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I honestly think it's a really clever way of doing a mulligan. Who hasn't been really bummed when, in game 3, you get to mulligan down to a unplayable hand of 5 cards? This feels like it should get around that. You get fewer cards, sure, but they should at least be playable the first few turns.

My tip would also be to, when you have an idea for a theme, put together a 40 card deck with that theme! And then, grab a friend and another 40-card deck and actually play test that deck. I've had ideas for decks and themes that just didn't work, and have found great ideas for draft themes from...

This sounds so fucking good I hope you're right. What a good way to let planeswalkers move into a new kind of phase frequency-wise!

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Amen! Cube is just a box of magic cards, at the end of the day. I'm impressed at playgroups where people find themselves able to say no thank you to a free draft?

Maybe I wasn't reading properly but I got the impression that was a whole lot of people stating power-max is the one true kind of fun?

It probably depends on your land base, but I've started to go more and more by what color is required to cast a card for the way I categorize my cards. For instance, I put Lingering souls in my white section without hesitation because I consider the flashback something you could splash for in a...

I vote Urban Evolution, because it's a much cleaner card and I think partner is really clumsy in a draft.

Four grasping thrulls is just unfair!

The thing I find interesting about cards like those two you posted here is how format warping they have to be to be playable in the average deck, and as such acting as a sort of catalysts for including incidentally supporting cards (playable artifacts and red cards that happen to put artifacts...

Approach is the card that invites the more interesting lines of play as I see it. When you cast it, you start a timer for when you're just going to straight up win. Additionally, you can abuse this clock with card draw or spell copying, so it opens up a lot of room for some combo feel as well...

I mean, what absolute insane density of +1/+1 cards would you have to run for it to be remotely possible to get the alt. win con on that card come together in an actual draft game? And if that isn't possible in the environment, is it worth running a gold card where half of it's flavor text?

I've been a bit bummed out about here in MTG Arena because she blanks the two copies of Sleep I run in my bad merfolk deck, but I'm still considering here for my cube. In a way, the effect works a bit like standard bearer, which isn't the worst thing to play against.

I'd just imagine that 3 is probably the likely amount you'd get in a retail draft? That and I like 3 as the "draft playset".

Why 4-of? A 3-of would give the equivalence of a 60 deck playset.

I'm still hellbent on getting Burning Vengeance to work in my cube-revamp, so in that context I think all three options are good to go!

I do think the ill-gotten gains does have an advantage in just more clearly communicating to a player that they can build a pillowforty deck, Palace Siege requires the player to be just slightly more clever.

As long as the board is locked down some how, either due to a board stall or you having blown upp all credible threats; Ill-gotten gains will keep ticking away while villain looks for answers. It'll also undo the race so far! After a little while you might be back at 20 and villain and like 9...

The card is nuts!! It seems so incredibly unassuming, but that's a guaranteed 2 point life swing that can suddenly turn into a 10 point life swing when it's the most opportune.

Certainly is an interesting white sac outlet. Maybe it could be really good? Sometimes cards like these makes it so that you can block or get blocked and then choose what trades with what, by letting the bigger creature survive through a smaller creature getting sacced. Probably the easiest way...