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Note that wanting sideboards to be a thing is incompatible with the attitude some have of wanting players to navigate the draft very carefully, fight for manafixing, and so on. You can have that added focus during the draft, but only at the expense of deckbuilding and sideboarding.

tl;dr: add some fucking removal

Prophetic Flamespeaker Blazing Shoal Greater Gargadon

Maze of Ith

One way to use multi-picks: suppose I have a Waddellite love of Zombies but also want to have an enchanted evening. Instead of having my black 1-drops be: Gravecrawler + Gnarled Scarhide they could be: [Gravecrawler + Gravecrawler] + [Gnarled Scarhide + Gnarled Scarhide] That way, if...

There is a busted red 2-drop! Goblin Electromancer

Timely Reinforcements has a fair bit of play to it though. In Modern the aggro decks can try to neutralize it by paring down their own life total via fetchlands/shocklands, which is obviously much easier in Constructed but doable here if you have 2x fetches/shocks. Three tokens from one card is...

The Command cycle has some great art: Cryptic Command Profane Command Primal Command also Bitterblossom Vendilion Clique ...so the good cards, basically

Tron works because it's hard for a control deck to win a fair, grindy matchup against decks like UWR or Pod while also being competitive against combo, lightning-fast starts from Robots, and so on. Tron gives you a way to go over the top of any control/midrange deck, and thereby lets you devote...

I love Pack Rat. Cube is basically the perfect setting for it.

I could happily play Magic circa Future Sight for the rest of my time with the game. I miss Skeletal Vampire and Firemane Angel being good :(

The main targets for prereleases - casual players with only very loose ties to organized play - seem to like the casual packs, so I guess they work as intended.

My prerelease was sweet! I stayed home and did something fun instead.

Mirrorweave I love this card way too much.

I think most of us rejected it before Theros, so let's see what's been added: Chained to the Rocks Font of Fortunes Font of Fertility Skybind Ordeals Gods (Purphoros being especially relevant) Weapons Gnarled Scarhide Aegis of the Gods Hopeful Eidolon Hypnotic Siren Mogis's Warhound...

Ghor-Clan Rampager Rubblebelt Maaka Skinbrand Goblin Slaughterhorn Wrecking Ogre Thoughts on Bloodrush? I like Rampager/Goblin/Slaughterhorn because you can play them as creatures without feeling totally embarrassed about it, but idk if they're worthwhile.

also Frostburn Weird and Nightveil Specter matching up well against 2/1s and 2/2s, Tidebinder Mage locking down lots of creatures in a format full of hybrids, Jace AoT if the game goes that long The lesson is that if your guys' stats compare favourably to the baseline P/T of the format, you're...

That doesn't have to be true - note how Mono-Blue Devotion slaps aggro around in Standard.

Also, GRBS is only GR or BS if your other cards allow it to be. Your midrange deck is probably losing to Grave Titan or Wurmcoil Engine, but if your midrange deck has a Grave Titan it doesn't care as much about a Wurmcoil Engine (and vice versa). Obviously stuff like Channel -> Emrakul is going...

Yes, but you could say the same thing verbatim about the white/red aggro cards and people seem to treat their presence as a given. Maybe that's because there are few other things you can do with those colours while blue has an embarrassment of riches, but unsurprisingly aggro is more interesting...