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Meh... he didn't like the post, so I wouldn't call it a miracle. Not even a small one :p

It took a very enlightening discussion on the Brainstorming Discord for me to realize that my cube is actually way closer to (modern era) retail limited than I realized. It has a narrower power band, but WotC has become quite good at raising the floor of their commons and uncommons and creating...

Also known as redcaps :p

No and no :p I honestly feel like the current official mulligan rules fixed a lot of the problems previous mulligan rules had. I like it.

This is so much better!

People here are prone to randomly minutely argue over topics at irregular intervals, yes. RiptideLab's most defining feature is that we can't seem to stay on topic though ;)

I fear all the available Alara art is already out there, so there isn't much more to be found. Savage Lands does have a 2011 FNM alternate art promo you could steal maybe. Scryfall link & art link. Other than that there's this article with some unusable concept art (including the Island by...

My bad, I thought you had problems with the resolution when you said they didn't scale properly to full art cards, so I tried to find the best available resolutions of the art you used.

Flash forward five years to 2026 and I'm running a fully custom cube where yellow and purple have replaced green and black :p:cool::p

That Esper Triome looks quite nice, the style even fits :) Maybe you already found these arts, but... Jund, Bant, Naya, Grixis (worst resolution of the bunch by far). For the Grixis Swamp, the link to the mtgs forum is the best resolution I could find as well.

That's a tough question. I never really look for promo art. I would think the Planechase arts work reasonable well for that if you can find decent resolution picks though? For Esper there's also this art that's actually never been used. It might fit? Link.

Flash forward five years to 2021 and I am no longer running Golgari or a utility land draft. Problem solved! :p

I actually use the same Naya art as you! Using the Planechase art is super reasonable I feel, since these never appeared on an actual normal Magic card anyway, and they represent the shards very well. That covers only four of the five shards, however, because unfortunately Esper didn't get it's...

Yeah, I agree with this point of view! Obviously there's stuff like Compulsion and Drake Haven in my cube as well, but those have a very clear role to play in a particular archetype. Zur acts as a sort of expensive Demonic Tutor on steroids as it can fetch enchantments that are inherently very...

I didn't state very clearly in my OP what kind of advice I was looking for, and that's totally on me, but I was actually looking for different perspectives, and yours was definitely appreciated by me! This card piqued my interest when I tested some of the new Commander precons this morning, as...

But not for me? :p

Has anyone mentioned this card yet? Cunning Rhetoric 3 mv means Zur the Enchanter can fetch it in my cube, but even ignoring that, this seems like a pretty sweet card. Either it deters your opponent from attacking (hooray, less damage!) or it compensates you with their cards (yay, card...

Also also, I am totally working some of these names and images into my upcoming D&D campaign. Your comment made me think of the London district Chelsea, which than made me think of bastardizing other place names, adding or removing a letter to throw people off, to create new place names for my...

Haha, sorry for that wall of text :) I hadn't mentioned it yet, by the way, but those watermarks are super sweet! Nice touch!

Adding a quick calculation for my brainstormed draft format. With 8 players, each player sees 11 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 = 53 unique cards per booster opened. With 9 cards drafted per pack, you want to crack 5 packs for a 45 card pool, meaning each drafter sees 5 x 53 = 265 unique cards in...