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  1. ravnic

    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    I am still running three cards orinigally printed in M11 and I want to mention them all, as all of them have been pillars of my format for quite some time. But I'll rank them: #3 Destructive Force Most of my wildfire finisher don't work through having 5+ toughness but instead they make a...
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    General What are the hallmarks of a "riptide-style" cube to you?

    That was my story exactly. I was a weitd outsider for a while in the mtgsalvation cube boards. The people there were nice mostly, but I just couldn't understand why they wanted me to cut Savannah Lions so badly!
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    Rwgatding Commander 2015, my vote goes to Mizzix' Mastery, the only card I ever tested. It doesn't fit my cube perfectly though, as I do have so few instants and sorceries with mv>3.
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    It's pretty good in this one deck but rather narrow, sadly. In theory, it could be a combo piece. Let's say you add Presence of Gond and a Soul Warden effect for infinite elfs and infinite life. You could also do Hermetic Study and Basilisk Collar for the knockout.
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    I remember that og Ixalan reignited my fire for the game during that time, because it had so cool themes: Dinosaurs and Pirates! Even though I'm less into tribal themes, once again, I liked both Ixalan sets for cube decently enough. I tested seven cards from Rivals of Ixalan, one of which was...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    The problem is, I assume many people will miss the interaction with dies triggers. I also would've missed it here.
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    That gives me hope again to get some cheap white threats caring about noncreature spells in the main set. Even though it seems like the prowess theme there is in Grixis colors (?)
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    I am always close to cube this one: Embrace the Unknown I love retrace and want more of it.
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Acceptance. Now I want proof for your constant claim to be among "millions", part of a majority. Because that claims falseness is probably the first thing you should accept.
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Then maybe you should give me some proof of your minority statement. I've seen several people playing for decades now eagerly buying UB commander decks. I don't know why they do it, I don't even know why they play commander in the first place lol, but I accept it.
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    You claimed that only a minority would cause these incredible sales. I said that's not true because I heard that prerelease will be heavily attended. You now claim that this is somehow not paper magic. Okay, let's say I accept that, that still doesn't speak against the fact, that a huge majority...
  12. ravnic

    General Fight Club

    I already have these 17 cards that are goblins or make goblin tokens: That would make for 27 goblins. At 500 cards, you would see 19.4 goblins in an average 8-player draft. That seems like enough, even though I guess Goblin Engineer and Blast from the Past shouldn't really count.
  13. ravnic

    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    But ... you play paper magic at prereleases? I don't. But I don't play standard, I play formats I enjoy, which is mostly cube and then select retail limited drafts. All I want you to do, is allow yourself to be happy even in the face of developements you don't like. It's all about focus and...
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    General Fight Club

    So I had some troubles with red based aggro decks being the stromngest thing you could do in my format. I already did some minor tweaks, but not much really. And now I've had an idea: If I would support a different theme for mono red, I would decrease the incidental overlap with support for...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Can you prove that? Because what I heard is that the FFN prerelease is alteady selling seats like hot cakes.
  16. ravnic

    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    People buy stuff they like. Considering mtg is a game, those are probably more or less the same. Both things that MaRo revealed multiple times on blogatog, trying to calm people that couldn't accept the change either. Are we talking about ways to stop neo-fascism or is this still about a...
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    Aaah, Mercadian Masques ... I have mixed feeling on it. It has some really cool cards, but also some weird and weak ones. When I got back into the game in ~2012, I bought a collection on ebay that was 80% MMQ cards :D Only few of the sticked, not counting the reprint of Brainstorm, I have two...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    But best selling means something. I'm not huge on capitalism either, but as I said before, there is also the aspects of joy brought to so many players. Sorry, but this is just gatekeeping. What makes you more of a magic player than someone who picks up the game through whatever UB set? Also...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Just let people enjoy their kind of magic, whatever it looks like. Aren't we cubing exactly to not feel pissed when wozards prints sonething that we personally don't like, be it mechanics, aesthetics or whatever? We can simply not put it into our cubes. I won't touch Final Fantasy stuff either...
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    General CBS

    The word "Eldrazi" even has 7 letters.
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