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Archangel AvacynEldrazi DisplacerOnce More With Feeling

all Fire Imps are beautiful (unironically b/c it hasn't been reprinted enough for the default art to be some soulless digital thing)

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Made the mistake of writing this up in browser and lost it when I closed it accidentally. Take two! Artifact Integration Most Cubes see artifacts as an after-thought: once you dutifully fill out your chosen archetype for each colour pair, you sprinkle in some equipment and mana rocks and...

MODERN HORIZONS: Astral Drift: I've loved Astral Slide for a decade and I'm thrilled to get one I can put in a Cube without twisting it in knots. A cantripping Flicker for 2W is enough if you support that theme, and this lets you lean into a cycling package without being dead too often if it...

Nissa, Who Shakes the World has been shockingly good in Standard and is more fun to play with/against than Worldwaker, IMO

Finally didn't brick an Open! Finished T16 at the last Open of the season with some BIG PIGS: Ones 4 Faithless Looting 3 Cathartic Reunion 3 Collective Brutality Twos 4 Simian Spirit Guide 4 Pentad Prism 3 Generator Servant Threes 4 Griselbrand 4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn Fours 4 Goryo's...

The 'all basics are snow' house rule is pretty common and an easy fix

I love the Chromatic Star art! I've been asking for enemy colour Talismans for a while and now I probably won't even play them because my set of foil Signets are so gorgeous (even though some colour pairs would really prefer a Talisman)

I've found it's difficult to support Salvagers even in the perfect deck for it; you need to have a lower power level and to have enough cogs with unique effects (so that it's more than just a big Azure Mage); there aren't many of those and you still need to draft enough of them and have them be...

WAR OF THE SPARK: I was very sceptical of the set's premise when I first heard about it, but it made me a believer. In recent years I'd soured on planeswalkers to the point of cutting them altogether. This gave my sketches a curious old-school-but-not-really feel that I enjoyed but part of me...

Next step is to play Gifts Given and get to do all this with your opponent's deck

There's a world of difference between 1UR and UURR and Crackling Drake counting exiled cards brings back bad memories of Battle for Zendikar for me

I like Pir and Toothy a lot

It's cute that Legion Warboss gets to Mentor onto the Mob Boss and make his mob even bigger

Have zero expectations for the rest of this set but Flux Channeler is wonderful

Updates since then: SCG Indy (new Standard): did not Day 2; Top 32 in the Standard Classic SCG Balt (Team): did not Day 2; Top 16 in the Standard Classic SCG Syracuse (Legacy): did not Day 2 but got to put on a nice show (feature matches here/here), then won the Modern Classic with UB...

Some of his finest work

The spectacle cards need to feel noticeably better than the average card to justify the feel-bad moments when stuck in your hand. Light up the Stage or some of the rares manage that; a card that's slightly better than Phyrexian Rager when it works and terrible when it doesn't will lead to a lot...

I love fiddly shit with counters but Ascendancy really doesn't do it for me. Counters are great because you can do things with them beyond boosting stats (and when it is mainly doing that, it's in fun and flashy ways). Ascendancy just sits there tying up your mana and demanding some basic...