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I like Merfolk Looter a lot (and Looter il-Kor, by association), because he's perfectly fine in control decks, whereas something like Magus of the Bazaar really only has applications with graveyard shenanigans. Flexible looting spells tend to go pretty early, and something like Careful...

Those numbers seems to line up with the back-of-the-napkin scrawlings I did earlier. Personally, I'm not sure that 75% is high enough of a success rate to warrant a card slot and four mana, unless I was on the mono three-drop deck. Even at 18 creatures out of 40, and an 86% success rate, I'm a...

It's a little tangential to this conversation, but I continue to be surprised at how relevant Obstinate Baloth is in cube, even when his discard clause is just flavour text. There's a lot of competition at four mana, especially in green, but he gets consistently picked early and makes the...

Dictate of Heliod was incredibly overpowered here, with enchantment removal being as hard to come by as it is. I like to think my cube is on the fast side, and it still performed admirably, if it's one of the ~three cards over 4 cmc in your white weenie deck. Flashing it in mid-combat is...

If you run Geist in a list with a lot of strong equipment, or cheap evasion-granting auras like Spectral Flight, things might get dumb really fast. But otherwise, I think that he's a fun inclusion, like others have said, as it becomes a puzzle to figure out how to get a hexproof bear to survive...

I think I'm going to swap out Vengevine for him. As much as I loved the card in constructed, and played it all manners of decks while it was legal, it hasn't had anywhere near the same punch in cube. Besides the four drop slot being crowded, leading to him being passed over by green attacking...

+1 to running the utility land draft during deckbuilding. It doesn't add additional time if people just get up from their seats when it's their turn to make a pick, since everyone else is just deckbuilding, which takes a little while. safra's example of Nephalia Drownyard is the exact one I...

What is Blood Bowl? You've got me intrigued.

I actually think Goblin Heelcutter is really good, as taking out their best blocker plus attacking for 3 immediately can represent a crapton of damage in the early game. Imagine you have a random 2/2 and 3/3, and they have a Wall of Omens. Normally you attack and hit them for 2. If instead you...

In my yearly quest to make Loam work Life from the Loam Titania, Protector of Argoth Hammer of Purphoros Raven's Crime Rather than some kind of poison principle-y Worm Harvest engine - which btw was a total failure - maybe there's a minor value engine that Loam can power that wouldn't...

Hallowed Spiritkeeper Is this guy a thing? I know he has all kinds of synergies going on, and is great Wrath protection, but his front side is so uninspiring he keeps on tabling around here.

huge fan, can't wait to start testing it

Definitely. Even with the last 3-0 winning deck I posted (the RU tempo one), I noticed that the player ran his Scalding Tarn, but not his Polluted Delta, when he had two Steam Vents to search up.

I would say the barrier to this is complexity creep. A bit under half of our group are newcomers, and Magic already isn't an easy game to learn, so as much as possible I want to stick to the actual rules. That way players don't have to learn about all of Magic's funny corner cases, and then...

Enters the battlefield triggers don't work with manifest, though, right? Or am I misremembering how the rules work here again o_O

Yeah, I'm still trying to get my newer players to even draft shocklands and fetches at all, period, so I can identify with the problem. It's not easy to train beginners into seeing that they need more than just a giant pile of sweet spells, and that they need to supplement that with fixing in...

I totally expected to hate the monk, cause I usually can't stand agility classes. Turns out she's a capable tank, and can stand in front of a pile of monsters as good as anyone! That game got really good after the expansion.