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My favorite used to be my personal super-secret tech but is now mainstream in the Cubing world: Fire Covenant (It is busted though.) I want to second Exile, I love the original Rob Alexander art and ran it for the first 5 years of my Cube's life. My players enjoyed getting both sides of the...

that is such a funny interaction, goodness!

I was writing another follow-up to my early thoughts here based on playing a few MKM drafts yesterday on Arena, but I ended up going too deep into it and made it a full article. Check it out here!

Had a great time during prerelease weekend so far. I half expected it because I adore the Disguise mechanic for retail limited, but I also wasn't very impressed with the design on display overall for the set. I was right to feel both parts of that: Disguise was fun, if underpowered. Paying 3 is...

On that note, been playing the Arena Cube lately and wish these cards were Real: Forgefire Automaton Warzone Duplicator Menagerie Curator Swarm Saboteur Sigardian Evangel Captain Eberhart Benalish Knight-Counselor Crucias, Titan of the Waves Yes, I've talked about many of these cards here...

I think the folks above have covered the larger topics in response to your Cube here, but I wanted to give just a few examples I saw during my sample draft of cards that don't make sense in the list to me for various reasons. Power outliers - too strong: Archon of Cruelty Isochron Scepter...

Interesting thing I noticed today: no one in the testing thread but me is going to run or test Reasonable Doubt! Reasonable Doubt I know we're no longer in the era where people run singleton Rune Snags anymore for lack of good options of counters, but besides having an excellent name (which...

Includes: Forensic Gadgeteer Reasonable Doubt Proft's Eidetic Memory Massacre Girl, Known Killer Demand Answers Headliner Scarlett Pick Your Poison Aftermath Analyst Anzrag, the Quake-Mole Tomik, Wielder of Law Carnage Interpreter Stampede Surfer Unruly Krasis Escape Tunnel Trostani, Three...

We still have a half dozen cards left, but I made an early Cube set review for MKM. Lemme know what you think!

Such a silly card. As someone who studied economics and continues to keep up with the literature, this is a delight to me. A neat little bauble from the Commander set. I like being able to cloak my top card at instant speed, especially when I know what it is from the surveil and can follow...

Double-posting for my own rant: Tenth District Hero does something I really like for my Cube. It's a white 2-drop that grows in a powerful but fair way and eventually protects your entire team. I like the story it tells within the card (besides the fact that lol she's now a detective and not...

I agree with your fundamental point. The "color identity" rules are my least favorite part of the impact that Commander has had on design -- I've even been multiple retail drafts where people didn't think they could run cards with off-color activations unless they included mana of that color in...

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These are the precise top three I was going to talk about too. Miss Scarlett (Headliner Scarlett) is an absolute bomb, and even if you need to keep her back for defense for some reason (no????) she still untaps with a good Chandra impression. Will make room without a doubt. Not necessarily a...

Oh wow!! So many feelings. I love this card mechanically. I do. It's probably a little weak for my list but I adore the hybridness, the effect...everything!! It makes me so happy to see the Golgari watermark on the card. I understand why they didn't do it for this set, but it feels so bad...

Yeah, I agree. I didn't see my players grabbing Satyr Wayfinder unless they were doing the graveyard deck, but it also didn't get them thinking about the graveyard deck because it just seemed like an anemic value engine to them. Aftermath Analyst is shouting from the heavens "please flood your...

I like Divination in red when you're hellbent. I don't think I'm willing to pay an additional 1 for that upgrade over something like Bitter Reunion though. The upside is there if I wanted to for sure. I think the various impulse draw effects work better for red than this, but it's a good option.

I mean, this is normally just a better Naturalize, but also hitting fliers is huge. I ran Atraxa's Fall for a hot second and while I liked it (well, not the story implications), this is much better at half the cost. You're rarely going to be in a situation where this doesn't hit what you want it...

I literally haven't stopped thinking about this card in the two hours since I first laid eyes on it. I feel like it's selfish for me to include it in my Cube, but it hits so many notes for the kinds of decks I end up drafting that I'm bubbling with excitement. Hermit Druid has a new best friend...

Escape Tunnel is sweet. I will never complain about additional Evolving Wilds variants, especially if they do something interesting like helping you win the game through a board stall or something. These are both way better than the standard version, and are the odd special frame card I'd...