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I am just straight up not even bothering to read the Strixhaven MDFCs, which I can't ever remember happening during a spoiler season.

The bolded gives me pause. If I'm sitting down to draft your cube and I get a P1P1 Gearhulk, I'm slamming it and looking to build around it. Might end up being a disappointing draft for me if I find out that that part of the card isn't very well supported. This is all playgroup dependent of...

I remember reading that Grillo thread. For whatever reason, I've always associated "decks not cards" with Sam Black, who has been espousing it as his retail limited draft philosophy (as in, "draft decks, not cards"*) for quite some time, but I'm sure he's not the first to use the phrase. *As...

It's the execution for me. I don't mind when they do their own takes on well-worn fantasy tropes. I don't like that the path they took with the wizard school trope is borrowing so heavily from the actual modern-day experience of going to college. Pop Quiz, Study Break, references to "cramming"...

I dunno, seems suspect that these first-years are just firing off preordains in their intro classes, even if it takes them a little extra effort.

Same.

This is not particularly germane, but man, I can't think of a standard-legal set, ever, with flavor I dislike as much as I dislike this set's.

I was tickled by how many names I recognized in my immediate vicinity. This is the Penny Pincher coast, I suppose.

I've been meaning to make a post about this card, which is objectively probably the worst card in my cube, but also one of my favorites. May I present: reaping the rewards It's your definitely not-busted Zuran Orb replacement. I like centering the land-sacrificing stuff in white anyways...

Kind of disappointed that, in what looks like kind of a guild-adjacent set, these don't signify that they are finding any new territory to explore with these color pairs. edit: I'll grant that the boros card can sacrifice a permanent, so that's new.

Incidental Golems is a great band name.

Man, people are posting screenshots of 2XM board states that look like they’re straight out of riptide cubes.

So far I’ve crushed with RW aggro and UG ramp and have gotten stomped when I’ve tried to draft synergistic decks. Would agree that it’s good-stuffy.

I can see that, it does have a weird tension where the triggered ability looks like it's signaling that this is a weenie payoff when it's really not.

Bygone Bishop This one really does it all.

I'm very excited for this one as its "dense" in the way we've been talking about. slots into multiple red archetypes: artifacts, aristrocrats, ferocious, and dragons if you're cheeky enough. I'm excited about this one for similar reasons: artifact/weenie reanimation support, plus blink...

Aggro decks can rarely afford to take essentially take turn 3 off, and this card chews up your tempo even after its on the board by forcing you to leave up mana to threaten activation.

I only just brought my cube to CC, due to CT not having Ikoria, and haven't done a draft there yet. That said, the fact that Ryan Saxe seems to be working with them (they're applying his recommender algorithm) is a great sign. His recommender (like the bot he developed to draft retail limited...

Well, I have played it a lot in retail limited, but in Ikoria it's a Boros card. :D I think it's definitely playable in a low power cube if you are looking for the effect. Cycling 1 means is never a dead card. It's not anything that's gonna excite your drafters but could be a solid utility...

Agreed that the MTGA cube is wacky. Tons of gold cards and not enough fixing means you’re often forced into three color piles with bad mana. Plus it feels like a solid 20% of the cube is low-power synergy pieces that aren’t part of an actually supported deck so will never be played. The good...