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  1. Zoss

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    Claiming the title of resident opera buff, I think it's a travesty that you don't have anything from Madama Butterfly in consideration for the flavor text (yes, it's problematic; most opera are). Might I suggest: "Oh! how many fixed eyes are attentive. How many looks the sky laughs! Ah...
  2. Zoss

    Sets (LCI & REX) Lost Caverns of Ixalan and Jurassic Park spoilers

    Tasty, tasty full-art lands. The rest of the set can be whatever, I know I'll be scooping these up. Paging @MilesOfficial, fellow basic land connoisseur.
  3. Zoss

    General Fight Club

    Obvious answer is that it depends on the presence of shocks/triomes in your environment, but those things aside/making it "basic swampcycling" should be fine powerwise. It's a pretty common change to make, but IMO you're just changing out the fiddliness of a DFC for the fiddliness of extra...
  4. Zoss

    Black Lagoon

    That's the answer I was hoping for! Love me some Black Lagoon, and that's a great "story hook" for your cube.
  5. Zoss

    General Why the hell are you cubing anyways?

    Serious answer: This is a story I think I've shared here before, but I began cubing out of hate, not love. Even though I didn't start playing until 8th edition I always loved the history of Magic, so when Masters 25 was announced I was over the moon. At least one card from every single set...
  6. Zoss

    Black Lagoon

    Cool writeup and great ideas! What's the story behind the name Black Lagoon?
  7. Zoss

    Sets (WOE) Wilds of Eldraine Testing/Includes Thread

    Staff of the Storyteller is seeing play in at least one of Legacy and/or Vintage. It looks weak, but clearly has enough juice to make something happen so I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand for being underpowered.
  8. Zoss

    General Fight Club

    If you want a flex slot, Sailor is definitely better, but it doesn't scream bluggro the way Shadow does. They're both fairly comparable, tbh, though I'd say that Shadow is less likely to be anything other than a Flying Men. Which brings me to my question--is the problem one of deck strength or...
  9. Zoss

    General CBS

    A big part of the problem is that there just aren't that many options. It's Reanimate, Animate Dead, Persist, then Necromancy and then what, either Victimize or Resurrection? I'd advocate for the 2- or 3-mana options to split the difference, even if they're a little clunkier. Persist is...
  10. Zoss

    General Fight Club

    Welcome is . . . difficult to make good. I struggle to think of situations in which I'm happy to steal a creature for likely 2 more mana than was used to cast it. If you want something less powerful per pound than what you have going, that's a good option. May I suggest Beguiler of Wills as a...
  11. Zoss

    General Fight Club

    I think a lot of these come down to whether you think the color pair needs fixing or a little extra juice. My instinct is to make the lands all about fixing, so my vote would be Copperline Gorge, Fetid Heath, Simic Growth Chamber, and Temple of Epiphany. Cool choices! That said, if you're...
  12. Zoss

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    Hmm, you're right. The link I posted *used* to be the best way to make it, but a little digging makes it clear that that was probably changed due to a copyright issue. Thanks for the catch!
  13. Zoss

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    https://cardconjurer.com/creator?copyright= ^this specific link removes (edit: used to remove) the WotC copyright notice. It's pretty good! (more edit: looks like that left when they got hit with a copyright thingy. Use Chris' link below.)
  14. Zoss

    Sets (WOE) Wilds of Eldraine Spoilers

    I'm with Onder on this one. Throne is strictly more mana than Gilded Lotus, comes with a divination you can cast every turn, and doesn't come into play tapped, meaning that you can do funky things with it. The One Ring this is not, but it'll still go off with things like Circle of Teleportation...
  15. Zoss

    Sets (WOE) Wilds of Eldraine Spoilers

    Smaller games in a can!
  16. Zoss

    General Aesthetics Debate Club: Optimizing Art in Cube (Daily!)

    The loopy bananas in the Eldraine fruit basket weird me out, but otherwise that art is really good. Do bananas ever look like that, or is that just canonically what they look like on Eldraine? (In Eldraine? Gosh, what a mess.)
  17. Zoss

    General Aesthetics Debate Club: Optimizing Art in Cube (Daily!)

    Easily the LotR food for me, then actually the weird Unfinity theme park food. Something about a meter-tall burger and a Ben and Jerry's factory sundae just speaks to me.
  18. Zoss

    Sets (WOE) Wilds of Eldraine Spoilers

    Yeah, if you think I'm not going to slap an uncomfortably lifelike Redwall cover on this bad boy then you are sorely mistaken.
  19. Zoss

    Sets (WOE) Wilds of Eldraine Spoilers

    This looks incredible, and the names are precious, but I wonder if we're seeing so many good mice and rats in part to set things up for a typal deck or three in Bloomburrow. Same thing with the weird preponderance of otters, which would work well for a Redwall world's blue-aligned type.
  20. Zoss

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    Sorry to kibitz, but shouldn't Teysa be the creditor? If she's the debtor then she's the one who owes something and that doesn't seem very Orzhov to me.
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