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You remember how in Standard the win-con for U/W Control with Dominaria Teferi was just decking the opposition via tuck loops? The game is mostly over if backed with protection, but you can't explicitly close it out without going through the motions. The other side has already lost, but they...

I'm a fan of Teferi as a U/W signpost card, not as big a fan of Elspeth due to how drastically she shifts a game on her own. I've had board states where deploying a Teferi on its own would have been bad but you run into way fewer of those with Big Elspeth. Unless the other side has an answer...

Gotta love that quality control with the set title on that image.

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Blue and black cards definitely pop the most with the retro frame treatment. Part of it is the most additional detail that show up on foils with the black metallic pattern and the blue wisps whereas the Naya colors are mostly just solid shades.

Haven't gotten in any more drafts, but I kinda splurged a little recently on a few cube updates. I've been a sucker for those old bordered foils ever since they started printing them again and have added a handful in my cube. The WPN promos for Scavenging Ooze and Dig Through Time were...

The art on the Midnight Hunt lands is great, but the color palette isn't so great in person. I think the faded B/W across all different colors doesn't work as well in paper when your main identifier is the border + symbol. They just don't stick out very much. I picked up a handful of the Esper...

I'm mostly cool with alternate frames in my cube as long as they maintain the general form of a typical Magic card and the meaningful information is easy to pull on first glance. Mainly what's the P/T on creatures, card name, mana cost; you know, the basic information you need. Love the...

They're neat as collectibles, not very practical unfortunately. I picked up a few foils for an EDH deck of mine but man they are definitely not quick to grok on first glance unless you know where to look. I'm definitely going to be looking into alternative options for the Innistrad cube I'll be...

First option. 2nd option just incentivizes more goodstuff builds with the lowered opportunity cost of dual fixing.

Gathering the appropriate tokens are kind of a losing battle as a cube curator. You can put in all the legwork to gather the right tokens and color code them all you like, even have them readily available in a box for drafters to grab from, but realistically the majority of drafters are just...

Yeah that's fair, but 3 CMC is kind of the sweet spot where it's viable for both W/x Aggro and Midrange. I like Blackblade having the flexibility of playing double duty as both a beefy 4/4 on offense but also capable of pumping a creature to be more effective in a midrange slugfest. He's just a...

The ideal for decks that are drafted in my cube are usually those that have a 2 color base with a 3rd splash for a handful of cards. Depending upon the fixing that the drafter ends up with, and how highly they prioritize it, I'd say that the majority of decks end up falling into this range...

After about 18 months, I was finally able to get around to hosting a cube draft (two actually) last week of August into early September. A couple of buddies from my college days and I have made it a semi-annual tradition to meet up for a week of backpacking/hanging out at a cabin up near...

And here I am waiting someday for my riptidelab.txt export option request for drafted/uploaded decklists. This gives me hope that someday Cobra will have the same option that CT did from the get go.

Yeah honestly this discussion has inspired me to pick up a copy when I stop by the LGS for Modern FNM later tonight. I think I had initially just brushed it off along with many cards from Strixhaven as it was a set that I didn't really care for much. I may not run it immediately as I'm still...

Oh and to whoever ultimately buys the lot, there are a handful of singles that I'd be interested in picking up for EDH/Modern if you'd want to work out a deal afterwards. I'm sure Velrun would much rather deal the whole collection in one shot, but I don't mind following up on a few cards...

Yeah I'm a fan of Dragonsguard Elite as a scalable Goyf-like threat in 2021, I just think that its inclusion in my environment would be kind of a trap for now. I think part of it may be that Magecraft makes me shortcut to spellslinger which isn't really a G/x thing in my environment, though in...

Wait are we talking bout the card or the archetype? I think Elite is good in a vacuum, but I don't think the other options listed in @Nanonox's post are quite at the same level. I think part of it might also be that your environment is super low to the ground which gives it more potential to...

I'd say it's certainly possible to make UXg spells a thing nowadays, but the only issue is that it doesn't currently have the power ceiling of other long standing G/x strategies. It's kind of in the same position that U/R artifacts decks were in until around the printing of WAR and Modern...