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I don't think it's comparable to Gargadon at all. Gargadon even in my environment rarely becomes a creature. It gets played as a sac outlet mostly (one that cannot be removed making it valuable), but it's durdly and I can see it being not so great in a fast aggro based format. Aether vial is...

I am shocked at the replies on aether vial. That card is busted. It's not an aggro card IMO if that's how you've been playing it. It's a midrange control card. It lets you play creatures for free at instant speed. You don't have to put a counter on it so getting value requires very little...

He's on my radar. Seems really good in a heavy gy style deck. But I'm not sure I like him better than other options. And is he too narrow? Even without the life loss ability, a 1/4 deathtouch is going to be pretty annoying in many matchups. So could be just a good role-player in non gy...

Magmatic Insight seems good to me. I'll be trying it out. Any deck I built with it would likely run one extra land (or at least if I was not sure 16 vs 17 I would go 17 with this card). But even if I have a two land hand, unless that second land was non-basic, I would probably toss it turn...

I've been saying this from day one about the priest. It's busted. That 2/2 dude pinging you for 2 each turn is a guy you can abuse. He chumps, he can attack and if not blocked you can make the 2 life a turn a shared experience. You can blink him, Alesha him, Lark him, Vat him, Pod him... the...

I like all the masticores. Razormane and molten-tail are my favorites as well. Old school masticore requires a lot of mana and is more control oriented. Still solid though.

The only thing I like about renown so far is it has synergy with my +1/+1 counter theme. I will likely not be running any of them from Origins but hope to see more in the next sets. The concept is fine, I just don't like any of the cards enough.

Manabarbs is either game winningly busted or useless. I don't personally care for it.

The problem with comparing Coiling Oracle to Explore is the fact that it disregards the value of the attached body. Oracle it not really a blink target, it's more a speed bump in slower decks (like Sakura-Tribe - get a card and chump something... maybe even take an X/1 with you) or in faster...

Add in Sosuke's Summons and you've got an engine there. :)

I like Jason's flavor above with brainstorm + Coatl and Courser. That's pretty nifty. I may have to try that. So I went the other way with it. Combo blink basically. If I get a fast start, cool. It plays out like a tempo list for the most part. If not, also cool. I will go long game...

I really like the charms in almost all the colors. And cards like that have a ton of play to them. So I run many of them even if they don't fit specific themes simply because of the versatility they bring. Pushing archetypes is all well and good. I support that line of thinking, but there...

I'm pushing three flavors of UG right now. +1/+1 counters (RUG), blink control (WUG), and graveyard (BUG). But this color combination bleeds into elves as well. Simic Sky Swallower is my hard to deal with Natural Order target. There's nostalgia with him for me too. Edric, Spymaster of...

Just run some proliferate cards. Not as "combo", but much more useful overall. Volt Charge has been super solid since I added it. It's a decent removal spell on it's own, and with a target (or two) it's wonderfully synergistic. It feels really great playing this and making my Stormblood...

Fair enough. You can also run Dictate of Kruphix for redundancy. Let us know how it pans out.

I think it will be effective only against some match-ups (namely aggro or fair midrange/control). Against anything that can ramp into tons of damage (a great number of decks in my cube), 5 life isn't going to be enough. I know you are obviously going to put this in a disruptive shell, and I'm...

WOW, I think I know what video game you're talking about. :) Seriously though, most everyone I know has played Magic for many years. And they are sort of over the collectible card game thing like they are over MMO's. But they will still play with cards they own (or the cube I build for...

I have a lot of updates for the cube from all the testing I did alone and with my friend. I also have some notes from our session last Friday. I had a new guy and so we didn't draft but instead used the decks I had built for my testing. That worked OK, but the decks I built were pretty advanced...

You bring up a really good point, something I especially like about cube - generally speaking, no two games play the same (even with the same decks). But that is more the nature of singleton though (compare to a constructed deck and how consistent that plays even with the same random nature of...

Wow. That's a strong endorsement for the scry lands. They are some of my favorite lands on T1 when I'm not trying to be the pressure player. I appreciate the feedback. You may have convinced me to at least go the full cycle (not sure on doubles though hmm...). I'm currently at single...