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Yeah, that's kind of where I ended up with this card. In comparison to other two drops we've gotten in this set like Jadar and the black Adversary, this just isn't nearly as exciting for me unless I was looking for a big beater for cheap. I'm likely to include it with the Innistrad cube that I'm...

Excellent, I'm all for more incidental graveyard hate on playable bodies. Turning into an evasive beater after going wide makes this super appealing to me for my B/W Human Aggro. Turning on pseudo protection that can mostly be used aggressively is very appealing to me, I'm glad it can't be used...

I agree with this in most scenarios, but I don't think it's as applicable for this card. It's never really going to be on curve where you cast this, usually something you fire off in the later game once you've stabilized or when both players are grinding it out. I don't think I'd ever want to...

Sweet card and beautiful art. I saw this art featured with one of the story articles and was hoping it wasn't just a set piece, pleased that it's on a highly playable card. A recurrable Regrowth effect in the self-milling BG/Sultai builds is going to be a great addition. This set is the best.

Was a fan of Goblin Dark Dwellers when I ran it for a brief stint, but it was definitely a little clunky and didn't really have a great home to slot into for my environment. This one having the modal flipside of being a base 2/2 with haste is pretty handy. I like the flexibility of early board...

Sweet card, I'm all for more incidental artifacts tied to playable bodies to help flesh out synergies even further. Human typing to synergize with Champion of the Parish and Thalia's Lieutenant, generates some card advantage with Clues, and has decent stats for its cost as a 4/3 Vigilance. Plays...

For me the first thing I thought of when I saw it was playing it in something like RB Aggro with Gravecrawler and growing Champion of the Perished either on curve by 1 or by 3 power off the trigger later in game. I like that it's not actual kicker which can lead to some cool corner case...

I'd say as long as there aren't too many cheap 2/3s in the format to where you're consistently clogging the board ala Bant Coco Standard, you're mostly going to be fine. I think I would have been more against this in the past, but I've come around to thinking that having these type of statlines...

I agree in general for Constructed and most Limited formats since you can always trade up against a 3/2, but for cube specifically and the role I see for this card I'd much rather have a 2/3 than a 3/2.

This card is excellent. I'm all for more defensive 2/3 creatures and I've long believed that Deathtouch is an underrated keyword in cube. Defensive body for decks against Aggro, fits right into the two drop slot in Gravecrawler Aggro decks that was empty until this set (man this and Jadar is...

I really don't know if they understand this fundamentally. For years Maro has been pretty annoying whenever met with Kamigawa questions and refusing to acknowledge how shit the mechanics were for the set and how that might have influenced how parts of the playerbase felt. Legendary subtheme...

There aren't enough generically useful enchantments to be worth deploying the package except in lower powered environments. Artifacts were in this same boat until around 2019 when they printed a lot more cards that synergized with artifacts like Urza, Lord High Artificer, Goblin Engineer and...

Interested in the slate of the new sets coming out, especially The Brothers War. I was hoping we'd revisit some of the MTG past someday and this looks super promising. I'm a bit wary of Kamigawa reboot but hoping that they do a good job. Streets of Caperna looks like it'll be pretty cool, new...

Honestly, I've ignored pretty much all of these since printing because they just look so ugly to me. I'm sure there are some good designs here and there but man as soon as I see that placeholder sticker I just gloss right over it. We already have so many Magic cards being printed every year that...

The only "customs" I've used are my duplicate voucher in my cube. I'm just not a fan of using customs to fill in holes, it's just not my thing. I feel like most players would be mostly indifferent unless there was something really off about the individual cards.

Burn, Mill and Lab Man just seem like fair alternative win-cons if the drafter can assemble them. As long as they aren't parasitic with cards that only enable that particular archetype, I think you're fine. As long as there aren't specialized cards just for that single deck or strategy, but you...

Cruel Ultimatum By god did I try to make this work for years, but it was so difficult to get anyone else remotely interested. Why do all that work for something at 7 mana when they could just play multiple good cards while curving out instead? Ended up just using that tri-color slot for Kess...

I think it's more a matter of what you're looking for from that slot. It's a card that obviously looks for a zombie theme, but I don't think you necessarily need a massive pool of incidental zombies. It's great for Humans, but I still find that most of my decks with Champion of the Parish still...

Yeah, that can definitely be an issue. Sometimes you just need a certain density of Murder effects to just give enough tools to deal with threats, especially if combat isn't particularly interactive. I think the issue might just end up being the composition of threats that must be answered in...

I'm actually a big fan of deploying more conditional removal to create decision trees for my players or trying to figure out an cutting off point for certain effects. For example, I like "unconditional" white removal to start showing up around 3 CMC on average with stuff like Oblivion Ring or...