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Thanks Velrun, but you’re burying the lead! This is used in the commander card Farid, Enterprising Salvager, and I like it from both a mechanical and flavour perspective. Farid is not so useful in a standard 1-vs-1 cube, but the both red and black have a history of recycling artifacts, and...

Is that a Pokeball he’s swinging around? If so he should be summoning creatures, not drawing lands. Secondly, what’s going on under his bottom lip? Overgrown soul patch? Minimalist goatee? Shave it all off or grow a proper beard. I will not cube this card.

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer and Sharuum the Hegemon want to know why this isn’t actually Esper.

It’s destroying lands rather than fetching them, but I altered an Armageddon in the style of Van Gogh.

Are they running out, or is it because more creatures are designed for commander? Generic creatures tend to have two word names, legends tend to be “Awesome McCoolname, Slayer of the Infinite“.

The top right set contains cards that were unique to Jumpstart from 2020 (some of those cards may since have been reprinted. I don’t know, it’s hard to keep up). The bottom right will also contain unique cards, though only a handful have been spoiled so far. As for buying packs vs buying...

Wanting all of these all the time means I am seriously considering an all proxy cube.

Designing jumpstart packs is also quite fun. I think a few of the forum members did this. My list is here.

But Flashback and Kicker do mix, so you can get an inevitable 1/1 goblin.

I quite like Ultimate Price as it can pick off any creature except the multicoloured archetype payoff creatures, allowing it to disrupt engines without crippling them completely.

@Chris Taylor, those are some lovely designs. The Dominik Mayer art for the knight is particularly good.

I find this very curious. WotC have done/have announced a number of things I consider irksome, but DMU seems respectful of the lore, captures some of the feel of Invasion block draft, and is a solid set mechanically. Seems an odd hill to die on.

The first thing I’d do is standardise my tokens. No more warriors, kithkin, humans, human warriors, human soldiers. If you’re white and a 1/1 you’re a soldier and you’ll follow orders, maggot.

How much would you pay for a printer that produced “genuine” magic cards?

Poor Mark Tedin. If the M30 art director felt the need to crop the image that harshly, they could at least have left the signature out of the frame rather than transplanting it back into the image.

Often when I play Midnight Reaper it is the first creature my opponent targets with removal, so at least I am up a card on the deal. Haruspex allows my opponent to trade one for one, and often gain a little tempo into the bargain.

I did keep damage on the stack with a past play group, up until about 2013. Then I moved house and my new cube group also played other formats, so used the new rules. In your example, if the archer had first strike it could still be bounced after dealing damage, even using modern rules.

I run discard matters cards in Jund, but hadn’t spotted Faldorn before. I might give it a try, as it overlaps with Temur lands.

Bouncing your own creatures was more powerful when damage went on the stack, and I wonder if the prevalence of bounce spells in some cubes is a hangover from the past. Another way to approach this archetype is to include reanimating spells. Typically this would be in black but there are...

I also assumed Velrun’s news items were satirical. Though this is partly because the national news here in Britain is increasingly absurd.