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I'm trying to get my tokens in color-appropriate sleeves and keep them with the basic lands, so that when people are doing deck construction, they actually pick out the tokens they may need in advance instead of waiting until they're mid-draft and start using d20s because they can't immediately...

Based on an extra week of drafting since my last update, as well as a cube draft this weekend (and the conversations about inclusions that come therein), going to me making the following updates: Katilda, Dawnhart PrimeGood-Fortune Unicorn Katilda, Dawnhart Prime in for Good-Fortune Unicorn I...

Back in ~2008 you could find cases of 12 pre-constructed decks from Ravnica on eBay for like, $30-40 USD? So my friends and I bought a few cases and brought them to Scout camp and sold them to kids who got spending money from their parents for the camp shop and such for $10 each, making around...

I started with Coldsnap. After picking out cards I liked from my friends' boxes, they gave me 5 boosters, one from each of the most recent sets. I opened up a pack of Dissension first, and got a Rumbling Slum. Made a green/red deck that was primarily Kamigawa snakes led by a playset of Sosuke...

I was very happy with getting Waker and Godzilla (Titanoth Rex) pretty much back-to-back as "fair" reanimator payoffs, it's been good. Agreed with @blacksmithy that Curator of Mysteries is probably a more flexible and interesting card, but it doesn't direct your drafters in a specific direction...

Apparently Disturb and Decayed won't be returning for Crimson Vow? Mechanically, I like Disturb quite a lot and was eager to see a pushed card with the mechanic in the next set. With Decayed, I'm actually excited to think that we may be getting normal 2/2 zombies again in an Innistrad set. Very...

I haven't updated my CubeCobra with MID yet, but as of last count, I'm cubing with 34 DFC in a 720 list, with the majority being the MDFC of the last year, particularly because I run the 10-card (20-card??) cycle of Pathways as my 7th duel land for each color combo. If you want to get a quick...

They thought they could block my 4/4 with it and be OK, but it's not quite protection. It was a pre-release so I let them take it back. You can stop removal pointed at it for sure! Again, it's not necessary complex itself, but it has so many elements to it that it's not surprising that folks...

I guess I'd say that people misplay protection all the time, and that was the core of it here, but really, it was just the word soup issue making it that people forgot various things. I had to correct one opponent who beat me with it twice (for my only match loss) that 1) he needed Coven active...

I would be playing the heck out of Keen Duelist if it was the Duskmantle Seer effect. Beyond the needlessly confusing way that it reads, I don't want to be punished because my opponent is running 8-drops when my curve tops out at a single 4-drop. Still, if it read in a less confusing way, I'd...

Testing from the pre-release and initial drafts on MTGA confirms pretty my expectations from the set, giving me a dangerous sense of validation that will surely go to my head. Trying to cube next weekend so I hurriedly bought some of the "in-hand" cards on eBay from reputable sellers for a...

Definitely not. One reason that I like Riptide Lab is because it's one of the few places where I see regular discussion of cube from a perspective other than the powermax mentality or the MTGO ethos (there was a really good post a week or so ago here on the MTGO philosophy of splashy games that...

Please report back on how this performs! I don't run quite enough graveyard interaction to justify it at the moment, but I'm fascinated by the card and love to imagine scenarios and environments where this is a high pick.

I'd rather not have players get randomly nugged by a two-card combo they saw on a Pioneer tournament that can be done on turn 3 or 4, especially since Heliod isn't the easiest to interact with, even if it won't come up all that frequently. I would generally prefer to keep him otherwise.

Agreed with both @sigh and @blacksmithy. As such, this isn't going to sound too different than their approaches, but to me, "fair" means playing Magic with opportunities and outcomes within a relatively tight band across all players. Cube is already a great equalizer for those that don't have a...

Yeah, this is my biggest issue with the methodology. Like you said, it's really a matter of goal and target audience, and your point here about a ceiling really rings true -- Intrepid Adversary is a very strong card - one of the best in the set in a vacuum - but I'm including 22+ cards and...

Thank you thread for reminding me to put in Emiel the Blessed into my list, I picked it up to be a signpost for the newly-supported blink archetype. Back to Midnight Hunt, I was re-reading Wtwlf123's always-thoughtful set (p)review for the set, and one thing that I really like about how he does...

In terms of snowballing, it's slower than Vinelasher Kudzu at growing, and while the incremental advantage you get out of Tireless Tracker's clue tokens is real, so is the cost of taking half of your mana each turn to maintain the engine. To get value out of it the turn you play it, you...

28 cards, wow!! Cathartic Commando Intrepid Adversary Adeline, Resplendent Cathar Brutal Cathar Sigardian Savior Fateful Absense Sunset Revelry Suspicious Stowaway Malevolent Hermit Poppet Stitcher Consider Memory Deluge Jadar, Ghoulcaller Gisa, Glorious Resurrector Infernal Grasp The Meathook...

Just not sure how often it's going to be better than a 4 mana 4/4 deathtoucher that slowly brings back your dudes, which is fine, but it's probably a good amount of work to get to that point. It's neat though, glad they're doing big turtle dudes, even if it simultaneously feels like it's "for...