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Insofar as the Twin combo with Pestermite/Exarch is interesting in Constructed, it's because there's enough instant-speed interaction to make it a fun dance. I'm sceptical that you can reach that threshold in Cube, and even if you can it disproportionately weakens colours like green that don't...

Temur Sabertooth lots of wacky stuff you can do with this but there are tons of good 4s

drafting MM1 tomorrow, so we'll find out

Do you have examples in mind of combo decks you find interesting (beyond the bounceland-based ones, which I really like)?

I love it! It's also a Human, a 2-power creature for Recruiter/Alesha/Reveillark, and an excellent Blink target. Don't underestimate the flying either, if Spectral Procession and Lingering Souls taught us anything it's that dividable and evasive damage is really good.

what big dumb idiots do you like? Soul of New PhyrexiaScuttling Doom EngineSteel HellkiteDuplicantMyr Battlesphere

! http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/06/16/magic-the-gathering-unveils-gideon-battle-forged.aspx This is a 360 staple, friends! Pack your bags, Elite Vanguard. seriously though, this thing is nuts

I've always wanted Draining Whelk and the other creature + counterspell cards to be good, and I have fond memories of Whelk slicing apart midrange decks in Block/Standard. There are so many hijinks you can pull when blink and instant-speed reanimation turn into counters. In that vein, even if...

This discussion was a fun read; I often want to pretend I'm back in 2009, but the sheer power of creatures/planeswalkers nowadays proves too addictive.

Any thoughts on how to support a coherent 5c theme? Usually when a 5c deck works it's because someone scooped up all the fixing early and then just took the best card in every pack, which works less often than you'd think. Is it possible to have a distinct '5 colour deck', and do you have to...

Orcish Lumberjack GRBS, terrible, or somehow something in between?

even if Jace were 'just' a Snapcaster Mage; have you played Snapcaster before?! Granted this effect is a lot worse because you can't hit countermagic and the like, but even just playing a Wrath with the threat of flashing it back next turn is great I do hate Chandra though, what a boring card

the only good thing I've seen on MTGS was the neural networks thread, which could have been anywhere

I want to put a good word in for this guy: Warden of the First Tree I wrote him off as a less impressive Figure of Destiny when it was spoiled, but it's been excellent for me. It's awkward that you can't go T1 Warden, T2 level + tapland, but a 3/3 on Turn 2 is impressive and you often don't...

I love this one

Yes please! To echo Diakonov, moving from conventional aggro towards aggro-combo both makes aggro more interesting (and removes the cap on cards you want to play but can't because together they make the format too hostile for Savannah Lions Dragon Hunter) and lets players draft combo while...

Anafenza: Excellent with persist, evoke, blink, mass reanimation, or just curving out. Precinct Captain: Works well with pump/combat tricks and the pseudo-vigilance it has is better than normal vigilance in many situations; also fine as a threat to board into with/against control decks as it...

Resto is great, it's a very powerful card if used 'normally' but also enables synergy and creates fun in-game decisions on both sides

draft around your opponent, who can't cast spells any more

Venser the Sojourner? Dragonlord Ojutai? Hussar takes a turn to replace itself, and a pretty big commitment after that. It's a really interesting card but your power level would have to be quite low; and I imagine your devotion decks would prefer to be attacking, unless the ground is clogged up.