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  1. ravnic

    Brirro's Variant Cube

    Your cube looks very cool and also relatively lean for such a young one. I feel like it took me many years to reach that level of cohesiveness, at east from what I'm seeing here. Some cards I don't love: Giada, Font of Hope With like two other angels, this one seems like a wordy trap to me...
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    The Black Cube

    Nerfing Blacksmithy's design doesn't necessarily lead to fair cards I guess :D
  3. ravnic

    The Black Cube

    Serra Archer is so cool with the monstrosity. But maybe lose the ping ability and make it a Healer's Hawk instead? I'd love to see a whole cycle from malice sentry. One for each color with different stats and keywords maybe, all artifact creatures. Most of all, I'd love to cube with Dune...
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    General CBS

    But they took the sweeper like pick 3 or so, so they probably would've picked more blue cards. And even if they wouldn't, I personally think the straight Boros control deck is cooler than RWu Control, but that's a matter of taste of course :P Sure. But don't you think, that if drafters were...
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    [500] CCC - Casual Champions Cube

    To prevent myself from theory-crafting too much and replacing cards before they even had the chance to prove themselves, I came up with a hard rule. Comparable to what they do in football, I'm only allowed to get new playe-, uh, cards once in the summer and once in the winter. In particular, I...
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    General CBS

    I think we're basically saying the same thing :D I chose these examples particularly because I wanted to show what gold cards I wouldn't recommend. All three points that you mentioned pretty much overlap with my original criteria of gold cards you should be playing: Something you can't get from...
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    General CBS

    Sure, just to clarify: I never said that one should lower their fixing at all, certainly not down to retail limited standards. All I suggested was cutting down gold slots to the essential. That's mostly unique effects you don't have access to in mono color slots, accompanied by a few cards you...
  8. ravnic

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Yeah, that's what holding me back too. Do you think upgrading a servo or treasure token is good enough? Or the blood you got from turn 1 Voldaren Epicure? Personally, looking through my list, I only have these artifacts that wouldn't mind being demolished at some point: Scrapwork Mutt...
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    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    I've tried Covetous dragon in the past and I liked it quite a bit. It doesn't require you to flood the board with artifacts, which lowers his opportunity or set up cost. Comparable almost to Thopter Spy Network or Stone Haven Pilgrim. However, what I like best for colored and/or nonartifact...
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    General CBS

    Why don't you just add a mono colored card? I think most cubes would be improved by reducing the number of gold cards in them. Better drafting, less mana constraints on the decks. And most gold effects can be replaced by mono colored equivalents easily too.
  11. ravnic

    General CBS

    All good. And he has a home in my cube where he can feel warm and comfortable and loved. Regarding double-faced cards: I try keeping the numbers as low as possible and then do the same as smithy said: Keep that stack of second copies in the middle of the table. I use different sleeves for it...
  12. ravnic

    Delver Cube

    I would like to play that. Yeah.
  13. ravnic

    General CBS

    It is. It's just not a fun card in my experience. That being said, Simic Selfmill is a very fun archetype. Just use wincons that don't feel like "I couldn't win against this anyway ..." Some payoffs I like in my cube: Covetous Castaway Deep Analysis Wonder Curious Homunculus You can also...
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    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Challenge: advertise your favorite red artifact payoffs. I currently only run Galvanic Blast, which comes with zero opportunity cost as a Shock+, and consider upping that count. I wouldn't count Greater Gargadon as it works just fine with creatures and lands.
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    Delver Cube

    I love this. And I think it is correct to exclude white and make everything base blue. Will you stay singleton? Some cards to consider maybe, tgat you aren't running as I'm writing that post, but that's not coming from a constructed expert: Dragon's Rage Channeler Nimble Mongoose Force Spike...
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    General CBS

    Do you know the feeling of shame when you look back at your cube list from some years ago?
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    [500] CCC - Casual Champions Cube

    So we did another 4-person draft, unchanged cube but a slightly new variation of our draft format. Instead of having 4 packs of 15, burning the last 4, I now changed it to 5 packs of 13, burning the last 4. This has the advantage, that you only see the pack you open a third time, and since the...
  18. ravnic

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Oh, I love incidental lifegain, but Iwas referring to flavor here. Why does a spider, that shoots web balls, dying, cause me to gain life equal to the creatures in my graveyard? It makes absolutely no sense to me. And designwise, tge abilities seem rather disconnected as well.
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Omg, you are a master of scryfall search. It never occured to me, that I could look for (A or B) + C ... That being said, Charnel Troll and Uurg don't really fulfil the same roll, primarily they don't give you a sac outlet. And I don't like Skyfisher Spiders design, the lifegain ability feels...
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Varolz, the Scar-Striped How powerful is this guy? I like that he connects the selfmill and sacrifice themes that can found in these colors. But free regeneration makes me a little anxious. So I would like to know how oppressive he is when a deck can't remove him, how easily/fast he can swing a...
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