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Fair enough. But does every card have to be chock full of synergy? I'm running Supreme Verdict because it's a really great signal for the color pair. It's also boring as shit. The thing though is some (most?) of my players sort of prefer the boring stuff. There's a lot of risk involved with...

Here's something to chew on.... So having watched a bunch of drafts by LSV from both the legacy and vintage cubes, he basically loves signets to the point where I think he might need therapy. Joking aside, I get why they are good since in any late game based deck it gets you there one turn...

Lot of dials you can turn on that one. I think my cube has been enough different configs where that card was not very good and really awesome. Speed factors in. How fast are decks? Do they have evasion to get around things like this? How many enablers do you have to make the troll super...

This is exactly the scenario I think where this card is appropriate. It's clearly a pretty big downgrade from Mulldrifter (evoke matters so much on that card), and tacking on 2 life at the cost of making it multi-colored is also a bad tradeoff. That said, if you want to tone down ETB value dudes...

Mechanically, I like vehicles. But flavor wise? Not really a fan. For the same reason I always default to a fantasy setting over a sci-fi one. I just like wizards and dragons better, especially in a game called "Magic". I hope they do a set of medieval flavored vehicles. Siege engines...

Sins of the Past + Living End

Bottled Cloister combo?

I'm just thinking something simple like Panharmonicum then T5 Shriekmaw or Karmic Guide. So much value, you might not even be able to use it all. That's how much value we are talking.

Yeah, last thing this game needs is more ways to abuse all the ETB value bullshit (at least in cube). I don't get it. I'm not even remotely tempted by this card.

Kalonian Hydra is worse because if you can't remove it, it becomes a 16/16 (at which point the game ends). But I agree with Onderzeeboot, Wolfir just won games almost randomly and I ended up removing it from my midrange cube. And this is likely better (though maybe a tad less swingy since it's...

Goblin Trenches is definitely not too strong IMO. Was originally in power max lists but got replaced as soon as there were other options. Works well with things like crucible and LFTL. Also pretty cool with Knight of the Reliquary. I've been tempted to add that in the past.

That's a nice deck. Dudes + Opposition is just pure win regardless of what else you put with it. In this case, I think it goes extremely well. Sunscape gets you opposition on T3 and helps you tap down right away. That's nasty. You have multiple ways to reload later too (lark has nice...

I really like the exile burn spells because they are usually sorcery (making friendly aura mechanics a bit better), and the exile clause in a world of so much resilience to standard death triggers is really powerful. Red Sun's Zenith Incendiary Flow Pillar of Flame Those are probably the...

Probably? The retro list is running a super lean artifact list, so finding 3 others to trigger those effects feels really optimistic to me. Let me put it to you this way, Tolarian Academy is probably unplayable in my list right now. In lists running clues and things like Whirler Rogue, et all...

Yeah. Processor was in power lists for a long time. That is a legit card and a good tinker target (assuming you aren't facing a lot of disenchant effects). Memory Jar is also a good target, especially if you are trying to queue up a large combo turn. Colossus I've been tempted to try...

I dislike online Magic, but it is considerably more enjoyable to watch as a spectator. It's less about lack of charisma IMO and more about having a hard time reading cards I'm not familiar with, waiting for shuffles (which take forever), being able to immediately calculate effects and...

That is essentially where I'm at right now. Since Grillo turned me on to LSV, I've been watching his videos excessively. His Vintage cube drafts got a little stale for me as he almost always goes for the same basic deck (big mana featuring some broken blue cards). But it was sort of fun...

When I experimented with the familiars, they were simply too slow and fragile. Against anything that was aggressive or had a decent amount of removal, it was rare when you could essentially take a turn off to cast one and not put yourself behind (or open yourself up for them to just get...

I'm clearly bad at drafting storm. But I just don't get this. Storm is like the poster child mechanic for broken magic enabled win conditions. It pretty much doesn't work any other way. How are you taking mana generation infinite and having enough cards in hand to find and cast your storm...

I'm not sure you can run enough protection for Dralnu, Lich Lord in cube. His drawback is so terrible and burn is simply too abundant in most lists. I tried him in my retro list and drafted him into a storm/control deck. And it was interesting? But the final list seemed suicidal to me...