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Mono-Green Artifacts One of the oldest mechanical themes in the history of Magic: The Gathering is that of artifacts matter. Magic's second expansion, Antiquities, was the first set to explore this theme actively. It included such classics as Atog, Hurkyl's Recall, and Mishra's Factory...

Welcome to Riptide! It's always nice to see someone with a well-established list join the site! I'm interested to see what you'll choose to include out of War of the Spark and Modern Horizons. Both of those sets seem pretty good for rareless cubes, especially now that you have access to...

We have a discord?!

I totally love the frog as well! There are a lot of cool cards in this set, I am finding a lot of the commons pretty tempting. I'm a big fan of Rank Officer, for example. But, I think the majority of the cards in this set that only qualify as "neat" will probably not see enough play to warrant a...

What's with these tests? They seem pretty far below your power band.

I don't think they're doing either. They just made Time Spiral 2. That's all.

Of the choices that have been presented here as mill payoffs, I would say the most fun are: Sunscourge Champion Deep Analysis Laboratory Maniac Rise from the Tides Ichorid Living Death Anger Bedlam Reveler Ramunap Excavator Eternal Witness Acorn Harvest Vengevine Golgari Grave-Troll Honored...

This is a testing/includes thread. Post pictures or a text list using /c with what cards you plan to include and what cards you plan to test. For me, I'm only going to include a few cards from this set. It was pretty great over all, but there just weren't a ton of cards that made me want to go...

I'm going to start a separate Testing/Includes thread for MH1 so that people coming to the site don't have to sort through 13 pages of previews before seeing what people want to run. Since MTGS is shutting down, I think it will be prudent to have clearer spaces for new set test results.

Was it really though? Just kidding, it totally was. Ever since that new Play Design team has gotten their hands on things Magic sets have gotten way better as a whole. Before, only one set in a blue moon (read: Amonkhet) would actually make an impact on the format, but now, pretty much every...

Absolutely. I've seen a few newer designers trying to emulate the Penny Cubes by throwing in some of the more niche cards like Auriok Salvagers and such without the proper support those cards need. That said, I don't think a "first cube" needs to be an old MTGS style power cube. I think it is...

Posting this Trainz screenie so the first thing MTGS refugees see when coming over here is a picture of a train. Hello refugees, welcome to 1890's Scotland!

Also, hit up wtwlf on twitter @wtwlf123. He's the guy who always does the top 20 set (p)reviews for every set over on MTGS. Even if just he started posting his reviews here, then we would gain a huge amount of traffic to the site. He's apparently just moving to twitter for the time being, so we...

Yeah we should do that, a few people seem to be turned off by our general contempt for "Card X is better than card Y, therefor, card Y is unplayable." We're going to need to come up with a term for that way of thinking instead of referring to everything that isn't open-minded as "Powermax."...

I have my New Cube up and running for those of you who have not seen it yet. Some further discussion here will be catalyzed around that list unless otherwise noted until I build another cube.

That flavor text though :D

It looks like someone over at MTGS is trying to funnel them our way... Evidently Onderz left an Impact on this guy, He's the first on they mentioned after Jason! ;)

It's already an archetype bae! I've been running it since my second cube, to great effect! I might have to cut The Flame of Keld for this. I like this card a lot, Flameblade Adept just got 1000 times better. This will enable some... Shenanigans :p (Also, this is the first non-golgari...

Well, we'll need to make sure that when the Powermaxers inevitably arrive here that we don't lose sight of what makes RTL special. I like this "Moxtide Lab" area idea. This will be a good chance for us to convert some of the Powermaxers to a more "decks not cards" philosophy, and completely...

Pretty much all of the classic tribes (except soldiers) bleed into one or two other colors. For example, Goblins bleed into black, Merfolk bleed into green, Zombies bleed into WURG but especially WU, and Elves bleed into black (and white with some gold cards). If your designing a format...