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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Long video, but like everything else from Rhystic studies/MagicmanSam, its so well-produced.
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    General Delirium as a mechanic or archetype in cube

    I started playing during Shadows over Innistrad. I believe delirium has a very special place in my heart for that reason. I find that it offers an interesting challenge during drafting, but until recently the options for payoffs were from only one set. In SOI the payoffs were centred in Abzan...
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Did you change your avatar just for this comment? :)
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    I was excited by it. But I have given it some thought: In order to reliably cast it for cheap you will need to fill your deck with cheap artifact cards (eg. Barbed Point). Those are not great hits off the cascade. Thus I foresee the range being very wide and an outcome on either extreme may...
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    So this is their way of sidestepping the reserved list. :)
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    I don't think it is necessary to activate its ability for this card to do some work. It is arguably better than mortician beetle (the beetle also synergizes with edicts) because of its hybrid cost. Besides the typical aristocrats synergies it also triggers off food, clues, treasure and baubles...
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    Ravnic's Arena Cube - I wanna play with you

    I agree that Huatli should go. I am not sure that you have to replace her with another selesnya hybrid for symmetry's sake. HA5 introduces into the north for the snow archetype. Other than that HA5 gives support for artifacts court homunculus, whirler rogue, vault skirge.
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    General Collection progress of Riptiders on Mtg Arena.

    Thank you for the responses and comments. I am wondering if you have any strategy for crafting? Conventional wisdom dictates that you prioritize lands*. Next in line are staples that fit into multiple tier 1/2 decks. I am thinking of constructing a peasant (commons and uncommons) cube, but I...
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    General Collection progress of Riptiders on Mtg Arena.

    I'm registering an increased interest in MtG arena over the last few months. As I am a zoomer (I started playing during SOI) this has been my main outlet for playing. I am interested in gauging people's investment in the client. Ultimately the goal is to optimize the "wild card budget" when...
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    General Podcast Tonight: Strixhaven Set Review!

    - Dom has expressed in articles and earlier episodes that izzet spellslinger is hard to support in cube. Does this set help the archetype or do the problems remain? - Boros is often viewed as narrow and aggro-oriented. Can the Lorehold-rebranding and new cards offer some variety and make...
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    General Topics: Next Podcast (TBD)

    I'd like to hear something similar to this - a deep-dive on archetypes like storm, reanimator and tribal synergies. The overarching questions want to explore are: "is it worth it to support these archetypes" and "how do you go about implementing them?"
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    Pete's Arena Cube

    First off I would commend you on building this cube. It pains me that you have not gotten much response, but here goes nothing. I am definitely interested in drafting and playing cube on arena. I played the heck out of the last iteration of arena cube. The last iteration of tinkerers cube, on...
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    Sets [M21] M21 Previews!

    I have been looking for this effect. You want some noncreature spells that generate creatures in the UR-spells deck (at least the aggro version). These tokens even benefit from further spellslingery. Really neat. Could it have been bumped to {1}{R}{R} and been a sorcery? PS: What's going on in...
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    Sets [M21] M21 Previews!

    Key To The City on a Piker. Neat! Just as this was spoiled I was fanning through scryfall to find playable spirits for my environment to turn on Shacklegeist. I have so many new inclusions from this set now! :eek:
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    General Single Card Archetypes

    For context - the cube is a khans/alara style cube with support for 5 guilds and 5 shards. The shifted color wheel is WBGRU Hero of Precinct one Niv-Mizzet Reborn I am thinking specifically of making hybrid and gold cards matter. In the first instance trying to spice up white weenie. Gray...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Song of Freyalise Phantom General Freyalise: I see the Arena Cube includes this cardI remember it being a house in DOM limited. In it's spot I currently have Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter. After considering Rishkar, Peema Renegade I settled on Yanggu because he provides multicolor fixing and a...
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    Sets [M21] M21 Previews!

    I edited it. It originally read "Boros Reckoner., Truefire Captain, Stuffy Doll and of course Boros Reckoner."
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    General Arena Cube is back!

    This time it's draft, not sealed. Here's the list. It's hard to grok as it's all alphabetical with no links. It seems fairly similar to the sealed cube of april with some new inclusions from historic anthology III. You get a run for free Draft #1 . Probably should have moved in to...
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    Sets [M21] M21 Previews!

    Derp. This is what happens when you're multitasking
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    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    Hey guys. There is so much creativity and hard work in this thread! Very commendable. I am trying to enable "multicolor matters cards". As Jason suggests in his eldrazi domain cube - one way to do this is include hybrid cards, especially 1 drops. I find that Orzhov is lacking in this...
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