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  1. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    I'm not understanding the contempt for the lore elements of this set so far. It doesn't feel like a copy of any "Magical School" stories I've been exposed to over the years. The cards with school-related names and flavor are mostly draft commons, so they won't impact constructed. However, they...
  2. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Yes.
  3. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    While it's possible that cube real estate could be a problem when implementing Learn+Lessons, that isn't necessarily going to be the case. If the floor of the Learn cards is good enough, adding lessons to the cube becomes a free roll. You have to remember that any card that doesn't make it...
  4. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    Is it really though? The number of playable cards at any given power level is steadily increasing as time goes on. These days, I'm finding that people are leaving 10 or even 15 cards that are playable in their colors in the sideboard. Lessons are nice because they don't eat up space in the main...
  5. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    This card looks good. It gets pretty big fast just by casting removal. Definitely testing. The other new mechanic is learn. First you learn... Then you get a lesson!
  6. TrainmasterGT

    General Introducing the Cube Map – find out how your cube fits within the Cube Universe!

    Oh, well if perfection is what you're looking for, there's this cube!
  7. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    Seven of the Mystical Archive cards will not be legal in Historic. I believe they will still be programed into Arena for Draft, Cube, and potentially Brawl purposes, but not for the constructed formats.
  8. TrainmasterGT

    General Introducing the Cube Map – find out how your cube fits within the Cube Universe!

    I've been plundering the Unpowered Fair Stuff 2020 and 2021 clusters and that's been pretty helpful for me. It's very different from the average riptide cube though.
  9. TrainmasterGT

    General Introducing the Cube Map – find out how your cube fits within the Cube Universe!

    That is, in fact, the Auriok Salvagers cluster.
  10. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    Because Ravnica's guild structure is a really effective tool for organizing a faction set, so Wizards has gone back to it several times. Having every supported color combination have a unique keyword to differentiate it from the other factions makes a clean and simple set structure. The...
  11. TrainmasterGT

    General Introducing the Cube Map – find out how your cube fits within the Cube Universe!

    Oh I should have been clearer about that. Thank you for such a detailed response! I hadn't see the article yet when I wrote my previous post, it is quite enlightening! Now that I have a better understanding of how the clusters work, I've noticed a few interesting ones which I might go in to for...
  12. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    I kind of hope the colleges are thematically unique, but don't have unique keywords. I don't like how faction sets tend to feel like variations of Ravnica sets, even when they're tonally completely different. While I think it would be cool for the different schools to care about different things...
  13. TrainmasterGT

    General Introducing the Cube Map – find out how your cube fits within the Cube Universe!

    I found this on the Cube Brainstorming Discord. I don't entirely agree with the characterization of the "starter/budget" section, as a lot of our Riptide cubes with non-budget Fetch/Shock manabases fall into that area. Some examples include Onderzeeboot's Wheel of Change, Erik's "Cool Side"...
  14. TrainmasterGT

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Blink and Bounce: Countless Gears Renegade Charming Prince Wall of Omens Azorius Arrester Oreskos Explorer Cavalry Drillmaster Daybreak Charger Skyclave Cleric Stoneforge Mystic Basri's Lieutenant Daring Archaeologist Gallant Cavalry Master Splicer Palace Jailer Ranger of Eos Squad Commander...
  15. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    I changed it! I thought this one wasn't on MythicSpoiler (where I took the images from) anymore, apparently it still is despite them not having a Secret Lair specific page.
  16. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    Of course, my favorite Planeswalker glow-up (pre-Professor Onyx) is that of the Hero of Dominaria himself: Teferi! --->--->--->
  17. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    Gideon is a little harder since he doesn't change his outfit like... ever. But there is enough to do something with! --->--->--->
  18. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    --->--->---> Glow up of the century.
  19. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    Yeah it's a really weird card.
  20. TrainmasterGT

    General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers

    You know, I was looking at these three cards, but I don't think they're very likely, which is why I didn't mention them. Nix does something very specific and odd. I can't see a reason why WOTC would want to reprint it in standard at this time (barring a free spell mechanic we haven't seen yet)...
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