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  1. Brad

    General Companions, Yay or nay?

    Announcement Date: May 18, 2020 Brawl Drannith Magistrate is banned. Winota, Joiner of Forces is banned. Legacy Lurrus of the Dream-Den is banned. Zirda, the Dawnwaker is banned. Vintage Lurrus of the Dream-Den is banned. I guess that being able to tutor for an eighth card in your starting...
  2. Brad

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Yep. I did take a long look at Draco, but I think SIXTEEN is a bit too powerful for this and it might send someone into a basically nonexistent 5c deck. I don't have shocks or duals in this theoretical environment, either. It's really low powered.
  3. Brad

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    I'm looking for cards that have a higher CMC than what you'll cast them for. I already searched for delve, convoke, and affinity. I also searched "costs" "less" and for "rather than paying". There's also morphs and cycling as alternative options. Looking for stuff to support cards like Blast of...
  4. Brad

    General Fight Club

    Seems I may have underestimated the power of "Equip {2}{G}, Skip your draw step, Mill 2" Might give it a whirl sometime.
  5. Brad

    General Fight Club

    Boar Umbra is an uncommon, so it must be the best one! Umbra is better than Elephant assuming you'll protect something better than the token. So it depends if you expect this to go down t3 and what your 2 drops look like. Elephant is better in lower power where the 3/3 beats your two drops...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Agreed. If you're looking for a sweet zombie, then, yes. That one's pretty sweet.
  7. Brad

    General Companions, Yay or nay?

    Hell no.
  8. Brad

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    I forget who it was, but someone played, I believe, singleton RDW at a PT. I think they were trying to show how stupidly redundant RDW is. Burn and small dudes. Done. As for the companion shit, I agree that the cards needed to be significantly milder incentives. I wouldn't even let the black...
  9. Brad

    General Fight Club

    Wow, y'all really gonna diss the OG? ROE or nothin' over here! I hate Rec Sage as an ETB +1 with tempo. I'd consider Wilt or Back to Nature if you're really looking for this effect. My suggestions might be crap, as The Black Cube gets to run such diverse removal. I'd suggest Anguished...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I'd run both for sure. They're lands that any deck will play, except maybe the aggro-est deck avoids Barrens. That's the kind of fixing I'm after until we get inundated with it to a point where 5C is common. I've only seen one deck out in The Black Cube and I looped Stitcher's Supplier off of...
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    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Mutate took me a few read throughs to get it and I don't want my inexperienced players to deal with more reading. I'm open to Companions, but all the black ones seem a bit stronger than I'd like. The counters are just a bit messy because there's so many of them. It's an additional thing to...
  12. Brad

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I knew about the thread, but Gifts into Loam Crime seems slow, you know? I wasn't sure of the power level. I'm going to add it. Worst case scenario, you draw 2. Normally, in my cube, you'll get some graveyard value somewhere and it only needs to +2 to be considered good. On top of that, it opens...
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    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    Just did a draft and first picked Kathril to test. Deck ended up with 7 keywords in it with no attempt to make my cube cater to Kathril's ability. It was a fun minigame to navigate the draft with the keywords in mind. I'm going to consider if I want to make my drafters keep track of all those...
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    General (IKO & C20) Testing/Includes Thread

    The last two blog posts on The Black Cube has my potential additions. It came in two because cubecobra didn't have the triomes in yet. I might do some cutting later, as it has bloated up over the past few sets and I haven't edited it down. If I do, just look for the post adding like 15 cards...
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    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    I saw someone one time point out that constructed formats can basically use any lands they want but we still don't see everyone playing 5c because it's just too inconsistent. You have a tricolor format, so add the tricolor lands. If someone wants to take all the fixing and play 5c, I say you...
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    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    I'm really hot to see tri color black cards, but I don't know if I want to touch mutate or companion yet. I'm a little mad that the UB deck is flash unless they continue to expand on that in the future. I did a scryfall search and didn't see much at my power level. It's either Clique and...
  17. Brad

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    As further proof that WotC watches us, take a look at the colors of the ultimatums from today. They're looking out for me.
  18. Brad

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    What's the power level of Gifts Ungiven like? It's an awesome card, but it seems a little slow to take a setup turn like that at my current power level. I'm not sure if I should or need to shift to accommodate Gifts and was hoping for some insight. Seems like the sweetest applications take...
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    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    This is a staple for me. I love 3 damage for 2 mana and I love smoothing draws. I start red sections of new cubes with Magma Jet and Jaya's Greeting.
  20. Brad

    Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

    I like this! It's a solid 5/5 for 5 and the ability is interesting, unique, and rewards deck building. That said, this probably goes into a greedy 5 color green deck, which you may want to be careful about encouraging. It could easily tap for 3 mana in a shard/wedge based cube. I did have an...
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