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Not gonna get them anytime soon since RTR = Shocks, but I just want my cycle of Enemy Battlelands. Sometime in the next 2-3 years would be great, but I probably won't get them till like 2025.

The biggest issue I have with the question is using "best choice" as a qualifier. The "best choice" is not a black/green creature based on what we've seen throughout Magic's history, a flying/vigilance creature would normally be UW. Sure, you could probably make something that fits flavorwise...

I'm feeling Newjani as well. I've been running Ajani, Caller of the Pride for a while and he's been solid, but this one slots more nicely up the curve with how Wx Aggro decks want to play out. Mostly going wider in the early game, then you need to shift vertically to really pressure the...

You're right, I was thinking of Tragic Arrogance. I still think Cataclysm is pretty busted in stronger environment if you get ahead and stick a hard to deal with threat before minimizing the resources on both sides. Too hard to crawl back from.

Probably. Cataclysm becomes more busted when the cards that you leave behind are more capable of carrying you to victory on their own. This includes army in a can types ala Rabblemaster/Hero of Bladehold or continuous sources of card advantage like walkers.

I'm not sure how viable these specific partner cards are without the other half. Battlebond is designed such that the pair will always be together in a given pack and can then be snapped up at once when your team picks. Drafting strategy then kicks in as to whether you pick the pair or just one...

First batch, leaving up 2 to cycle can be hard to manage if you need to curve out accordingly. It's far easier to find an opportunity to leave one mana open vs. two, and cycling is especially great when you can flip that card into a play for the turn. It really is format dependent though...

I'm excited to get an affordable copy of Land Tax without ugly man art.

The most distressing thing to me about WOTC's whole Kamigawa Never Again stance is that we constantly see them making these same shortsighted decisions and calls without really understanding the reason why certain things might have not worked out. This goes beyond unsuccessful set design with...

If you want that effect then yeah, that 1/3 body is much better than the 1/1 that the scout is. Being able to tank or dissuade attacks from 2 power attackers is super relevant if your main goal is to branch into the later stages of a game. That said, I want a little more out of mostly vanilla...

Makes sense, it can definitely get a bit unwieldy at times solo. Unless I pre-shuffle and have everything ready for the cube session, I usually have 4 of my drafters help me shuffle up and create packs. It's not too bad once you've seeded the 20% into the 6th pile of gold/colorless/lands. I then...

I was going up against some 5C pile of stuff around a year and a half ago running some grindy GBx deck. He was playing mostly normal stuff and I couldn't quite put him on a specific archetype, but he kept saying something like man I wish I had a red source right now. I didn't understand why he...

I used to do that and just shuffle up, but sometimes you'd end up with really warped packs that had like something wonky like 9 red cards or 6 white and 7 green cards. This process has pretty much eliminated that possibility. Sure, RNG could lead to 4-5 of a color in a pack, but nothing super...

Maybe, but I also don't know a single person who is really into the narrative direction of the story. I guess it might be appealing to younger players to have clear protagonists to follow ala MCU superheroes? It's rare that we get interesting stories about characters mostly because they haven't...

I'm a big fan of Kamigawa block art and lore-wise, but they definitely messed up power-level wise and with clunky mechanics throughout. I understand why they won't go back from a financial perspective because it was unpopular the first time around, but I feel like every time I read about it...

For making packs, I've been following this method for about a year and a half now and it's given me the best results: 1) Divide everything in your cube by color (WUBRG) with gold/colorless/landscards together in a sixth pile. 2) Take roughly 20% of each color and shuffle it into the...

Have you guys seen the Kickstarter for Cubeamajigs? Reusable packs to store the cube packs you create for easy distribution. I backed it earlier today, picking up the 125 set keeping one and gifting a set to each of my friends who have built a cube. Already reached their initial goal within the...

The actual land arts are great, but that giant GRAND PRIX is super ugly. Not a fan of these.

Jhoira is pretty generic but solid and more powerful than the Thopterist, but I could see the Thopterist being more interesting if you have ways to leverage the 3 bodies synergistically with other cards.

Gonna go with 3 cards that haven't been mentioned: Thalia's Lieutenant I love BW Humans as an archetype, and the Lieutenant gives you another copy of Champion of the Parish that can also be played as an anthem for your team if you've gone wide enough. It's an excellent card to push yourself...