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I feel like battle cry is probably better on guys who can attack without dying.

If cloistered youth is bad because it starts at 1 toughness before it's 3 toughness, we'd better cut all agro creatures that are permanently 1 toughness or otherwise start at 1 toughness until you start doing things that put counters on it, which is to say, almost all of them.

With fifteen cards, while everything could be of flat power level, it's likely that a couple of them are heavily invested in one or more themes in the cube; rather than it not mattering what you pick (cf: jitte, batterskull), it actually defines what deck you want to try and draft. If your power...

Why is cloistered youth bad?

In my ideal cube, the point of not P3P1-ing JTMS is valid. Depending on density of fixing, I'm not sure it's universally true, especially if you aggressively draft fixing because hey, look at all these fetches that can grab basically any colour of mana with the right duals/shocks.

I think cube needs easy P1P1s, but they shouldn't be of the form 'this will win games when I get it', and should be more of the form 'this will make a neat anchor card for $archetype'. The anchor cards need to be stronger than average to draw you into the archetype though. This is what they've...

There's that scry creature from theros too. Erm.. flamespeaker adept.

I mean it's a pretty cynical view on the Magic design process. I think that Magic would be better served either supporting limited (and not having GRBS mythics and rares), or supporting constructed (a la the living card game design). The thing is the LCG model doesn't let people open packs to...

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Pack rat isn't a spellshaper, it's an abomination.

Given at least a minor focus on changing colour, I'd drop murder for another colour restricted kill spell.

In fact, looking at that list, there hasn't been a spellshaper since Future Sight, so I think that backs that up a bit. Plus the fact they're aiming for the game to be more about creature combat rather than having a creature that can convert your cards into value spells.

Walkers probably are the new spellshapers; they provide repeated spell effects without being on embarrassing bodies and costing a bunch of resources you'd rather not pay. Sure the design is nice of 'any card in your hand becomes my spell', but 'I can cast this spell, you want me to' is probably...

I mean, it clearly depends on how many things you're killing the same turn, but yeah, that feature probably doesn't get you very far.

Anyone got any thoughts on this: flesh allergy?

phoar

CML, your optimism warms the cockles of my heart.

I believe what made fires tick was hasty blastoderms and saprolings burst. I could be wrong, that's when I started playing so I wasn't exactly up on how things actually worked.

gilder bairn for cubiest card

Uncommons are typically the draft around me cards, some that's not entirely surprising.