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I found a really terrible card for my Eldrazi cube: Crescendo of War EDIT: Oh jeez, this is like when you say something out loud and then realize how terrible it sounds. This card is worse than I thought. Yet still interesting.

Oops, did I type Elspeth Tirel? I meant Knight Errant.

The cycling lands are great, even in non-Loam / Crucible decks. As somebody who talks a lot about the negative aspects of games dictated by color screw, I thought you'd be all over some flood protection.

They always say that the very top tier of Magic players have ~ 65 - 70% win rate.

Hmm... well, I'm not sure, but even if I'm wrong, I'll say this much: I think it's important to watch the density of these sacrifice effects. You make good points, but they all kind of rely on the presence of disposable bodies. I'd also like players to be able to build non-sacrifice black decks...

I don't really have a personal line. So here's the design challenge. Aggro is fun in my cube. A lot of fun. Cards like Steppe Lynx and Gravecrawler make it that way. I'm happy with their design. Control struggles a little bit, which may well be a unique challenge that I face. I'm not worried...

Well, what's your concern exactly? I could run a cube with only 10 or 20 (or no) green cards and the players will compensate. The same way that players compensate based on the variable strength of colors / archetypes in draft formats. Like most things the devil is in the details. Would you still...

In my "cube list" Dryad Militant is a white 1-drop and Finks is a green 3-drop. When they are slotted into mono slots there's not really any risk of there being a problem.

Into the utility draft or the main cube? Because it's already in the main cube. I'm back to running it with both lands, but, I'm not really worried about slippery slope arguments. The main reason that 8-player drafts are the way they are is because of the size of booster packs. I'll experiment...

Rocking out some Wario's Woods: twitch.tv/trunkerssc2

Was this person just quoting my M14 review? :)

New tribal list: 4 Arid Mesa 2 Misty Rainforest 2 Scalding Tarn 2 Marsh Flats 2 Verdant Catacombs 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Temple Garden 1 Stomping Ground 1 Steam Vents 1 Blood Crypt 1 Godless Shrine 1 Plains 1 Mountain 1 Forest (21) 3 Kird Ape 4 Steppe Lynx 4 Deathrite Shaman 1 Noble Hierarch 2...

This draft was a train wreck for me but somehow I went 2 - 1, only losing to Hannes. High point included getting my opponent to 4, only for him to go Lone Missionary, Kor Skyfisher, Lone Missionary to go to 12. I have one card in hand and say "fuck it" and point an 8-point Red Sun's Zenith at...

6-man 3v3 Team Draft without the utility lands. 3-0 Bant Aggro by HannesVersmissen (his team won 5 - 4): Ones 1 Rancor 1 Mother of Runes 1 Student of Warfare 2 Noble Hierarch 1 Adventuring Gear 1 Enlightened Tutor 1 Mana Tithe 1 Green Sun's Zenith Twos 1 Phyrexian Revoker 1 Qasali Pridemage 1...

http://riptidelab.com/take-it-part-one/

Yeah, I see your dressage argument, but also think Legacy has the highest quality of gameplay of any constructed format.

Bah Modern restrictions. This is what Cycling Lands and Entomb were made for.

These aren't bad suggestion. I did put in Vedalken Shackles over Treachery for this reason, but so far that hasn't come together either. I think that Old Man and Preacher provide synergy in theory, but it's one of those things where the deck might just never come together. I'll give it a look...

Thanks for posting! Well, I am working on a ChannelFireball article on the subject, for now I'll give the following overview: White: Our focuses here are: Control, mass pump, battalion and double strike. White has lots of anthems, but isn't producing a tone of bodies itself. Ideally it wants...

I know, well, they'd be more likely, certainly. The black 3-drop slot is super weak. I imagine "regular decks" are still far more into Vampire Nighthawk and Bone Shredder, and even those aren't so great.