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  1. Rusje

    General Non-Creature Artifact Tokens

    which creature is that creature to die? if the creature you control or the one you do not control?
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Or just cut 1 colour entirely. That narrows the number of guilds from 10 to 6.
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    Article Sink or Swim: Making Cube Approachable

    Invite/meet-up send in pm.
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    Article Sink or Swim: Making Cube Approachable

    Your examples/text e.g., losing your own stuf to do something, e.g., no voidmage tend to lead to cluttered board states. You are right that nowhere you mentioned make all cards midrange. It could be that I went a bit to far in reading between the lines. My point on number of words does not infer...
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    It is a great card in white weenie. Weenie gets foiled by control or big creatures. This solves the big creatures part by allowing white weenie to brake the symmetry and gain a lot of life/do something with a lot of tokens on the side. The sad part is that it does not do anything useful against...
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    Article Sink or Swim: Making Cube Approachable

    I agree that we have to make our cubes accessible. However, I do not agree with your points of making it a midrange slugfest. Words on a card does not equip complexity. Examples are keyword soup versus one wordy ability. You are bound to forget a keyword in the soup but not a grokable ability...
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Unpopular opinion but no. Suppose you steal the ring from one of your friends. How do you think the rest of your shared posse will react to you?
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    The ring grants 2 powers to normal mortals. It lengthens your life when wearing it and on use you become a shadow which the others cannot see/hurt (the Nazgûl can see and hurt you). This is useful to sneak up on someone or to escape. (It does not make you more powerful unless you are a mighty...
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Did you read the lotr? (Or seen the movie?) The ring grants you shadow on use, but tells the Nazgûl where you are. What is worse is that it immediately makes the wearer (even when not in use) suspicious of their friends. Makes the wearer a target to all since all want it and will kill you. Makes...
  10. Rusje

    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Well, trust me the opponent will trigger at the end of the mid-game. Then the treasure you will get is almost worthless, but the life you lose is worth it for the opponent.
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Yes and no. They did not get the ring right. The movies did the ring justice.
  12. Rusje

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    No it is not. Yes, it scales but no it is not fair. It is also a cheat card. Any expensive equipment with living weapon/for mirrodin/etb equip or cheap equip likes to be cheated into play. That is why batterskull together with the mystic was nasty. The tutor and cheat is what makes it really...
  13. Rusje

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    That’s very likely not to do anything since the opponent has to block with two, what will often kill your menace must be blocked creature. First strike/double strike (with deathtouch?) is making it nasty.
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    You are almost right. It is even more: it is a freeze+bounce with an extra rider to not tap before it hits 3. I think it is quite good since it ‘unsummons’ immediately. It loses a lot of power when the opponent has a lot of etb that one wants to bounce.
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    General Archetype Printouts

    I am on the fence. I like it, but at the same time it has the tendency to prevent people trying out things you did not even know that were there due to “forcing” players to adhere to the handout.
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    General Favorite Playest Cards?

    Why endless one? Stonecoil serpent
  17. Rusje

    General Major change to Standard: Cards rotate slower

    So, in 5 years we have extended again?
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    And after combat? Do you lose it then or is it mandatory and you back up the truck? Playing where one cannot forget a trigger and go back is a tad nasty when playing for fun.
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    hmm, I own an urza’s block cube. There echo gives a lot of nice tension and is quite fun. The only thing is in the beginning to remember the triggered ability.
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Hmm, I always liked the modality: keldon champion Kavu titan One gets played optimally, the other often not. The titan is often sandbagged to be able to kicker it while the best play would be to bear it. The champion was quite a good creature were one could abuse the echo to sacrifice it...
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