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Here is another articulation, that mimics our discussions from actual years ago about removal needing to become hyper efficient to keep pace with ETB creatures. Its nice to see people slowly becoming cognizent that power/efficiency/value max can hurt a format, and be quite dull.

Commentating on ravenous chupacabra "...all of the play is in immediacy, there is nothing about investment and drama and suspense...the format is more creatures that summon and do something immediadly, more jackle pups, and more creatures you can't kill." Cathartic to listen to.

I quite like skeletal scrying too, when I wrote that, I meant read the bones. My apologies, I corrected the post. I just got the two cards mixed up. So, here is basically my thoughts on the lands deck. I'm sorry that I wasn't more articulate before. When I saw the vortex and the loam in the...

There is a lot of tech in here that I like, and the list looks solid. Few thoughts: -About drake haven specifically, I've not been overly impressed by the card from a min/max perspective. Its still in the list mostly because its a card that people just seem to enjoy playing, and its blue...

Thats exactly what I've been doing, except clustering the broad mechanics more in shards/wedges, that can taper down into 2-4 more specific guild strategies. I.m.o its the way to go.

I think with freebooter you would ideally want a B/x based tempo shell (but lets be honest, its going to be UB), which shouldn't be that hard to achieve even in fairely high power formats. Anytime where bashing in with 3 power flyers is good (even--especially?--if starting at 3cc) you probably...

Thats not really surprising though. Basically all of the original group basically moved on from magic (which is normal and healthy) and the second wave have more or less settled into their formats. On top of that no one could register for about half the year, reducing the chance of a third...

Also, got to play with this card a lot: kitesail freebooter And its basically just great. The entire point of these cards is to stress removal suites in tempo-shells, so the fact that it can't hit creatures is irrelevent something like 99% of the time. Most of the time its just a...

Kind of surprised no one mentioned this fellow?

Ran the cube over new years, and it was pretty sweet. The ninjas are fully back, they just needed the slight increase in token makers and the better ophidian enablers. Bestow creatures in blue and black go a long ways to making those cards better, and its nice to have found the niche for the...

You assess these cards by gauging how reasonable the floor is, like you would with any card. If a 2/1 for {W} is reasonable in your format than you can run it. Anything beyond that is just upside, and if you have decks that can increase board presence rapidly, than that just means you have an...

This feels rough as hell, but intersting: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/847297[/url]"] Ones 1 Unbridled Growth 1 Vault Skirge Twos 1 Glint Hawk Idol 1 Icefeather Aven 1 Life from the Loam 1 Mycosynth Wellspring 1 Narnam Cobra 1 Nostalgic Dreams Threes 1 Call the Scions 1 Crib Swap 1 Dauntless...

I really like cloudthresher as a green control card, if its ever runnable. I would probably consider these morphs if I was going to go down that line: snowhorn rider ponyback brigade icefeather aven efreet weaponmaster abomination of gudul abzan guide tbh I keep on wanting to draft a 5...

Went through a draft and saw sneak attack. and it occured to me how interesting the cheaty cards might be in this context. Sneak attack's main value might come from solving the fixing problem, being used to force through spells with heavy color requirements, rather than putting in broken cards...

I know we had a few topics pop up years ago when theros came out about enchantment themes. For whatever its worth, the bestow mechanic has been really good with ophidians. Those cards actively want auras (and to my knowledge, ophidians are the only somewhat competitive theme that actively wants...

I would caution with that being too reductive, and those catagorizions aren't really practical when you look at the context of the format. I ran a similar setup with my innistrad format years ago, and the aggro decks pretty much just stomped everything. Midrange decks need to be able to compete...

This is why I'm suggesting not nerfing the removal so much. If anything, its going to have way more pressure on it than before. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/844234[/url]"] Ones 1 Champion of the Parish 1 Champion of the Parish 1 Chromatic Star 1 Gravecrawler 1 Gravecrawler 1 Stromkirk Noble 1...

Thats fine. I would encourage you though to not nerf your removal. Your list isn't being depowered at all, you're just shifting the power focus more towards the low end of the curve. Also, remember that the cards from my list get slots based on the mechanical demands of designed...

Alfonso, this weaponcraft enthusiast tech looks great: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/843997[/url]"] Ones 1 Sinister Concoction 1 Student of Warfare 1 Terrarion 1 Voyager Staff Twos 1 Alchemist's Vial 1 Feat of Resistance 1 Glint Hawk Idol 1 Key to the City 1 Murderous Cut 1 Oona's Prowler 1...