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Also, this card seems interesting, though I'm not sure it's actually playable as anything except a {X}{B} Stroke of Genius: Welcome the Darkness

This is a surprisingly clever design, I did not expect that from an Alchemy set much less one with the word "perpetually" on it. Here's the thing: Lurrus is absolutely broken. While it's companion that pushes it over the line, the fact is that it enables all sorts of nasty play patterns: Bring...

It should scale according to power level. Regardless, it's easy to overrate because we tend to focus on the payoff and ignore the cost of Rielle itself. First, consider that her body is irrelevant. Even if you had a lot of spells to boost her power (unlikely), she isn't attacking too often...

One of my goals is to give these cards actual illustrations, probably do the same with a few branded cards as well. What do people use to make customs?

Yep. They keep twisting themselves to come up with wordier, weierder, worse variants of Kicker when they could just use Kicker.

Tons of likes, but no comments! What do you think? Are you running any of these funky cards? Tempted about it? Let me know!

There are a bunch of pseudo-official cards that can be run in our cubes but that we rarely do. Perhaps they are part of the Un sets, the digital-only Alchemy sets or those funky playtest cards. While the quality of these sets is pretty low, particularly Alchemy, there are still some cards that...

This is perfect. Call of the Herd has been oudated for years, but you felt obligated to run it to give green some extra graveyard support. It could be a bit repetitive, but given its cost, I doubt doing it over and over again will be the best way to spend your mana. I had no expectations for...

It's extremely powerful, probably the best blue finisher. Unless it's killed in the spot, it will run away with the game. Note that it draws enough cards to justify reanimating or cheating it into play somehow. Even if it's eventually killed or you have to 2 for 1 yourself, you come out ahead...

I'm not sure how good Irreverent Gremlin is, in the right deck it can act as a discount Smuggler's Copter. Does it trigger with tokens? I agree that Silent Hallcreeper is perfect for Ninjas, I like the fact that it draws a card immediately and that you have to think about whether to give it...

Like previous Mystery Booster sets, the cards are so close to being great. They are in this limbo where they are too unrefined to play as is, but too challenging to the status quo to be printed. I'm curious about the lands and associated trickery: Ominepresent Impostor, Gobland, Madlands...

Armaggedon works, the problem is that it's just too esay. It's not even that good, just easy. The single {W} mana makes it easy to splash and some decks have no recourse against it. Regarding the "classics", you are not wrong. In practice, all spell-matters cards are anti-synergetic with...

Here's a strange one from my cube: Wight of the Reliquary Yawghmoth's Will Entomb Parallax Tide Legion Extruder Lion's Eye Diamond Smokestack Kari Zev, Skyship rider Six Enlightened Tutor Verdurous Gearhulk Luminarch Aspirant Gingerbrute Kitsa, Otterball Elite I can see this pick being more...

Prismatic Vista. Fixing is extremely valuable, particularly a 5-colour land. The other two standouts to me are Mana Leak, which is very close, and, at a larger distance, Nature's Lore. 1) Prismatic Vista 2) Mana Leak >>>> 3) Nature's Lore If this were a higher-powered cube, which you can tell...

It helps, but I can't shake the feeling that getting a bit of combo-like value at the end is worth less than having a piece of interaction. That is, you win less by putting Scapeshift in your deck than by Bitter Triumph. I agree it's fun, though, I just find it too wonky at the moment. Other...

I've been busy with writing, work and housekeeping so I'm in no rush to get my cube out. I took the chance to add some new stuff and do polishing: Emperor of Bones Nethergoyf Stormchaser's Talent Faithless Looting I also decided to try the combo lands deck Minox has been trying: Squandered...

Rrun two copies of Lotus Field, there's no reason not to duplicate if it's what you need. I love Land Tax because it opens a ton of unique decks, like low-curve RW control or Tax Rack midrange.

Master has a ton of text, Nightpack Ambusher is very good and promotes a unique theme (Flash). Both are a bit dumb. A-Symmetry Sage Stormchaser's Talent Note that it's A-Symmetry Sage, not the original. What's your pick?

That deck truly gave me hope for a potential, non-parasitic land combo archetype. I didn't think it would be so viable. It relies heavily on Fastbond, but it does have multiple outs and can play a normal game, too. In fact, the only narrow card in that list is Squandered Resources, everything...

YES! This has been a long time coming. I know Safra has a version of this called "Pick up the Wrong fight", that has rebound and creates a monk prowess token. This is worse, because the flashback is too expensive, but it's worth a try.