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Chain Reaction Blasphemous Act Both of these scale with the number of creatures. What I like is that there’s some counterplay involved. If you know (or suspect) your opponent is on one of these, you can alter your plays to make them less effective, either by not having enough creatures out to...

Having played a lot of Hearthstone, I simply think this ain't true. You can't play more than 2 of each card or 1 of each legend in a 30 card deck. Some cards you run as singletons as well, so you don't always max out on the cap. On average there's about 16-20 unique cards in a Hearthstone deck...

I think Vel was implying that Train is underselling the new Elsha by saying it's Invasion Block Retail Draft power level, so he challenged them to show the cards that are actually better, and Miles responded with a bunch of cards that are arguably better. I disagree with some of their picks...

I already run white prowess in my cube, and a "heroic" theme in RW, so this is super up my alley!

It's not often that I watch content that lasts longer than ~15 minutes, but only focusing on cuts sounds like you're skipping over the interesting stuff. Cuts are probably the most boring part of cube maintenance, unless there's a particularly good story behind the cut! On the other hand, if...

I have no interest in any of the UB sets this year, because artistically they clash so hard with regular Magic.

Containment Construct’s gotta be a workhorse for creating card advantage in a cube where I’m guaranteed to pick up blue cards, right? And it keeps me open? Sign me up!

While that is true, you don't see a card only once during a draft night. When you draft a card with, say, coalesce for the first time, you will have to read it, obviously. But once you shuffle up your deck, you have already looked at it a couple of times, and by the time you first draw it during...

I ran proxies that showed both sides of the DFC for a while, with the actual DFC in a clear sleeve in the token box. It worked, but I grew tired of having to go the extra mile to make DFC's logistically playable. The lands are less egregious on the information visibility part, but even those...

Awesome content! Loved Chris’s takes too. I do think it’s interesting you count reminder text when looking at the number of lines on a card to determine card complexity. Keywords are, after all, a tool explicitly used to provide shortcuts to players, thereby increasing the grokability of a card...

You know, one of my main cube projects last year was to phase out all DFCs and replace the ones I really liked by custom SFCs, so I feel you!

That's why I said that I get it when you hate the release cycle. But in and of itself, a Magic the Gathering Direct that showcases multiple upcoming products isn't a bad thing imo.

I’m uncertain that I like SciFi in the Magic multiverse, but I have to admit the art for that set looked stellar! Also, it’s perfectly fine if you think the release calendar is too cramped (I would agree), but a big reveal day where you get a sneak peek at a number of upcoming releases is fine...

You know… 4 x 2 + 4 x 3 = 20!

If this isn’t a love letter to Saf, I don’t know what is

Hahaha, it was so on brand for ravnic that I didn’t even hesitate! Sorry @gaytransmulldrifter and @ravnic XD

They got your back Ravnic, the next one after this is a Standard legal Final Fantasy set :p

They are? I kinda hate it tbh. If I wanted anime art on my tcg, I would have switched to another card game by now.

I loved the contest, but I didn't vote for pretty much the same reason I didn't make a submission. The time required to compete or vote was too high for me. To cast a fair vote, one would have study each cube (read the blurb, pore over a 180 card cube list, theorize how the format would play...

In cases like this, using a goldfish scenario helps to see how big the difference between one- and two drop really is. For math purposes, let’s assume we draw two fetches (can be fetchlands, additional land drops like Explore, or Rampant Growth effects) in our opening four turns, and we don’t...