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i really must anyone looking for a more positive spin on m14 should check out the unparalleled BBD's preview on SCG -- http://www.starcitygames.com/article/26452_Beasts-And-Archangels.html

it's true. i tossed it in anyway let em deal with it. i think cubes' extreme sensitivity to subtle shifts in curve is a far-out topic. i guess it's a topic for any limited format edit: i never really think of lone missionary as hosing aggro. you get a good rate on the dude, but he doesn't...

i think part of the problem with blind obedience is that it was an aggro card that was also a durdly enchantment that didnt swing for two -- maybe one at the cost of a nice curve-out. give this guy a shot the pyromancer of course makes me as randy as the rest of you. COULD THE CYCLE BE COMPLETE?

but if i cut other blue cards to make room for them ... i guess we'll see. i remember earlier i was an advocate of no cantrips in cube cuz they weren't worth the trouble, and that viewpoint still seems reasonable to me if vaguely wrongish

as part of my neverending "lower the curve and make cube like a whimsical constructed where it's always christmas" initiative im gonna try doubling up on cantrips this week (brainstorm, ponder, preordain). anyone else tried this?

i wanna reflexively vote "no" on sphinx's due to previous bad experiences with similar cards, but the cube has changed a lot since i took out USZ and phyrexian arena for ruining control mirrors. at what point does it start being good in cube, x=3? i dunno, i might try it but my playgroup is...

design: yep, this is a fantastic idea. make a thread and i'll hop in. i think it'd be trivially easy if we started with MMA and cut about 50 cards but then doing it from scratch would be quite difficult if NWO is to expand the player base -- and i'm in favor of this! -- then i don't understand...

nah, i've had issues supporting midrange before. theres a nice tension between all the broadest archetypes right now, i think. right, it's a huge downgrade, as opposition certainly isn't a fun card + huge downgrade could potentially be one edit: if we're talking game-ruining enchantments i...

so this format vastly exceeds in quality every recent draft format, which leads to two thoughts: it could have been even better. aside from the grossly mismanaged low print run, lack of thoughtseize etc. there existed a few problems within the set itself. the first is the printing of stupid...

mizzy is a less depressing thing to face than bonphire i think miracles are just a punch in the gunt i've considered rosheen and i think she is a totally sweet design but meh-ish in cube. she suffers from the "gaddock teeg problem" where she can just be an underwhelming dude most of the time...

zombie will be huge in standard. actually every deck plays some amount of g/w creatures and i imagine this will continue to be true with standard's finest creature since stoneforge mystic coming in within a week

^^^ hooray! voice seemed kinda meh in the ptq yesterday. like of course i played 4 and didnt really wanna side it out but it's pretty low-impact in a lot of matchups and in a lot of decks. in particular i'm pretty sure Junk Reanimator should play 0 in the 75

that pool is LUDICROUS man wtf GWub not close you have tromp actually finagling a nice curve out of it seems awkward and im lazy so im not gonna try and build it but some amount of drag downs and acceleration should get you to bombs and overruns pretty painlessly

I dunno Kranny, Armageddon is a 4-mana sorcery that can be tough to set up in the right environment (it has a lot of the awkwardness problems that other LD does, though of course it's really powerful). It's harder for me to imagine an environment where Opposition is funsies. Glare of Subdual...

the moratorium stone on organized play has been violated!!

err, ok, i do the same thing i realize, but vivids and shardlands are so much sweeter and are less likely to be just 'worse than a basic' i think

ah yes. i think i'd just run all "cards that do something cool" then.

Absolutely insane. Oppressive. Way too good. Tapping down lands is far too much. Do try Glare of Subdual though, better developed

i differentiate myself from the mtg community by taking not only all the credit, but also the blame. 'hey, i spent TWO HOURS on this internet article, and i didn't post it in public just so i could get criticized!' i'm not a goon, but this one time i wrote a book about my friend who got...

i second mr. chan's burning enthusiasm for IMPOSING SOVEREIGN. that one's coming in and never going out. what a card. legacy-wise the new merfolk is insane, but i wonder if it could be a cube thing too. that bombardment variant is horrendous i do not know why they've printed the new...