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Ran into this video on Youtube. Quite the entertaining vintage cube match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1093430553&feature=iv&src_vid=81_m7RJg1DU&v=AkzhHZgM2js#t=2276.402559508

So resurrecting this thread to see if anyone has new discussion to add. Cast Out really intrigued me because it's an enchantment that cycles (with a really desirable ETB effect), which sets it up for replenish (which could be it's own thread for all you could be doing with that card). And this...

I prefer the old frame on most cards, so the new card doesn't even have that going for it IMO. That said, the new art is fine. Good even. It's just that the old art is really great and it's also familiar (which is maybe more important). Pretty rarely do I prefer new art to old and that...

Well, I feel like domain really is just 3+ color goodstuff. Incentivizing it feels like a bad idea since splashing colors has so much upside already (larger card pool = higher average card strength). Only thing additional you have to navigate is mana, which can get tricky I guess. But more...

There might be additional tie in to enchantress here. Cast Out has cycling which is what made me think of it. And there's already ways to get creatures in the yard. But what about enchantment creatures (specifically constellation). So... Replenish Doomwake Giant Eidolon of Blossoms

I had that in an iteration of my cube but no one ever did anything with it. Doesn't help that the wording is confusing (referencing not dealing damage when you can do exactly what you said - remove it after damage is dealt for pseudo vigilance).

Are there enough playable exert creatures (and cases where this might be useful without them) to make this a thing? Reconnaissance

So happy about this. Auto include for me.

Lots of solid cards in this set. Makes me want to go back and tweak my midrange list because so much of this has high playability IMO. Fling-Tongue is neat. Seems solid in a heavy creature environment. Obviously pretty wicked with threaten effects. Works good alongside aristocrat...

I might be misreading it. But I think it's beginning of the your next end step. So I think that works for things like EOT Sphinx's Rev on your turn. The beginning of the EOT has already passed, so you get one more turn (and you just countered their spell). I feel like waiting for them to...

That's the hard thing to know. Will it be relevant enough? One thing I think is an issue for a lot of aggressive strategies is feeling like you can't really go all in on creatures without putting yourself in a really bad situation (overextending). A card like this allows you to do that...

I was just posting on MTGS about Glorious End. Hard to evaluate. Might be really good though. It's a counter spell in red for a beatdown deck trying to hold off an opponent. Wait for them to cast something then play this. Imagine hitting a finisher or Sphinx's Rev or a wrath? Now, you have...

Well, I'm notoriously bad at card evaluation. So I might just be undervaluing the sheer power of the card. I'm just skeptical of cards like this. It's not resto-angel. Flying on that really matters and so does the flicker effect. It's also super splashable (and costs 1 less). This card...

Not arguing it's power level. But are Naya decks (or Gruul decks for that matter - let's ignore the W untap thing) - are those decks midrange in your lists? Naya/Gruul strike me as decidedly aggressive. I've tried a bunch of fires midrange things and they just never seem to work. I think this...

Right. But how many of those cards are in cubes? ;)

My concern with Samut is what Naya deck wants that? That's a pretty low to the ground color combination. Nothing about Wild Nacatl says "get to 5 mana so we can do something cool". How would this fit in? That fires effect you want to follow up with a 6+ drop. I guess I just don't see the...

I want to like that enchantment for zombies, but 5 just seems too much. Even with the tokens. In heavy black decks, I'd much rather be dropping gary. And zombies aren't really a thing outside heavy black decks.

I feel like the life gain attached to Sphinx's Rev is what make the card. This new mono-blue version seems somewhat redundant (agree with Grillo) and not super exciting (even if technically the dig/discard has more applications). It's trash unless you have a ton of mana, and if you do aren't...

Damn it! So close. I want a disenchant for 3 with cycling 1. Come on. There's still time!

I think embalm could really be a thing here. Look at how nicely you can tie it to Orzhov. Black has a lot of recursive creatures, symmetrical discard, etc. Black likes zombies. Embalm is all about those things. Yet, the zombie tokens are white so they would work in a WW style deck too with...