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The bird is one of my favorite cards of the set. Really like the alternative art, too! Iroh's Demonstration Iroh's Demonstration is a fantastic bread-and-butter card. Stoked to have this effect in the game, can't believe it's taken so long to have this kind of thing for 2 mana. It doesn't feel...

Completely agree. As impossible as it feels to say, Michaelangelo is an art downgrade to Spiderham, made worse by the fact that we likely won't get one in a normal frame. (To this point: please give me all the Final Fantasy/LotR scene cards and Tarkir Commanders with a normal Magic frame...

I just don't get it. I used to be Maro-level upset that cards like these were available in green: Hornet Queen Hornet Sting Beast Within Hail Storm Jugan, the Rising Star It felt wrong! Green's not supposed to get these kinds of things! But then Tarkir came out and I listened to Drive to Work...

I wasn't expecting an additional cycle of full-art lands and these two in particular are some of the most gorgeous printed this year: Hell yeah. I think most of the most interesting cards have already been covered, but here's a few I wanted to talk more about. Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing Wan...

A few unrelated notes: 1. Pyrogoyf This was my favorite card of 2024, and for good reason: it's the best. No, actually the best. It singlehandedly makes red the best color. It generates its own archetype (tribal goyfs). It makes you re-evaluate other goyfs, who are all fun. But yeah, it's...

I like your style. Going to be pulling a lot from both my main Cube and its on-deck binder for this! Black cards: Transpose Unshakable Tail Undead Butler Skullport Merchant Imotekh the Stormlord Tarrian's Journal Emergency Weld Out of the Tombs Royal Warden Gumdrop Poisoner Whispersteel Dagger...

I'm trying out Malcolm, the Eyes again and I think it's totally fine. I saw Dom looking into Captain Howler, Sea Scourge and I've bumped it up to my on-deck binder myself. I love the discard-matters theme, and since you're also on the Scrounging Skyray / Marauding Mako plan, it's not terrible...

I like the card, but I think this underrated card gives a similar level of flexibility: Reverse the Polarity Reverse the Polarity What it doesn't do is probably the most popular use-case (getting re-triggers of ETB effects), but in terms of how I've used it in limited, it does what I'm...

I do love accidentally hitting "post" as I was still formatting my response......but of all people who would catch me with Mana Tithe placeholders everywhere, I'm glad it was you.

I think most Magic players will give a different answer at various stages of their life/month/day, but for today, I've got these 5, and I think they're pretty similar to what I would have said any time over the last 20 years of my life, besides Greater Gargadon, who I've usually given as the...

I'm glad the card exists (mechanically). I loved Salt Road Packbeast in TDM retail (aside: I just realized why they didn't give the set the code TDS, which is on its face more sensible otherwise) and it's something I was looking to slot into my rather powerful Reject Cube recently. It's a good...

That was also true of Doctor Who and Final Fantasy (and 40k from what I've heard), but I think they found a reasonable balance regardless. That said...there are 97 creatures in Final Fantasy retail. To just do the main casts in Trek you'd need: TOS 7 TNG 11 DS9 12 (including Rom, Garak...

This is a case where, when you play them, you clearly explain what the card does to newer players and it's (mostly) fine. I mean, I do this for all lands anyways for anyone who's not a regular competitive player.

Some new and old hotness: Survey Mechan Rydia, Summoner of Mist Zell Dincht Trenchpost Rampant Frogantua Sand Scout Ruination Uncontrolled Infestation Skyshroud War Beast Mana Vortex Land Equilibrium Hallowed Ground Conquer Rydia, Summoner of Mist is great for almost any Cube, but that...

My bigger issue is that there will "only" be 160 additional Standard cards next year, even with this 7th set. Between that and what Blake said about "playing with set sizes", it implies that at least one more of the UB sets will be smaller as well. I get the feeling it will be Star Trek, which...

I keep forgetting I have this thread and feel it would make a pretty good diary. I made a surprisingly big change to my Cube this morning -- 21 cards! A lot of it was de-Spider-Man-ing my Cube from a slightly overzealous update a few days ago hot on the heels of several competitive events in...

I have been running her and, though limited in reps, I've really liked her so far, both in paper and in practice drafts/games. The Warp ability works great with UK too! I realized why I'd got this slightly wrong -- I had been looking at Sealed because of the qualifier last weekend, where it's...

Oh, I completely agree. They just have a bad habit of very rarely printing reminder text for them. Like I said, mechanically I get why they exist, think it's a good knob for R&D, and definitely prefer it to the Serra Paragon approach, but just like keyword tokens, it's not the most elegant...

this is even worse than Spider-Man for me, ugh the worst part is how much I like the designs Michelangelo, the Heart Michelangelo, the Heart Compares reasonably to Scythecat Cub in terms of how much it accelerates your team, but doing it post-combat makes it not feel quite so oppressive. I...

I've been playing this set still and I'm now trying to figure out if I'm crazy for considering this card: Spider-UK Spider-UK is very possibly the best uncommon in retail limited this decade. But can it be good in a Cube environment that's not all about web-slinging? I think yes. Do I want...