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The new discard spell, Open heart, seems playable, especially in cubes without too many one-mana plays. 1B, sorcery, target opponent reveals hand. choose a nonland, nonlegendary card for them to discard

Pyrewild Shaman This card has really impressed me in MMA3 midrange as a source of card advantage. I imagine it could fit in a Penny Pincher power level

I've been looking into older competitive formats in an effort to scale-up to cube-based grid design, and I wonder which planeswalkers would be acceptable in the era of pre-rotation Extended: http://www.mtgtop8.com/format?f=EX&meta=41 Some events, like PT NOLA 01 and GP VEGAS 01 have many...

melty, what did the opposition look like? Were any of the games even close (and if so, what happened)?

I reckon that Wayfaring Temple as uncommon in RTR would've been a fairer inclusion than Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage. Rare uncommons are more pleasant than mythic uncommons.

I have thought about making something like this for my fantasy sets: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/modern-masters-2017-edition-synergies-graphics-2017-03-10

I am a big fan of theorycrafting updates and buying the cards each time. It results in a lot of unplayed cards to occupy box space. Next level is just buying cards for which you have no immediate plans to play, like 6 Sin Prodders, 6 Skinshifters, 6 Abbot of Keral Keep, 6 Undergrowth Champion, a...

Let's talk about nonbasic lands, one drops, low CMC multicolored cards and archetypes. (And note that my "cube" building has my mind tooled to work with much different goals, so I may be horridly off in my comments... :)). One drops in Riptide cubes seem to fall into a few buckets: The...

Got to see a grid in action last night! .. kinda. But first, after talking with a few locals, it seems that the format might have some legs! Draftin' folks are tired of boxes and boxes of worthless, unplayable cards idling in closets and under beds. And mini-cubes meant for grid drafting are...

CML, are you a Chris? I feel like you are, but I am a bad forum friend.

but it is orbiting "wizards could do this" and in the sphere of influence of "i'm not really that surprised"

It looks like the white Gatekeeper and Goblin Bushwhacker out due to the spoiled set numbers. Green-red "go wide" ... please don't downshift Hellrider to uncommon.

Burning-Tree Emissary strikes me as the sort of bear that hangs around Goblin Bushwhackers

@Onder: Gatekeepers seem likely... and they are great with flicker effects :( I am scared Ghostly Flicker will be uncommon and that 3+color blink value decks will be tough to overcome. Gates at common coupled with signets/tri-lands at uncommon seem like a durdling recipe for disaster. I could...

Reprints, reprints, reprints... Looks to be some interesting rarity shifts again! these are going to common: Burning-Tree Emissary Magma Jet Mortician Beetle These cards will support two of the ever-exciting draft archetypes: R/G Go wide W/U Blink U/B Instants B/R Unearth aggro W/G...

I'm still trying to figure out how a spirit of a humanoid on a fishing boat is a 5/5. AND WHY DOESNT IT HAVE ISLANDHOME???!

I *really* like morph in KTK draft, and I've explored the mechanic somewhat from a theory perspective. I imagine morph in cube to have an early game "rock-paper-scissors" based on a power-toughness matrix. Morph is interesting in KTK because of how creatures' power-toughness interacts with (1)...

When this reaches 308, add 52 nonbasics and call it a cube. I haven't actually cast Open the Armory yet, but I quite liked Steelshaper's Gift (which it replaced in an art-fact-heavy fantasy set). I can imagine fetching a Heavy Arbalest to combo with Soliton, an Argentum Armor for a Kazuul's...

Odyssey/Onslaught experiment failed ... dialed back the power some. Also, threw together a few thought exercises as introductions to grid: Current/contemporary set limited (to appeal to traditional limited players and possibly those of varying skills).. Kaladesh sans blue draft (with very...

My thought on Mongrel Pack is it is to be played and sacrificed on turn 4 (ideally), resulting in 4 tokens and flexibility moving forward. I've been exploring combat-oriented limited a lot, so removal is often temporary, more expensive or clunky (either due to restrictions, cmc or sorcery...