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and thus comes the problem with prowess: it's good in cube, but stupid broken in older formats (See the only white card to ever be taken seriously in vintage since balance). Basically every card with prowess has to be made with the conceit that it's either limited only fodder, or hella strong...

GAH one more! Random commons being previewed here, not up on MythicSpoiler yet: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/magic-origins-sample-decks-2015-06-08 Well holy shit. I love it! Coooooool. He doesn't have haste, but could still be good Interesting take on goblin...

Sewer Nemesis has one big advantage over cards like mortivore and splinterfright: It's WAAAY bigger. Since it doesn't specify creature card and grows on it's own by milling whoever it's pointed at, I've found that its usually about 3-4 points bigger than mortivore would be at the time, even...

Nice! I'm excited. I was looking to add thunderbreak regent because 4/4 fliers for 4 excite me, and push red in a non-hellrider direction (which is nice for variety if nothing else) but this card seems way more enticing. RE: Prowess/Scry/Menace...

He's been great, the single black mana in his cost is super sweet, and the 5th toughness puts him out of reach of 99% of red removal and many creatures far up the curve. The drawing cards ability might not seem super great, but given that it's cube, anything you get back is usually already good...

Opponents city of brass maybe

I'll admit, I lold

Attack + Red spell works too, but good point

I'm not so sure on the confirmation here either, but here's what I feel about the card: 3 mana pingers with summoning sickness are okay, and being slightly worse gelectrode is a decent base. I like that you can flip her by blocking + pinging, but the walker side doesn't really impress me: I...

It does depend highly on the number of creatures you have with incidental counters, so if it is under preforming, maybe swap a few jungle lions to experiment ones, firedrinker satyrs to Strom kirk nobles, etc A lot of the cards like this that I run are custom fwiw, so it might be better to look...

I definitely agree, but whenever this comes up I kinda wonder about the bit magic had in the middle. Like say, Remand. is that a powerful old spell, or a powerful new spell? looking back at the block cards like watchwolf look utterly pedestrian now, but Dark Confidant are there, and Frenzied...

You're right, not many. But I'd argue they do need to be there, limited is far better off with the addition of tricks, threatens, tempo spells, draw spells, etc, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Here's the Noncreatuere, Nonremoval spells that are bad topdecks and niche in...

It doesn't do much good to compare first pickable creature removal to a niche anthem, these aren't competing for the same spot in your deck. A generic limited deck is going to take basically every burn spell it can get it's hands on, and has a full compliment of threats, but you don't usually...

I'm just saying that 5 years is a bad metric for "New Cards", especially when you're talking about gold old spells vs good new creatures Like, Jace the Mind Sculptor doesn't fit your definition of "new", and he's certainly a good spell.

I mean doom blade is better than terror most of the time, is it not? While it's a less round number, doesn't NWO start officially in lorwyn, so more 6-7 years ago?

I mean it does have upside: Hardened Scales > Phantom Nomad > Mikaeus, the Lunarch > Ajani Goldmane

Eh, Cloudthresher dont mind. Maybe I should try him honestly

You know, servant of the scale looks downright playable with hardened scales in play

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Red has a surprisingly good stable: Strong: Koth of the Hammer Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker Chandra, Pyromaster Totally Defensible: Chandra Nalaar Daretti, Scrap Savant Chandra, the Firebrand You're going to need to sell me on this: Chandra Ablaze Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded