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  1. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    Didn't they have some colour hate cards in hour of devastation as well?
  2. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    Just dropping in to say I had chamber sentry during prerelease and it was really good. Now it probably helped that I had and played chromatic lantern but pleased I'm adding it to the cube. Really good when I could give it death touch, and related, I was super impressed with status // statue. So...
  3. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    If always probably play the sifters. Axe is good but you really want to be discarding something that wants to be in the graveyard.
  4. Alfonzo Bonzo

    The Penny Pincher Cube 2.0--Inventors' Fair

    I do like the mono cycling lands, but they feel like a low pick, even though they have good synergy. How about the five lairs? Untapped and bounce friendly. treva's ruins
  5. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General Current opinion on duplicates and other Riptidian/Waddellisms?

    Might steal this approach for my archetypes list I still need to write up, seems like a good approach.
  6. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    I'm definately down for: murmuring mystic this is super cool, and I'll replace talrand for it. The toughness is great and I love you can clone it for fun and profit. radical idea swapping out think twice. Like it's cheaper, like it's another discard outlet. venerated loxodon I think this will...
  7. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    I am sad about the missed opportunity to have good jump start cards. :(
  8. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    Chamber sentry looks great. Probably a bit more in the low powered side but looking forward to including this.
  9. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General Color Pair Draft Archetypes

    noyan dar, roil shaper Soulfire grand master Though for me, it's more a way to bridge blue spells matters into white rather than a true theme.
  10. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    The new red Enchantment doesn't rally support hellbent though because you still draw cards, but you can't play them from your hand. Or am I missing something?
  11. Alfonzo Bonzo

    The Mox Cube

    Welcome to the forum! Your cube looks fun and sounds like your group are really enjoying it. Thanks for sharing. I would certainly be interested in your follow up topics, particularly about zuran orb.would also be interested in seeing some decklists. And just a couple of questions : Why did you...
  12. Alfonzo Bonzo

    Alchemist's Crucible

    Design principles: Focus on synergies, archetypes, and creative drafting and deckbuilding Here's ravebornmuse talking about synergies vs. good stuff in a way better than I can probably articulate: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/single-card-spotlight.99/page-245#post-68097 The graveyard...
  13. Alfonzo Bonzo

    Sigh, a Cube

    I think Arcane Encyclopedia is actually really good. Depends on your format speed though.
  14. Alfonzo Bonzo

    Alchemist's Crucible

    Design principles: Active focus on reducing non-games When playing with smaller numbers of players, non-games (mana screw, mana flood, difficult to deal with bombs) feel much worse. Sure, you can shuffle up and start again, but with less variety in opponents and decks, you want to make those...
  15. Alfonzo Bonzo

    Alchemist's Crucible

    Design constraints * Singleton * No double-faced cards * Often drafted with small numbers of players (2-4) Pretty straightforward. Design principles: Lower power level to increase pool of appropriate cards to select This argument is well rehearsed on these boards generally, so I'm not...
  16. Alfonzo Bonzo

    Alchemist's Crucible

    So, over in my old threat, Fozzy Fosbourne asked to read my thoughts on the design of this cube. I figured it might be easier to start a new thread, as this is going to be a long ramble. I'll try and talk about and link to some of the inspirations as I go, which will hopefully help illustrate...
  17. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    doomed traveler
  18. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    I like red getting more spells matter cards as it makes it easier to thread it across non izzet guilds. Also like that the focus is more on spell velocity this time round too.
  19. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General Gruul Aggro-Madness

    It's still there in my current version, isn't quite as obvious and supported, and there's less actual madness, but here's something I just drafted for you www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/981472[/url]"] Ones 1 Barbed Sextant 1 Gnarlwood Dryad 1 Grim Lavamancer 1 Lightning Axe 1 Narnam Renegade 1 Rift...
  20. Alfonzo Bonzo

    General Gruul Aggro-Madness

    Here's a deck from an earlier cube design of mine where this was a thing www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/755309[/url]"] Ones 1 Basking Rootwalla 1 Bonesplitter 1 Chromatic Star 1 Cursed Scroll 1 Figure of Destiny 1 Narnam Renegade 1 Pyrite Spellbomb 1 Reckless Charge 1 Soul-Scar Mage Twos 1 Aether...
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