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  1. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Here's the Activator: Remember, Cycling counts as an activated ability, so this guy reduces cycling costs too! I don't know if there are enough AA's that you'd want to reduce the costs on to make this guy playable in every cube deck that tries to build around this, but there are some...
  2. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Hurrah! To be fair, I specifically didn't share it with salvation because I didn't want to get yelled at. I wish that other guy hadn't reposted but whatever. I'm almost wondering if the poster who leaked the "wedge lands" was actually talking about the crystals. Wedge lands still seem too good...
  3. TrainmasterGT

    Modern Cube

    I'm going to have to do a full write-up on this cube at some point- there's a lot of cool ideas here that I think have a lot of potential but there's some weird things which I would definitely change about it. Could you provide a little bit more information about what kind of environment you...
  4. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    1) Not really because you're effectively losing two creatures to maybe save one. There are times where this will be fine, but it's really only exceptional when you're using it to save an important creature that is vital to your deck's function. I might be selling this card a little bit short...
  5. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Another Doom Blade variant. This card seems like it could be very good, but only if you have a low density of things that have +1/+1 counters. My cube currently has about 31 cards with counters, although some of them are not things you'd want to remove, but others give counters to the whole...
  6. TrainmasterGT

    Sets Ikoria Inquiry

    Yeah, now that we've seen that the Temur deck is Instants-matter themed, I think the Arcane Maelstrom name makes a lot more sense.
  7. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    That's nice, and you could always just... Dead Weight Mire's Grasp Looks like constellation got a new toy :p
  8. TrainmasterGT

    The Train Station

    Posting my 1000th message here because I felt like it and didn't want it to be in some random thread to be lost to time. I'm sentimental like that :cool:
  9. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Not yet. If I had to guess, I'd say it will probably be the G/W hybrid legendary card since White and Green are both allowed Nightmares in this set. It's also possible that it will be a Mono-Green or Golgari card, but I think WOTC is probably going to try to make it something special for all of...
  10. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Unlike the Hippo Dinosaur, which is very good in the mainboard but questionable as a companion, this cat thing seems like it is very good in both roles. Remember, White and Black are the two colors most likely to be chock full of permanents with CMC 2 or less. Just counting White and Black in my...
  11. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    This set is so weird.
  12. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    They haven't really previewed anything thats super exciting since the Sharknado IMO... That is, until they showed off this: I don't know if this card has a home in cube, but he is really cute! He's like Walking Ballista but for mana to activate abilities. A thing to note is that the mana he...
  13. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    This card is so cool, but you have to cast it to get the trigger. They're printing a bunch of cards like this in the EDH decks, but they're all designed so that the cards are either bad outside of commander or that you can't use them to cheat on mana. I just want to discard this and Striped...
  14. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    I think this card is very bad. It's body is below the curve, it doesn't have or provide evasion, it just makes all of your creatures into Sliths. I'd rather have a guaranteed one-time pump like Good-Fortune Unicorn or Renata, Called to the Hunt than something which may never end up pumping any...
  15. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Here's a nice Zulaport Cutthroat variant for those of you running aristocrats decks. With this card you're effectively trading 1 extra mana for the ability for your engine to not die to creature removal, and you still get the 1/1 body to boot.
  16. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    How else are commander players going to deal with gods? Run MULTIPLE enchantment removal spells? That's crazy!
  17. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    The metallurgic summonings (Metallurgic Sharkening?) mode is not how this card is going to be played 90% of the time. This is a scalable flier that draws cards. Despite kind of being the cycling guy, I'm not even that concerned with the Drake Haven synergy here- every blue deck except for dredge...
  18. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Speaking of your White Pairings... Looks like Pyrohemia/Wildfire got a new toy!
  19. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    You see, I would agree with you (and I actually do agree with you about the creatures), but almost all of these cards have been outclassed by previous cards. Like, Smelt is a mana cheaper than shatter, Bident of Thassa was a strictly better Costal Piracy back in 2013, Circuitous Route is...
  20. TrainmasterGT

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Sharknado. This card is very good and I shouldn't have to explain why.
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