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  1. Chriskool

    General Cards missing from the MODO cube

    Ugh, I swore I traded Aston last night, but it's still staring at me in the active binder. My apologies. Anyone available to pick it up today?
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    General Sunday January 10th Draft Sign-ups (2PM EST)

    I tried to splash red, but I never saw a dual in packs 2/3 (when I had a few cards that seemed worth playing).
  3. Chriskool

    The Music Thread

    I have to admit that I've watched Baby Metal youtube videos a nonzero amount of times :) I've also seen Mastodon live a few times (and also thoroughly enjoy Leviathan). But I am surprised that Amon Amarth is your jam, if you don't like gruff vox! Primordial - To the Nameless Dead Progressive...
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    General Sunday January 10th Draft Sign-ups (2PM EST)

    this deck sucked, and i just played one round ... Jason and I both drafted esper beats :( 2-1 me
  5. Chriskool

    The Penny Pincher Cube (360)

    Some additional ideas, ranging from boring to not supported to pushing overpowered: Death Grasp Karlov of the Ghost Council Magister of Worth Sin Collector Utter End Zealous Persecution Karlov would complete your Orzhov lore theme... Sentry may just be better than the archangel (due to...
  6. Chriskool

    General CBS

    I love the gist of your first sentence: "[cardname] isn't as good in this particular environment and that's why it is fun". Below the power-max bands, this is a great target for cube designers. I don't Wildfire to come out on turn 4, like with Budde's Standard deck, annihilating my opponent's...
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    That's a challenge that I enjoy undertaking! To further this discussion: how does one create a fun, competitive, nuanced Limited environment without using the splashy cards that everyone associates with cubing? Specifically, for our tangent, is there a reward for working toward arcane synergies...
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Lashknife Barrier brings me back to IBC when casting Gerrard's Verdicts, Phyrexian Ragers and Necravolvers could get the job done. A cube really needs to be set up for the arcane spells to be relevant. Personally, that meant a decent amount of artifact and enchantment creatures to make...
  9. Chriskool

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Deftblade Elite is such a great card, playing shi-tapper while attacking, drudge shi-tkeleton on defense or the shi-tbyss with an aura/equip. Flayer Husk was always great in NMS, and I could see it over performing in formats with X/1s and a modest amount of raw card draw/selection. I imagine it...
  10. Chriskool

    Safra vs Chris:MTGO: Non-U Sharzad Grid Draft

    I prefer no-music streams so I can just listen to my own music adjusted appropriately to the streamer's audio levels. I guess I wouldn't feel that way if anyone listened to pornogrind and played bad draft formats well...
  11. Chriskool

    Sets [OGW] Oath of the Gatewatch Spoiler Thread

    {c}, {Q}: get excited
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    These cards seem perfect candidates for a cube that focuses on supporting 5 color pairs (and lets the nonsupported color pairs fall as they may).
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    Sets [OGW] Oath of the Gatewatch Spoiler Thread

    Before you get too excited: there is a defunct band with this name already. :oops:
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Some hard-to-support low-power strategies look to be gaining tools in Oath. Here's some that I am excited about! Equipment synergies that Might Be Playable (TM): I have been wanting something like toll collector for a while to combine with equipment that is flashy yet overcosted to equip (e.g...
  15. Chriskool

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Both of these cards are great, but I prefer Caldera Hellion due to lack of echo, lower CMC and +1/+1 counter synergy. Crater Hellion saw a decent amount of play in Urza's Saga Block and Standard Sneak Attack. It may have also been played in Wildfire after Tempest rotated (or in block, can't...
  16. Chriskool

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    This fun interaction is courtesy of a gem from Ravnica as well: Congregation at Dawn Enlisted Wurm
  17. Chriskool

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Format for RAV-TSP was insane.
  18. Chriskool

    Citynoise Modo Peasant Cube

    You and me both, but I doubt we will see it anytime soon (if at all). The most I hope for are cube-building contests to get some non-WotC cubes up to draft! And I am the opposite with paper: I actively dislike foils, signatures and alters. Well, not the opposite as I don't like foils on MTGO...
  19. Chriskool

    Safra vs Chris:MTGO: Non-U Sharzad Grid Draft

    Played a long-fought G1 and a less spectacular G2 against safra with two non-blue grindfests! Here is what I played: In hindsight, Utopia Sprawl was a waste of action (should've been Mind Stone just to cycle) and the Vault of the Archangels should have been Kessig Wolf Run. I stayed low on...
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Shambling Swarm I remember loving this hunk; might have a place in lists running Gray Merchant of Asphodel. For those of you that haven't been playing forever, here's the answer to "what if Skinrender were terrible?".
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