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  1. safra

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Do it! He was most frightening here with recursive dudes like 2 Shields, but he makes the opponent think long and hard about which creatures they can afford to let live forever, and at what cost. Having an opponent pay life to send a dude to the graveyard only for you to reanimate it is a...
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    Card/Deck Someone sell me on Birthing Pod (but first, long backstory)

    I think Veteran Explorer will find, in fact, that talking in a foreign accent about "football" is mondo hot and that being able to break the symmetry of Explorer's ramp (either by fixing more colours or just having a higher curve) makes it okay most of the time. He's a popular 1-drop for pod...
  3. safra

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I've tried a few of them. I like Ephara, Keranos, Athreos and Pharika as solid value engines that are sometimes powerful creatures. Pharika needs to be animated the most of those four, Ephara works great in UW creature decks as a source of consistent advantage, Athreos is a cool death by a...
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    Card/Deck Someone sell me on Birthing Pod (but first, long backstory)

    Legacy says hi and nods suggestively in the direction of its cute single friend, Veteran Explorer the other cool thing about Pod is that it's a nonpoisonous new archetype you can add to a cube, with a wealth of options, for the low cost of three slots. If your players enjoy creative...
  5. safra

    Card/Deck Someone sell me on Birthing Pod (but first, long backstory)

    Even Techier Twos: Mayor of Avabruck Pack Rat Hellspark Elemental
  6. safra

    General Is this results oriented thinking? (I lost.)

    The thing I like most about Cube is I always feel like my players walk away just a little bit better at Magic every week. also bullshitting w/ friends i don't see a lot.
  7. safra

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Which is why he has to hurt the consistency of gold midrange!
  8. safra

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Maybe it's my Legacy background but I'm really not that fussed about distinct colour identities. The speed of our format means players are still incentivized to build reasonable mana bases (don't stumble!). I don't wanna minimize what Magic is for you, ahada, but I think the cost of splashing in...
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    Card/Deck Someone sell me on Birthing Pod (but first, long backstory)

    I've now run at different times 1-4 in a 360 and also think that 3 is the best. That said, right now I'm only running two, and running a pair of Collected Companies to balance that out (and to give Pod a slight break). Here's what I think you get at different multiples: 1/360: some green...
  10. safra

    Blacksmithy's Cube

    this is fallacious, imo. The games where a green deck has a mana dork on turn 1, pretty much any three-drop (or a two- and one- together) is going to make that tempo leap for you. Without all that many dorks to play on turn one the green deck should consciously draft twos to have non-dork strong...
  11. safra

    Thinking of deep cuts to 540 list

    It is very very very good. Mana leak is basically Counterspell anyway and OG counterspell is like a proactive vindicate. I've run it on and off, though I haven't had it in for a while. If I have a hand of four cards, and one of them is Counterspell and another is lightning bolt, I've conquered...
  12. safra

    Sets [ORI] Magic Origins Spoilers

    gross, dude. There's smug and there's being a dick.
  13. safra

    Sets [ORI] Magic Origins Spoilers

    We found it, the ur-Riptide post
  14. safra

    Sets [ORI] Magic Origins Spoilers

    what a hero!
  15. safra

    Sets [ORI] Magic Origins Spoilers

    The few matches of Tiny Leaders I've played (Alesha and Toshi decks) have been pretty great. I don't really like EDH's focus on multiplayer games - the French (1v1) rules are decent imo - and the constrained curve gets people playing spells in the early game. No skin off my nose if people like...
  16. safra

    sharzad (safra's cube)

    He's a solid card but I'm not really interested in his planeswalker side and while an 0/2 looter is interesting I think that I want the consistency of Thought Courier. I was just not afraid of opposing Jaces at my prerelease, and I'm sure he's interesting for quite a lot of different reasons...
  17. safra

    Sets [ORI] Magic Origins Spoilers

    everything except faith
  18. safra

    The Video Game Thread

    D F O
  19. safra

    Sets [ORI] Magic Origins Spoilers

    Who else would suffer through endless excel spreadsheets for the sake of a hobby? Okay, wait, nevermind.
  20. safra

    Sets [ORI] Magic Origins Spoilers

    Now there's a card I'm excited about.
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