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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...

Couldn't be more annoyed that they spoiled an entire video exclusively through a video with no high-res links to be found, but here's some interesting cards from MIC with cube potential (including one that's only found in the Set Boosters because collecting Magic is very straightforward these...

Ooh, guess I was rushing through the White section too fast, because I missed these two on first pass: Search Party Captain is reasonably playable but I can't imagine many folks including it over Priest of Ancient Lore. Still a neat card and a neat effect, I just don't want to work for my...

Full gallery is out! Interesting cards included here, though we may have seen Morbid Opportunist before. Evolving Wilds is here just for the nice new art. The most interesting to me here is Lunarch Veteran, a soul sister with upside in the graveyard, and the cheapest Disturb cost we've seen...

I fundamentally agree with this, even if the way that it's done now is better once you know how it works (or, if you're online, which was definitely the core motivation here). This is a more-and-more common issue we're having with design, and I'm legitimately going to have to make a printout of...

Thank you all for keeping me in check, I really enjoyed this art and was trying to rationalize cubing it any way I could...but I think it's pretty obviously not good or interesting enough :wagg:

Here's our competitively-priced Disturb card! He's a Glen Elendra Archmage marked half-off in your hand and a Wind Drake from your graveyard. So many different use cases, all of them pretty good and fairly interesting. This is what Cubing is all about! How close is this? It's a Xathrid...

Wait, there are still rares left to spoil? They saved green's Grave Titan for the eleventh hour! May replace Carnage Tyrant here, not a fan of hexproof finishers in general, even if green "deserves" to have one.

How do these hits keep coming?? That's what, six cards that I absolutely need to include in my cube that have been spoiled since I woke up today, and just as many reasonable includes that I want to think on a little more. General annoyingness of DFC aside in paper Magic with double-sleeved...