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In the same vein as Elspeth: Grave Titan I want a beefy black finisher and reanimation target - this is the obvious one that many of us labelled as too strong for our Cubes years ago. For those of you who do play it or gave it another chance, what's the verdict in 2021?

Isn't that just reciting the text on the cards

Chart a Course is the perfect Magic card

Ethereal Forager Murktide Regent

Teferi, Hero of Dominaria Elspeth, Sun's Champion How are these as flagship cards for UW Control in a Cube that otherwise doesn't have many planeswalkers?

Had my first paper tournament in 18 months this weekend and Chris' playgroup tore it up: Zach and I split an Ampersand set of D&D, a rare item that will hopefully/apparently sell for a few thousand USD?

Building Bridges Backwards The default and correct advice for supporting archetypes in any type of Cube is to find cards that belong in several archetypes and bridge the gaps between them. Usually this process is secondary - you decide which archetypes you want and then go looking for the...

A great Mental Magic tool under a certain rule set if you want to do the Solfatara-Turf Wound chain with Squee but have run out of better cards

oh also Evolutionary Leap is a delightful card that's perfect for decks in this space

This is one of my favourite decks so I'm glad to see a thread about it. At its core, this strategy wants to use creatures as a flexible resource. Converting bodies to mana is the most direct way of doing this with the cards listed in the OP or these: Ashnod's Altar Phyrexian Altar Food Chain...

People using sleeves or especially sideboard cards with the same sleeve as every other card in play/hand/etc tilts me way more than it should

So after that Showcase, I Top 8ed the Showcase playoff, the Vintage Challenge in between, and then got 2nd in the ManaTraders Vintage event so I guess I'm a Vintage #expert now? Wrote about all of that and the preparation process here (featuring video reviews!) Made Top 8 of another...

Some time next year the game will have had planeswalkers for longer than it lacked them

INNISTRAD: MIDNIGHT HUNT I have more reservations about yet another visit (two of them!) to Innistrad than most. The first Innistrad saw the most overrated Limited format of all time and a bunch of cards that made Constructed miserable. The second visit had some real bangers and Eldritch Moon...

Really hurts its Urza's Hot Tub equity

Unfair certainly doesn't always mean unfun - to me some of the most memorable games are ones where Player A does something wildly unfair but Player B is able to overcome it or take as big a swing in the other direction. Tinker for Wurmcoil can invite that kind of counterplay - Tinker for...

I think Heliod is a sweet card and the Ballista combo is much more palatable to me than Twin since both halves are sorcery speed and the cards are both interesting outside the combo. For non-deterministic combos there's something fun about going off with Heliod + Zuran Orb or Heliod + Scavenging...

To me there's: - The folk use that roughly rounds to 'this card is so/too good': 'Wurmcoil Engine is unfair!' - The contextual use where something breaks the parameters of a format: Wurmcoil Engine is unfair in retail Limited but not Vintage Cube - A statement about the type of Magic being...

I put this one off for too long and now there's an entire new set out already wtf ADVENTURES IN THE FORGOTTEN REALMS / D&D SET I'm not the audience for this one - I need to be wowed by the cards, not the flavour. On that front this set was very disappointing for Constructed and seemed to miss...

Bloodthirsty Adversary Chandra, Acolyte of Flame Finale of Promise Looking for some exciting, high-impact, ideally red instants/sorceries to recur with these. Bonus points if they work with Dreadhorde Arcanist too