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I sold my Mindcensor playset for $10 each. That's a laughable amount of money for that card IMO.

I tried it. It was too low impact except in tokens. And tokens doesn't need more help being good so I pulled it. If you want a Purphoros replacement (or adjunct), I highly highly recommend Outpost Siege. That card does work in multiple archetypes too. In sacrifice decks, it's a straight...

Here's what the deal is guys (I think anyway)... Most tribal cards are intended for constructed decks where consistency is very high because you are running multiples and a perfect distribution of cards. All the lords and cards of that type really are only above curve if you can consistently...

I've put some mileage now on symbiote in my recent testing efforts and in the elf deck he is extremely solid. That deck is one of the best test decks I have going right now and manhandles quit a few of my cube test decks. The deranged hermit combo is probably the best one I've found so far...

I personally feel like tribal gets a bad rap. To me, it really isn't any more poisony than running something like Jackal Pup. The masochistic dog only really goes in one deck (and it's not even an all-star in that deck either). Something like Goblin Matron or Wirewood Symbiote only go in...

Marang River Prowler I've been running this card for awhile now and it's actually pretty good. A 2/1 unblockable for 3 is not so hot on the surface, but being able to play him from the yard means you can pitch him early to some effect and recur him later when you need a dude (he's sort of like...

I'm going to try safekeeper again. I have the sweet new commander art version so I have additional incentive to run it. My meta being heavy midrange, I can see this potentially fitting in somewhere. I'm running like 7 mana elves, so losing one won't matter.

Several people have highly recommended Sylvan Safekeeper, but I keep coming back to the same problem. Sacing your own lands is very detrimental early in the game. If I cast doom blade on something and it blows up a land, I am pretty happy about that. If I cast firebolt and it blows up a land...

They are slow, but they help a lot I think with smoothing draws. How much tolerance your meta has for ETB tapped lands I think determines how playable cycle lands are. In my meta, it's totally acceptable to drop them T1 tapped if you need their color. I prefer to hold them and cycle them away on...

I'm a Crystal Shard fan. I can't count how many times guys forget to save that one mana and just wind up losing tons of tempo when I bounce their expensive creature. It's a little slow I guess, but perfectly fine here (nowhere near getting cut). And it combos with your stuff too. I love...

Seven or more PLAINS!??? Man, that is a LOT. I can see this happening with swamps because of Urborg and mono-black being a thing over here, but I'm not so sure about plains. Maybe in our free-for-all super durdly multi-player games.

I've really been meaning to try oversold cemetary. Sylvan Safekeeper is a card I want to like but his ability simply can't be used early without just wrecking your mana development. So he's really more like a 5 drop and at that point in the game I feel like I could be casting other things. I...

Inferno is busted in the UR counter burn style decks IMO. It comes down and the game is over. Free lightning bolts are disgusting. Prime Time gets manlands and other busted nonbasics, so it's too easy to abuse. Sun Titan can sometimes run out of things to reanimate, but the effect has so...

Brimaz offends me because he's an easy-mode draft card. When is that card bad? He's got a giant butt so is hard to remove yet he still has a solid power for his casting cost. He has vigilance, so you can both attack and defend with him. He makes dudes while on offense. He makes dudes while...

Unconditionally better than Storm Crow, except in tribal birds.

I've been testing Send to Sleep as well. It's pretty good and I like the effect. It pushes more tempo based strategies which is the main reason I wanted to include it.

Agreed. If you run a reasonably fast cube and you exclude the broken fast mana, I think most oppressive finishers are playable without breaking your meta. That includes the titans (though maybe not Wurmcoil - that card is just utter nonsense). My meta is too slow though, so all the titans...

I'd go Brimaz. Crusader is arguably better (at least against certain decks), but I feel like an asshole playing that card. I don't feel much better playing Brimaz though. He does too much for 3 mana IMO. It's a removal check card which a lot of decks will fail.

Avenger of Zendikar is very strong, but it doesn't have evasion or deathtouch, costs one more than Grave Titan, has one less power, and needs another land drop to make it's offspring more than chump blocking speed bumps, and doesn't generate more offspring each time you attack with it. In...

Another great card if you have a +1/+1 counter theme is hardened scales. It's the best card in that deck. Not an exaggeration. If you have it in your opening hand you just win.