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I think level-up is a mechanic that becomes a lot worse once you take it out of its specific environment. It was designed as an aggro mechanic for a limited battle cruiser format, where mass mana management was the central theme; and as such, is a bit narrow and specialized. When you take a mere...

I run triple gather the townsfolk, alongside the existing big three white token makers, as well as dictate of heliod and cathar's crusade. I really like token makers, but its always tricky to figure out what density you can get away with before your cube starts to bog down.

triplicate spirits How does this compare with the other white spirit token makers in terms of raw power?

It’s basically a combination of Ron Paul supporters being obnoxious and progressive leaning professors being opposed to it. My general experiences with them is that they’re all right, though I think certain aspects of the philosophy are a bit naive. You’ll form your own opinions though I’m...

Well that should be fine than, Atlas shrugged isn't politically liberal. Ayn Rand was the founder of a philosophy called objectivism, which is more or less modern libertarianism. At any rate, it’s healthy if a literary work gets you thinking and challenges some of your preconceptions. It...

So you have never read it?

I wouldn't let it bother you; Atlus shrugged is an excellent work, it’s just a little heretical in this day and age.

Yeah, its a bit like burning vengeance where you just have to be careful that its not going to be overshadowed by your other removal. My question is, would it be something you would rather use in a G/R midrange shell with something like golgari grave troll, or in a G/R shell with cards like...

vendilion clique Decision heavy, powerful, and provides information

basking rootwalla jackal pup carrion rats diregraf ghoul tormented hero gnarled scarhide drifter il-dal spindrift drake doomed traveler dryad militant elite vanguard savannah lions soldier of the pantheon dakra mystic putrid imp ulvenwald tracker rakdos cackler You're probably aware of these...

There is a decently powered graveyard aggro deck in there. You can take some of the more powerful green counter stuff from before (namly experiment one) and than throw in common stuff like: basking rootwalla vengevine gravecrawler fauna shaman scavenging ooze wild mongrel necromancy...

Wanderer is the ultimate timmy card. There are a million excellent reasons not to run it and those reasons are all correct, but the guilty pleasure of resolving a wanderer is just too much. I mean, this is one of its popular comments on gatherer:

Yeah, the issue is that the cards are just really low power level, even compared to my cube. This was a cycling list I was toying around with. What makes cycling great though is the way it connects the early game with the late game, but i.m.o the lands are the best of the bunch. This is ugly...

I agree that a R/W cycling aggro deck would be sweet. Goblins would also be great. It also just dawned on me that after brilliantly breaking VMA with a flying token maker at common, they than turned around and brilliantly broke m15 limited by printing another flying token maker at common...

x2 memory's journey, x2 krosan reclamation, x1 suffer the past, and x1 vessel of endless rest is all of my gy hate. MJ and KR are the main pieces of GY hate, and its not always best to use them as such. I had a memory's journey last week, but there was no suffer the past in the draft, sadly...

Yeah, I think there are a lot of cards like that, which are synergy cards but just naturally get powered by most cube formats. Recurring nightmare is like that, if you lack ETB guys it goes from being broken to being a tempo inefficent reanimation spell. Ramp cards and reanimation cards in...

No daze. Gush or frantic search would be other good cards to run in a deck like that, if I wanted to push it more. He drafted kira, great glass-spinner, but decided not to run her in favor of going all in on the instant/sorcery theme. I would not have been able to do that. i.m.o running...

Yeah, I think you are probably right about ion storm. To clairfy, the types of decks yp fits best in (over here) are delver aggro-control decks, which I am more than fine with. I've been ok with pacifism removal: between sacrifice outlets, and the already minimal amount of graveyard hate that...

So, I asked for opinions on the cards, these are the results. The only ones they didn't like at all was coralhelm commander and beastbreaker of bala ged. Hada spy patrol was actually pretty popular with Timmy. He also was ok with all of the other leveler cards, thought Johnny wasn't excited...

Ones 1 suffer the past 1 firebolt 2 brainstorm 2 delver of secrets 1 ponder Twos 1 young pyromancer 1 mana leak 1 lim-dul's vault 1 chainer's edict 1 remand 1 memory's journey 1 think twice Threes 1 fires of undeath 2 burning vengeance 1 cackling counterpart 2 runic repetition 1 electrolyze...