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One of the ways that the werewolf transform mechanic is really interesting is that it asks the player to value time: what is the value of me just passing the turn to try to flip this creature rather than just casting a spell? In limited, where the spells are weaker, and the value from a...

Hard control finisher you say? Probably not good enough for most of you, but this fellow deserves a mention. draining whelk Enabling hard control becomes much easier when your counters double as the win-cons.

I really like the werewolf transform mechanics, and have ran them on and off as a tribe in various cubes. However, the problem with them in the context of riptide cubes is that our cubes tend to have low curves to emphasize the early sequencing of multiple spells, which neuters the werewolf...

I think on that clock I'll be all right ;) But as far as cards that actually caught my eye from the set Is this like another lust for war?

Don't jump the gun yet. I have yet to fully share my thoughts on pale rider of trostad. The battle over kite sail +1 gryff's boon has completely occluded that, for the time being.

I'm not being negative or contrary: I'm being critical. I've been having a productive conversation with ahadaban about the card, where it would likely be played, what it works well with, and what effects its most similar too. I realize I evidently offended some people on Sunday when I posted...

Well, I'm not recommending any of those cards, but since we're suddenly talking about cheap auras that grant flying (something we've never been in the market for before), I thought we might as well frame the power level of the front end effect that we are talking about. There is also angelic...

The equipment comparison btw is pretty astute, something like this? Probably a pretty good base line for thinking about the card, sans constellation interactions.

Is your aura module still the same? I was looking up cheap auras that grant flying, and there are some interesting ones. Dragon wings aboshan's desire shimmering wings I think FSR runs wings? It looks really good on paper at least for constellation and heroic triggers. Dragon wings looks...

Yes, I talked about that in the post that you quoted, about the spot where you would be casting it from the yard, and the post itself was in response to a back end flashback comparison. I didn't discuss the front end of the card because that wasn't an issue in the post I was responding to. But...

If its going to be run, I kind of imagine it being played as a late game mana sink, one investment, on a single threat, when the game has kind of stalled, or its reached that attrition stage and there is just nothing competing with the mana investment. Kind of functioning like a manland in that...

Hyena umbra seems like the most reasonable analogy so far, though I still think I like that better than gryff unless you're looking specifically for enchantment triggers. Depending on what and how much you are triggering that could justify the 4cc investment to recur it.

1 page ago people were talking about how adept comparisons between gyrff and rancor were: let us not be disingenuous in the way we evaluate cards just because of a little hype, and here is another perfect example. Griffin Guide generates 4 evasive power for 3 mana. For Gryff's boon to generate...

Yeah thats fine, you are basically the master of that deck. Funnily enough, it was originally one of the under drafted archetypes way back when.

Eric, that was really smart to rename the forum, and I feel will in and of itself alleviate a huge number of problems.

Since its been over a year since the cube went into development, I kind of wanted to do an archetype breakdown at this point. The amount of data I have is immense, consisting of a years worth of RL drafts covering both normal single player drafts from two play groups, free-for-all multiplayer...

lol I think thats crazy. I would have to look at your enchantments module, but there is a long line of enablers I would want to consider before making that swap, and the only reason to gryff over guide is because the upside as a pure enabler is that huge: as in it basically makes those decks...

After the last round, where I finally got to see the marriage of rancor and lumberknot, I am sadly going to have to cut lumberknot for algae gharial. What makes lumberknot a fun and balanced include is taking a durdly 4 mana 1/1, than advancing a long-term gameplan around it where you build...

M2g2 I think I misplayed with that snap on the golem token. What I should have done was just run out lumberknot and hold back ranger, drop the temple, and next turn use snap to ramp up a giant stroke of genius on your EOT. I just made the play without thinking. I was really surprised...

And thats fine, as long as we acknowlege that the analogy being offered up between the two cards is without merit. Rider is pretty bad outside of specific support. The math of the game makes card disadvantage a heavy price to pay. If we are fairly evaluating the cards, we have to address the...