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I dislike Vortex because it punishes slower decks and leads to these situations where you'll lose simply because you cannot deal with it. However, that's also part of the appeal. If you want to force decks to put bodies on the ground and win, it's a way of doing it.

I don't think it's weird. Glare cannot turn into a one-sided Armaggedon.

Thanks for the comment Onderzeeboot. Sadly, the study has been misrepresented by both the researchers and the media. They haven't found Magic to be the more "complex game", they simply have found a combination of cards and moves that doesn't lead to a computable outcome. So they haven't found...

To change topics, I wonder how the old players I'm taking my cube with will react to to Blink and cards like Kor Skyfisher in general. It took me a while to realize how good Skyfisher was and how much more common EBT effects have gotten. At first I thought you wouldn't play these cards without...

Sure. And nobody who has a good argument tries to claim the other person hasn't played the game. Sure.

I'm very happy with how the cube is turning out after these last set of changes. The decks are less on rails, more interesting and more fun than before. I see more cross-pollination and less obvious targets for obvious archetypes. I think reworking white has opened as many possibilities as...

Like I said: Really, your criticisms of Hearthstone are pretty much the same criticisms one could make (and, in fact, I do make) about Magic. Playing on autopilot, dumping a lot of money to make your deck better, your decisions not mattering, etc. There's not much else to it.

Dude, I'm playing on Arena right now and if ramping into Nissa for Mass Manipulation isn't playing on autopilot, what is? We are talking about a game where the best player in the world can't rise above a 65% win rate against the field. Magic isn't exactly the height of decision-making and...

Not to be mean, but this sounds exactly like Magic.

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle This is a pretty bad card, isn't it?

Ah, I was just kidding Ondeerzeeboot! It does seem like a good, interesting card and more versatile than Cataclysm. And yeah, I haven't played with it. I did play with Cataclysm a bit back but it's not like I have a lot of experience with that card, either. You seem very right in that it's...

But but it doesn't destroy any lands! How can it be good? So, I went, took all the cards except the ones lined up above and thought about what directions to take the colour from there. I saw a thread on WR Artifact Aggro, and it seemed good on paper. After all, I already support Red Artifacts...

What do you guys think of this card? I'm unhappy with Control Magic as a design, but Threads of Disloyalty seems weak/narrow. Thoughts? Legacy's Allure

Basically, I don't think discarding cards and filling up the graveyard is at all necessary for Kess. You can simply play your bolts, duresses and cantrips and then, when she hits the table, replay them. And I believe having plenty of spells will be the main deckbuilding limitation. In other...

Sure, but the problem I have with Exploration is that it's not good enough! Making it cost three really only exacerbates the issue. I've actually come to dislike Wayward Swordtooth because it looks neat but it's a complete trap. You simply need to draw a lot of lands to have its ability be...

The later. The former tells me to play lots of spells, not to fill my graveyard.

So, I went and listed all the White cards I'm 100% sure about to rework the colour from the ground. This is what I got: CREATURES (20) Champion of the Parish Champion of the Parish Mother of Runes Thraben Inspector Dauntless Bodyguard Imposing Sovereign Kor Skyfisher Seeker of the Way...

Cloudstone Curio vs Erratic Portal Which one and why?

I'm starting to think Exploration is a trap: Exploration While it has a pretty high ceiling, most of the time I play it, it's a worse Explore or Mox Diamond, hitting its intentend use only very late in the game and even then, it seems like a"nice have". I think the reason is that the best...

I've been playing against myself a bit with Twister and it does Stonewall aggro pretty hard. However, it's not an issue if the aggressive deck has disruption and he's not strong enough so as to be oppressive. Having to pay 1R to use him is a pretty steep cost. The activation cost on Molten...