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  1. alvoi

    Alvoi's Cube

    Well, here I am again, this time I'm thinking about the storm/suspend theme. In original MMA it was in RG but with some suspend cards in blue, too. I'm thinking maybe I could add some of the zero-mana suspend cards and As Foretold, as a little synergy... for the storm part, I don't want a storm...
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    General What is "higher power level"?

    This is an interesting question. The fact is that there is no absolute scale, and probably the most powerful cube is this. You could make an argument for "cube X is more powered than cube Y if the average deck of cube X beats, on average, the average deck of cube Y". But then, it's not exactly...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    Wow, thank you all! First of all, I think I was unclear, but in this topic I'm discussing two cubes. So, in my main "powermax" cube there was that fixing problem that I talked about, while in my secondary cube (the Modern Masters one) there isn't. This said, I'm now answering to all your...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    Today is Thallid day! Now the non-tribal archetypes begin, so they will be more difficult. Thallids is almost a tribal archetype, but it's "double tribal" since there are Funguses (Fungi?) and Saprolings. Something like Sporecrown Thallid is good for both tribes. In the original MMA there was...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    First of all, I added some spoiler tags to my posts so it doesn't have to load every card image each time somebody enters this topic :D Now, I was thinking about the last tribal theme, the Rebels. I know there was a deck that Kai Budde a pro tour with, but I don't think it is too powerful by...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    Perfect! Thank you! This is a good question, I think mainly the colours I want the giants are red and white, but there are some great Giants in blue since Kaldheim... the three I chose before, than also Thryx, the Sudden Storm and Giant's Grasp. Moreover, while there aren't really great RW...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    I hope that it's not forbidden by some rules, to do too many consecutive posts, but I think it's useful for me and I hope maybe also even for somebody else if I write here my design process, instead of putting down a full list without explanation. I'm trying to do it really slow, because I can...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    So, okay, here I am! I'm a student in mathematics so I love doing the count also, to have some kind of structure other than my gut. So following japahn's advice I'll start from the tribal archetypes. First of all, we need to put the glue that helps the tribal archetypes. Since black has 3.5...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    Thank you for all your advice! You're right, in fact I think my powermax cube is something more like a collection of my best cards, that has also the advantage of being playable as a table game when my friends are here. Also, my friends are not super into Magic (well, they know the rules and...
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    Alvoi's Cube

    Good evening everyone! I haven't disappeared, I'm mostly lurking in the forum in this period, but sometimes I want to say something about my cube(s). Sorry for my bad English, I hope it's still understandable. I found the discussion about the cube style really interesting, for all the diverse...
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    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Thraben Inspector Blade Splicer Sower of Temptation Mulldrifter Shriekmaw Flametongue Kavu Eternal Witness Mystic Snake
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    General Flexible Artifact / Enchantment Hate

    Qasali Pridemage
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    General CBS

    Sometimes I'm bored and I go on scryfall and search random cards to have something to do
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    General Fight Club

    The Kamigawa moonfolks!
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    General CBS

    In my opinion it's WB -> UR -> BG -> RW -> GU since you can see every colour as a number modulo 5, so if W=0, U=1, B=2, R=3 and G=4 the enemy colour pairs are (0,2), (1,3), (2,4), (3,0) and (4,1) and from each one you obtain the next by adding +1 (mod 5)
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    The wording seems like they made a complicated card and then they asked "how can we make it more complicated?"
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    Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!

    Portable Hole could have been an enchantment and the green card could have been a white Kithkin. Maybe there are reasons I can't understand since I never played D&D, but they shouldn't kill all of Magic's flavour for this set
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    They chose Lyon as the artist for the Lion :swagg: Nice cards though! I'm very happy for the old-bordered fetch lands, now we can have the entire set of 10 as old-bordered
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    Site News RiptideLab on YouTube

    I love hearing my own voice! But I know most people don't ;)
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    General Pack Size

    Thank you all! I didn't think about 3x16 but that's surely a consideration! I'll give a try to both 3x16 and 4x12 and see what happens. I'm really happy for the +24 cards in my cube, I had a lot of interesting cards that I had to cut and I love to put back in!
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