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Totally agreed. And it's a thin line between aggro and aggressive midrange. Or even aggro and aggro control. It's cool talking about theaters from a theoretical standpoint, but in any actual matchup you really only have the faster deck and the slower deck. Every single loss in the history of...

Yup. I say the game is simple, but only from the standpoint of the roles that each player takes on in a game. Figuring out what role you should be and how best to play your hand and respond to what your opponent does has a huge amount of depth and strategy to it. And that is really what has...

I like the shade, but it needs the right deck to really excel and I don't think my cube supports it. There are other things I'd rather run. My name is a nonsense word. One of many actually that I invented when I was younger (well, me and another couple guys). As it turns out, they work really...

I run a lot of removal. But there's more to this as well. I don't run much black aggro, so this card is a fish out of water. Pox decks don't have the mana and mono black control would rather cast other 2 drops.

I've been against that being the only definition from day one. So you won't get any arguments from me. :) Magic IMO at its core is a much simpler game that than. Each game really boils down to one guy being the beat down and one guy playing the role of the control player. And it doesn't...

That is how I feel about it too. What is posted above is beautiful artwork. And then there's this BS Cloudgoat RangerKnight of Meadowgrain

I'm pushing mono black, so I could probably run Shade. But I never liked him personally. No evasion kind of sucks. I'm also not pushing black aggro, so that's another reason this guy doesn't excite me.

You get two things though with command, not just one. Countering a spell and drawing a card is probably worth 4 mana (maybe a tiny over costed but not much - it's absolutely worth 3 mana so you are paying 1 more to have the option of bounce and tap opponents army).

That's a good point actually. Midrange is the easiest deck to build so having it ramp into brokenness is just asking for problems. I get it. That's why I don't run any Titans or cards of that power level actually. I think I read a recent article about the new roshambo Magic meta breakdown...

I think the appeal of Tron (aside from being a badass 80's movie) is that when assembled you get 7 mana from just 3 lands (and if you are really good with a Frisbee, you can destroy the MPC at the same time as long as your user is Alan 1). With the nut draw, you are hard casting Myr...

That's not strange at all. In the traditional roshambo model, it's aggro's best matchup (aggro > control > midrange > aggro). I just looked at your cube and it looks like you have really solid aggro support (some multiples to help consistency - 3 bonesplitters wow). I'm not surprised...

I prefer darker / more realistic art myself. Lorwyn had a very cartoony feel to it and I just didn't like it. It's actually why I run Geist-Honored Monk over Cloudgoat Ranger. I find the art on the ranger to be so much worse than the monk that I'd rather run a slightly worse card just so I...

I don't think wrath's are as powerful anymore due to all the resiliency with today's creatures. I'm not sure what percentage of the average cube's creature suite is a 2 for 1, but I bet it's a pretty high number. From persist/undying dudes, to ETB guys. Yeah, you get 2 or 3 for 1'd on a wrath...

That makes sense. This card's value skyrockets as the game goes on. As we play a lot of multi-player, I'll be surprised if this card doesn't justify it's slot in my cube.

I never looked that closely at the picture until just now. It is disturbing. Like he's riding a beheaded bird with two stumps where it's two heads used to be. On a related note, I really dislike most of the art from Lorwyn.

I get this move actually. I took out lightning bolt and I got rid of swords to plowshare. Both cards are just so much better than everything else that they look totally out of place to me. Now, downgrading to Volcanic Hammer is going a bit far for my tastes, but if you want to really limit...

What I like about Pack Rat is that it starts innocent enough as this over-costed 1/1 little thing. And then you toss a card and use even more mana, and now you have two simple little 2/2's. And it's easy for the opponent to just ignore all that because it's harmless to most anything else...

The only benefit I can see to the multi-pick thing is specifically to support (i.e. push) hard aggro. Because if you want the traditional aggro/midrange/control theatre model where each is 1/3 of your meta, you need to dedicate a bazillion slots to narrow aggro only dudes to make those decks...

I agree with Anotak. But I will say your custom cards look amazing. Very nice work on those. And I'm a fan of many of them.