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Sort-of-partial counterpoint: not all the X Matters cards are like that these days. One of these four was a major "cycling matters" draft buildaround in its set, but you probably can't tell which if you don't already know: Green Goblin, Nemesis Monument to Endurance Containment Construct...

The Soul Stone If this cycle is tight enough that they all cost two, I guess at least they don't actually fix your mana. Whatever. I don't like it.

I came back to this thread to say that I told myself so - had a Devastating Onslaught draft deck on Arena last night. Lost a game to Devastating Onslaught. Then won a game with Devastating Onslaught. It was hilarious. Deck wasn't good - partially because I severely overvalued Plasma Bolt...

oh my god saaaaaame

Not sure if it fits what you're going for, but there's Galadriel's Dismissal - two modes of "save my creature" and "falter you Parallax Wave style", so it's not really a fun value engine or anything, but I love modal spells.

Finally, a cube where I know how to have a 100% win rate!

I was recently made aware of Contest of Claws and while it's not strictly Eldrazi-flavored it definitely works well with having an enormous idiot in play...

or we can just have surveil lands with cycling 2 or karoos with basic land types that sometimes come in untapped gotta admit I didn't expect those :marofl:

Depends on the definition of "better", I'd assume - a triome is "better" than a shock but if I'm a Kird Ape aggro deck I really want Stomping Ground specifically but if I don't have the Ape then why not take Copperline Gorge or maybe I have Thought-Knot Seer so I need Karplusan Forest (get it...

I never listen to podcasts but I would immediately read a transcript - and I assume there are not enough of me to make it worth the time to produce one but I'm sounding off anyway! - because I am legitimately interested in knowing what every person involved had to say.

(really though, if two people decide to go in on the same archetype, that makes the draft more and not less interesting, right?)

if you haven't put like five Surging Might on a Bull Aurochs, you have probably lived a better life than I did but you are missing out

I'd be pretty horrified to be in ten rooms at once!

You say that, but it took twenty years after Shelldock Isle for WotC to be like "we could put a number on this" and print Rabble Rousing. It's just sensible futureproofing!

Gravecrawler is the spell I think I've seen singleton-breaking here most often. There's just nothing like it (plus it works with itself in multiples!) in terms of cheap black recursive creature.

I actually just broke singleton with double fetches. Because I decided to stop messing around with fastlands and painlands and just play the stuff that synergizes. I think fundamentally the answer there is "you don't!" - go deep, just do it in a second distinct cube or something. Because...

Heidar, Rimewind Master seems pretty stoked about it

this opinion is shared by so few people around me and I agree with you

You know, I go and leap to WotC's defense - atypical for me - and within the day I see MaRo say something else that makes me think you're less tinfoily than I had thought: They've been doing ten signpost uncommons for all non-faction/guild/whatever sets, are we gonna get Spider-Factions? Or...

I will say that you have to separate out two distinct groups of "they" here! R&D is comprised of - even the very old guard that didn't get hired after a stint in competitive play, and the Great Designer Search winners, and so on - chronic, inveterate, unrepentant, lifelong drafters. I'd be...