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It's like they took the Vampire Boyfriend trope and inverted it. Neat!

It actually has less text than almost every other Masticore except for the original and the Lesser if you discount the reminder text. I'm pretty sure this card just exists to murder Ugin in standard. I think Basri looks pretty cool. If he comes down in the mid to late game, he gives your...

I'm very tired right now. These are leaks but since official spoilers start tomorrow I'm just going to throw up my hands, say "whatever" and share them anyway. Ugin confirmed, and new Chandra! I don't know if she's good or bad. My gut says good but I'm having a hard time thinking right now...

Maybe the card has "Choose a color combination. This card has protection from the chosen color(s)?"

That makes me rethink my position on the set a little bit. I still think the set is priced to high to be affordable for people like myself who wish to actually draft the dang thing, but if it can Tank the prices on some cards that I need for the cube, I suppose there is no real harm in this...

----This is not a preview or set discussion thread. Everything here is purely speculation based on tidbits from WOTC and unconfirmed leaks. Post previews elsewhere---- Once again, MaRo has posted a little preview game on his blog and the Boat of WOTC has sprung a leak. Some of the leaked...

Wow, I was not expecting so much support on a random CBS post! Thanks everyone!! I would say they went quite well! One of my classes had a cheating ring, so the professor made the final nearly impossible to get a half-decent grade on. None of my other classes had any issues though, which was...

I've been in the process of college finals and moving houses in the last month and my god I've missed a lot of content here on Riptide. I'm not even sure how to engage with some of these threads. I don't know if I'm just changing how I look at cube or if everyone else is, but I kind of feel like...

I've seen this video, but they're doing an additional reprint in addition to the BS $350 Secret Lair product. They haven't confirmed what set it will be in yet.

Faerie is much worse at filling the graveyard than Stitcher's Supplier. It takes the faerie 7 turns to mill what Supplier can theoretically do in one (with a sac outlet). You probably wouldn't play the Fae in a dredge deck. However, I think the suntail hawk body is serviceable in Ninja decks and...

Well they just revealed two more reprints... Kaalia of the Vast and Mana Crypt. This looks like it may actually be a commander masters set. As for Masticore, there is the From the Vault foil printing. It's not the M15 border but it is in the 8th edition border which is pretty close...

Hey look, we're getting a masters set this year: And it has cards! And some of those cards have snazzy borderless variants. Wow! These are some valuable reprints, specifically for commander! I wonder if they put fetch- What the heck, Wizards. Well, at least this set won't have some...

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I think the workable power band for a Riptide style cube is far higher than it used to be thanks to some of the more recent cards produced by WOTC. Although I think Elspeth, Knight-Errant is a very powerful card, I think it's not unreasonably strong in today's cubes. Elspeth is my favorite...

I've watched Nummy and Gaby Spartz draft. I was cringing at Gaby's first draft when she and LSV were both crapping on Courser of Kruphix while singing the praises of freaking Oracle of Mul Daya. Kids these days have no respect... :rolleyes:

I think cubecobra bots are pretty good since they draft somewhat similarly to a skilled human drafter. They're not perfect, but they usually come up with something fairly playable. I don't expect any bot to be able to draft a good synergy deck outside of picking good cards that fit into a...

Yeah man it's like WOTC decided to make all of the good Simic gold cards all at once :p. If only one of them had been hybrid :rolleyes:...

We've had people play some sort of self mill or dredge strategy at all but one of the drafts I can remember. Most of the cards in the cube that self mill either do it as a cost (Life from the Loam), a side-effect (Satyr Wayfinder), or as gravy (Jace, Wielder of Mysteries). I don't run stuff like...

That was me! The easiest way to pay off an Ikoria-style cycling deck in a 360 cube, in my evaluation, is adding this: Drannith StingerDrannith StingerDrannith StingerDrannith Stinger The best cycling decks in Ikoria always seem to have between 3-4 Stingers, so just throwing 4 in the cube...

These are both very creative uses of the Provoke mechanic. Mossridge Stalker particularly is nice because you can always guarantee damage against an opponent with a wide board of chump blockers. Someone needs to show these design to WOTC for Modern Horizons 2!