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I still run Haakon. He's awesome. All you need are discard outlets. I haven't soured on snakeform so much as I just ran out of space for it. There are just so many cards I want to run at this point. Every cut hurts now.

That's how I've been calculating it. So if it's wrong, you have company. EDIT: I think this is a more complicated process when analyzing the as-fan of an actual Magic block from a limited perspective because you have to factor in how much more frequently a common appears than an uncommon, rare...

This is my problem with mill strategies in general. They all have this problem. Either you have a critical mass to win (or at least threaten) via decking, or you don't and it's all just pointless. I'm also not convinced this is a fun mini-game. And it honestly feels sort of poisony. While I've...

I'm pretty sure Wizard's intentionally made the card basically unplayable simply because of how stupid the library effect is. I'm not sure you can make a card with a repeatable free card draw effect that was anything other than hot garbage or broken. It's hard enough to balance one time card...

To be fair, Library of Alexandria is probably the most powerful Magic card ever printed (I would P1P1 that card over every other Magic card). If you start with library in your opening hand, you pretty much cannot lose the game as it's virtually impossible to beat that kind of free CA. So I...

I'm probably being overly harsh on Kamigawa, but it was in between a super powerful block and my favorite block of all time. I also really loved the Japanese theme and had very high hopes for it but was totally let down by the drop in overall power level. So for me it was the perfect storm...

The problem I see with Magus of the Library is that he dies to a a light breeze from the west. He also costs GG. And how do you get to seven cards without giving up tempo? You'd need card draw to support him (or intentionally skip a land drop and not play a spell one turn - essentially give...

Man I loved Ravnica block. Kamigawa was shit other than super dagger and the dragons.

I honestly think people just expect more from high CC cards now. I really don't think the legend rule is why Kokusho was considered good back in the early days of cube. Paying 12 mana and using two cards to life drain 10 actually kind of sucks. It's fine if your opponent is at 10 life and...

I've run both Miraculous Recovery and Karmic Guide. The guide is far more abusable and if I had to choose just one, I'd pick that every day and twice on Sunday. But I think recovery is pretty sweet too. There aren't many instant speed reanimation effects, and this one has an overlap with +1/+1...

Vanilla to me means it has no abilities and is just a pile of stats. Wurmcoil has lifelink and it comes back as two token creatures when it dies. In my mind, there's nothing vanilla about that card at all. It's not vanilla, french vanilla, neapolitan, or any other generic flavor. It's...

Man... if Wurmcoil Engine is "Vanilla", there aren't any other flavors of ice cream. I don't think that word means what you think it means. :)

I think the 5 life drain is being underrated a bit honestly. It can both finish off an opponent after you swing (with sac outlet - dealing 10 damage in a single turn), and it can help get you out of the red zone should your opponent kill it - giving you another turn to play cards. As the...

My 2 cents... the "terminate test" has generally only been applied to finishers (which typically start at 6 mana). That's traditional thinking though. Today, you can argue that some 5 mana (or even less) can act as a "finisher" (Baneslayer for example), but the cheaper your finisher the less...

It's 5 mana though and the payoff is HUGE (12 power - 4 of which has haste).

FWIW, none of those 4 pass the terminate test. You get nothing if they die immediately. I'd play Kokusho over all of them personally. The horse is definitely dead, but I just keep swinging that bat... I guess I just don't understand why 6 drops are required to be more than a 5/5 flyer...

I'm sort of beating a dead horse, but I'm curious about this. What do guys feel is the specific change to the game from let's say 2008 to now that took 5/5 flying dragons for 6 with value on death trigger from auto-include into not good enough? If you look back at forum history, you won't...

I recently added this to my cube in Abzan's colors. I found Argothian Enchantress was too heavy handed, but Eidolon of Blossoms and Doomwake Giant are both very much playable with minimal support. White is an ideal pairing for this because of all the great enchantments we already run there...

Agreed. Annihilator is a sweet mechanic. Annihilator 4? Not so much. Everything in moderation people. Card draw is cool too but Ancestral Recall sort of did an annihilator 4.

Guided Strike looks pretty good. Reminds me of Shelter.