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White/Blue Heroic has been one of the most consistently successful decks in my cube. Your creatures are way more mana efficient and big then your opponent's thanks to auras so you are basically always the aggressor and then your blue disruption keeps you in the lead. Blue is vital to the deck...

Yeah, sure why not, Swiftblade is pretty unexciting.

After recent performances, I'm very happy with the way it plays, so the goal right now is simply maintenance. One of the few things I'd like to do is focus the gold cards: a bunch are going to get cut and the only ones remaining will be archetype signals that help point players in the right...

I mean, it would definitely work. White doesn't do anything unique and doesn't really have any unique weakness that makes it intrinsically special. Even its minor niches like lifegain matters, enchantments matter and artifacts matter are squarely covered in black, green and blue respectively...

People who like Medici are my kind of people! I played a ton of games on my annual gaming retreat, the highlights were: Doomtown: Reloaded (Shaping up to be a great LCG, hopefully it keeps my interest over time which Netrunner didn't) Imperial (Which I play every damn year and its almost...

I played my first game of Sentinels with the new expansion. We fought Infiltrator. It was probably the best executed villain fight I've had so far both thematically and mechanically. The guy has the typical "driven insane by his powers" gimick and the way the deck chains cards erratically and...

Viashino Slaughtermaster is definitely playable with pump and Arena Athlete are playable with heroic support, but probably isn't where 95% of cubes want to be. Fireslinger is a stone cold classic, though it runs at a different angle then the aggro dudes. I'm not sure ember hauler and mogg...

Would Monastery Mentor be fine if the tokens didn't have prowess, it would it still be overkill? I like the fundamental design, but it really seems like the power level could use some evening out.

After initially panning it is "the 475th awful black/blue mill card", I recently added Phenax. Unlike Jace, Memory Adept you actually need to have dudes on the board to make it work and it only turns into unstoppable fast mill if you hit devotion, which is no small feat. Someone drafted a...

Eric is on the right track here even though it might seem counterintutive. Think about to all the old draft formats that had zero or very few multicolor cards and awful mana fixing. Tempest Block Urza's Block Masques Both Mirrodins Most Core Sets Zendikar and so on. Since these formats had...

Prophetic Flamespeaker has been nothing but awesome for me.

They've made a few different versions of this card over the years and it has never been good. Have they finally costed it right? Only thing that's kind of depressing is you can't find it with Imperial Recruiter.

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I want a flying, double strike Soulflayer one day, which is why I'm going to run it over Tasigur. I think the moral of the story here is that Hooting Mandrils is going to get cut.

The body is better then Azure Mage's, but the whole diminishing returns on delve vs. other graveyard resources thing comes into play here. If one only gets so much "delve currency" to spend, is this where we want to spend it? That said, you'd have to hit a keyword or two for Soulflayer to be...

Power level is kinda low. I get its flexible, but most people aren't tripping over themselves to get Kalonian Tusker into there aggro decks, they certainly aren't going to want to pay even more for the same effect. It gets human points I suppose. Do big green decks actually want this effect? I...

Until you add your next custom card at least =)

Huge question: do you want to actually emulate the specific decktypes that appear in vintage or are you looking to more generally create the low margin, high power environment that vintage provides? I think you would best be served focusing on the fast mana and swingy effects that make the...

Distortion Strike is fabulous. I threw it in for heroic support, thinking it was super loose and would surely not make many decks and be inevitably cut, but to my surprise it started making all kinds of final 40s and closed out plenty of games. When you think about it, what the card represents...

Satyr's been good to me, smoothing your land and giving you +3 delve mana is pretty cool.