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safra care to chime in on what fun touristy stuff is worth doing? Dom what do your travel plans look like (how long can/will you stay etc)? Anybody else live in the area or thinking of going?

I kinda feel like most of us have made up our minds and we're going in circles at this point, but didn't this all start because I suggested increasing that density?

Just think of all the tempo you could gain by countering people's lands in a mono-blue deck with 4 wastelands.

It's actually really important, when working with customs for example, to strictly adhere to templating, rule precedents, etc. You're already pushing it by trying to errata cards or make them up. You need any scrap of legitimacy you can get. You don't want this you want this instead.

Can we get Chingo a standing ovation for stepping out of the shadows for the first time into the fire that is this thread? Brass balls dude. And yeah, land determines a lottttt about your format. See: Grillo's, mine, and actually any generic riptide cubes for that matter.

If you guys plan to hang out besides just doing GP Van, I do have a friend in the city who I've been meaning to visit. I'd consider making the trip up if we made this sort of a thing.

I think the glossary is useful, and I think signaturing your point of reference via a cube link and a couple descriptors of where you're at is probably helpful. I'll start: 360, unpowered, heavy singleton breaking, light custom cards, standard color wheel, color pie mostly respected, no...

More isn't necessarily better. Half of writing is deleting shit you thought was clever when you wrote it. But yeah, condensing some of this stuff into articles is a good idea. Maybe multiple authorship could be a thing? I dunno

I think I'm on you guys' side of this argument, but just for the sake of discussion, I'll take the other side. Xathrid Necro technically has more upside in the BCS than you're giving it credit for. If I'm recurring 2shieldz then necro is a legit engine.

for sure. but the activation cost is a real one and people feel pretty shitty when it gets pathed or magma sprayed. I'm usually okay with these "should I risk it?" type of cards. I think my least favorite thing about him is the Intimidate, not the BCS where he gets giant and comes back after...

I'm okay with him. Something does feel subtly off, I'll admit. But I've never been able to figure out what. I've seen him be really good and I've also seen him be kinda slow and clunky and not really matter. Maybe the problem is that every black 3 drop is kind of just a dude that says "do stuff...

I like the tec edge variant more. My gripes with the shroudlike variant are 1. the same gripe you have about rules memory and 2. I dislike giving players the ability to have wasteland-proof manlands (though I do acknowledge that it adds some complexity/play to the format). One thing I like about...

I wish they'd post more cards from the well trained neural nets and less stuff for lawls. I like working with the higher powered but fair designs, but don't really know where to get them outside of running my own net or trawling through roborosewaters lolcards

It's very possible that the idea just isn't portable outside of my format. I'd hoped that it was, but the discussion made me realize that fetchland density probably does have quite a bit to do with wasteland being okay. Even if my initial hope was totally bunk, it's still cool to see all of the...

At work so I don't have time to formulate an adequate reply, but I've been following the discussion off and on and would like to reiterate that my motivations were never about improving aggro (it was doing fine before the change). My motivation was purely to discourage loose splashes. This is...

I like this post a lot Eric. I think you're right that the wastelands work a lot better in a format where your manabase is commonly half fetchlands. You also made me realize that there's a fundamental difference in ideologies underlying this discussion that I don't think has been explicitly...

At what P/T and mana cost would precursor golem be interesting enough to run? Assume a couple of pump spells in the format and a great deal of removal that makes him look stupid.

I want to be wrong about her... Post results!

I like both Jason's spoiler and Chris' idea. Even just having the option to hit the 460 card mess would be helpful for the reasons he mentions. If you're concerned about perception of your cube, maybe just don't label it/don't use your main account?