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Thanks, that deck is a good example of how I would like the aggressive drops to work out: you can get fairly aggressive sequences, but the cards are fine with slow hands as well, and the low drops retain some utility. Probably want some more embalm and eternalize to stealth sneak in midrange...

Here is the closest you will get to an official explanation. The sum of it:

They want to print duel lands, but don't want every block to play like a multi-colored block. Yes, their are marketing advantages, but they do this with the land cycles as late, even the ones no one cares about. And most magic players don't really care about the types of cycles that we are...

Yeah, here are the cards I am looking at--and keep in mind I am notoriously disagreeable about adding new cards: Champion of Wits earthshaker khenra ramunap excavator leave // chance sunscourage champion supreme will Razaketh's Rite burning-fist minotaur Hope tender claim // fame farm //...

I don't know, sets really good if you're at the right power level: cycling, aftermath, emblam, and eternalize are all amazing mechanics. The first set was a solid limited experience, and this one seems like it too. Lots of good pickups here too for lower powered cubes. Whole thing seems well...

Had a blast tonight, this was the most fun playing magic I've had in I don't know how long. Format has really hit a sweet spot, and I expect it to get better with the new set. We ended up deciding we were going to rebuild the decks next week, which was a first. I had a sweet madness deck, where...

Set seems fine overall. If your format is structured or cohesive, you only want a handful of new cards to address existing problems anyway. On the other hand, if you want to brew up a completely new format, HOD has some interesting new tools for that. Most people build cubes around the...

Played around with some different configurations testing for mis-draft sequences. I don't think there is anything material left really to do with the card pool available to me. Once of the nice things about working from a midrange base, and with a plan laid out for the 10 guilds, is that well...

We're not actually debating anything though, we agree.

Hush you. I like the card, and this makes it sound better than it is ;)

Yeah, the easiest way is to take your 2-3 drops and make them difficult to block: abilities like exert, menace, equipment, flying, and potentially this new one afflict ability. Actually nerfing removal is tricky business, because now we are tinkering with the removal suite. I gave conditional...

My general philosophy at this point is to accept that limited formats are creature heavy and midrangy, and attempt to take that into account. So I think less of supporting curve out aggro, and more along the lines of enabling a low CC midrange deck, or small creatures matter, or micro control...

Hey, thanks for the draft. All of those cards are either in, or have been in the cube, except for radiant fountain, which is a good suggestion. Magus is in the original penny cube, and was so-so with the way the meta drifted towards mana base design. Outside of shifting ramp into blue, and...

That seems loose semantically, but I suppose false equivalences are good enough for magic cards.

I think we got a little twisted here. I was agreeing with you. Onder made a bad analogy between this card and careful study, and you pointed out that it can't be careful study on a stick, because such a card should be 1cc, and that those mana differences in this context are material...

Yeah, it isn't actually careful study on a stick, and we should probably be pausing if thats where our mind is taking us. I was thinking that the metric would be closer to something like, could you run careful consideration and have it be a card?

I don't know, it looks good to me: looters are great, late game mana sinks are great, modal cards are great, graveyard interactions are great. Its probably right for it to be a 2/1, since you want it to die, and you can't really just ignore a 2 powered creature hitting you for forever. I...

That looks great, thank you for the draft. That was really good feedback, and suggests the format is pretty deep. The two major themes for these types of cubes are bouncelands and artifacts. The graveyard I would describe as a not fully developed sub-theme, though its interesting--and probably...

This was my actual, true to god, control deck from last night, which was a blast to play. Approach-->Moonlight Bargain-->Approach is a very real win condition. Ones 1 Pacification Array 1 Barbed Sextant 1 Murderous Cut 1 Death Rattle 1 Expedition Map 1 Firebolt Twos 1 Cathartic Reunion 1...

This seems to be a slightly different topic, more related to density of removal than quality of removal. I do agree, however, that removal should be proportional to the threats it has to answer: which is why power max formats naturally run the most efficient removal spells, and lower power...