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  1. Aston

    General CBS

    I'd probably draft as normal but maybe take more expensive cards a little bit earlier, and build as normal with a view to do some heavy sideboarding between games 2 and 3.
  2. Aston

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    I like the idea of changing the flavour of Index to scouting.
  3. Aston

    General [WAR] War of the Spark

    I've seen people saying this is Mu Yanling from the Global Series product, although as far as I can see they don't look anything alike.
  4. Aston

    General CBS

    I haven't played it but Codex from Sirlin Games looks pretty close to a "Magic deckbuilder" - you start off with a small simple deck and a binder of all your options to include, and add cards to your deck every round to "program" it into matching up better against your opponent.
  5. Aston

    General CBS

    I found this video on synergies in Slay the Spire interesting: Particularly the parts about synergies making players feel powerful and smart, and that they should require some planning and thought to put together, seemed like they might be applicable to cube design.
  6. Aston

    General Modern Horizons

    As long as it shrinks by modern getting better and not legacy getting worse.
  7. Aston

    General CBS

    Interesting article from Jeff Cunningham here: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=15140&writer=Jeff%20Cunningham&articledate=2-27-2019&fbclID=IwAR2igcImIAVFq6K9qYDU63L0O2qKlzYFumIXGf3afb-os6hCqeL9lRpEsfg It's a tournament report-cum-musing on the history of the game. Long but worth...
  8. Aston

    General CBS

    Do you think an 8 supported colour combination format would work? I feel like they were going for that in Ixalan (BW Vamps, UG Fish, GW/RW/RG Dinos, BR/UB/UR Pirates) but it didn't really work. Is there a structure which might?
  9. Aston

    General Fight Club

    Triplicate Spirits, yeah that one was great too although perhaps not quite on the same level.
  10. Aston

    General Fight Club

    I wonder if Sprout Swarm is the most broken common in its native format in the whole game. The only two comparisons I could think of are Pestilence and Rolling Thunder, although I wasn't playing for those formats so it's hard for me to compare. Are those the top 3 or are there any others which...
  11. Aston

    General [WAR] War of the Spark

    My predictions for this set: 1. Lots of planeswalkers, far more than we've ever seen. Maybe every mythic is a planeswalker. 2. Some or all of the current main characters (the Gatewatch) either die or lose their spark. This will be shown on cards that transform from planeswalker to creature...
  12. Aston

    General CBS

    The point that seems to be being made most often is that a low-powered cube is a harder sell to a new group than a traditional power-max cube, because that's more what fits with people's preconceptions of what a cube is. In other words, you can build whatever cube you like, but you can't force...
  13. Aston

    General Fight Club

    I would go with Hellkite since at least if you don't have any artifacts, it's playable if a bit under curve. I suppose it depends on how many artifacts you think the average deck that wants this card would play - anything less than about 10 and I'd be wary of covetous dragon. Also I think I'm...
  14. Aston

    General Fight Club

    Phyrexian Rager vs Blade Juggler Consistency over a bit more power? Blade Juggler is human and it has a cool interaction with birthing pod, but is the fail state too bad to try it?
  15. Aston

    Draw Something!

    Are you saying all eldrazi look the same? Are you....an eldrazi racist?! It's not the channeler.
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    Draw Something!

  17. Aston

    General CBS

    there's also Reyhan, Last of the Abzan Arcbound Ravager and other modular cards....there's probably some that are playable.
  18. Aston

    GBS

    because it rhymes with ability. work with me here.
  19. Aston

    GBS

    I wrote a theme song for you FLASH! Wooo-oooh! That is Raff's ability! (dun dun dun dun dun) FLASH! Woooo-ooh! Until you play Humility!
  20. Aston

    General Errata'ing Cards

    I also tell everyone if they haven't played with my cube before that the swords don't give protection, although it does still sometimes get forgotten.
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