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Faerie is much worse at filling the graveyard than Stitcher's Supplier. It takes the faerie 7 turns to mill what Supplier can theoretically do in one (with a sac outlet). You probably wouldn't play the Fae in a dredge deck. However, I think the suntail hawk body is serviceable in Ninja decks and...

Well they just revealed two more reprints... Kaalia of the Vast and Mana Crypt. This looks like it may actually be a commander masters set. As for Masticore, there is the From the Vault foil printing. It's not the M15 border but it is in the 8th edition border which is pretty close...

Hey look, we're getting a masters set this year: And it has cards! And some of those cards have snazzy borderless variants. Wow! These are some valuable reprints, specifically for commander! I wonder if they put fetch- What the heck, Wizards. Well, at least this set won't have some...

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I think the workable power band for a Riptide style cube is far higher than it used to be thanks to some of the more recent cards produced by WOTC. Although I think Elspeth, Knight-Errant is a very powerful card, I think it's not unreasonably strong in today's cubes. Elspeth is my favorite...

I've watched Nummy and Gaby Spartz draft. I was cringing at Gaby's first draft when she and LSV were both crapping on Courser of Kruphix while singing the praises of freaking Oracle of Mul Daya. Kids these days have no respect... :rolleyes:

I think cubecobra bots are pretty good since they draft somewhat similarly to a skilled human drafter. They're not perfect, but they usually come up with something fairly playable. I don't expect any bot to be able to draft a good synergy deck outside of picking good cards that fit into a...

Yeah man it's like WOTC decided to make all of the good Simic gold cards all at once :p. If only one of them had been hybrid :rolleyes:...

We've had people play some sort of self mill or dredge strategy at all but one of the drafts I can remember. Most of the cards in the cube that self mill either do it as a cost (Life from the Loam), a side-effect (Satyr Wayfinder), or as gravy (Jace, Wielder of Mysteries). I don't run stuff like...

That was me! The easiest way to pay off an Ikoria-style cycling deck in a 360 cube, in my evaluation, is adding this: Drannith StingerDrannith StingerDrannith StingerDrannith Stinger The best cycling decks in Ikoria always seem to have between 3-4 Stingers, so just throwing 4 in the cube...

These are both very creative uses of the Provoke mechanic. Mossridge Stalker particularly is nice because you can always guarantee damage against an opponent with a wide board of chump blockers. Someone needs to show these design to WOTC for Modern Horizons 2!

I'm not really sure these two are comparable outside of size/cost. Prime Time is just insane at ramping and has trample encouraging attacks. Meanwhile Woodland Bellower tutors for a small creature, meaning that it isn't necessarily a card encouraging any course of action other than maybe "have...

That card is a lot better but then you run the risk of having it be broken in Burn decks and with Cantrips and the like. Granted, you can't just pitch a land to this and have it function as intended. Maybe make the change you suggested, but make the sacrifice ability only work on your turn...

I think this card is weak at 3cc, but I'm not sure how to make it better without reducing the cost to {2}.

Standard has been a mess since well-before 2017. Everything went to hell back in October of 2015 when Theros Block left standard and Battle for Zendikar rotated in. There hasn't been a truly great standard format since then, in my opinion. Guilds of Ravnica standard pre-Ravnica Allegiance was...

Yidaro is vastly superior to Rorix Bladewind for sure, and I like it more than Magmatic Force, Zealous Conscripts, and Goblin Dark-dwellers. *I know conscripts is in the cube for Splinter Twin support, I still like Yidaro more because it's applicable in more decks.

I probably shouldn't have used Kaladesh as an example. The set caused a -lot- of problems in standard, but those were all development issues and not design issues. I just remember Magic not being particularly fun to listen too or talk about during that period of time, largely because of the...

That's one of the reasons why I'm looking at Yidaro. Giving players insurance that they're not throwing away their finisher when they cycle is a good way to get people to use all of the parts of the card.

I mean, People Play Lots of Cycling Cards just for the cycling ability. Having a cantrip in your deck is not a bad reason to play a card. I agree with you that the body is the actually good part of Yidaro, but I'm not sure my control player valuing it for the cantrip is a reason not to include...

It absolutely matters where the problem lies. Design's job isn't to make something balanced, they're job is to make something fun. They're the ideas people. They come up with cool cards and hand them off to other people to make them presentable. The development team's job is to make sure that...