube

    I've not drafted with the changes no. I'll put a draft report when I do though. Hm... Short on playables worries me... I've found a format I liked playing with the cube, it's based on booster wars or whatever. At the start of the session, everyone gets a pack (15 cards) and shuffles in...
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    General CBS

    Not really. I didn't super notice. I knew that between Disruptive Student and his next printing he changed quite a bit, but that's still the artist. I don't usually pay attention to this stuff, so I didn't know until my friend commented that people have been talking about it. For funzies in our...
  17. CaptnIrony

    GBS

    Time is a tool you can put on your wall, or wear it on your rizt. The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist. What's the time? Its quarter to nine, time to have a bath. What do you mean, we're already clean? Scrub scrub scrub till the water's brown. Time is a tool used to measure the...
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    General Battlebond 2018

    I realised right after I posted, but then just left it. Question! Why? In most cubes, people support the 10 2 colour combinations, is there a difference with this now? How has it changed things?
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    General CBS

    I think don't see it being anything else though. It makes more sense to me that she happens to know more about different "races" than one might expect, or that she's parroting something she's read/seen somewhere (this could be for a multitude of reasons) than that she thinks Teferi is somehow...
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    General Battlebond 2018

    Reading the title, before seeing the card, I was expecting a sorcery for 1WU that drew you two and gained you three life... I'm actually a bit disappointed.
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