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  1. Erik Twice

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    Golden butterflies? I'm sorry, but witches aren't real. Anyways, I agree the theme is dumb. But I think all Magic set based on existing worlds with the number filed off are. I'm surprise we still don't have Sherlock Holmes in the game, seems like an inevitable candidate.
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    By why would you want to run Omnath? I mean, it's a four colour card that gets back its cost in mana, tempo and cards. There's nothing else to it.
  3. Erik Twice

    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    The addition of Reflector Mage has been a good one. It works well in tempo decks. It also makes blink more of a thing given the other tools the arctheype has access to. Perhaps Blink is more of a tool and doesn't lean as much into midrange as I had hoped but it's good enough for my revision of...
  4. Erik Twice

    Dom's Stream of Consciousness

    I'm glad you guys managed to make it work. I couldn't and it felt like you had to have a very high number of artifact creatures for it to be worth playing.
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    Dom's Stream of Consciousness

    Let me share my thoughts here. 1) I like the small snow splash. I've actually been thinking of running exactly the same cards. If you are running Icehide Golem to support aggro in different archetypes, please try Gingerbrute. It's a great, versatile card and has a bunch of cool synergies...
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    General Let me draft your cube

    You have drafted my cube a lot so I could only lend you a hand. 1) First, it's clear this is a sketch. You have more payoffs and synergy enablers than cards that serve different roles. You'll probably have to work on the bread and butter of the cube over everything else. 2) You have too many...
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    General Introducing the Cube Map – find out how your cube fits within the Cube Universe!

    This is fantastic! And it is extremely useful, you can see similar cubes and see what others are doing. I'm not surprised my cube is near Sigh, Trainmaster and Onder. I wonder how far away Inscho would have been before he changed his cube radically, he has been my main source of inspiration. I...
  8. Erik Twice

    General Fight Club

    What about building a Commander cube except your "commander" has its own victory condition? Also you just reminded me I need to turn my Netrunner collection into a cube.
  9. Erik Twice

    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    I wrote a big post but I lost it. Anyways, before I could fully work on improving Jeskai I had to make some small changes. I was using Cube Cobra to make a list of potential changes and additions so I had to put those in before changing Jeskai: In Bident of Thassa Prized Amalgam Steel Hellkite...
  10. Erik Twice

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    I'm looking for 2 and 4 drop creatures that are worth blinking or getting back to your hand with Kor Skyfisher and other similar cards.
  11. Erik Twice

    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    Thanks Nanonox! Still, I feel the issue is mostly on the targets more than the enablers. Also, while I like The Mirari Conjecture, I don't think it's worth blinking. I would focus on self-mill and drafting as many cheap spells as I could instead if I were to build around it. I think the saga...
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    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    Ok, enough with the boring theorical discussions. Let's look at actual cards. Let's start with Jeskai. The spells theme is fantastic and I like it a lot: Monastery Mentor Dreadhorde Arcanist Snapcaster Mage There's a payoff I'm not too sold on: Thing in the Ice On one hand, it's a...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Yes, I would. It's a very powerful card and it can always get some random flashback card.
  14. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Entomb's main use is Reanimation, I don't think Life from the Loam and recursive creatures are enough to justify the slot otherwise. Gamble can be used to search for anything. Sure, sometimes you lose a card and a mana but it's a very powerful card. Still, I like it for artifact reanimation...
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    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    I've been thinking about this topic while on the train and made some advances. I started going over colour pairs and seeing what archetypes I was supporting (or failing to support) in them. And it gave me a very clear idea of which archetypes I should support on what parts of the cube. By...
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    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    So I've been checking my colours and it seems my archetype design is a bit of a disaster. For example, my blue section is trying to cover five or six archetypes: UWR Spells UBR Artifacts UBR Reanimator/Discard UG Self-Mill UW Blink UB Tempo? Control? That's fine. I can even see the overlap...
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    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    Ok, several guys at the club want to play Cube so I need to print proxies for all my changes soon. Here's what I want to do: First, I want to fill the empty slots I have. At this point: 4 Red 2 Black 1 White 1 Green 1 Blue 1 Dimir 1 Gruul 1 Selesnya Second, I want to refocus two...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Zuran Orb was busted in the sense it made you very hard to kill. Still, I don't think it would be an issue now. I just want more WR non-creature decks based around Cataclysm, Land Tax and Devastating Dreams.
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    Dom's Stream of Consciousness

    Great post Dom! I'm thinking of revisiting my approach to blink in my cube. It used to be focused on more explicit payoffs like Gilded Drake and I now want to make it subtler. I would love for it to interact more clearly with enchantments as well, though that might be too expensive to really pay...
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Terror of the Peaks is brutal, I cut it from my cube because it was dominating and I run bullshit like Forbid and Mother of Runes.
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