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Syndic is a legitimate threat. A 2/2 without any combat keywords can still attack more often then not. If he triggers twice, he will have made up for the fact that you didn't attack with him on turn 1. If you have a way to leverage the lifegain, even better. Basilica Guards are pretty useful...

Last time we drafted, someone at the table wanted to take Havenwood Battleground during the utility land draft and was disappointed that it wasn't there anymore. He ended up settling mostly happily for Hickory Woodlot and I don't recall him mentioning the difference mattering in any of his...

As I have mentioned, I almost always play 4 man. As such, we don't get a 3-0 every drafted. In fact, we rarely get 3-0s. Of course, this weekend we did and I didn't write done the deck list. It was red/white white angels, aggro dudes and burn. Chained to the Rocks was the mvp and it wasn't...

Voracious Wurm I really want to include this big, dumb animal and live the dream of Favored Hoplite > Ordeal of Heliod > 12/12 Voracious Wurm. While I think I do have the density of lifegain effects to make him work, they generally don't come down early, meaning that the appeal of a giant 2...

I think Beta cards look like garbage. Way too dark. Except for Pestilence, that black on black is kinda awesome. I have no idea why people don't like white borders. They look good to me.

More packs means more bottom of the pack "picks", which I am not a fan of.

The thing about this card as opposed to wildfire (which I'm pretty much done with) is that the red decks that want to stunt mana development generally don't want to go to six mana. The ones that do go to six mana don't want to drop back down to 2 mana just to clear the board. The ones that do...

We finally have a powered cube on here and in less then a week he's throwing out moxes. So much for diversity!

I've gotten nothing but good feedback on Jinxed Choker. Its an aggressive card that game forward in an interactive fashion. I really like it.

I'm looking some more at this cube and I like what I see. Vampire Nighthawk seems out of place. He's really just a big ball of stats in a section based on trickery, it seems out of place. Boneshredder could be good here. Liliana's Specter could also be good, but I take it that cards in the...

Devastating Dreams This card checks a bunch of boxes for me. It discards stuff, it stunts development and it sweeps creatures. The problem is, I'm not sure if red decks actually want to do all three of these things at the same time? This is a recent addition and it was undrafted last time...

Played another four man last night. If you can stomach the extra draft time, its definitely much better then a booster draft when you don't have a full table.

I can't see pack rat being a very interesting cube card. I mean, it may well be very good, but is it really something you want?

Multiplayer-Soliataire (yeah, this sentiment is prevalent enough to have a term for it) is the worst.

I have played over 3,000 games of League of Legends. I am a huge board game nerd, but I hate Agricola. Play Caylus like a man!

I love pingers. I run an Alpha Orcish Artillery and it is OP as shit, but everyone loves it anyway. Jaya Ballard is ok decent if you can accept the random blue hate. Fireslinger is classic and pretty useful. I also love gelectrode. I have a Goblin Sharpshooter lying around and will consider...

I played an aggressive blue deck yesterday. I was fighting for white dudes with a guy in boros. My deck just didn't have the density of low cmc threats I needed. I needed a Welkin Tern, but instead I had Thasa who I am now pretty convinced is awful and will be immediately replaced by a generic...

Well, I think 1 and 2 mana blue creatures that can attack well is an obvious enough one considering a certain thread. Apparently I'm not allowed to talk about Welkin Tern anymore, but, yeah, that's sort of the high water mark. I think white has a lot of empty design space based around its...

I couldn't agree more. As I finish up revisions on this latest version of my cube, I have a stack of like 30+ green cards that could all easily get slotted in depending on what I want to push and none are "functional equivalents". In the other colors? 5-10 tops. I guess WotC is working...

I've done it about 4 times with 4 people and am looking forward to doing a full table in December. I admit, its not THAT much tension, but you do have to weigh the idea of deferring a card to the next round against the risk that two more awesome cards will pop up next round. The main advantage...