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I first played Magic way back in 5th grade with classmates during recess/lunch and also on the bus rides home. Prior to this I was waaaaay more into Pokemon, but mostly as a collectible and because the games and show were obviously the most important thing in any 7-10 year old boy's life at the...

I mean, it's kinda both, right? The CEO at Hasbro now (Cocks) is the same guy who expedited these changes and got the credit for doubling revenue as president at WotC the last 5ish years (thus the promotion). Secret Lairs in 2019 and the shift to Commander everything product in 2020 were clearly...

I think this new schedule works in targeting players that aren't all that invested in the game, say casual kitchen table or those who drift in and out playing for a bit and then taking a year or two off before coming back. To them it's just a new set coming out soon that they can mess around...

For real. It's crazy to jump right back into a legit spoiler season for a normal set. I'm still picking up Dominaria cards to slot into cube; hasn't even been a full month since it came out. The big Fall set was usually the one they put extra effort into where it remained fresh for like two...

I was trying to get a Riptide Lab deck export option on CubeCobra last year, seems it never got implemented. If any of you are on the Cobra discord, please chime in under Feature Requests as I've brought it up again after remembering that it never actually got done. I think it should be...

Well, this is the first big blog post I've had in months and it comes along the heels of some big updates with the base composition of my cube. I've mostly been tinkering with my cube each set release with new cards and then putting it aside until I want to revisit it for the last 2 years. I...

Sure, but that doesn't mean that it's unworthy for inclusion or overrated. I don't think anyone has been looking at it as some archetype defining card or best in show 3 drop. It's not that. The whole appeal of it is that it's a Charming Prince like glue card to supplement archetypes. Only this...

I was confused on Bonus until I remembered that I use Bonus Round as a placeholder on Cobra for my duplicate voucher cards. "Round" and "Knight" next to eachother just makes me think of Siegmeyer:

There is no real difference than us writing entries to our cube blog or a standalone deepdive thread in Cube Talk. On Cobra the last I checked you can just sign up to be a content creator, they'll give approval, and I'm assuming there's a minimal quality control process on submissions for lesser...

Part of it might just be the insane influx of product in a shortened period of time. You don't even really get a chance to process the newest cards or spend time with them before you're swept into another set of spoilers or a special new release. We just finished Dominaria spoilers and this...

Same. Just not into Universes Beyond as a concept at all; it's likely I just never include any of these cards because they're just so jarring to me aesthetically and as a concept. I think there's a lot in this set that works design-wise if it were skinned differently, within an actual Magic...

I'd probably just avoid Mutate altogether. Not a real big fan of the mechanic, I don't think you can really simplify it much, and there's not a whole lot of depth to it the last that I checked. I wouldn't be surprised if we just never hear of the mechanic again ala Energy 5 years out. You've got...

Worst feeling is probably Oko, Thief of Crowns. Just having it exist makes games trivial. Never in my time playing Magic did anything ever feel as hopeless as a T2 Oko off a Birds that just ran away with the game. I was the opponent and had a pretty good hand, but there is no way to beat that...

These are good points, I agree with most of them in general for many cards, but I think there's something getting lost in translation here. I just think there is so little opportunity cost to make Champion of the Parish work as a card in your typical cube deck that it's strange that it isn't...

You know it's weird to me that a lot of cube lists still don't run Champion of the Parish. With the number of incidental humans early in the curve with aggressive bodies, it's so trivially easy to turn it into a 2/2. I get that a 1/1 topdecked late sucks, but a 2/1 isn't much better. Why not...

wtwlf's reviews and rankings are useful tools for people brand new to cube, and his cube is still the go-to skeleton for most anyone just entering the format, but it became apparent after a few months of tinkering and designing on my own back in 2014 that he wasn't a particularly good designer...

Every dumbass artist I ended up buying an art print from turned out to be a shitty person. Terese Nielsen with a Basandra, Battle Seraph print or this neat Natural Order print? Turns out she's really really fucking into alt-right, straight up racist rhetoric, and full into conspiracies. Noah...

Only a handful of additions for me, but I'm a fan of each of these designs: Aether Channeler Radha's Firebrand Squee, Dubious Monarch Shivan Devastator Quirion Beastcaller Sulfurous Springs Aether Channeler is just the do-it-all 2022 version of Man-O'-War. I love that you have game no matter...

I dropped Barrin a while back; it always read better and the idea of it was cooler than the actual gameplay. If I could Flash in to save a guy and the trigger was at next end step rather than just mine, then it would be pretty sweet. I've got Emry, Lurker of the Loch in that 3 drop slot for now...