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  1. shamizy

    General What are the hallmarks of a "riptide-style" cube to you?

    Yup. I use reddit to keep up with other hobbies, but it's a miserable forum experience for actual discussion. And you'll never be able to accurately reference anything in the future unless you've saved the link. It's the main reason I don't use discord either for cube discussion. Voice chat or...
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    C15 was a fun commander set. I picked up the Meren of Clan Nel Toth pre-con and had a lot of fun with it. She was an awesome Golgari value card and I wish that I could find a slot for her in cube, but I hate tracking experience counters and they are such an inelegant mechanic. If they could...
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    General What are the hallmarks of a "riptide-style" cube to you?

    Yeah, the only reason I even found this place years back was through Jason's articles on CFB a decade plus ago. Everywhere else online was pretty uninspiring in terms of discussion and he was the only one on a bigger site that was putting out unique cube content diving a bit deeper into gameplay...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Huh. I guess so. That's weird that its listed; I don't think we've ever seen that formatting for an equip cost.
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Why does it randomly say Diana? I've never played FFXIV so that's completely lost on me, but it just looks really bizarre on this card.
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    General What are the hallmarks of a "riptide-style" cube to you?

    It's kind of getting lost in the shuffle nowadays with how many more cube resources there are, but there was a time when the go-to for base cube design was vintage cubes and whatever certain subsets of users were claiming as the "best" options for inclusion. Discussion wasn't nearly as open or...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    This definitely gets most cube environments to the critical mass necessary for dedicated +1/+1 count themes branching through GW decks. So many playable versions of this effect now: Luminarch Aspirant Siege Veteran Bristly Bill, Spinesower Scythecat Cub
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    I think that's the main interest for me; a card that can branch both Spellslinger and artifact archetypes. Third Path Iconoclast fills a similar role right now but it's most a boring value card. I'd rather have more of a cool identity card for the color combination. This feels like a design that...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Cool chicken, I think the Bird text is all additive distraction when this is ultimately just a Panharmonicon for Landfall triggers. 3/2 for 3 is passable if unexciting, but you could do worse swapping this in for either Courser of Kruphix or Augur of Autumn as your top of library pseudo-card...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    Sweet design, the kind of card that makes you want to play more of a U/R spellslinger deck by giving you a sizable roadblock after a few triggers and also passively pinging. Culminating in big double-spell turns down the line. Also another wizard for Flame of Anor! I also love that they just...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    I would have agreed with that early on, but with the insanely successful sales of LoTR and with Final Fantasy being sold out across the board already (prerelease is going to be insanely packed in my local area), it's clear that WoTC has zero incentive to change course. And even their internal...
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    Sets [FIN] [UB] Final Fantasy

    UB bothered me way more when it first released, but with all of WoTCs decisions in the past few yeas I just don't really care anymore. They killed Constructed for the most part in favor of Commander, they shoveled in way too much product to keep up with yearly, and they've mostly abandoned...
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    General CBS

    If we look at the flipside of this, sorting by the least wordy cards, it's interesting to see what pops up for creature and non-creature in each color: No real surprises here for me with noncreatures; just some good clean card design. Simple and iconic. This is far more interesting...
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    I'm always on the lookout for more interesting discard options, will definitely be giving Blackmail a try for my next cube draft. More interactivity just leads to more engaging games in the long run and giving Black decks more options for their a core identity of disruption is just better in the...
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    You prefer it to Withering Torment? Withering Torment I haven't run either in my cube due to enchantments not really being that big a factor, but I did run Feed the Swarm in EDH for a few years just out of necessity to deal with haymaker enchantments in mono-black or Rakdos decks I'd build...
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    I wasn't much of a fan of Zendikar Rising as a whole aside from MDFCs for my EDH decks. I remember testing out maybe a dozen cards when this set was fully spoiled but it seems the only ones that have stuck around are the following: I'd say that the main reason that these have lasted so long...
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    General Fight Club

    Emberheart Challenger or Slickshot Show-Off I'm debating between the two of these for a 2 drop slot in red, they each have their pros and cons. Mouse brings some much needed virtual card advantage to aggressive decks via Valiant trigger, Bird can be explosive in certain decks with a potentially...
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    Kaladesh came out right after I graduated from college and was taking a break before really entering the working world. I was mostly broke so I think I just played the prerelease and didn't do much else with the set, I might have taken a good 6-8 months off of even picking up anything else Magic...
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    General [Almost Daily] Every Set in Magic, Cube Edition

    Dragon's Maze was a real stinker of a set all around, but I have a weird affection for it because it was the main set that had just come out when I was getting back into Magic during college. I was reading a ton of coverage for GPs, watching Pro Tour recaps, and just fully immersing myself back...
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    Sets (TDM & TDC) Tarkir: Dragonstorm Testing/Includes Thread!

    Anyone have success with Cori-Steel Cutter yet in their cubes? Cori-steel cutter I see it making waves in just about every Constructed format where it's clearly very powerful, interested in seeing what kind of cube lists can benefit the most from it before picking up a copy in the next week or...
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