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Hmm. My first reaction is that I don't like it. I've always hated cards that explicitly mention other cards by name (I'm looking at you, Bubbling Cauldron and friends). I suppose I'll have to see how it plays, but they've set themselves a pretty high bar to clear for me.

That protection from instants clause simultaneously makes way more sense and seems way less elegant now.

Blood Artist vs Zulaport Cutthroat Assuming the sacrifice deck is supported, which one? Or do you run both?

I kind of love them both. I always liked Imposing Sovereign, so I'll definitely be trying new Thalia. And like half the people here, I support the blink deck in UW, so the clone looks cool.

Declaration is my pick as well. Way more play to it, and it feels fairer to colors without access to enchantment removal.

Nah, it's just bad.

He was a pain in the ass to play against in Standard, but I loved the design on him. He's 100% more interesting than baby Jace, while nowhere near as oppressive as big Jace or other big Jace. I actually cut Fact or Fiction for him and I'm relatively happy with the change.

In general I agree with this (it's one of the reasons I cut Tragic Slip), but I'd be willing to make an exception for Ulcerate. Three life is a very real cost. If you're getting beaten down by aggro, you may never get the ability to cast it. The card was never a slam dunk first pick even in M15...

I'm running Dead Weight right now, but that's due to explicit enchantress support. If I didn't have that, Ulcerate would compete for the slot pretty hard.

You could always try Aven Mindcensor

Have you considered Phyrexian Reclamation? I've been pretty happy with it in the long term value enchantment slot. If you're considering Greed, go one better and go for Erebos, God of the Dead. As for Vryn Wingmare, I actually recently cut Thalia herself. I'm not sure hatebears as an archetype...

That's ridiculous. Cube in no way threatens WotC's business. The percentage of Magic players who even know what cube is is pretty small. The number of people who actually own cubes are even smaller. The secondary market does nothing to help WotC, and card availability helps everyone.

Took a crack at safra's cube. Deck is sweet. There's a few custom cards in here (including a land that is busted in half), so to see it in its full glory, look here. First picked Collected Company, decided to build around it. Got rewarded with a 2nd Company in pack 3. Mana base is sort of...

Hell yes, man. Temples are great. I'd never cut them. They are the only ETB tapped lands I run now, though, unless you count the M10/ISD duals. I can't think of a single deck, even an aggro deck, that wouldn't like a Temple.

Memnarch Let's say you have a decent artifact theme going on (Goblin Welder, Daretti, Master Transmuter, etc.). Does this guy do anything? I know Commander players fucking love him, can he make the jump?

In my experience, 'stuff blue does' is pretty varied and interesting all by itself. We don't have to get fancy and reinvent the wheel 100% of the time. Scuttling Doom Engine, as mentioned before, is great. Other potentially interesting big artifact finishers (power level not guaranteed to be...

Agreed on all counts. I hadn't thought of comparing Battledriver to Purphorors, but that makes total sense in hindsight.

I like Xenagos a lot, and he's done lots of good work, but the RG 'everything costs 4' thing bugs me. I think I'll give Domri a try as a change of pace.

I've never liked the ULD. It's always felt clunky and inelegant to me. If you're going to do a ULD, it should definitely not have fixing in it. That's what the main draft is for. Right now I'm using Tombstalker and Desecration Demon as my black finishers. I'm not 100% satisfied with them, but...

Domri Rade Xenagos, the Reveler Sarkhan Vol Arlinn Kord Which one in a vacuum?