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  1. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    With the full set up, I'm looking at these cards as early adds/testing:
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    Card/Deck Archetype Spotlight: B/W Humans

    Unholy bump, but I've got to highlight a newcomer for this archetype that is likely here to stay: An evasive two drop, self-contained energy/draw engine, AND it's a human to boot. I'm not a big fan of a lot of the make energy cards because they're so underwhelming without a critical mass...
  3. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    First Strike and Menace side by side on a 1 power creature is odd, but I like how this is touching strange design spaces. It basically requires 3 blockers from your opponent at any given attack, wields equipment and carries counters like a champ, and the weird 1/3 body allows it to also function...
  4. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    Wow the Rallier is incredible. Pod a Voice, make the Elemental Token, bring back Voice, end turn with 8 power on board. Disgusting.
  5. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    I was talking more in a constructed context, I think it's fine in cube because you need a very specific pool for it to be busted. In most of our cubes it's negligible as a one-of within a pool of 360 with our planeswalker density, but this card is obnoxious in multiples anywhere else. The...
  6. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    Wow, that is so pushed.
  7. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    Nah, more like a cheap knockoff. Jaya had great flavortext quotes, Chandra is bland in comparison. I really hate her character within the more recent lore. They've been developing their core 5 ever since Origins and Chandra is somehow worse than retconned Nissa who somehow became a socially...
  8. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    Baral is a dick, but Chandra has like zero redeeming qualities as a character so I'm kind of rooting for him. Make your protagonists more likeable WoTC.
  9. shamizy

    Sets AEther Revolt Spoilers

    A bit more pushed than I'd like.
  10. shamizy

    The TV Thread

    So Westworld finished up its first season with a big 90 minute finale, was a great watch. You've got a whole year to catch up on it before the 2nd season which apparently isn't coming until 2018. The show was pretty decent, not something all-time great ala Sopranos or The Wire but still a nice...
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    Card/Deck Archetype Spotlight: B/W Humans

    Yeah, there are a bunch of great Human typed cards in other colors. I find humans to function best as a "themeless theme" across multiple colors since there are just so many useful cards with that typeline (and my drafters can take advantage with a Utility Land Draft pick of Cavern of Souls)...
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    Card/Deck Archetype Spotlight: B/W Humans

    Good call on the Scrounger and Drana, I forgot those two existed since I haven't used either yet in my cube. Adding to the post under additional threats. Scrounger seems like a great addition to just about any B/x Aggro deck, but I think it ends up shining more in an R/B Aggro deck where the...
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    Card/Deck Archetype Spotlight: B/W Humans

    Archetype Spotlight: Black White Humans (Aggro) One of the more common problems that I've seen new cube designers run into is finding ways to bring enough support to aggressive archetypes to thrive in a midrange environment. The core idea behind drafting an aggressive deck is to apply...
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    General The Draft Exchange

    Drafted Onder's cube, ended up in one of my favorite archetypes (currently writing a in-depth archetype primer for it like I mentioned the other day, stay tuned!): www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/644320[/url]"] Ones 1 Bloodsoaked Champion 1 Bloodsoaked Champion 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Champion of the...
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    General Fight Club

    While true, we need to consider the fact that creatures do tend to make up the majority of a cube, most draft decks, and that they are the primary card type within Green. The best way to think of Evo Leap is probably just as a static effect that grants "{G}, trade this creature in for another...
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    General Fight Club

    I find them fulfilling incredibly different roles in the decks they end up in. Sylvan Library is just better card selection off your draw every turn for slower decks where you can afford to take an early turn off, while Leap is usually just used to turn bodies into more bodies and accrue...
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    General CBS

    Had an idea earlier today. I like CBS for random cube discussions, but it's honestly tough to look up previous in depth discussions we may have had on specific archetypes. We've gotten used to the Riptide topic-jumping which has led to more organic discussions, but it would be difficult for a...
  18. shamizy

    Site News Contest: You Design the Duel Decks

    Sweet, cubetutor visual spoiler is up. The one on tappedout was unorganized had some weird overlay thing that was throwing me off. Way more inspired and interested now. Do you want us to post decks we come up with here and label whatever our final submission is when submission rolls around?
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    General Let's talk broad power band

    It's successful in Limited because of how print runs work, but it would be way too tedious to have to balance every single pack when it comes to a cube draft. You don't want one person to end up with a pack full of powerful rares and the person on the other side of the table to open up a pack of...
  20. shamizy

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    That's interesting, it's been the complete opposite for me. Pumping out blockers is a little annoying, but 0/1s aren't trading up with anything. If they are, then she's likely at a low loyalty by that point and dies to any single attacker that can get through blocks. It can be incredibly...
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