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Maelstrom Wanderer As flashy and splashy as it gets

I like Taranika! It's neat hidden support for +1/+1 counters (possibly its function in Chris' Cube now that I think about it?)

I like Taranika! It's neat hidden support for +1/+1 counters (possibly its function in Chris' Cube now that I think about it?)

Basically impossible to use effectively, to the extent that the one deck that's ever played it in Constructed mostly doesn't any more

Just change one to two with Look at Me, I'm R&D!

Split Screen Split Screen I love seeing Wizards explore new design space but it’s even more fun to watch four-dimensional design space being created out of thin air. The Un-sets are a goldmine for exotic Cube cards - especially Unstable, which moved away from the ‘tickle your opponent if...

I really like Unexpectedly Absent - scales responsibly, more flexible than yet another 3-mana sorcery speed Oblivion Ring variant, can put your own stuff back on top to save it from removal

Sensei’s Divining Top Sensei's Divining Top Top is a go-to answer for “what’s the most overrated Cube card?”. A scourge of Extended and Legacy and any format where you automatically have a dozen shuffle effects in your manabase, Top is often seen as a universally strong card that inevitably...

We used a Google Sheet and then played games on Cockatrice. It took most of an afternoon but you can speed it up with a shot clock for picks etc (we didn't really need one as all of us wanted to keep it snappy)

One of the most insightful quotes I heard about retail Limited was that 'every deck is midrange' - the card quality is low enough, and most cards generic enough, that most decks land (possibly uncomfortably) in the midrange zone of whatever classification you use. Most Limited formats have a...

It neuters a wide variety of things (Sakura-Tribe Elder, Ancestral Vision, Oblivion Ring, Pernicious Deed etc to name just a few) but also combos with a lot (keep Uro around, permanently exile everything with Parallax Wave, exile something with Flickerwisp and stop it coming back, stop EOT...

Stifle How do you all feel about this these days?

With paper events on hold, my reluctance to fully commit to Arena, and the difficulties Standard has had recently, I've had to cast a wider net for my competitive Magic fix. I've had a lot of fun exploring some one-off formats: Vintage Rotisserie Draft Ones 1 Duress 1 Thoughtseize 1...

Terese Nielsen likes a lot of woo-ey 'all we need is love' stuff and it's easy to view this in that context. Unlike most people like that, she's also all-in on Trump and believes a lot of conspiracy theories that are either explicitly alt-right or at least promoted by people in that space. If...

I'll try to post some detailed analysis of single cards or archetypes more regularly. Let's start with a card that most people (including me until recently!) have never even heard of: Look at Me, I’m R&D A uniquely enjoyable part of a game with a >25 year history is discovering some obscure...

JUMPSTART: What is this set? Why does this exist? Why now? None of these are good questions. Anyhow: Emiel the Blessed: If my aunt had the need to make useless comparisons at every opportunity she wouldn't be my uncle. In the society in which we actually live, Emiel is a cool mana sink...

Long overdue! IKORIA: In the past two months, Ikoria completely overhauled every Constructed format thanks to companion but none of us have been able to Cube with Ikoria cards in paper. That puts these evaluations in the odd position of having no direct experience to inform them but...

That PT happened on Arena and was a flop in every sense. However... As can you tell by my posts I am perpetually Online and love talking about Magic so I'm thrilled to have a chance to natter away on a bigger platform! First show was last weekend - featuring an amazing semis match between...

I like the pseudo-Pinatas thing a lot! Nowadays there are enough creatures that work well with those effects explicitly or implicitly that you don't even have to dabble in the pro-red stuff that can randomly hose people

I find Feather a bit awkward in these decks because they want pump effects that are already recursive to ensure a steady stream of Heroic/Prowess triggers and avoid the old problem of drawing too many conditional creatures and not enough tricks (or vice versa). If most of my tricks already have...