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I think its just really hard to hit that equipment sweet spot. My games tend to go longer (multiplayer ect. ect.) but I still have a very tempo driven format, and equip costs over 1 can be a real beating. I should probably just do what Eric did and run triple bonesplitter. Right now...

I don't know about that. Investing one mana into an eventual 9/7 that punishes an opponent for interacting with your permanents seems pretty reasonable to me. Plus, if you are supporting this archetype, he is arguably the best overall sac. outlet you can run for it.

I like you're thinking. I've been trying to gimp removal lately and run more voltron effects (equipment, bestow) and intimidate effects. I already run profane command, and it is pretty great. How has Mogis' Marauder and chariot been? Marauder looks like one of those cards that really...

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He wasn't good for me even in m14 limited. The lack of evasion on it is pretty brutal.

I've not really found it to be too bad. Like everyone else has pointed out, you really have to build your deck around it. It tends to show up mostly in aggresive W/R boros decks at the top of their curve, and provides some much needed resilency for that strategy once they enter the late game...

If you are keeping with the light blink theme, its kind of tempting to run avalanche riders to combo with those cards. Maybe consider vesuvan shapeshifter to expand the blink combo interactions into another color? Thundermaw hellkite has been a lot of fun over here. Siege-gang commander...

For shock lands, we just run the guildgates and say they function like shocklands. At this point, we are so used to them that we don't even think of them as being anything but shocks. You could do the same thing for duals if that is more your cup of tea. For the fetch lands we printed out...

I've been experimenting with a lot of graveyard themes and gy hate, and I dislike the affect relic and rakdos charm have both on the draft and in actual gameplay, for the reasons you already pointed to. Ooze as a card is reasonable, but I’m not sure I would double up on deathrite. That card is...

I think you are right to run razormane and molten-tail: original masticore is probably too low power. Lodestone golem might be another good choice, because its another creature you might want to tinker in for utility purposes, but also want to shut off with a sacrifice effect. Part of the mana...

Yeah, I agree with all of this. The aggro example really hits home too. Another thing that should be kept in mind is that there is less focus on multiplayer theory than there is single player theory, and people tend to just jam single player ideas into a multiplayer setting and the results...

So, I was looking for cards with CC 7 or greater that might be fun reanimation/tinker/ramp targets. Without knowing your removal suite, the short list I came up with was: Spine would probably be way too slow for what you are looking to do, but otherwise looks like a perfect utility card...

In that case you might want to check this guys cube out, he went deep into artifacts and also runs a few tinkers. Edit: Link to original thread.

I think it would have probably ended up pretty close to 60 regardless, maybe 55 at the lowest, at least with a 4 card limit. That section of the book is about two-three pages, and a big part of what he was trying to do was persuade people that even though it might be difficult to make the cuts...

I don't want to be too negative on tinker, since perhaps the problems with it can be overcome. But my experience with Tinker pretty much mirrors Jason's dissenting opinion here, except the value tinker route was underwhelming for reasons already stipulated. I would draw attention to the...

Being as cool as I am: evidenced by me owning a copy of Bradly Games Totally Unauthorized Magic the Gathering: Advanced Players Guide from circa 1996, duck-taped together and well-read: I may perhaps be able to shed some light on the question, through referencing this tome. No less a name than...

That blue deck looks like pretty much everything I ever want to be doing in a game of magic the gathering. Flipping delver with ancestral recall has got to be a great feeling.

The self-bounce hasn’t really been a problem over here. To give you an example from last weekend's draft of the kind of work ninja can do, we had a guy draft an almost mono-blue tempo deck with ninja. He had plays where he would cast venser shaper savant EOT to clear the way for an attack, and...

I was trying to think of why exactly tinker failed in my cube, to give some idea of what mistakes not to make, and maybe give myself some idea of what would have to change for it to return. I remember on channel fireball, in one of the magic tv episodes, LSV talking about how he thought...

I like having both smokestack and braids cabal minion, because I like having a few challenging build arounds, but I have to be honest and admit they almost never come together as an archetype. I really tried to get the prison decks working, but it just really wasn't worth the effort in the end...