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Currently in my on-deck binder because of this: I do miss control having a Elspeth, Sun's Champion type card that very much resets the aggro players stance. Control has gotten much worse in the average Cube that's following new set releases these last five years, because so many creatures...

I don't think it does that hard. Red isn't supposed to get nearly as efficient of creatures as green and white, and the OG is still better in many circumstances. It's also been half of the 30+ lifespan of the game of Magic since Figure of Destiny was printed. This part is crazy to me too...

because it's spider-man, mostly but also, the cards didn't feel fun to open. like, cool, there's a guy in a chair. there's a taxi driver. there's another spider-man variant I don't have any interest in. oh hey, the art on this and the designs on these feel 50% like they were thrown together...

this card is going to end up as one of the strongest cards for Cube/retail limited from the set, I think

I ran it for a bit and found it fine, but I simply didn't have enough sources of {c} to make it work. I'm currently on Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder in the same slot now, which suffers from not getting any land but benefits from being sick as hell and letting my legends do an overrun.

It felt bad opening Magic packs, folks. Can't say I've ever had that happen before. Had a great time overall, though. We had 25-30 people, which yeah, was much lower than the 60 for FF but not too off from the ~35 from EOE. I went 2-1 with a bunch of great games. And while the decks were all...

Just posted about Boros cards in another thread, but here's some really cool cards I'm either trying out in my Main or Reject Cube or that I just have in my "really like these cards" piles/binders (noting these are often a bit on the stronger side): Aerith, Last Ancient Finneas, Ace Archer...

For me, Boros is maybe the most competitive guild in terms of raw number of interesting cards, including some of my favorite underrated Cube cards (each category in order of favor): Supporting my favorite archetypes Merry, Esquire of Rohan Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant Djeru and Hazoret Mog...

I don't really run much blink support so it's basically a single-card build-around, which I think works just fine with my power-level and the power-level of ETBs in general. It's pretty good. Soft to removal, but basically justifies a 3MV cost without making you feel like a fool if they have...

Meaningfully. That second point of toughness on Goblin Guide goes a long way. My experience with Isamaru, Hound of Konda is that it gets made useless by tokens and 1/Xs much less frequently. The haste really does help -- it gets an extra 1+ damage on average over the course of a game because...

Yeah, even if these are like 50% slush art from Duskmourn and New Capenna, these are generally a big improvement in terms of flavor. Like with the Arena-only pieces, the quality of art is a little looser than what usually makes it into a psychical booster pack, but there are some inspired...

I expected it to go live with their daily refresh of the mothership alongside Mark's article, but I can't find anything. They've said the card gallery will go up today, so I guess we're just waiting.

I think it's really important to note the distinction in the two cards: Iron Spider is a powerful card even outside of the counters decks, and is maybe too powerful for many Cubes around here. The Vigilance is the real thing -- it will almost always attack as at least a 3/4 for 3 colorless, and...

As someone who primarily plays retail limited, dislikes Spider-Man, and likes Magic as a game of fantasy, I hate this set. As a Cube curator, I am thrilled for these mechanical pieces for my Cube. Favorites Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder Heroes' Hangout Iron Spider is...

He's always been a favorite, but I think he's the most compelling planeswalker in 2025. Certainly the most important card in Izzet for me! Artifacts play a pretty big role in my Cube to the point that it's never a dead ability, even if YMMV. The key is really the draw two, discard two, which an...

My Cube is my Zen Garden. My unending reach for perfection means I thrive by trying out all new technology. I love new cards. I love spoiler season. Hell, I even love UB: I think that the build-in storylines and love for the IP make for more interesting designs on average than we'd get starting...

I feel like I'm amongst the most positive about this set from a design POV but I really do feel this sentiment in my bones. This morning I wanted to look at the last 4 spoilers and I saw this and felt a pit in my stomach: It's an ideal card for my Cube. I really, really like the design...

If you could change your opponents' dudes, I'd certainly be playing the card! Looks like they've spoiled all the rares/mythics and there's only 4 cards left. It really does feel like a small set, but I seem to have a surprisingly large amount of cards I'm interested in, which is annoying...

I liked Talon Gates of Madara for being a land able to ramp into itself but found the card too narrow. This lets you do the same thing for just two mana, and returning a creature to your hand is often going to feel like an upside rather than otherwise. The fact that the card needs to be tapped...

Hop to It Aerith Rescue Mission Cloudgoat Ranger Cloudgoat Ranger gives you a 3/3 you can make into a dragon in addition to the 3 1/1s! Pretty comparable to Elspeth, and that was a change I looked to make back in the day.