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  1. safra

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    milling 2 is so so strong! If you get to six lands, that's six cards milled every untap; it's probably turn 8+ so you only need to defend the mindshrieker for 3-4 turns, including the one you cast it on. That kind of ability to take over the game / abruptly change Villain's priorities is huge...
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    General CBS

    I've tried to solve the casual playgroup knife/gun fight issue before and all I've had success with are systems where one person handles choosing a format. So I went and got the cards for some Pauper CompCon decks and we had a blast, and then I built a Cube and that was good. I gave people a...
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    One Pack One Pick (p1p1 thread)

    I've thought about it! if you don't want them here, you could start another thread for them, but I don't have any problems changing up the thread's scope a lil.
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Aaaand it's a sorcery, just play Pyrokinesis instead There's even a modern-frame printing from the Theros Duel Deck
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    General Draft Strategy

    for a while i thought about (but never followed through with) telling my players, once, that instead of BREAD for traditional limited their draft priorities should be PASTA: Power Answers Synergy Threats Answers (why is Answers twice, Saf? because you need different kinds)
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    General Fight Club

    yeah, it's a, uh, battle dumpling with two strength and two burliness, and when it hits the floor I get to learn a spell from my stack. Anyway, ranch the rest of my team - who intercepts?
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    General CBS

    basically i did the cartoon chef 'mwah' (kisses fingers) thing the entire time i read it so i'm not sure i'm objective either
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    General CBS

    decent article, but I'm surprised you didn't link "Philisophers Play Multiplayer Magic".
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    sharzad (safra's cube)

    oops! I actually brought in Angel of Finality. which I'm excited to try. Way too pricy, I'm hoping somebody cheats it out. I have a reanimator guy now who's got me excited. The analysis of threaten effects rings true to me, it's rough! I'll try Blind with Anger instead. Thanks for the...
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    sharzad (safra's cube)

    she immediately went to bed, we texted while i was playing Great points, he's back in! Undersupported, underdrafted, underwhelming,. Keeping my promo though because I think it's workable, it just wasn't in that context. Becoming a 3/3 when it's Renowned is deceptively nice. Truths is...
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    Card/Deck she wants the d(iscard suite)

    man Augur of Skulls looks amazing with Alesha...a regenerate mana sink to survive combat, then you sacrifice it and bring it back next turn...brutal. I think this idea has some merit. not sure it's worth it unless it can be recurred though.
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    Card/Deck she wants the d(iscard suite)

    Tidehollow Sculler is my baby gal and I love casting her but she's more of a tempo play, like if Meddling Mage was colourshifted to Orzhov. I unfortunately don't think Mesmeric Fiend and Brain Maggot are playable even with sacrifice or enchantment synergy; Sculler's 2/2 stat line is the real...
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    Card/Deck she wants the d(iscard suite)

    Sure thing. If we're assuming this experiment wants mana dork density levels (5-6 in a 360 cube; or around 1.5% of a cube of size n): high-power: 360: 3x Thoughtseize, 2-3 flex discard, 0-1 mass discard 450: 3x Thoughtseize, 2 IoK, 3 flex discard, 1 mass discard Lower-power: 360: 3x...
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    Card/Deck she wants the d(iscard suite)

    it's so, so bad. by turn three in a mono-black deck it's as good as Blackmail, a card already at the margins of most of these discussions. In every other case it's worse, and when you have 4+ swamps out how many cards is your opponent that likely to have in hand? The deckbuilding constraint...
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    Oh, I'm a Johnny sun sign with a Spike moon, w/b/u?

    Oh, I'm a Johnny sun sign with a Spike moon, w/b/u?
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    sharzad (safra's cube)

    I wasn't even sure I was gonna do a BFZ prerelease (again, no squad) but I decided in the shower I was gonna head down and see if I could keep pulling only Cubeable rares (spoiler alert: still true, later i'll dish on this). It's a pretty impromptu decision, so I can't heed CML's advice and hit...
  17. safra

    One Pack One Pick (p1p1 thread)

    Slam pick E-Wit, reconsider briefly when I notice CoCo in the pack, stay with the Witness. Lingering Souls is also very appealing.
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    General Fight Club

    In order of how much I think they'd bring to an environment: Big Elspeth, Good Elspeth, Gideon Gideon is v. powerful and enables control strats a little more but mostly he's just a huge pile of loyalty that holds off combat for a few turns until he swings for lethal. Sounds appealing, I know...
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    General Fight Club

    If you don't run Pod go Wanderer, if you do I'd say Vorapede. Undying is cool but I like the Wanderer a little more in isolation.
  20. safra

    One Pack One Pick (p1p1 thread)

    Definitely Corpse Dance for me. Such a fun archetype! (also, the most interesting buyback spell - Mystic Speculation is a close second though) I have another photo pack: (first-pick e-wit e-day)
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