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Doomed Traveler is great. I agree. Boros Elite should be strong if you can trigger batalion consistently (i.e. in removal light environments). So it depends how much removal you run I think. Could be wrong though.

Yup. Poker without the "stakes" component is a pointless and awful game. The only real skill in Poker is knowing when to bluff and when to fold and that dynamic does not exist if there isn't something at stake (worth losing).

FSR, I agree with most of what you wrote. The one additional variable that impacts Magic in particular is balance (or in the case of Magic, the lack of). Games with no random component (purely skill based) only work if they are completely balanced. If there are inherent imbalances in the...

My take on why Ravnica block was so fun is because it was slower. You had more time to do things, so there were just a lot of design options. But slow environments favor control. That wasn't an issue in Ravnica block because the top end was much lower power than what we have today. Skeletal...

Scrabble is a good game, but like most games it has flaws. In particular, I think the scoring system doesn't properly reward long words enough and it overvalues specific places on the board and high value letters. To fix that, I added this rule which plays a little on the already existing 50...

Hydra. Because it's a hydra and I like them. :) Baloth is probably more powerful though if that is what you are after.

I ran that in a casual ninja deck. It did good work there. Not sure about cube though.

I'd totally run him if he were.

I'm still running masked admirers. But my cube is like a 2007 cube so I don't think it's out of place.

Exactly this. I tested him and he's good. But in essentially one deck only. And while he's great in that deck, it didn't feel solid enough to justify a gold slot. I will use mono colored slots for narrow arch type support, but I have a hard time doing it with gold slots (of which there are...

Fair enough. I certainly think there is a lot of potential to push the token theme. Lots of cards for that and Purphoros to make it all attractive plus support in many colors. The other thing I like to try and support is some combo and big red pieces. Goblin Welder, Sneak Attack, Bogardan...

I agree with you in principle. I like triggered abilities and I don't think all 4 drops should impact the board immediately via ETB. But Ogre really is only worth his cost if you combo him, and even then it might not be amazing because it happens so late in the game. Giving a bunch of dudes...

Battledriver looks great on paper, but he was really inconsistent in my testing. Has he been good for you guys? I really wanted him to be good.

What did you do specifically? I like the extra gravecrawler idea (which I'm going to adopt).

That article is solid gold.

I think it all depends on how consistent you want aggro decks to be and how difficult you want to make it for people to draft that level of consistency. 2 power 1 drops are the backbone of these decks, so making those cards easier to get will make those decks incrementally better. Part of...

Good call actually. I just yanked stoneforge though after I gutted the broken equipment (Jitte and friends). Still, I think removal in almost any form is playable in cube. It has to be wretchedly bad to truly be unplayable.

Which is probably fine for a two drop that also can swing for 2. And it's actually pretty good if you have ways to abuse tokens. My stance on this guy is that he is a role-player but is rarely going to be a super star.

I think he's a lot better than Guttersnipe for what it's worth. I like the token support in red, he has 2 power so is playable outside the token/spell matters theme (i.e. aggro), and he's a human which helps that sub theme.

I have to agree on Gargadon. That card makes me want to play a red deck. It's awesome. It was even more broken when I still ran balance, but even without it it's still amazing. Stuff dies all the time, so Gargadon almost always has food. It comes into play pretty fast. I can't imagine its...