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  1. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I've almost cut this guy like 3 times since I've added him, but I haven't yet. He's a fine mana sink and a decent beater who wears Bonesplitters pretty well. I'd say he's fine if you're trying to up your density of 1-drop red creatures, but he's only getting played as an aggro card. The counters...
  2. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    A cautious yes to Eldrazi Skyspawner and no to Kozilek's Predator. Eldrazi Skyspawner is pretty good as an evasive attacker that makes creatures. Although I think it may be a little below the power level of the rest of your cards, I'd surmise that it will do fine if people are playing Nest...
  3. TrainmasterGT

    Sets Ikoria Inquiry

    I think the Whiptongue Frog from the first set is just a translation error.
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    General CBS

    I've been toying with the idea of designing (key word: designing) a cube using primarily cards and mechanics printed before the year 2007. No planeswalkers, no hyper-efficient creatures, just good old fashioned over-costed 3/3s and over-powered spells. And Molten Hydra. And Masticore. Arguably...
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    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Could you be a little more specific about what you mean by "cards that care about creatures?" All of these care about creatures... Winding Way Pelt Collector Lovestruck Beast Gaea's Anthem Vivien's Arkbow ...but they all do it in very different ways.
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    Sets Ikoria Inquiry

    Even if I told you my source, I don't know my source's source so where this information originated from is not known to me. For all I know, these cards all could have come from the Narset Facebook group and just shared by someone who cares about cube cards as opposed to splashy mythics :p Thank...
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    Sets Ikoria Inquiry

    I'm not sure why multiple spoiler windows are showing up for each set of cards. My edit window shows only one [spoiler ][/spoiler ] per sub category. Mod, could you fix please?
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    Sets Ikoria Inquiry

    Ikoria previews don't officially start until April 2nd, but that doesn't mean we're free of stuff to talk about. In fact, between the few tidbits of official information we have and a few cheeky leaks, we can actually get a pretty good picture of what Ikoria and Ikoria Commander are going to...
  9. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Cutting Some Excesses

    White having an 8th one drop also isn't effecting it's color pie slice in any meaningful way. White has always been caught between it's two strengths of "go wide" and "nuke the entire board." Since the primary mono-white deck in modern is some sort of death and taxes variant (which is a curve...
  10. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Cutting Some Excesses

    If anything, I actually think you need to increase your density of 1-drops for aggro. I looked at your cube, and I counted 22 one-drop creatures across 5 colors which I would want to play in an aggro deck. You're only running 5(!) 1-drop creatures in red right now, which isn't enough for most...
  11. TrainmasterGT

    Peasant Cube (Working)

    I'm loving the look of this project so far! One thing I will say is that you still should be running some "normal" aggro cards in your red section if you're trying to make a berserkers and a U/R Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive deck work. Your red-based aggressive decks just won't be able to function...
  12. TrainmasterGT

    Dom's Stream of Consciousness

    Zombies is an incredibly easy flavor of tribal deck to make work in cube since there are so many zombies that slot so well into an aggro deck anyway. Consider: Gravecrawler Carnophage Changeling Outcast Diregraf Ghoul Dread wanderer Shambling Goblin Festering Goblin Festering Mummy Grim...
  13. TrainmasterGT

    Highball: Legacy of the Rails

    Fixed the Update Changelog. Apparently the [ci = small] Feature is font and font size sensitive :confused:.
  14. TrainmasterGT

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Do you really need a 1 for 1 replacement for this specific slot? Talrand, Sky Summoner, like many of his fellow big spell payoff friends, is expensive and swingy. You've probably already cast more than half of the spells you're going to play out by the time you can stick a big finisher like this...
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    Highball: Legacy of the Rails

    Warbonnet: The Land of Enchantment Update History of the Color Scheme Unlike previous updates, Warbonnet is actually named after a color scheme used by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway for their dieselized passenger equipment. First patented in 1937, the Warbonnet color scheme was...
  16. TrainmasterGT

    General Fight Club

    It depends on how relevant the damage to Planeswalkers is for you. Storm's Wrath is definitely better against aggro decks, while Hour of Devastation is stronger against midrange. If aggro is the thing you need to slow, go with Wrath, if you want to nuke some walkers, go with Hour. I'd usually...
  17. TrainmasterGT

    General CBS

    They're reprinting enemy fetchlands. You can buy Secret Lair: Ultimate edition for "a little more than" $165 from your local game store this may. What you get for your 200 dollars: The 5 enemy fetches. That's it. For $200. Look, I get that it is going to cost you more than $200 if you were to...
  18. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    No, it's not too mean in midrange since it's literally just a 3/3 that very occasionally comes back to play from the bin. No, it's not worth it specifically for aggro madness either. You might sometimes be able to bring it back occasionally, but I think most of the time it just ends up as a...
  19. TrainmasterGT

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Although there really aren't a lot of good 2-cost discard creatures, Rat isn't one of them because it takes over the game. If you want the discard for Madness, then Heir of Falkenrath is a good option since it's a free outlet which gives you upside. If you want the discard for a Drake...
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    General Fight Club

    Experiment One and Pelt Collector are almost the same card in my opinion. Pelt Collector has the ability to get a little bigger in the average game thanks to death triggers but Experiment One's regeneration is nice to have against other aggro decks. Pelt Collector is a bit more flexible, but...
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