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i think it's the consensus best card in fate/khans/khans draft, and might still be the best card in dragons/dragons/fate, so... yes? if a traditional white weenie deck was at all viable in standard right now, we'd probably be seeing a lot more of siege (and also Dictate of Heliod)

Oh man, that brings back memories about Rise draft. I remember one time I had a train wreck of a draft, so I just piled all the Lust for Wars into my deck and crossed my fingers. When I would put one on a meaningless creature, my opponent would laugh. By the time I slapped on the second one...

so i thought all the sieges were horrible, then i cubed Citadel Siege exactly once, turns out it was completely bonkers busted for the Khans half alone and then i immediately cut it at the request of my playgroup

Yeah, explaining lands and the mana system was one of the things I had a tough time doing in 1996. Not much has changed in the ensuing nineteen years! The other thing that trips up relatively new players (but not complete newbies) is that Swamps aren't the same thing as black mana, nor are...

Craw Giant Ebony Rhino Elder Land Wurm Lord of the Pit Riven Turnbull

Yeah, I will agree with Goldenpineapple that it's useful to tell any other Magic veterans standing nearby to go the hell away or shut the eff up while you're administering a lesson, because there's nothing worse than someone butting in every thirty seconds with rules clarifications or to meander...

i also had a ton of ice age cards, cause that was around the same time as 4th ed. that set had ART! amirite or amirite

i don't know that i qualify as a celebrity in any sense of the word, but i look forward to cutting deep into other people's strategies! (and likewise experiencing the horror of having the same done to me :mad:)

in a fast cube, though, she almost never flips... here she's been basically relegated to sideboard only status against the slowest decks that have very few plays turns one to three

i started in 4th edition and played those cards a lot, and have a lot of (undue?) nostalgia for the artwork. how can you not love pieces such as these!

yeah, i will agree that Reckless Waif is pretty bad, but Delver of Secrets is pretty rad

Not to put you on the spot here, Grillo, but do you have any interest in writing articles on cube and/or game design? Your post above is a fantastic summary of why the "good stuff" problem exists in cubes the world over, whether they're of the riptide variety or not, and I feel like it won't get...

this is a lot of fun! i'm sad i won't actually get to play out any of the games with your crew, but as someone who's never rotisserie drafted and always wanted to, i can say this is making me want to run one for my own list

Hah, I love how old school you are, Jonas. Original art, always! The Ice Age art is horrible though, c'mon. Though I sadly own the most copies of that one because it was printed at common (!).

Yeah, I'll echo the others and say that the best starter decks are homemade. 30 card decks, single colour, 12 lands, 18 spells, uncommons and commons only, all core set cards. It doesn't have to be anything fancy - you're trying to show them that a) Magic is fun! and b) the rules are...

wait, is this kind of like He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, where he is the Dark Lord and we're lowly Muggles

I wonder if this is what planeswalkers feel like when they summon creatures. "Oh man that actually worked WOW there's a guy here now!"

Yeah, it's definitely on the strong side for some cubes, and for a while I felt it was too powerful for mine. But then I realized it was one of the best tools for control to break a ground stall against midrange, while at the same time not being very good against an aggro weenie rush, because...

Without knowing too much about your cube, my first guess would be that it isn't the strong fixing that's leading to too many good stuff decks; it's more likely that too much of your cube being good stuff is leading to that. Cards that are raw two-for-ones that don't require any synergy but pack...

I'm not a big fan of Hedron Crab, and he's really narrow - I ran him for a while, but he never caught on. Unlike all of the good self-mill cards, he actually costs you a card, making it hard to justify a deck slot on. For cheap self-mill enablers that replace themselves, I like Thought Scour...