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Dismissive Pyromancer or Bloodthirsty Adversary These two cards fulfill different roles, but I'm wondering which of these has been working out better for those who have run them. Pyromancer is a neat way to churn through a stall and gives you a way to pitch cards into the grave if that's...

What are your Ranger targets nowadays? I ran it for years but dropped it at some point because it was mostly middling to mediocre the majority of the time. Probably different now with more options to tutor up, but even then I think there are other ways to generate advantages in W/x decks (not...

I'm mostly asking to get an idea of what your players are grabbing with the more open-ended tutors. What are common lines for play? I like the idea of tutors for consistency and picking up specific cards to make an archetype function, but I also prefer to limit them for the most part as the...

I honestly straight up forgot Foretell because I haven't played with any of those cards in nearly two years. That said, Foretell is simple enough for the player casting the card to keep track of and for the opponent it's basically no different than a card exiled facedown ala Gonti, Lord of...

Anything that requires additional tracking on the field with new objects or is a hassle to implement in paper. I don't think introducing these mechanics is good for paper Magic because it's just another logistical hassle. I don't mind new types of cards like Vehicles in recent years or cards...

That's fair. I just never liked them from the jump and always found them to be clunky in implementation. Wishes being more open-ended never really bothered me (to be fair, it's also before my time), but tying in this mechanic to lesson cards as the only target(s) made it far less appealing to...

Which tutor effects are you guys playing nowadays? I've had the following for a few years now: Stoneforge Mystic Mystical Tutor Gifts Ungiven Tinker Entomb Goblin Engineer Primeval Titan Birthing Pod And I've recently re-added these two to give G/x deck a little more to work with: Fauna...

Do you not think that this is due to a plethora of mechanics that have looked to "expand" gameplay in recent years that have failed? If you keep seeing these new implementations just not work, mostly due to adding logistical complexity to an already complex game, then it's not very surprising...

I'll just disagree here as I think the mechanic itself is too clunky to be worth the additional text and I'm mostly hoping for it to go the way of Tribal or tucked away forever like Energy. Evergreen mechanics are a-ok with me for references, and if they did that with Battle someday I'd...

With these recent drafts and discussion in the thread, for the first time in a long while I'm going to work on refining and updating my ULD with a dedicated entry. A few of these options might sneak back in to the main cube if I ever get around to an update to 450 (like Shelldock and Volrath's)...

Another solid recommendation. Usually I'm very anti-Unset for flavor reasons, but this looks innocuous enough that it mostly flies under the radar. I'll keep it in mind.

Yeah, there are cards that otherwise read interesting and could have neat interactions but I tend to just avoid them completely with any explicit mention of something that isn't already native and common to my environment. I've always liked Wicked Wolf from ELD as a card, it's cleaner to me...

The Phyrexians just suck. 22 Battles revealed so far and they've gone 0/22. I stopped caring about Magic lore a few years back, but this is just pitiful. Straight up losing on planes that we've never even heard of aside from a single Planechase card.

Double-faced cards, double-faced tokens, and a lot of very specific and tedious text. Might be sitting out most of this set.

Fine card, I really like it, just need to find a slot for it at some point. It's right there for my 450 module if I ever get around to it but it gets a little tougher with 420 which feels pretty tight aside from a few slots. This is likely better than Mishra's Research Desk in a vacuum so I...

I don't think classifications really matter in practice unless you had something radical like 23 white cards and 67 black cards to where the discrepancy is apparent in a cube leaning towards a color. Small outliers like 43 vs. 47 in two colors across 360 cards will not be picked up by anyone...

Probably just put them in green, don't really care aside from spreadsheet aesthetics. I've moved around Deathrite Shaman from Golgari to Hybrid to Black to Green and back to Hybrid over the years purely to make numbers look even and pretty. Doesn't really matter as long as it's an option for the...

Let's take a closer look at that GW Artifact deck from a week ago: "] Ones 1 Elvish Reclaimer 1 Shadowspear 1 Abundant Harvest Twos 1 Tarmogoyf 1 Satyr Wayfinder 1 Selfless Spirit 1 Everflowing Chalice 1 Mind Stone 1 Valorous Stance 1 Once Upon a Time Threes 1 Eternal Witness 1 Tireless...

Looks like an alright walker to me, seems like the most powerful part of it is just ticking up to 5 loyalty and maybe firing off 2 limited Regrowths. Like any walker it'll be pretty strong if you can curve into it a turn earlier than expected, but it doesn't really look like it does much aside...

Had some friends visiting town over the weekend for the first time in long while and we were able to fire off an 8-man pod. I was pretty busy through much of 2022 with other projects and commitments so cubing went by the wayside as mostly a theoretical exercise, but nothing beats actually being...