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that was just a dumb card name joke, but yeah that might be an interesting (though probably overcomplicated) design space

http://mythicspoiler.com/bfz/cards/crypticcruiser.jpg am I the only one disappointed by the fact that this isn't a super busted "choose two of four" modal spell with delve for like 12U?

That is a pretty cool concept! I think it likely holds up a little bit better in a Battlecruiser Magic environment than it does in cube, just by virtue of curve differences. I suspect that it's a lot harder for a "normal" deck to use 4-6 mana ramp in BFZ than it is for a "normal" deck to cast...

100% agree on the ophiomancer hate. I was super excited to run it when I saw it. The first week I played games where I was on both the giving and receiving end of the snake. Both felt shitty. The card is an instant board stall. re: Phyrexian Arena I swapped mine out for a second Dark Confidant...

I think for most people, Strike Leader is the cut. I recently doubled up on vengevines for this weird Dashvine archetype I'm trying out, so I don't think he's the cut for me. My list looks almost identical to CT's except I'm running herald of torment and not Graveblade Marauder and Pitiless...

I saw Drana, immediately went and checked my list, and holy shit if black three drops are the new four drops. What the hell do I even cut? freaking bone shredder?! Literally every other black three I'm running is hooked into some kind of theme or another (and old boney is a Pod / CoCo candidate...

Somebody with super powers should probably just merge this thread with that other one that trainwrecked. Personally I wasn't all that satisfied with the "run coatl and chimera and then cast brainstorms" look on this color pairing. To me it just feels flat; I ran both cards for forever and I...

I don't really see the appeal of these super bomby +2/+2 enchantments. I've been seeing the "oh man, it's so... GOOD!" argument/justification at lot lately; that isn't a good enough argument for running a card (and is how powermax happened in the first place). What ever happened to "good in my...

Hmm maybe there is something to 5th card then. I think this interacts favorably with ingest since the cards you ditch do give a marginal resource advantage to your opponent.

Worst case you end up in a position where you have to boost control or nerf aggro, which is fairly straightforward. Could be as simple as having fewer shocks and more ABU duals, more of the "unfairly good" control cards, etc. The more I think about this idea the more excited I am to try it...

I think this is fixable by penalizing it with life loss in the same way Wadds did with shuffles in his microsealed (I think that's what it was called?) format. Tbh I think we can port a lot of lessons from that format, because an Exile/Draw game of magic is basically the Lite version of a...

I think 5th from the top is safe, I can't think of what card would be abusable. Stuff like oust sylvan library and such tends to interact with TOL higher up than the 5th card. The only interaction I can think of for 5th card (that doesn't involve a really obscure combination of TOL effects) is...

As long as we ban Bow of Nylea and whatever other cards we'd need to avoid, sure, bottom works great! It's a lot more elegant than what I was cooking up (figure out the maximum library manipulation depth in your format and dig that deep for your exile/draw. gross.)

This seems cool. My only gripe is the amount of sorting work necessary (and I guess the implicit assumptions it makes about color balance, but I think this is pretty negligible). I routinely play with 2 or 4 players (in fact, it's almost all we ever do) as such, I have a couple of points that...

My favorite part about this thread is the amount of ambiguity between it being purely shitposts and the couple of real ideas. I do think ahadabans may be onto something with exile/draw, but I'm still unsatisfied. "Cut from the middle" is a little too vague for all but the most casual of games. I...

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Is it trading/credit only? Or can I melt cards into cash now that I don't care whether or not they're real?

Fhqwhgads. (Only posting because I typed it from memory, checked to see if I got it right, and did.)

I agree with CT on the flavor point. Now that I've seen what ingest is supposed to actually do, I think it's a flavor win. These dudes take your cards to another dimension and do... stuff to them, then when they're ready they puke the wreckage into your graveyard as fuel to do actual...

At what mana cost and/or body size is Zada cubeable? I really dig the effect, but as has been pointed out, hill giant is pretty shitty...