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what a hero!

The few matches of Tiny Leaders I've played (Alesha and Toshi decks) have been pretty great. I don't really like EDH's focus on multiplayer games - the French (1v1) rules are decent imo - and the constrained curve gets people playing spells in the early game. No skin off my nose if people like...

He's a solid card but I'm not really interested in his planeswalker side and while an 0/2 looter is interesting I think that I want the consistency of Thought Courier. I was just not afraid of opposing Jaces at my prerelease, and I'm sure he's interesting for quite a lot of different reasons...

everything except faith

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Who else would suffer through endless excel spreadsheets for the sake of a hobby? Okay, wait, nevermind.

Now there's a card I'm excited about.

yeah i excluded it on power level immediately which is an interesting sign for a card that nobody even seems to want yet

i've briefly tested all three in a couple of quick games (testing with a three-way split card) and I got more excited about turn one Insight than turn one Looting if I didn't care about the graveyard. I'd run it. yeah, but I'd way rather be mana screwed than flooded; I have cards and...

Oh yeah, that's worth getting into! And definitely. Cataclysm straddles a very interesting line between Divine Reckoning and Apocalypse, which is a weird place to be. At least today, Tragic Arrogance felt like Cataclysm crossed with Plague Wind. It was interesting playing around my opponent's...

I'm really liking it, actually. It's worth noting for the folks at home that costing five mana instead of four doesn't really matter, getting to keep a planeswalker is nice and not ruinous across the table, but the caster choosing survivors for both players opens up some different lines of play...

did you guys see this, because if not you should see this

The Acolyte was really solid for me in my prerelease deck, but more importantly i'm not looking at it as a purely aggressive card but rather a threat that sometimes protects itself, which is squarely in line with my vision for red. I wrote a prerelease puff piece that talks a little about Tragic...

prerelease highlights: a tournament report, for slavish devotees thereof so hey this time i went to a prerelease ALL ON MY OWN (okay yes everyone else had real things to do) and it wasn’t scary except for about five minutes. i show up about ten minutes before it all starts and get my...

at my prerelease, this place is awful and full of shitty non casuals (they still suck though so I'm 2-0)

Some of these are really interesting - there's some I'd happily run: (it's legendary, seems balanced)

why on earth would you cast a card selection spell before you know what you're looking for?

I did indeed! It's one of the cube articles Adam Thomas wrote for MagicMadhouse - he goes into detail here - but the way it's translated to my cube is to use symmetrical draw effects, hit your land drops and draw removal, and then late-game turn your 'target player' draw and incidental mill into...

Yeah, karoos and LD are brutal, same reason I don't have any. Don't worry too much about doubling them at first, but I'm glad you're filling out the cycle! Aggro decks get to filter away unneeded lands (literally time walk) late-game too.