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I think I like Guardian better since it has a better base case scenario of a relevant body. They both function as your final payoff/anthem guys, but the 2/3 body on Captain is very lacking and I don't think you really want to take a turn off for Outlast if your goal is to go wide and then tall...

I'd go with Garrison ahead of Warboss, especially if you're playing Champion of the Parish and Thalia's Lieutenant in your list. You get more triggers because the tokens are also human, Garrison plays well with any go-wide strategies you have with anthems or something like Purphoros, God of the...

Drafted Swoopydo's cube blind without looking at the list, I think it came together pretty well: Ones 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim 1 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Ponder 1 Serum Visions Twos 1 Anticipate 1 Explore 1 Glory-Bound Initiate 1 Into the Roil 1 Mistmeadow Witch 1 Rampant Growth 1 Shelter 1 Sprout Swarm...

Agree completely with that post from Grillo, it's definitely a common mistake most cube designers make when trying to buff up their aggro suite. Lucky for us, we've gotten many cool toys to play around with to add variety and flavor to the various aggressive builds that people are capable of...

That Spectacle demon is incredibly pushed. Assuming you have an aggressive deck tailored to consistently play that on T3, which seems easy, it's just a boatload of damage on an incredibly efficient body. Why not at least make it a 4/3 or something? Nice round stats make it kind of difficult to...

Haven't posted anything in a really long time, but I might actually have a cube draft fire in about two weeks so stay tuned for that! For this post, however, I think I'm just going to touch upon a few cards from 2018 that I thought were interesting and lay out some shells/combinations within my...

Man, I barely even posted in 2018 aside from spoiler season and like 2 cube reports. I gotta step my game up this year.

Now that's more like it. Decent 2/4 body, gives tokens some keywords to play defensively, and it becomes a Panharmonicon for all death triggers? Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat triggers? Draw 2, take 2 off Midnight Reaper? Yahenni, Undying Partisan gets super swole with every trade/removal...

I don't know if you need to fully commit to a recursive theme to make this worth it. I think just being able to ping out an extra 2-3 points of damage during a game while also beefing up aggressive bodies as an anthem on legs gives you more than enough reach as an aggressive deck. This makes...

That is my favorite spoiler by far to this point, the card is absolutely incredible. I've been trying to figure out ways to differentiate the different aggressive decks in my format and had been tinkering with gold cards and offerings here and there and this is the best signal I could imagine...

First day of official spoilers, we've got some stuff: I love the typing, and that's some funky art, but I'm unsure of how good this is. Smaller Cloudblazer at 2UG is okay if unexciting, you start cooking at 4UG though. Being able to shift around counters on to this will determine just how...

Alright, so I Quasiduplicated a Crackling Drake in a GRN draft last night in two separate rounds at FNM. I think I've got to give it a test run now. There's some potential here: Quasiduplicate Murmuring Mystic Mulldrifter Skinrender Shriekmaw Young Pyromancer Flametongue Kavu Reflector Mage...

Adapt should play just fine, it's just so safe and boring to me. I'm most excited to play with Riot and Spectacle, I could see some sweet aggro support in Jund colors between the two of those mechanics.

Mystic all the way. A 1/5 is such a weird body that gums up the board. It's actually kind of obnoxious to run into when you're trying to turn the corner and apply pressure. Being able to just shrug off 4/4s swinging in is incredible. Talrand dies to everything and will be irrelevant in combat...

I like unique planeswalkers that replicate certain gameplay features that we don't get very often in MTG like rebuying artifacts through Daretti, Scrap Savant or symmetrical discard and stax-y play with Liliana of the Veil. Specific walkers for certain archetypes also work like Ajani, Caller of...

Fanatic of Xenagos, except good. Card is solid, Riot looks like a pretty clean mechanic for aggressive leaning RG archetypes. Might give it a run in my cube, lord knows RG has enough midrange-y creatures. Going Bloodbraid Elf into this seems like a real beating.

Dauntless Bodyguard Militia Bugler Midnight Reaper Dismissive Pyromancer Goblin Cratermaker Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice

Bedlam Reveler I remember running this guy for a stretch and then subbing him out to try other stuff, but never got back around to bringing him back. Does anyone still run him? What do your spellslinger shells look like currently? I feel like I get a sweet spellslinger deck every now and then...