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Yeah that's one I put in there at Dom's suggestion on the Skype chat, when we were talking about how black needs more ways than just Vampire Nighthawk to recoup the life loss from all of its card advantage spells. Have yet to see it in action!

yes, Maro has mentioned multiple times that, of the Lorwyn Five, Jace was meant to be an analogue for the "typical Magic player". he's a cerebral, brooding young man who uses his brainpower to outwit his more thuggish opponents. this is also the main reason every version of him has been pushed...

In my lower powered environment, I like Desecration Demon for that same purpose. He has a built-in minigame that gives the opponent more decisions than "removal or no?". Though I suppose he's still more of an efficient midrange beater than a true finisher. shamizy's post above hits the nail on...

With a slight boost from Ponder and Gods Willing!

Ones 3 Delver of Secrets 1 Phantasmal Bear 1 Gods Willing 1 Ponder 1 Rift Bolt 1 Vapor Snag Twos 1 Looter il-Kor 1 Porcelain Legionnaire 1 Riftwing Cloudskate 1 Seeker of the Way 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Anticipate 1 Disdainful Stroke 1 Raise the Alarm 1 Remand 1 Temporal Isolation Threes 1 Blade...

it's probably less about that and more that this isn't a gold-themed set, just a "regular" set as far as colour balance goes. so all gold cards are uncommon or higher, cause the only thing worse than a set with little fixing is a set with little fixing and the same multicolour cards wheeling for...

Ones 1 Arbor Elf 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Grim Lavamancer 1 Zurgo Bellstriker 1 Utopia Sprawl 1 Vines of Vastwood Twos 1 Farseek 1 Incinerate 1 Lightning Helix 1 Magma Jet 1 Selesnya Charm Threes 1 Loxodon Smiter 1 Yasova Dragonclaw 1 Curse of Predation 1 Staggershock Fours 1 Brion Stoutarm 1...

I've always done utility land draft on a side table during the deckbuilding phase, with the main disadvantage to that approach being that people need to get up out of their seats and walk over to a corner to peruse the selection. I think when Jason used to do it, he actually laid them out in the...

Wow, that's pretty sweet! Out of curiosity, are you using something like mtgjson as your database? Feedback: Card Type and Card Set should both be multi-select dropdowns. As a nice-to-have, the dropdowns for Power, Toughness, and CMC should include >= and <=. More sorting options, especially...

I'm more interested to see what archetypes they bake into the set this time and whether we can borrow any ideas from their design. Sets like these aren't that far off from designing a low-to-medium power Modern-legal cube with lots of singleton breaking, and hopefully the set is less poison...

...okay i don't even want to touch this one

and the award for Sexiest Rotisserie Manabase 2015 goes to... Silas!

i love that Jeff's deck is not your typical bell curve but just this ever increasing hill to the right also i'm impressed at Dom's discipline, i thought he was going off the deep end but his curve is magnificent Ones 1 Condemn 1 Niveous Wisps 1 Pact of Negation 1 Serum Visions 1 Sleight of...

new rule: you cannot "agree to disagree" on this forum, you must FIGHT IT OUT TO THE DEATH

Are multiple Young Pyromancers a good halfway point between fully supporting the storm archetype and not giving a flying fuck? Seems like sticking a Young Pyro and then 'going off' can get you much of the upside of an Empty the Warrens, with the benefit that you don't have to save up all your...

Riptide Lab - the only place you can be modded for staying on-topic!

When you guys say 63x88 or 61x86, how are you measuring this? In Photoshop? Or is there some kinda custom template...? I don't even know what I'm asking. I've only ever used magiccards.info, cause that's the only one my addle-brained self can figure out.

YOU ARE ALIVE!!!! Not that we had a debate on this forum as to whether you'd died, or anything like that...

Take a gander at Grillo's debut article: http://riptidelab.com/learning-from-pauper-rethinking-archetype-design/

I take no credit for this idea - it was 100% yours! I was just saying that it should be a separate format from rotisserie, because some of your time-based mechanics seem pretty cool, and distinct enough from rotisserie - which is a purely turn-based game - that it should be its own thing...