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It's always been surprisingly okay for me, nothing special though. The cool part is that a lot of really cubeable creatures are or have one toughness at some point in their lives (i have 73/360 x/1s or 1/1 token spells) so you can interrupt an opponent's plan, or hit a planeswalker. it's a tempo...

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I play a Thopter Foundry brew in Legacy and can talk about it if you have questions It's a sweet sac outlet, lets you respond proactively to removal, and the cost (unless you're sacrificing Sword of the Meek) is pretty fair. It's a super grindy card but there's really nothing else like it, the...

it's supposed to be Standard-okay stoneforge guys let's not worry too much about what could have been. I'm hoping that with the apparently lower turnaround time on this set they fucked up and gave us COMBAT SNAPCASTER or another eternal witness but it's probably gonna all be fine for standard...

Relic Hunter 1W Creature - Human Soldier Fame 1 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if ~ isn't famous, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes famous.) Whenever Relic Hunter becomes famous, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand...

You can just loop SDT draws with Locket of Yesterdays out and a third top in the yard, check out Greg Hatch's artificer's intuition deck

I parsed it as 'trans women cosplay magic characters sometimes'

I'm just peeved at how irritating these are gonna be to proxy. Ugh, I hope my crew can pull them all at the prerelease.

Venser, Shaper Savant Oh yeah, forgot about Silumgar Sorcerer! sweet card.

I could write a much, much longer thread on counterspells. It's worth remembering that if you can make a spell fizzle that's just as good. Here's what I like/have liked, and I'll go over what these spells do for environments. 4+ mana: Cryptic Command Venser, Shaper Savant Ojutai's Command...

Okay, I think we can start narrowing this down. Here are some kinds of combo: aggro-combo slow combo-control engine combo and here are some kinds of 'synergy' decks, as we add distinctions: disaster turn (single card pseudocombo like wildfire) n-part cog effect (blood artist loops, Infinite...

Excellent points, thanks. I think you're right, I was overly loose with my examples. A condensed turn is the best predictor of whether or not a deck is comboing off, if I understand you? Seems reasonable as a heuristic but it's probably worth looking at the pace and timing of that turn further...

Loving everyone's posts, this has been way more of a response than I thought this would get! I'd be interested in what you think about my above attempt to get more definite with the idea of a showdown turn. Did I miss something? Probably a lot, honestly. But I still think this is helpful and...

How fast is a 'showdown', anyway? King of the hill showdown turn - land a threat, win if you protect it (jtms, assemble the legion, jeskai ascendancy). Accelerated showdown turn - both players fight with their held interaction, and at the end the dust has settled and somebody's dead. Lab Man...

Quick reply while I'm waiting for a train, I'll add more later. Sorry if I cut off abruptly! i think the "condensed play arena" metaphor for combo is useful here, yeah. Thanks for the feedback! Let's list more examples, as many as we can, and try to refine theory from the data. Blood artist...

really really sweet. What about nonsquare stats for prowess combat tricks? 1/2 sounds fine imo if it has prowess too

thoughts on the 'showdown turn' it's probably worth talking about "combo", and what i mean when i'm talking about it! two-card combos are boring (my very first pauper cube game i got presence of gonded out and it was just such bullshit, the deck went 3-0 and sucked) and are a rough proposition...

I ran it for a little bit, it's really really strong. Sweet card, but if you didn't draft memory's journey or loaming shaman or kozilek then you'd better check yrself b4 u deck yrself If nobody plays differently as a result it'll probably end the game in four or five turns. If you're okay...

untapped matters sounds like a sweet place to take things, I'd motivate that d (direction) karoos / other strong lands w/ abilities mana dudes pinger dudes tapper dudes tricky stack dudes like that tap draw two trade control red guy check out how Grillo pulled off TOL matters in his insisted...

OJ's C is my current fave azorius spell, it goes in more midrange decks than Rev and you can't chain revs anyway (sorry tiago) just always relevant