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  1. Zoss

    Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!

    Would translating "tonijn pikant" as "spicy meatball" be appropriate? Because if so, yeah, it sure is. One of the better ones in the set, too. How hard is it going to be to get this dude to work? It obviously gets a lot better with your cube's instant-speed removal, but my question is how...
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    Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!

    @Peter LaCara How well does that theme work for you? Sorry for the necro, I meant to bring this up when you mentioned it but got distracted. Ravnic's previous comment made me think of it. Do you run into the problem of people mixing up cards at the end of games? For context this is something...
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    Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!

    Cool card, but this is all I could think of when I saw the name. To weigh in on the ability names, I think they're going to really help newer players much more than us enfranchised players because they make it so much easier to grok mechanics--"oh, Pack Tactics is how they're representing things...
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    General Using Cube Cobra statistics, what are the most unique cards in your list?

    It is for me! I've chosen to price unrestricted reanimation at {4}, so going to {5} buys you an extra blink and the ability to play draw/go. I also have a comparatively higher number of reanimation targets than most cubes (1-3 in each color + 2 colorless), I think, so it's much more valuable...
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    General Using Cube Cobra statistics, what are the most unique cards in your list?

    You'd think I'd have learned by now to wait to post until after breakfast, lol.
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    General Using Cube Cobra statistics, what are the most unique cards in your list?

    Thanks for the questions! It's a combination of things. --Uyo, Silent Prophet is getting replaced by Rootha, Mercurial Artist, because the effect will actually get played at this MV; I just haven't updated my lists in a very long time. The idea behind Uyo was to combine spells and lands, but...
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    Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!

    @Brad, I totally agree about the color not being great, but I think this specific shade of red is a callback to some of the original D&D materials, specifically the "Red Book." Agreed that it's awesome and yet that I don't want it at all, and not only because it would probably be too strong for...
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    General Fight Club

    Kinda prefer this Squee over that one (unless you explicitly want the discard synergies): Squee, the Immortal Especially due to the recent SqueeBlade deck. But yeah, as has been said:
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    General Using Cube Cobra statistics, what are the most unique cards in your list?

    This is from a mashup of my current cube and my super-secret, still-in-progress rework of that cube in which I embrace breaking singleton, so the proportions aren't quite accurate. Still, for my genius-tier includes (21 cards-ish each, with most shared across cubes for roughly 5.5% of each...
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    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    "Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. When it enters the battlefield, it Investigates. When a Squirrel you control Investigates this turn, it creates a Food token." Idk if we're just running around trees here, but it's cute! Besides, given that it's essentially a silver-bordered card...
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    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    As for the cards themselves, I really really like the designs. I know we (well, you and other people, I mostly watched) talked a lot about 'simplicity' and what it brings to a card. I don't have too much to add to that discussion other than to say that I think you struck a really good balance...
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    General The Fixing and I

    No, and that's a good point! Sorry, I should have distinguished those two segments more by picking a different example. However, I do think that the idea holds true, that more fixing leads to more splashing in large-delta'd cubes than that same fixing would lead to in cubes with smaller deltas.
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    General The Fixing and I

    Amulet of Vigor cube when? In all seriousness, I think one discrepancy we're not highlighting enough here might be the difference between actual sameyness and potential sameyness. Actual sameyness refers to whether or not the decks actually turn out the same, whereas potential sameyness refers...
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    General Hold up there, "partner."

    Generally speaking I'd agree, but they tend to drive you towards one very specific strategy, as the benefit of getting a free card from not one but two cards in your deck that work towards that synergy is not so subtly very strong; essentially, "Partner With" reads "draw a good card," which...
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    General Hold up there, "partner."

    This thread was inspired by someone over on the subreddit, so props to them. (Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgcube/comments/nvk2au/i_tried_this_in_my_cube_and_i_think_it_might_be_a/) I would never play any cards with the "Partner With" ability in my cube, let alone "Partner."...
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    No, he just puts that on the outside of his Magic boxes in case he loses them, silly!
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    General What is "higher power level"?

    I think this might be a little reductionist, if only because power level is self-referential. For example, Second Sunrise is by no means going to be great if you stick it in a random cube, and will be cut in this 'iterative powermax' process you describe. However, if you have a functioning Eggs...
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    General Draft Format Idea: Hatesealed

    Hatesealed? No no, this is Hatestart. Seriously though, I like the idea a lot. As to the collusion issue, randomize them or, hey, play with people who aren't going to be jerks (that is, who will all agree to be on roughly the same level of competitiveness and who care about competition more...
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    Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!

    Yes. ...well, it would matter as a tag for Commander and for a spell being counted as Historic, but those are both edge cases (okay, one is a very large edge case). Kind of like the Tribal supertype, Legendary would be mostly decorative outside of these specific scenarios.
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Sliversmith I would have thought there'd be more cards the Daredevil could go infin-ish with, but I think this is it. Still probably costs too much, but I think it could work without too much trouble in a cube that's both heavy on artifacts and discard. Could do work with Desecrated Tomb, but...
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