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I have one fear: I often play matches in which players are down to 7-12 cards in their deck. I like grindy matches. Wouldn't Mesmeric Orb be extremely strong in those situations?

Sakura-Tribe Scout is not a bad card, but I'm not sure it's comparable to a mana dork. I think it's a more specific kind of card, closer to Exploration or Fastbond. The problem with these kind of effects is that, the more lands you have, the fewer spells you've drawn and viceversa. You'll have...

Your source doesn't work, but I'm more than happy to believe you! I just discoverd there are a lot of fun token decks in my cube. I didn't even plan for them, they are just there, being fun. I drafted one with Marionette Master and wondered if I could run a worse Secure the Wastes to trigger her.

By the way, the flavour text is...weird? lol

Is there a card like Secure the Wastes but that creates servos or other artifact creatures? Asking for a friend. Secure the Wastes

I agree, it looks really nice! I would very much run it in my hypothethical lower power cube.

This has been the problem for me as well. If I'm running graveyard synergies, I don't want to exile cards from there! Still, Inscho, how good is Mesmeric Orb? Because it seems good to enable self-mill outside of its colours but it seems busted strong in black! Mesmeric Orb

This is true. The thing is that, design-wise, archetypes are pretty new to Magic. For the first 20 or so expansions, cards were made mostly on an individual level, without too much attention being paid to how they worked with other cards in the set. Sets had 2 or 3 mechanics and you just made...

To change topics a bit. I've been struggling with this card: Skaab Ruinator I'm not sure I'm building around it correctly. Most of the time it seems a luxury compared to just running Serendib Efreet. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get the best out of it?

That's from the fan-made Print and Play version, not the new edition. Either way, the mention is not because people make inappropiate questions but because the game is unnecessarily wordy. For example, there are no "instants" in the game so all the talk about "pausing the game" is pointless...

Because there's a cost attached and it shifts responsability from the person being inappropiate, to the game designer.

But if they are a regular guy or girl asking silly questions, why not just talk to them? I think it's better to just talk to people if something's wrong. For the record, I've never seen someone use Truthtrance in Dune or Seeker in Cosmic to ask out of the game questions, much less inappropiate...

I like Wildfire, but I already run it and Devastating Dreams. And Cataclysm, too. Which is why I'm not so sure about Death Cloud.

The targets just weren't as great. I mean, the best thing to curve into from Llanowar Elves was Troll Ascetic. Which is a good card! But it won't kill you in a long time, even if you slap Loxodon Warhammer on it. And the best target for Goryo was probably Akroma, Angel of Wrath. It could kill...

The kind of person who would insist on making invasive questions regarding someone sexuality is not going to be deterred by a technical change of the rules of a card. I think attempts to address bad player behaviour through game design are misguided. You cannot use a game to prevent people...

I do remember Doran Rock. Which is crazy, because you had so many "Rock" variants at that time. You had Loam Rock, Gifts Rock, Aggro Rock, Doran Rock, White Rock...The variety back then was just absurd. I did not realize at the time, but I think I played the game when it was close to its best. A...

I should be able to shoot you with a gun, because you were the bad guy in Counter-Strike. Just don't play with those people, c'mon ;)

Yeah, stuff like that. The most obvious way is to use the effect twice and force an answer by asking "Will the answer to your next question be yes?". Which everyone can agree is trying to game it. In fact, it's how a similar card ended up being banned and in Vampire: The Eternal Struggle. Note...

I don't have experience with it, per se. However, as a fan of both Cosmic Encounter and Dune, which is where the effect comes from, I can tell you a bit about it. This is a fun, surprisingly powerful ability that makes for amazing games, cool plays and laughter. It also takes significant skill...

When I first started cubing, I aimed for an Extended-like environment, but I found a lot of issues that aren't evident at first glance: - The card pool is small: We already struggle to find playable black 2-drops, that problem worsens significantly with - Enemy colour pairs weren't supported...