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maybe we need 4 delvers? sigh. i'm having trouble coming up with a multifarious cube identity for U edit: echo U sounds good

i like the R/W design

i'll say again Lightning Bolt as a red card cannot by definition be overpowered. it is shocking how much better it makes a red deck, though. that and STP are just mid-blowingly powerful, all other removal looks like shit next to those cards because, well, it is. jason: re. increased...

wadds: i fucking love spear. playable glorious anthem is totally wonderful and if the threat-light decks can't find an answer to it then it's their own damn fault anger of the gods ashen rider ashiok, nightmare weaver bident of thassa boon satyr chained to the rocks elspeth, knight-errant...

i think you need to push the delver of truths a little more. yeah it never works in non-legacy because everyone is playing creature decks and therefore removal. sometimes it doesn't even work in legacy because uhh daze that son!! this was not true up until a week ago. remember that...

i will not hear a word breathed against my beloved selesnya. what's the most loathsome guild in magic? easily Izzet IMO, no other two-color combination attracts such a concentration of pretentious mouth-breathers. in Seattle this usually takes the form of the software engineer who is under the...

Good shit everyone!! Ano -- tons of cantrips means in all likelihood no space for Blue beaters. Unless we wanna retry the whole Delver thing. James -- now this is very interesting, as the popular image of MTG is "creatures sucked until 2008" and I'd never considered looking at the historical...

conventional wisdom, which has been wrong about most everything else (headed as it is by geniuses like this) says cubes should have "~50%" creature spells (i.e. creatures/total nonland cards). my cube (at http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/114) has 56.3%, if I classify some token-makers like Gather...

"Blue needs to be at least 50% creatures" this is interesting, what proportion of creatures (vs. all non-land cards) are y'all running? (count lingering souls but not bitterblossom, as i do, arbitrarily) -- i clock in at 215/382 = 56.3%, which is well over the norm. it's been steadily creeping...

the term troll is confusing

aggro blue deck: um, well ... http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1117344 (merfolk is not "tempo" it is a critical mass deck that swarms the board with a bunch of 5/5's) the Modern variant with no mana denial or counters is purer swarm aggro: http://www.mtgtop8.com/archetype?a=192...

Right, that and there were no other real 'aggro' cards (or at least not a critical mass thereof, Carnophage, rofl) in the other colors in the Modo Cube. So your deck was always just mono-Red. What would you do with the other 20 picks? Doesn't matter -- you're in mono-red. In paragraphs two and...

quick hits (only one hour!) -My god the ARB blades are perfect. Or they would be, uh, OK, how heavy of a multi-color commitment do you need for these to be good, though? I imagine to fit well in a typical Riptide Cube they'd have to be turned on close to 100% of the time, and, unlike ARB we...

if there were ever two libertarians in a single day, would they cancel each other out? apparently not, says my too-extensive reading of the internet today: http://www.prweb.com/releases/galtsgulchchile/20131112/prweb11324365.htm http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9893855/brian-holloway-house

Surprised I didn't chime in on this earlier as this (though I'm five months late to the party) is very bad thinking, which, as you, Dom, are brilliant, surprises me. It's a pleasure to read about how your thinking has changed throughout the thread, though. RiptideLab has been good for all of our...

Record number of users on Modo the other day ... just like the banks in 1929 Really, though, I sold my collection for ~400 and did a 3x set redemption for theros, though constructed cards no longer have much of a purpose it's gonna be interesting to see how this "floor" or "peg" will affect...

Surprisingly the devotion support is proving to be very compatible with multi-colored decks. as you guys know i boast the largest gold and fixing sections of any cube ever and have enjoyed this as a means of averting color-screw, encouraging drafters to mix-and-match their colors and explore...

yeah, devotion is fun, it requires careful planning multiple turns ahead and is a source for great psychological complexity, which unfortunately caused the designers to clamp down on removal because "we can't do that, dude, that fucks up our plan." devotion also plays well with the best set ever...

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/273 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH man i've been enjoying this. just wish it had happened this morning (three years ago) so i didn't piss away the afternoon (life)

it is a not-very-subtle attempt to balance legacy after the extremely fun and interactive combo decks involving well-designed cards like Griselbrand and Omniscience