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I'm up to 50 dual lands in 360, after being convinced by a couple of folks on here about a year ago, and I'm really happy with those numbers now. You won't miss or even notice that the worst two cards of any given colour are gone, but on the other hand, you'll fist pump so hard when that bonus...

If I end up supporting a colourless theme, I might throw Wastes into the utility pile, for interactions like that. Most times you'd rather have the upside of a real utility land, but I can see how decks that fetch up basics might want access to one or two. I think I'm definitely upping the...

For people who run utility land drafts, the Innistrad cycle (Moorland Haunt, Kessig Wolf Run, etc.) and the recent Battle for Zendikar blighted lands (Blighted Gorge et al.) already give people access to a lot of powerful colourless lands that do plenty of additional work as mana sinks. Throw in...

Okay, I just had to go back and find Onderzeeboot's poignant but incredibly off-topic post, followed by someone trying to right the ship by posting on-topic, and then seeing Jason immediately step in and slap the newcomer's wrist. Turns out it's in this very thread...

Yeah, Grave Titan and Inferno Titan were always the strongest over here. Grave Titan is pretty redonk for obvious reasons, but like frostymoose mentions above, Inferno Titan is surprisingly good as well, and clears out aggro boards really well. Arc Lightning (and dividable burn in general) is a...

I suspect Mark Rosewater had a huge hand in this, as he describes in his column from yesterday. He went so far as to say that the four oath enchantments in the upcoming set are modelled after the oaths that Justice League members take when joining the team...

Having run both Thragtusk and Restoration Angel in my cube for a while, I'm now convinced that everything was Resto's fault. Thragtusk is a strong play on five, to be sure, but I've seen plenty of aggro decks ignore him and continue swarming around him. Meanwhile, Resto usually comes out of...

I actually run both of those, and like RavebornMuse, the discard clause is strictly flavour text in my cube. Obstinate Baloth is a big Kitchen Finks, while Loxodon Smiter has actually overperformed - both on the battlefield, and in the pick orders - as an undercosted Rumbling Baloth. Hey, some...

That's incredible - if the Legacy Cube is letting go of 'staples' like Vedalken Shackles and Coalition Relic, anything is possible. Also, High Market, Blood Artist, Bloodthrone Vampire, and Zulaport Cutthroat in an MTGO cube...! This update by Melissa DeTora, while not actually changing out...

There are a couple like that, but none free. More importantly, they don't appear to work with the version of Xenforo we're on. :( I've experimented with upgrading Xenforo in the past, but it always broke the [cubedeck] tags, for reasons that I don't fully understand. That's by and large the...

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No, I'm with you completely. "Counting planeswalkers" seems like a lame mechanic, as is encouraging players to build their decks towards all-out planeswalker wars. It sounds good in theory, and might be fun the first couple of times, but after the umpteenth board in standard gets clogged up by...

i remember the time that a thread got totally derailed, someone fairly new to the forums tried to right the ship, and then you slapped them on the wrist for it that was the actual best

Holy crap, I wonder if we have the same playgroups. Because I'm always trying to stay open and read signals, I end up in base blue an inordinate amount of the time - well over 50% - because a decent chunk of my drafters are averse to the mere notion of playing blue cards. They love their black...

Maybe give the token itself haste, and have the second clause just grant +1/+1?

I think I'd go with Assemble the Legion, even though it puts me into two colours. The power level is redonkulous on that card, that even if I don't end up R/W, it'll have been worth the speculative pick just in case I do end up Boros. It also doesn't ask anything of me, other than a colour...

I will say that both Read the Bones and Painful Truths have helped me to understand that when you're taking a turn off to refill your hand at sorcery speed - all that tempo lost! - you need to get back a minimum of ~2.5 cards' worth of value. This is why, despite being costed more efficiently...

Wow, that's a pack, alright! I think I'm on Damnation here.

I'm still on Read the Bones over here, as well, because I'm trying to support a half-hearted devotion theme in black. But I think that if you can reasonably expect over half of your decks on any given night to be three colours or more, Painful Truths starts to look mighty tempting. It's a...