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  1. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    The kind of person who would insist on making invasive questions regarding someone sexuality is not going to be deterred by a technical change of the rules of a card. I think attempts to address bad player behaviour through game design are misguided. You cannot use a game to prevent people...
  2. Erik Twice

    General CBS

    I do remember Doran Rock. Which is crazy, because you had so many "Rock" variants at that time. You had Loam Rock, Gifts Rock, Aggro Rock, Doran Rock, White Rock...The variety back then was just absurd. I did not realize at the time, but I think I played the game when it was close to its best. A...
  3. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I should be able to shoot you with a gun, because you were the bad guy in Counter-Strike. Just don't play with those people, c'mon ;)
  4. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Yeah, stuff like that. The most obvious way is to use the effect twice and force an answer by asking "Will the answer to your next question be yes?". Which everyone can agree is trying to game it. In fact, it's how a similar card ended up being banned and in Vampire: The Eternal Struggle. Note...
  5. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I don't have experience with it, per se. However, as a fan of both Cosmic Encounter and Dune, which is where the effect comes from, I can tell you a bit about it. This is a fun, surprisingly powerful ability that makes for amazing games, cool plays and laughter. It also takes significant skill...
  6. Erik Twice

    General CBS

    When I first started cubing, I aimed for an Extended-like environment, but I found a lot of issues that aren't evident at first glance: - The card pool is small: We already struggle to find playable black 2-drops, that problem worsens significantly with - Enemy colour pairs weren't supported...
  7. Erik Twice

    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    More little changes. For example: Shardless Agent -> Hydroid Krasis Boros Reckoner -> Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger I used to have Alesha, who Smiles at Death in Rakdos, I moved her to Boros. Boros Reckoner always seemed meh. Pelakka Wurm -> Hornet Queen Here's a controversial one...
  8. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Tokens

    Sadly I don't. I haven't found a good replacement yet. I'm trying Mikaeus, Angel of Invention and so on but who knows. I might come back to it.
  9. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Tokens

    I agree with the other posters in that tokens is best, not so much as an archetype but as a somewhat common tool. For example: Gather the Townsfolk This is a spell for Saheeli, humans for Champion of the Parish and fodder for Aristocrats. If you run Raise the Alarm, the tribal synergy is...
  10. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    No, no, the order is wrong! First you play Hostage Taker, then Batallion. Then you use Fiend Hunter to flicker Batallion over and over and take all their stuff. For value. EDIT: Wait, this doesn't work. SLAM CONCEDE BUTTON
  11. Erik Twice

    General Fight Club

    Hehe, I already run Smallpox! Hence the question between Pox and Bigger pox. No wait, what was that playtest card called? Bigpox? haha
  12. Erik Twice

    General Fight Club

    Pox Death Cloud These two cards are not as similar as they seem! What do you think?
  13. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I've played with it and against it in draft and I'm not very sold on it. It's an awkard card in that it needs to be a threat but lacks trample. You want to putall your ETB dudes into the bus buf ,if you do, all you have is a big fattie getting blocked.
  14. Erik Twice

    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    I added my cube on Cube Cobra just for fun. I dislike how the bots are much poorer that on Cube Tutor but if it gets me some more drafting info, that's good enough for me. https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/9xc I've also tweaked cards here and there. Nothing huge, but I think the cube flows...
  15. Erik Twice

    General Evasion

    I really like unblockable when it's done right, as it provides a little puzzle. For example, I like that you can pull tricks with Looter Il-Kor but that it requires a bit of trickery or effort on your part. In a sense, it's like Hexproof. I like when Hexproof provides a puzzle and I dislike...
  16. Erik Twice

    General CBS

    I admit the reason I'm not building a Netrunner cube is that it would actually be two cubes (The game is assymetrical) and I'm lazy to build the whole thing up and hit people to draft it with. Specially since it would eat time with them I could put into playing L5R lol. -- It's weird...
  17. Erik Twice

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    This might be a bit beyond the scope of this thread but....Please help me evaluate Bouncelands. Golgari Rot Farm Original Ravnica used to be considered the best limited format of all time and I was lucky enough to play it back in the day. However, more and more people are pointing out that...
  18. Erik Twice

    General Fight Club

    Ha, looks like it's a tough one! Here's how I see it: I like that Phyrexian Reclamation can be slotted in decks with few creatures as long as you have the right targets. But having to pay two mana and two life is a lot so I'm not sure you can actually build those "slow value decks". I also...
  19. Erik Twice

    General CBS

    Done is better than perfect. And it's not an empty platitute, either. The quality of my articles is directly correlated to how much I write. If I write a bunch, my articles get better because I'm more focused, more used to writing and I have more "tries" to get it right. There's this idea that...
  20. Erik Twice

    Erik's "The cool side of Magic" cube

    Focus. I've reduced the size of my cube to 380 cards and I'm working to make things tighter and tighter. I'm already seeing results with Pox-style decks that mix artifacts, reanimator and Wildfire all in one. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/1248651[/url]"] Ones 1 Entomb 1 Executioner's Capsule 1...
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