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Oh come on man. I just get so excited when I hear the pure adrenaline and meticulous analysis and amazing varied tone of voice of not at all a giant narcissist, ZAC HILL!!! I am looking forward to writing a book where I describe various WotC coverage teams as "circle-jerk triskelions" and a...

ahhhhh daggers and cynicism, or as i call it, "friendship." and of course dom wins with "merfolk rat" having power on board proportionate to the square of how many you have. here is the incomparable alan partridge on the merfolk deck fwiw about the B/u list -- i shoulda splashed green...

People who talk about "wincons" are perverts

But ano "full of durdly slow things" sounds like every non-Riptide Cube ever fwiw there's an article i wrote (a pair actually where i reported on the "elementary-school theater" of 2012's player's championship feat. childish drama director Sheldon Menery) pillorying PVDDR's terrible, terrible...

I agree with the whole "contextually stronger" metaphor and (off the top of my head) you'd often pick Gravecrawler over JTMS in Jason's Cube and it'd be OK but doing the same in the Modo Cube would be demented -- but the example is pretty far-fetched! Another idea that comes to mind, viz. Devour...

OK RIPTIDELAB. LET'S ALL GATHER ROUND FOR CML'S TOTALLY POINTLESS STORYTIME!!! A friend told another friend of his unfamiliar with MTG culture that a 14-year-old girl had Stage IV lymphoma, and her dying wish was to write an article that would be featured on the Mothership. With the very last...

No line! Just a spectrum. Hard distinctions are for the religious. But yeah I've probably wandered into the "lazy" end of the gradient. My guess is that Staying Power won't work, as I took it out in a less powerful incarnation of the Cube, but, who knows. It's a unique effect and is therefore...

Cruel Ultimatum too, HOW COULD I FORGET. One of the few control cards ever printed that I genuinely love

Loam is really durdly and I've always disliked it in Cube (contrast with my extreme love of it in Constructed), but I'm giving it another try here cuz Zombies. For a support package I would go with Raven's Crime, Smallpox, some cycle lands (funsies draft) at the very least. One of the major...

yes yes "strictly worse" doesn't exist cuz of the time i had my opponent dead to a topdecked wrath so named wrath with meddling mage and got day'ed and so on. but devour flesh is worse than edict, and vapor snag is better than unsummon! chris, these designs continue to be an inspiration. i...

ehhhhhh JWadds. my design philosophy (beyond my hard-earned "heuristics" adumbrated in this thread and the rest of the forum) is that i kinda throw some shit against the wall and see how much of it will stick. i have a decent idea which of my ideas will work and which won't but i'm not so...

its like youve known me forever (i can confirm ive said that at least three times)

yeah its kinda stupid you guys are right. i think i may throw in plumeveil 3-color cards demand a very specific type of deck, i agree, and oloro and prossh surely aren't worth it and roon probably isn't either. my drafters signal their discontent by saying, "is this really in Cube? come ON...

wait hold on he doesnt die

youre right im dumb

hey guyz. so i turned in a characteristic CML performance at the SCG opens, starting 5-1 and dropping at 5-4 in standard and playing excellent magic at legacy for four rounds before fucking up in a fashion that brought about much self-loathing. it was very "me in 2011" and I'll try to do better...

i threw it in out of intense boredom and because it'll be funny if someone breaks it edit: to answer your question, because it wasn't! until a few days ago. another edit: i hate putting the cube back together after a huge standard tournament

Sudden Demise looks INSANE. Beyond Geist of St. Trout (why couldn't the damn Open come to Seattle two weeks later?!) it seems to be the strongest card in the set. I should note I typically have nothing nice to say about but EDH but these cards are pushed as fuck and I LOVE it. I'm gonna give...

yeahhhhh though innocent blood is played from time to time in Legacy. geth's verdict is pretty sweet so diabolic edict isn't TOO far from being reprintable, though i hate double-color costs (unless it involves da merchant) edit: devotion is pretty cool, isn't it? eventide lives on