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Topplegeist This spooky boy has always been looking in on cubes from the outside, but I think the success of Network Disruptor has shown that a card like this has a home. I'm envisioning a sort of UW blink/ninjas tempo deck looking something like this: Ones 1 Gingerbrute 1 Hypnotic Sir 1...

:D Precisely! Like I said, I don't know how to fix it, but it's going to result in a lot of triggers that do nothing except break the game in weird corner cases of triggers that trigger on triggers, and I don't want to worry about those edge cases. Cool design, though. I must have...

For sure! Forgeborn Phoenix This card can give itself the returning text many times, which feels incredibly sloppy. Better Offer I don't see any good reason why the last sentence needs the second "perpetually," which would normally be fine except that I think it would save them a line break...

It's less important, sure, but they don't have to spend money to make it physically, meaning that there's correspondingly fewer expenses associated with its production. And they're clearly not budgeting much for the designers, given the incredibly poor wording on some of these cards, so I'd...

Honestly, why can't we do this in person? WotC obviously can't let people search without revealing for tournament reasons, but in a format such as cube where we're likely playing with people we know well and in which the stakes are no higher than bragging rights most of the time I think it's...

Does anyone with a better eye for art know why the art is invariably bad on the Alchemy cards? Do we think it's just rejects from the regular set, or is it something about the saturation/aspect ratio being slightly squished/different font sizes necessitated by Arena? Also, Seek X and Cascade...

galepowder mage >this weird wizard on a pair of bongo drums with wings shows up >threatens to smack my boss around >offers me this powder >says it'll feel like flying >surewhynot.bmp >it sends me to the shadow realm >like I leave this fucking plane of existence >when I wake up he's nowhere to...

Neonate feels disappointing to cast 25-50% of the time, whereas I always feel like I get my money's worth out of Epicure. I would go to two Epicures before I added a Neonate unless Aristocrats really need a boost or something.

Judge's Familiar Hard Evidence The Blackstaff of Waterdeep Lantern Bearer Siren Stormtamer Hypnotic Siren Enclave Cryptologist Depending on what you want to do and your definition of "1-drop," I've found these to be reasonable creature and creature-adjacent cards that mostly get played on turn...

Maybe this is heretical, but could Lizard Blades be the cut for the helm? It's a similar slot and if you squint they're both aggro cards. +2/+2 is an awful lot like double strike on critters that are 2/2 or smaller, after all.

It's a very fun card, but it's also $65, so . . .

Cards look cool! Are the names going to get changed? It seems like a very decisive decision to use the same name and artwork as existing cards while retaining a similar effect.

I drafted Alpha once (online, not IRL) which is and isn't the same as what you describe. My deck was nine Circles of Protection spread throughout all five colors and forty-two cards so that I could win by mill. It was about as fun as you'd think for the first couple of hours, but when we got to...

Okay, that's totally reasonable lol. Definitely not a high-powered card, but if it doesn't do anything in kitchen table games then it's not going to cut it here. I guess I should have figured that out from it being cheap as dirt.

Brine Shaman Has anyone ever tested this strange, strange card? I feel like it has to do something.

Necro, but I just realized that we may have been asking the wrong question here. Instead of percentages of spells dedicated to removing other permanent, I'd like to pose the following: what is the ratio of spells that can remove creatures to the number of creatures you have? No need to take into...

Agree to disagree on Linarch Veteran, I guess--its performance in MID was definitely not because of the lifegain deck--and agreed on Covetous Castaway not quite getting there. I really wish that card had an ETB trigger rather than a death trigger. Time for customs, right? As for the Hermit, I...

I feel like you're looking at the "wrong" Disturb cards for consideration. Specifically, I feel like Lunarch Veteran and Malevolent Hermit might be more your speed than bulky finishers or combo pieces. Lantern Bearer is my other pick for a flagship Distrub critter, but you're not supporting that...

No, but I was considering him. I've always thought that cards like this just needed a keyword or two to be viable, and this sure is. Maybe there's something cute to be done with Memnite? It seems tricky to have a deck that both modifies creatures and cares about recursion while wanting to attack...

No, cool as it is. You can't even use it to stabilize the board because killing any nontoken creature on the opponent's side ends the effect, meaning that decks have be okay with either using the zombies as resources or waiting for a single attack. That makes it incredibly narrow while requiring...