Search results

http://riptidelab.com/one-two-punch-adding-a-double-strike-theme/

...you broke OkCupid like you broke cube. Quick, somebody give Jason something else that needs breaking

"Hi, I'm Tracy. I don't think the cube packs you're dealing are randomized enough. Let me help shuffle them!"

Yeah, I agree that it feels like a huge missed opportunity for some sweet two-colour cards. The last Commander set gave us some unique goodies in Edric, so I'm not sure why they felt the need to jam this set with exclusively three-colour shard cards.

http://riptidelab.com/commander-2013-card-spotlight/

My experience with Loam mirrors DreamPaint's the most. We just haven't quite figured out what to do with it over here. Even with twenty fetches and four Edges, along with a whole bunch of looting in blue, nobody's really built an engine with it here. I'm holding out hope that somebody will...

After sleeping on this, I think you're totally 100% correct here. I was fooled by the punisher mechanic yet again because I am noob :(

is this not the best flavour ever or what

Rites is in there! It's under Orzhov, since I can't imagine ever playing it without splashing one Plains. I find that by the time I'm casting my four and five mana reanimation spells, I often have more than one fatty I want to return. Worst case, I can blow my Dread Returns and Mannequins...

This is so replacing Torrent of Souls as my five-mana reanimation spell of choice. Also, I want to try out Curse of Predation. It seems like an easier-to-cast Glorious Anthem in green that's skewed to reward cheap creatures.

I'm definitely down for some playtesting. I don't have the hours to commit to leading the project, but I'll hop on anytime someone wants to draft or jam some games.

Jace, the Mind Sculptor is the single most misused card in my cube, by far. Which has led to people here concluding that, well, it's not all that good. So your playgroup's not alone there! If RB mono-removal is annoyingly potent, you might want to look at the density of your point removal in...

Most walls (and good blockers) in cube offer card advantage, though, or otherwise bring some utility to the table. And Doom Blades and O-Rings can be used equally well by aggro decks against pesky blockers, whereas fewer players are looking to pick up the 0/4 defender. This is why I've dialed...

Same. While they were fun for a while, I'm starting to sour on the likes of Cloudgoat Ranger and Siege-Gang Commander. They tend to drag games out for twice as long as they should be, promote ground gridlock, and boost the archetype that is my mortal nemesis: midrange. I think the occasional...

Eh. It's complicated. On the one hand, the speed of my cube is fast enough such that I'm pretty sure Shelldock Isle is more or less rubbish here. When it comes to the utility land draft, I tend to gravitate towards Halimar Depths or Faerie Conclave ahead of Shelldock, because games don't go...

Looks like this feature isn't available in the current version of Xenforo, but it will be in the next release. Until then, like Jason said, just send one of us a quick PM.

In the abstract, I agree that Aetherling is worse than Frost Titan, but where it became better in our drafts were in the games with gridlocked ground stall. Whereas the Titan might tap down a big butt and then get gang blocked, Aetherling just cruises along on the shoulder past all of the...

Put up your cube list, yo! I'm also of the opinion that the best, most fun U/B decks are of the reanimator variety, though the much more common U/B deck is here is ho-hum garden variety attrition-base control. I need to figure out what knobs to tweak.

I usually hate midrange, but even I have to make an exception for Creakwood Liege. That's a damn fine midrange card. Zoo aggro never really picked up steam here either, because three months in, players have woken up to the value of fetchlands. I'm lucky to nab two fetches in any given draft...

In all fairness, that is as sound a strategy as they come.