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  1. Grillo_Parlante

    General Mana Base Brainstorm Thread

    You have to be careful though with direct ports: there are only something like six multi-color flip morph total, and four tri-color flip morphs: those morphs will be a sub component of a broader multi-color package (perhaps gleaming some of the sun burst cards from the new set?).
  2. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers

    Supporting the +1 +1 counters theme is starting to become the riptide version of "pitches to force" :p
  3. Grillo_Parlante

    General Mana Base Brainstorm Thread

    My instinct with any lower power environ is to start with bouncelands. That being said, anytime I draw inspiration from a current or past format, i've found there to be tremendous limitations in following it too strictly: cube is its own unique beast at the end of the day. Ktk had a lot of...
  4. Grillo_Parlante

    General Mana Base Brainstorm Thread

    More or less with the discard, except not really the proactive/reactive divide. Reactive decks can it because it plays into an attritiony, card advantage focused gameplan, while proactive decks can run it for the disruption. I gave it some more thought, and I think alot of the problems i've...
  5. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers

    Its an uparmed version of deadwood treefolk--looks great.
  6. Grillo_Parlante

    General Mana Base Brainstorm Thread

    I think its more an issue of slowing a meta down enough where taking a turn off to cast a four mana sorcery that dosen't impact the board won't feel horrible. Tap lands in general work pretty well there, otherwise you end up in a spot where there are only three discard spells you can reasonably...
  7. Grillo_Parlante

    General CBS

    How did you find the spanish language version? I've been looking for italian delvers for forever.
  8. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers

    Thats only because we thought it was the "new" juzam djinn. Boy were we wrong.
  9. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers

    Ten years ago, that card would be insane and a rare. Today I just yawn when I look at it. What have you done to me NWO, what have you done....
  10. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers

    This mechanic sounds like something those guys at BTP would come up with.
  11. Grillo_Parlante

    General Mana Base Brainstorm Thread

    With spoilers for BOZ winding up, and it becoming increasingly suggestive that this will probably not be a very exciting set for cube (prove me wrong WOTC...prove me wrong), I thought I would take this moment to brainstorm ideas about the new tango lands from the set (tango being more positive...
  12. Grillo_Parlante

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I've never really liked sulfuric vortex, but how about this? Lust for war
  13. Grillo_Parlante

    One Pack One Pick (p1p1 thread)

    The wrinkle is that the ceiling on mulldrifter is much lower than several of the other cards in the pack. Flicker gives you combo potential--the undisputed strongest deck in the cube--and either combos or goes in a deck featuring six of the other cards in the pack. Salvagers also has a higher...
  14. Grillo_Parlante

    One Pack One Pick (p1p1 thread)

    Bitterblossom: high power, difficult to interact with permanent. Heres one for you: cadaver imp chromatic star auriok salvagers sejiri steppe simic growth chamber expedition map mulldrifter piston sledge halimar depths trinket mage tuskguard captain undying evil bonesplitter triad of...
  15. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers

    Hmmmm you are right about that. Its the tol tutors that are actual card disadvantage, but this is just a replacement effect. Thanks for the catch.
  16. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers

    Not even. Ingenuity is an investment of 1 card for 3, while bring to light/visions is an investment of 2 cards for 3 and requires tapping out on your main phase... The new manland is great: vines of vastwood become immense groundswell might of old krosa Lets rumble. I also like the new...
  17. Grillo_Parlante

    General Fight Club

    The reason delve is a big deal is because 1) its an impetitus for velocity driven gameplay, and 2) its a graveyard theme that dosen't require much support. Most graveyard themes are really isolated requiring too much support in a general cube. The penny cube dosen't have a focused graveyard...
  18. Grillo_Parlante

    General Fight Club

    His argument wasn't to draw an exact analogy between targeted discard and delve creatures, but to illustrate the difference that one extra mana can make. Counterspell vs. cancel or dig through time vs. treasure cruise are other, similar arguments. The main problem with tombstalker or...
  19. Grillo_Parlante

    General Fight Club

    Gurmag Angler is much better than muckdraggers and its not even close. Nerd anger flaring wildly out of control. Not really, but neither should you take angler out of your cube in favor of muckdraggers.
  20. Grillo_Parlante

    Card/Deck Creatures With Neutral Card Economy

    ...and I somehow forgot one of my favorite creatures trinket mage and his big brother, I suppose treasure mage
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