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Additionally, Rally the Peasants is completely playable as just a White Trumpet Blast, completely ignoring the re-cast.

That is what happened I believe. I thought the story was going to go like this: Bolas was going to lure and trap everyone on Ravnica, then summon the eternals to kill them. The Jacetice league was going to try and destroy the planar portal (again) and then try to kill bolas (again), but this...

I kind of thought that the whole point of the war was going to be to prevent the arrival of the Eternals, not fight them once they get there. Why fight them on the beaches when you could just stop them from crossing the channel in the first place, you know?

Do the eternals have eyes? Also, good to see the Eternals Return.

The only book I've read recently is A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox by Anthony Weston.

I don't think I'm looking for an attacking-based draw effect. Generally my blue sections have more than enough ways to draw cards. I think I was looking more for a way for "fast" blue decks to increase damage output with what it already has on board. Now, Curious Obsession can add 1 power and 1...

Dom stop making me feel bad at magic :p In all seriousness, it's been really fun to watch someone who's a part of "my"* magic community. *(I put quotes around "my" since I obviously don't own RTL, but I am a member of the community).

I should not have traded away my Thousand-Year Storm for a Knight of Autumn. It made sense at the time, but people keep giving me reasons why I should be running the storm :p.

Yeah, I don't know... I've run both of those cards in the past and haven't been super impressed by either. I think Bident is super fun, but I found it to be a somewhat clunky card to cast sometimes. I don't think I'm going to try Favorable Winds, either.

Favorable Winds How do we feel about Favorable Winds. This really feels like a card that can give blue-based tempo (and god forbid aggro) strategies some teeth. It plays nicely with value flyers like Siren Stormtamer, Nightveil Sprite, and Warkite Marauder, Thopter token producers like Whirler...

Happy Birthday! Your cube is really great <3! Best wishes!

Faith of the Devoted How much worse is Faith of the Devoted compared to Drake Haven? Faith is clearly not as good, but both play the same role in "discard matters" decks. Faith also has the distinct advantage of being playable in B/R lists, which means it can be used as a means to help aggro...

You should ask Jason about putting this on the front page.

The other thing worth remembering is that getting too specific with your archetypes can lead to a format with tons of different cards that just don't jive together. I've been doing most of my design experiments under the premise that every card must either enable a specific archetype (i.e. Drake...

I like that ratio a lot.

There is no shame in losing to a control finisher. They are literally designed to be played in control. (Also, I forgot to mention Approach of the Second Sun.) My current list doesn't really reflect what I have on CT, but I have a couple of U/B cycle decks. These are more Midrange/tempo...

I've definitely been considering giving this a try. It plays well with both Graveyard strategies and +1/+1 counter strategies, all without feeling super oppressive. It can't kill itself in conjunction with Hardened Scales, too.

You have two options: -Reduce the number of control cards in your cube (or reduce the power level of control cards). -Give control decks more interesting gameplans/mirror breakers. For example, you could add a big boy like Nezahal, Primal Tide or Pearl Lake Ancient, both of which are control...

I get that, but these seem more "fine in a lackluster way" than "fine in a solid way" like last year's decks. I think they could have done better.

So... WOTC just released the new challenger deck decklists today they're ok I guess, and they had a couple of surprise inclusions from a reprint perspective, but I was more surprised by what was left out. The mono-white deck was missing Venerated Loxodon and was too short on legion's landing...