Search results

This is so strange to me; people have been playing Dark Ritual in my groups for years now. And I definitely don't agree about it being improbable to use to its full extent. You don't need to hit the gamewinning homerun with Dark Ritual for it to be good. It doesn't need to a be a Doomsday combo...

Really? We must be playing completely different styles then. I can't think of many 1-2 color black decks where I wouldn't play it nowadays, but then again I think most people overlook rituals in general. I definitely did years ago. But being able to power out some card advantage engine even...

I think Gavin is just trying to cover his ass ahead of the fact. He's a nice guy and obviously passionate about the game, but I think he's absolutely out of touch with the ins and outs of the formats that he's designing for. Like you can't just go about spouting bullshit as though it were a...

Strong disagree. I'm about to ramble so apologies to anyone just looking for spoiler discussion, but fuck it. I don't think you quite grasp what Unlimited means in terms of a supplemental product. Print to demand? Sure, it'll be available as long as stores ask for it. But Magic doesn't have...

I am fucking pissed off that they signed off on that Lotus. Just straight up injected a format staple into a Limited print run. Wizards going all in on their desire to increase revenues by bleeding their players dry is just so blatant and gross. 2020 has just been a master class in how to NOT...

Only Wasteland for me, I've got 4 available for drafters in my ULD. Strip Mine is too busted if you can assemble some Crucible lock while Wasteland at least allows for you to "play around" it with basics. The other options are either too slow, too cute, or too low impact in my environment.

I'm with Seeker, not a fan of this for cube. I just don't think Monarch is a particularly good mechanic for 1v1 Magic. I love it in multiplayer EDH where it can break a board stall and encourage interaction in an already durdle-y format, but that isn't really the case in cube all that often...

Magic kind of sucks right now, but you know what doesn't suck? Writing about the format we all know and love! I finished up my 2nd article for CubeCobra covering a favorite topic and Riptide classic: Breaking Singleton!

WoTC just opened up a can of worms with this one. I'm already not happy with the direction that the game has been taking in the last year or so, this is kind of a tipping point if it becomes the norm. There's a huge disconnect between the brainpower making these kinds of product decisions and...

Signed for the Cube Cobra Content Creator program and got approved, published an updated version of my B/W Humans thread from years back. I'll be cross-posting anything interesting I end up writing here in the main forum or in my cube blog over there in some form. Hopefully we can get some more...

Riddleform, I wouldn't even touch Skywise Teachings. Too expensive, too restrictive a window, and just doesn't do enough.

Glimpse is a bit too narrow and fights with a ton of cool options in Dimir for that gold slot. My poison of choice is a Riptide Lab classic: Mesmeric Orb Gives you a win-con for grindy games, fuels self-mill strategies, and you can pull off Lab Man/Thassa's Oracle wins more readily. I added...

I'm in favor of removing it. It never really made much sense to me in the first place. Trying to have discussions sidestep already known information to avoid spoilers, especially in narrow threads discussing specific aspects of cube or design questions, is downright pointless. What the point of...

This an EDH only card, specifically for Aminatou and other blink decks. It's just way too slow and clunky in a regular match as a 2/2 factory which just isn't all that impactful. Unless you're using stuff like Aminatou, the Fateshifter, Thassa, Deep-Dwelling or Venser, the Sojourner to blink and...

Sent it to you in message, enjoy!

For once there are pretty sparse inclusions to my cube. Kinda thankful for it with the flurry of cards we've gotten in the last year from Modern Horizons onwards. This is what I'll be adding in: Nothing too exciting here. I'm just not a huge fan of a majority of the modal land cards and the...

I didn't actually make them on my own; a buddy of mine who's good at Photoshop made them for me a while back. Afterwards he just printed them out at Office Depot on some cardboard stock. I have zero familiarity with Photoshop and can't really help you out with specifics, but if you want to use...

I agree that modal cards are great in higher powered environments when you're still getting a decent rate of return. You won't get the most efficient version of a given effect, but the flexibility is what makes cards like Collective Brutality or Thassa's Intervention worth the slot. I don't...

I agree with Train, for cantrips and card filtering effects the cheaper the better. I was all aboard with the heavier impact higher costing cards for a long time thinking that it wasn't worth it wasting time on little effects, but practice revealed that you just needed greater mana efficiency...

The vast majority of these imposter land cards don't quite get there in most cubes. I'd say the only one that interests me is the Landfall Elephant, but even then it's mostly as just a beater to push through damage. In a lower powered format utilizing bouncelands however? I think these are...