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I'm currently re-testing Heliod, Sun-Crowned for minor life gain synergies and as novel midrange dude; white has more pips than other colors, and so I think the . I initially took it out shortly after release as I realized it would make players think its only purpose was for combo, and I was...

I've gotten one game away from getting an invite from the last two weekends of RCQs with Spider-Man sealed. It's fine! It's actually a lot of fun. Drafting it like normal (8-man pods) makes it less miserable. It's comparable to Strixhaven and New Capenna in that there are only 5 archetypes and...

Yeah, that's fair. I have too many lands that get got by it to feel good about putting Stifle back in, especially when I took out so much LD.

I've been a big fan of these: Tale's End Louisoix's Sacrifice Spider-Sense And have been rotating them all in and out of my Cube. Right now I'm on Louisoix's Sacrifice, since hitting all non-creature spells is really important (I've got 92 artifacts and enchantments out of 720 cards that...

Great analysis, Ravnic. I think you're on the right track here, but I wanted to take a moment to address this: It's still probably correct, since Mark said there'd be 5 supported typal archetypes IIRC. But I am holding on to some (unsubstantiated) hope that it's giants or "go big" instead as...

I got 3rd place in a Spider-Man limited RCQ. Top 8 was a full 8-person draft and it was...wonky. Half of us were in three-color decks because it was very hard to do enemy colored combinations and there weren't enough straight 2-color decks available at most seats. That said, I was able to pull...

Honestly, yeah. I'm playing Chivalric Alliance and it might be a nice alternative that cuts down on a unique token, but generally it does the same thing (with upside!).

To be clear, the leaks were 100% right, even about Star Trek. I'm stoked about that but it feels like a monkey paw thing with the office and the furby secret lairs also announced....... Base version looks good. I like it a lot. Still......way too much text. Love the reminder text.

A better -- though much more complicated to read -- Searslicer Goblin. I like that she's legendary and can get an extra damage in on turn 2 if you played a 1-drop. I don't like that she's "Ellie" or a "brick master" or, most importantly, that she makes a stupid token type. Will need to evaluate...

New basic lands!!! The art on these are all-timer quality...but disappointingly, they're not going to be. It doesn't seem like there's a non-foil version, especially considering how busy and awful it looks with the Chocobo stamp and the tacky footprints. New scene cards! I love the art...

I mean, we got Ajani, Strength of the Pride in a Core Set in 2019. Llanowar Mentor was 2007, even if Future Sight shouldn't count for such matters. I know they were long resistant to do tokens for lands because of how players are so sloppy with tokens and it's hard to be 100% clear of the...

Currently in my on-deck binder because of this: I do miss control having a Elspeth, Sun's Champion type card that very much resets the aggro players stance. Control has gotten much worse in the average Cube that's following new set releases these last five years, because so many creatures...

I don't think it does that hard. Red isn't supposed to get nearly as efficient of creatures as green and white, and the OG is still better in many circumstances. It's also been half of the 30+ lifespan of the game of Magic since Figure of Destiny was printed. This part is crazy to me too...

because it's spider-man, mostly but also, the cards didn't feel fun to open. like, cool, there's a guy in a chair. there's a taxi driver. there's another spider-man variant I don't have any interest in. oh hey, the art on this and the designs on these feel 50% like they were thrown together...

this card is going to end up as one of the strongest cards for Cube/retail limited from the set, I think

I ran it for a bit and found it fine, but I simply didn't have enough sources of {c} to make it work. I'm currently on Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder in the same slot now, which suffers from not getting any land but benefits from being sick as hell and letting my legends do an overrun.

It felt bad opening Magic packs, folks. Can't say I've ever had that happen before. Had a great time overall, though. We had 25-30 people, which yeah, was much lower than the 60 for FF but not too off from the ~35 from EOE. I went 2-1 with a bunch of great games. And while the decks were all...

Just posted about Boros cards in another thread, but here's some really cool cards I'm either trying out in my Main or Reject Cube or that I just have in my "really like these cards" piles/binders (noting these are often a bit on the stronger side): Aerith, Last Ancient Finneas, Ace Archer...

For me, Boros is maybe the most competitive guild in terms of raw number of interesting cards, including some of my favorite underrated Cube cards (each category in order of favor): Supporting my favorite archetypes Merry, Esquire of Rohan Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant Djeru and Hazoret Mog...

I don't really run much blink support so it's basically a single-card build-around, which I think works just fine with my power-level and the power-level of ETBs in general. It's pretty good. Soft to removal, but basically justifies a 3MV cost without making you feel like a fool if they have...