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How many wizards and shamans would I need to make Harmonic Prodigy worth it? Something like one in five creatures, perhaps? I think it could add some interesting play to my red-based sections like Humans has for white. Harmonic Prodigy

Another question, is Hard Evidence a good card? I mean, Thraben Inspector is, but that thing can attack, can be blinked or recurred which the crab token can't. Sorry, I can't evaluate it at all.

Oooh I get it now!

Wait, isn't Kaleidoscorch a strictly worse Firebolt? What am I missing?

Firestorm is a strong card, but it's also fairly demanding. As a design, it's fun, challenging and very skill-testing. 1) You need to discard a rather large number of cards to work. For example, to destroy two small creatures you need to play it and then discard two other cards, so it's mana...

Sorry, I simply mean that they ban the "wrong" cards sometimes so their money makers aren't affected. See Felidar Guardian vs Saheeli Rai.

I have a draft for an article somewhere that says the four most common game-breaking effects in card games are: 1) Bypassing costs 2) Card draw and relatives, like tutoring 3) Non interactivity 4) Recursion The specifics might vary, but this covers the vast majority of cards in every card game...

Thanks Sigh. Thsoe are the others I've considered as well, so I'm glad I wasn't far off! I'll probably choose between Oust and Sunlance depending on how good my suite is without broken 1 mana spells.

I'm waiting for all the MH2 spoilers to come out so I can keep modifying the cube. I have a few potential ideas and cuts. However, I struggle to power down my removal, any suggestions on how to do that? For example, the two cards I want to tone down the most are Swords to Plowshares and Path of...

Three turns to kill is quite significant. Reanimator is a pretty complex archetype. You need three elements: A big creature, a reanimation spell and a way to put the former into the graveyard so the latter can bring it back. In other words, it's a three card combo, which is a serious constrain...

Archon of Cruelty actually looks in my ballpark for a renimation target. What do you think?

Sorry, by Exploration being bad I meant bad in my cube. Hence why I compared it with Zuran Orb, which I think might have some potential in Land Tax decks and what not. I think you are a doing a great job with it! Regarding power level, it's not that they aren't different. It's that what I...

I hope the first strike on Dire Fleet pushes it over playability. Stormcaller is a bit of a test. It should indeed work with the cheaper spells and it has a lot of utility (Blink, copying token makers, Unearth, etc.). However, the body is not as good and it's not a real 2-drop. Baral was a...

It's probably Flashback. If not, Madness. If not, Cycling. Or rather, it's those three at once. C'mon you know it's true.

It's green for the same reasons Once upon a time is.

So I've been busy writing, reviewing and playing other nonsense games like Vampire The Eternal Struggle so I haven't thought too much about the cube. However, Inscho has which means I need to steal ideas from him again. Let's go back to work. First, I'm going to replace all the Ravnica duals...

I've been dissapointed by Eurovision lately. Too few silly or trolling songs :(

Kenrith is a bit dumb in that gaining 5 life is a lot and it can often gain you 10. If that's fine for you, then he's probably fine. The other abilities are expensive so he won't run away with the game at all. Note that he's not a 5 color card. The important abilities are white and blue...

Ah, Inscho's update day. Or how I call it, the "let's copy whatever he is doing" day :p

I agree Titania is probably better than Squee. It's like having a Mox Diamond and Ancestral Recall together.