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Nice, completed tri-cycles for my tri-colored gold cards. No more Crumbling Necropolis for Kess drafters! Might also try out Aminatou, the Fateshifter since I've retired the EDH deck and have a copy lying around.

I just spent most of the last 3 days playing Elden Ring. I had it delivered on Friday but didn't get around to it until about 10PM since I wanted to finish up the very last bit of Demon's Souls beforehand since I knew I wouldn't get back to it in the near future. Booted it up and planned to play...

That's because the pantry is way more spacious.

I guess this really depends on your other offerings, but I don't find that to necessarily be a bad thing when pitted against modern card designs for Aggro. Cards are just very efficient nowadays. If aggressive options continue to be more and more pushed at lower CMCs, I think it's fine to have a...

If I had to go with one I'm going with the Wall of Omens. You need clear roleplayers to make archetypes work, sometimes you need those filler cards to wheel to a specific player, and Wall is the card for any durdly W/x deck to buy time and branch into bigger plays. If I'm drafting U/W Control...

The idea and potential of Arkbow is cooler than the actual gameplay. Theoretically it gives you an uncounterable way to fish out creatures from your deck at instant speed. The reality is often that you whiff or hit less than desirable targets or its a dead card you draw late in the game. Or you...

I think the others are mostly fine, but Boseiju being able to reduce down to a single green pip with only a single legendary creature is absurd. It's the most powerful effect of the cycle AND the cheapest for whatever reason. In the worst case scenario it's an untapped green source that comes...

Update: Boseiju is way too busted as a card to be included in the ULD. I've come to this conclusion after seeing it in action briefly at prerelease and seeing it at the top of pretty much every list for every format review in the last week. It will almost always be a 1st pick for a G/x deck...

About a year in, how has this card performed for those of you that have ran it: Showdown of the Skalds For the first time in a while I'm giving my cube a long review with the release of this new set and there are a lot of areas I'm looking to refine. The early parts of the curve for R/W...

Shelldock Isle has been a main cube inclusion from the start, very powerful and U/x decks can activate it pretty consistently. Windbrisk Heights is the only other one of that cycle that has been playable as a Utility Land Draft inclusion, but it has some awkward sequencing in decks where you...

Totally overlooked Canoneer during the tail end of commander card spoilers, this one is pretty awesome and I'll be adding it in. That Ward 4 is basically hexproof ala Iymrith, Desert Doom and I feel like if you can get this out T4 by tapping some other bodies that's a pretty big game. Being an...

Went 3-0 with the FNM prerelease, opened a real solid pool of U/R stuff with a few cool rares and just solid cards. There was a lot of leveraging with tempo plays and knowing where and when to point certain bits of removal and damage to eke out some wins. Mostly it was about curving out and...

I think she fits well as a niche walker that can slide into a specific archetype but is kinda mediocre elsewhere. Like how Daretti, Scrap Savant can be nutty in an artifact deck where you're bringing back a strong card ahead of schedule from the grave but just passable filtering without that...

The story has been mostly fine, first time reading in a while after I was turned off from WAR. It's just very bland to me. Unfortunately I just can't get over how much the new age tech thing just takes me out of it feeling like Kamigawa. I just have a really strong association of Kamigawa within...

Hello! I will be adding the entire 5 card cycle from Kamigawa as well as the tribal land doing an Unclaimed Territory impression. Aside from that it's mostly been the same over the last year and will be the following post Kamigawa: Castle Ardenvale Ancient Den Secluded Steppe Eiganjo Castle...

I've got 8 cards on my shortlist to include this time around for the main cube (14 total counting the 6 lands going into the ULD). I can see half of these main cube inclusions staying around for a while. Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful The Wandering Emperor Lion Sash Blade of the Oni Rabbit Battery...

Eh, I strongly disagree. A big part of Magic's appeal and why it works as a card game is a player's ability to parse a boardstate based on visual indicators and shortcuts when declaring actions (Wrath the board, mill you for three, Bolt you, etc.). These break that convention with similar color...

Did they all get the same prompt? Why would you do this.

Reinforced Ronin Human Samurai 2/2 Haste At the begging of your end step return ~ to your hand. Channel- 1R discard ~, draw a card. I'm a fan of this one. I love Dash as a mechanic for Aggro and this is basically that without the keyword with how it'll play out. Pairs well with Champion of the...