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It's not in my cube, that's for sure. (Crater Hellion takes the six mana sweeper spot :)). Red provides great support for the human tribe. Red provides great support for the sacrifice theme. Red provides (certainly since commander 2014) great support for artifacts matter theme. Red provides...

Heh. I'm a software tester.

Ugh... Karma and Light of Day are both so unfair to black decks. What were they smoking at WotC when they designed those cards? "Let's make the effects on the white-Gates-black cards really crippling. After all, white and black are iconic enemies!" "Oh, I know! Let's put the effect on an...

I played my first modern tournaments today, and boy is Boil a filthy card :) WotC really had different guidelines for color hosing back then...

I think I came halfway through The Castle but that's more because I tend to read books halfway through anyway, save for the stories I really like. It's not a bad book though, but I think The Trial was better (though that may be because I did read that one to its conclusion).

Heh, that's actually what I had the cycling cost at at first. I decided to change it to {2} to make it a bit more generic. But sure, you could definitely change the cycling cost to the primary color of the three-color combination. In my case that would be: Abzan (Selesnya, Orzhov): {b}{g}{w}...

Gee, thanks guys :D I guess the cycler is the winner so far! My land count with that cycler would depend on the deck. In an aggressive deck with a low curve it just counts as one of the lands. If you draw it early, sweet! Perfect mana! If you draw it late, you can cycle it for gas. In a...

Yeah, definitely swap those abilities around, otherwise it's still strictly better than a basic Forest. I came up with some other ideas as well. Once again, the Bant guild is green based (as the two guilds compromising Bant are Selesnya and Simic, there are no Azorius cards in my cube (which is...

You are right, that is the edge of Worldknit. City of Brass was indeed the land throwing me off :)

The nonbasic lands say no. Though maybe the World Knit was picked after the lands...

BB, RR, 1RR, 2GG, 4RR splash white and blue? What madness is this? :)

I concur. What I love about their reviews is that I get a really good sense of both how the game plays out and of the look and feel of the game.

I actually run a cycle of custom lands. I added basic land types to Seachrome Coast and made one of those for each guild. I don't run the original duals, the other duals are the fetches from Zendikar/Khans, the scry lands from Theros and the shock lands from Ravnica. Oh, and the triland from...

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. But Eric has a point. The question then is, when creating custom cards, do you want cards that would be balanced in constructed formats, or do you design cards specifically for your cube while disregarding their potential for constructed. After all...

I think it's a cute synergy card, but I would be more excited about it in {b}{g}, which is usually a color combination that can make better use of recursion, as well as better use of four-drops. Maybe it should be {2}{b}{g} and swap out flying for another evasive ability, like intimidate...

I think it would be fine if you made the regrowth effect more specific, to avoid stepping on green's toes. "When Grey Archon dies, return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment from your graveyard to your hand."

The first is better than a basic forest, except it can't be fetched (and there are fetches in my cube), so it's very close to being unbalanced for a normal set. In cube I think it might actually be okay though. It only taps for one color on turn one though. The second is perfect for aggressive...

Ok. I'm looking for another triland in my cube! One that, unlike the only printed reasonable option, enters the battlefield untapped. Help me out here. It has to be balanced, playable, and groggable. If you have an even better idea, please tell me! Edit: The first one is based on the fact...

That's a very different card though, that isn't nearly as abusable.

Nice. My first deck was the Blowout theme deck form Invasion. Not at all my style in the end, as my first homebrew was a {G}{W}{U} deck revolving around vigilance creatures, artifact mana (Seashell Cameo) and this beauty: Temporal Distortion It's a shame Stephanie Pui-Mun Law didn't paint...