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  1. James Stevenson

    Card/Deck [M14] Elvish Mystic

    You should have done the same with the "discuss this article in our forums" at the bottom. Anyway guys, can we stop bashing MTGS already? I've not really been there and I frankly don't give a shit. I do give a shit that there is great content here at riptidelab. The old cubedrafting.com forums...
  2. James Stevenson

    Forum Aesthetics and Usability

    So far nothing annoys me about the site, which to me is the most important thing about web design. No silly mouse-overs to make buttons appear or whatever, it's easy to use and easy to read. Decklist tag sounds like a great idea. Oh I would really like to stop receiving these damn emails every...
  3. James Stevenson

    GBS

    My friends and I once invented unis of sneakiness. I think 1 Fhoo was the sneakiness required for a ninja to sneak up on a blind person. It's a very small unit.
  4. James Stevenson

    GBS

    Today I sampled some records, juggled in Hyde Park and uh... ate some hummus. Now I'm watching terrible terrible TV with my flatmates. Maybe later I'll stare at my cube list a bit. Good times.
  5. James Stevenson

    GBS

    We were talking about UR on one of these threads but I don't know which one. I'm trying to cut some multicolored cards right now (just to try to make the cube smaller). There were some anti-Mercurial Chemister posts. Why? He says U, T: Draw 2 cards. Is that not awesome? We don't get to draft my...
  6. James Stevenson

    GBS

    Vibe is a good idea! I think I'll start using that a bit more. If you move away from such a loaded word like a genre, you have the freedom to use the english language instead.
  7. James Stevenson

    GBS

    To be honest genres are a bunch of bullshit, most of the time. You can basically categorize everything I play as either electronic or folk. Within these it can be all kinds of stuff. rap, hip hop, trip-hop... I find I know what to call something built with samples, but once people start using...
  8. James Stevenson

    GBS

    Well I'm shamelessly plugging myself, but today I'm doing my last episode of The Communist Propaganda Show for a long time on icradio.com. Tune in at 4pm (UK time) if you can. Find me on facebook if you want a shoutout, and if you like what you hear, do not hesitate to tell me :) I'm just...
  9. James Stevenson

    GBS

    Great article. I guess I wasn't very out of the box at that point (though I did have a few custom cards in the cube), but I think this was an important paragraph: 'Designs influenced by this mindset tend to focus on the question, “what cards are good in my Cube?” rather than, “what cards are...
  10. James Stevenson

    Article ChannelFireball: Declassified Information

    Maybe changing chronarch for archaeomancer would be good. I'll have to think about it. Nucklavee has been great. These guys really make this deck work, that's why they survive cut after cut. They are pretty clunky though, and I always think about taking them out. Gelectrode is great. It adds two...
  11. James Stevenson

    Article ChannelFireball: Declassified Information

    I think I'm little behind on this discussion, but a UR deck in my cube is awesome. It's all about burn, counters, and card draw. Here's my red-blue section: Electrolyse Mercurial Chemister Izzet Charm Nucklavee Izzet Chronarch Nivix Cyclops Gelectrode (Maybe this is too many, I might be due to...
  12. James Stevenson

    Article ChannelFireball: Declassified Information

    Just this minute I implemented a solution to listing hybrids in my spreadsheet. It was someone else's idea to put hybrid cards under each color,which is a good idea. I never did that because then the numbers would be off, such as the number of cards in the cube. So what I did is list the hybrid...
  13. James Stevenson

    General I actually played magic this weekend.

    Exegesis kinesis. Bravo, bravo, bravo. You are an underappreciated man.
  14. James Stevenson

    Card/Deck Fencing Ace

    Has anyone tried Gift of Orzhova?
  15. James Stevenson

    General I actually played magic this weekend.

    Analysis paralysis is a great phrase, and "I played magic recently and these were my thoughts" is a great topic. I don't run Force of Will. Should I then? I have heard it is an interesting card to draft and play with. It also seems like one of those cards that is really fun to see in a pack...
  16. James Stevenson

    Card/Deck Fencing Ace

    I just did a quick search to see if there's any good cheap white regenerators to work with auras (yay Revered Dead). The answer was pretty much "No.", but have you guys seen Debt of Loyalty? That seems like quite a cool card, and I've never heard of it. EDIT: The written text is obviously...
  17. James Stevenson

    Card/Deck Fencing Ace

    I took Geist of Saint Traft and Thrun, the Last Troll out in my last cut, for lack of them being any fun, really. Geist is really good in the WU tempo decks that I really adore, but not necessary. The same goes for Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary. He is the best card in ramp, but ramp doesn't really...
  18. James Stevenson

    General Say hello!

    Hey all! I introduced myself on the old Google group or whatever we had. I'm a guy living in London, with a little interest in pretty much everything. Making a fun and interesting cube is one of them, along with as many creative things that I can find. Right now I'm trying to make music, and...
  19. James Stevenson

    GBS

    Yeah I didn't realise that for a while. I think I switched from completely clear sleeves to black and the change didn't make much difference.
  20. James Stevenson

    GBS

    I would really like to sleeve mine in the ones that look like Magic backs, but I can't really afford to completely resleeve my cube. I dunno if those sleeves are actually any good either.
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