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To be fair, I'm most likely not making this swap in my combo list. The power level is high enough there and I have plenty of archetype specific cards already. But if I ever resurrect my midrange list, Perilous Journey will get a very hard look. I like what it does and that it's always card...

I was thinking more from an early game and tempo perspective. Control decks want to survive early aggression, Into the Roil is not great for that because it's pure card disadvantage. Tacking on scry 2 almost ensures you get the smooth draw you need to reach mid/late game. In that context...

I like Perilous Voyage. How does it compare to Into the Roil? Worse late game better early game I guess?

My first thought on Rowdy Crew is that the random discard is too much of a drawback, but I'm not sure that's the weak part of the card. I don't like the stats on it or the random 5/5 trigger. Too much of this card is random for me. What I do like is more GY support in red. I love that we...

RBW Sacrifice Combo vs The Rock I had made some impulse card swaps after the Rock got embarrassed by WW. I'm undoing one (Kokusho, the Evening Star comes back - I like it and I really don't want to run Noxious Gearhulk if I can help it), and swapping another. Trading Post comes in for Meren of...

It wasn't confusion so much as a difference in philosophy. And that's OK honestly. But it's why context is vital. A card can be awesome in one meta and utter rubbish somewhere else. Even in similar metas if the groups are different or the drafting methodologies vary. It's really not black...

FWIW, lower power lists with enough gy support can already run Haakon, Stromgald scourge if they want. Even without Nameless Inversion combo, Haakon is still a 3/3 beater that you can just keep recasting from the yard. It's a super annoying card. Much like a Vengevine. Knights are really not...

That's an awkward card. Sort of a pox effect on a body. The more aggressive your deck is, the less life you opponent probably loses on T5+ when this comes down (and the more you might lose disproportionally). So is it more a midrange card? Control can't want that right? I dig that it's an...

I really should let this go, but I have a hard time doing that. So apologies to everyone looking for Ixlan Spoilers and getting more of me arguing with people. At least I haven't done this in a long time so I'm making progress. I honestly don't think things have changed very much over there...

Again, I've read through tens of thousands of posts on MTGS. That's not an exaggerated number either. It's a really useful source of data I rely on heavily. To be fair, I spend a lot of my time looking at older posts because they are more useful for my cube design (which is much more retro...

It has been much better of late (MTGS). I do still post there pretty regularly to try and give a different angle on cubing. MTGS cube forum is not very active anymore though. There's probably half a dozen regulars left and then the occasional odd poster. Reddit might have the most active cube...

Are you really trying to tell me no one got bullied on MTGS? You can't seriously be saying that.

Man. I don't even know where to start with that post. I could begin a rebuttal but I'm not sure what point there'd be in that given how vastly different our perspectives are. I'm having a hard time finding a single point of common ground to even start from.

I've more recently starting thinking of powered cubes being combo in nature more so than midrange because so much of the gameplay revolves around degeneracy. But I can see the argument for them playing more midrange simply because that is what most draft formats tend to push. There are...

There isn't any reason for us to agree to disagree. I said you could balance a meta using 2 power 1 drops and the three theater paradigm. I've not disagreed with you. I simply said there are other tweaks you can make to create balance without resorting to the 2 power 1 drop strategy. The...

I think this is the single biggest misconception the mainstream cube community has perpetrated upon itself. We all know where it originates from too (cough... MTGS... cough). 2 power 1 drop aggro is not required to balanced a meta. Period. It's certainly one way to do it. It's maybe the...

WW vs Dimir Tinker Control WW laid waste to the Rock, so let's see how it does against a combo control deck. Game 1 is a classic. Early beats by WW answered by a swords to plowshares and a counterspell right after. Gifts Ungiven creates a really awkward choice: Supreme Verdict, Sphinx's...

Goblins vs Storm This should be Storm's worst matchup, but let's see. The storm deck is pretty degenerate so who really knows? Game 1 I keep a loose hand with Goblins. It's a mistake. T1 Lotus Bloom into T2 Pentad Prism into T4 Yawgmoth's Bargain sets the stage for a T5 combo win. Fastbond...

Somebody on Reddit had an idea to run some of these new transform lands already transformed in their cubes. That's a pretty interesting idea, though clearly it makes these cards even more powerful than they already are. The Maze of Ith that taps for mana is probably too good, but this new blue...

Mono Black vs GUw Opposition Should be an interesting matchup. Both decks are agro/control, utilizing prison type mechanics to win the game. GUw has the more broken cards (opposition and armageddon), but black has early discard and more disruption overall. I think it's going to be entirely...