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Just wanted to add that storm combo is probably way more reasonable to flesh out in your list than it is in mine. Lower power formats tend to struggle with good disruption (this is why storm was always so obnoxious in pauper) and with a greater proportion of your cards able to be rares or...

In a bid to tighten up B/W, I added Smokestack Rally the ancestors wake the dead immortal servitude Cutting, at least for the time, living death. This was interesting. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/602714[/url]"] Ones 1 Bloodsoaked Champion 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Champion of the Parish 1...

I'm not sure why we're even having this discourse than if you ultimately agree with me. I understand that you want to run the card, and thats fine. You don't need to create justifications on an online forum to do so. My original position was that it was a pure generic value card, which we are...

Is running these two a better low power living death? rally the ancestors wake the dead

Evoke means that mulldrifter can at least be somewhat clever about how it generates value. Though the penny cube is a big part of why I tend to take a more anti-ETB spam perspective. It really educated me about how abusive blink effects could be, and the way that even lower power ETB's can...

I actually disagree with this. My claim was that it was a lazy design and that its pushed, value based, ETB design was boring, which is a fine reason to exclude a card. In order for our formats to be fun they have to be engaging. This is an engaging framework for cloudblazer: Asking a...

fwiw I would be more interested in cloudblazer if we were in a format where stroke of genius becomes to mulldrifter what sphinx's revelation becomes to cloudblazer. As in, we're shopping for main card draw engines, but calibrating down the power level, and the most direct way for us to do that...

I really like how this card got people talking about what constitutes "elegance" if nothing else.

Or it could mean how broadly comprehensible the card is, or how simply it resolves a complex format problem, or perhaps how effectively it represents the color pie, or maybe even the minimalist approach you advocate for above. My problem with cloudblazer, from an elegance perspective, was best...

Good read. Maybe Sharding Sphinx Over inkwell?

In the legal field, factor based heuristics are fairly common tools for problem analysis. These are generally used where there is a fairly ambigious legal standard that will naturally cause a judge to make a subjective decision (e.g. the "best interest of the child" standard in child custody...

No. But that does mean I get to judge it as a boring value card. :D

Honestly, I think the fact that this is even up on the docket as an interesting ETB creature is almost to the level of the canary in the coal mine: not quite there, mind, but it feels close. You're never going to really play this thing for synergy, its just going to be played for pure value...

Its been fine, with the one rancor I support occasionally making it both a hard target and hard clock to beat. Its hard to support auras at my format's level of efficiency though without rancor. It does tend to have a warping effect on some games. For troll to be really good it has to be...

I will not deny I am having some fun with the card, but it is also true I don't like it. It just was weird to me how suddenly the dispositive way to judge it was whether the card was elegant or not, which isn't really a factor I think any of us (except maybe sigh?) actually stress over any of...

The existence of well designed elegant cards, doesn't preclude the existence of lazily designed but still elegant looking cards. Not that I am even sure I would call this elegant. Its literally just a bunch of good stuff ETBs attached to a reasonable evasive body. Very thragtusky.

When I read this card I just groaned. Super lazy design. This is what a flying phyrexian rager would look like: just pure generic value, and not clever at all about how it goes about it. Big yawns. I can't wait for the phyrexians to show up.

Don't worry, I suspect the phyrexians will be showing up in the next set to wreak the pod racers and their racing tracks. You would think the people in the multi-verse would have figured out by now what happens when you have the gall to build a prospering robot utopia. I can taste chandra's...

I'm not sure I have enough lifegain for that? I would see it as a RWG card maybe, as that landfall enchantment in green is a constant source of life. Here are some more non-blue control decks I liked: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/601751[/url]"] Ones 1 Devastating Summons 1 Enlightened Tutor 1...

Made a bunch of changes after the drafts. Took your advice and went with the lairs, which look great, and also the 5 karoo lands. This is now my first singleton format. Guilds look like this: RB: Hellbent aggro/hellbent midrange {} extractor mill {} bushwhackers RG: lands control/midrange...