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I'd probably just avoid Mutate altogether. Not a real big fan of the mechanic, I don't think you can really simplify it much, and there's not a whole lot of depth to it the last that I checked. I wouldn't be surprised if we just never hear of the mechanic again ala Energy 5 years out. You've got...

Worst feeling is probably Oko, Thief of Crowns. Just having it exist makes games trivial. Never in my time playing Magic did anything ever feel as hopeless as a T2 Oko off a Birds that just ran away with the game. I was the opponent and had a pretty good hand, but there is no way to beat that...

These are good points, I agree with most of them in general for many cards, but I think there's something getting lost in translation here. I just think there is so little opportunity cost to make Champion of the Parish work as a card in your typical cube deck that it's strange that it isn't...

You know it's weird to me that a lot of cube lists still don't run Champion of the Parish. With the number of incidental humans early in the curve with aggressive bodies, it's so trivially easy to turn it into a 2/2. I get that a 1/1 topdecked late sucks, but a 2/1 isn't much better. Why not...

wtwlf's reviews and rankings are useful tools for people brand new to cube, and his cube is still the go-to skeleton for most anyone just entering the format, but it became apparent after a few months of tinkering and designing on my own back in 2014 that he wasn't a particularly good designer...

Every dumbass artist I ended up buying an art print from turned out to be a shitty person. Terese Nielsen with a Basandra, Battle Seraph print or this neat Natural Order print? Turns out she's really really fucking into alt-right, straight up racist rhetoric, and full into conspiracies. Noah...

Only a handful of additions for me, but I'm a fan of each of these designs: Aether Channeler Radha's Firebrand Squee, Dubious Monarch Shivan Devastator Quirion Beastcaller Sulfurous Springs Aether Channeler is just the do-it-all 2022 version of Man-O'-War. I love that you have game no matter...

I dropped Barrin a while back; it always read better and the idea of it was cooler than the actual gameplay. If I could Flash in to save a guy and the trigger was at next end step rather than just mine, then it would be pretty sweet. I've got Emry, Lurker of the Loch in that 3 drop slot for now...

Nah, she was just a really rough looking 27 year old. I've seen it before. That's what happens when you go too hard in your 20s and don't drink enough water, moisturize, or use lotion. Damn shame.

Volo, Itinerant Scholar I think this is a relatively recent development, not too many older cards that do that shortened reference to themselves. How else would they fit all that extra text for (mostly) mediocre cards with (mostly) mediocre mechanics and counters? I think King Darien is fine as...

Tireless Tracker Probably my favorite design of all time. It just does a little bit of everything and can slot into so many archetypes. I've had this article draft sitting on CubeCobra for the last year, on this exact topic, but I'll just post the bit about Tracker I had written up:

I suppose that's true. I just don't find it particularly impressive when it has no real evasion and it looks more limited in the early game on first glance since it only counts your graveyard. It can definitely play well in certain decks, but I'm not sure if I like it more than other consistent...

Am I missing something with Urbogoyf? It's a Splinterfright without the Trample or ability to self-grow consistently. And that card has always read better than it actually played. I could see Urbogoyf being solid in Limited as an above rate beater, but I don't think you really want it unless...

I never really cared about where I placed Hybrid or cards like Alesha, Who Smiles at Death within the listing of my cube. I've had Kitchen Finks marked as a Selesnya, White, Green or Hybrid card through various points of its inclusion just to keep that Cobra list looking aesthetically balanced...

Had low expectation and watched it on a whim last night, but the first episode was great. Took me right back to early GoT feels. As long as they stick to the source material (which is complete), this should be a fun ride.

Enlist reads messy to me, just kind of an unnecessarily complex mechanic on first glance. That card does neat stuff, but it just looks inelegant and rubs me the wrong way. It's almost the opposite of that earlier Aggro Red 2 drop to me in terms of pure mechanical aesthetics.

This all sounds good. As long as they don't pull some War of the Spark tier trash I might actually be interested in following the story again. They need to inject some stakes into the main storyline if they want people to follow it. Major plot points getting resolved within a set made everything...

I just want the Phyrexians to win a couple of sets and really drive in the fact that they are threats. I think the last time I really thought of anything being a threat was back in Eldritch Moon and that was mostly to clean up the mess that was BFZ block. I also want to see some more...

I've been a huge fan of Goblin Heelcutter effects and I've been running Earthshaker Khenra since it was first printed; this seems just as good if not superior with the relevant Human type line opening up more interactions (Champion of the Parish, Thalia's Lieutenant, etc.). You lose that initial...