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double your grey merchants etc and you might have a deck there. Who wants to draft mono black though? I thought part of the idea was that those cubes sucked. I'm a much bigger fan of arena etc but I'm sure necro has potential here somewhere, it's just about what you're looking for.

Oh man should I not be commenting now. I've been drinking and someone has brought up both bioware and new magic cards. Short version: I feel like bioware has done some fine work in recent years, but probably it's best work (or the legacy that has spawned its teams) was probably in the...

I find it supes hard to believe that a jrpg was the best game ever, what was the big appeal? I usually find those games kinda trite and I get bored of them easily.

I remember the hindu serpent goddess was for the most part anthropomorphic, but the Naga, would often be depicted as serpents with the faces of a man or woman. Of course there have been instances of men with the faces of serpents and all variety of combinations but I'm most familiar with them as...

It's an expensive 3 colour enabler that either requires having spent 4 mana on it (CITP trigger) or to successfully attack. It's also just incredibly tedious that it's only milling you, the least interesting graveyard filling ability and the most obtuse trigger (creatures milled into your...

BUG lord I find super depressing. I guess it'll be neat in some formats when you are getting 5-7 power initially with it. oh well i guess he's probably good, just seems like they negotiated it into a pit. Milling yourself on attacks and milling to get zombies feels too canned to me. I'd rather...

Lets just call him 5 mana koth

Where have you seen this fetch business, I'm skeptic.

In my post I described how much play to it shriekmaw had. Maybe I only hinted at it's elegance. I dispute that recoil is a true paragon of staple effects as you attest. I believe it is conplex and in the negotiated vein of cards like shriekmaw and harrow that I sort of associate with uncommons...

I just feel like it can't be a staple effect and it really shouldn't be a niche or flashy effect. I think it needs to be something that exemplifies understanding and has good landmarks that show that understanding and negotiation and can prove that forethought through play.

I kinda hate sphinxes. Partly because they feel like better dragons or angels a lot of the time and partly because I for some reason resent all this iconic creature heavy handedness these days where everything is a hydra and vampires are mainly small creatures. I dunno sphinxes can be cool. I...

Why don't people like shriekmaw? Is it because it doesn't have a lot of classical flavor?

Double burning vengeance is damn weird to me as you seem to be wasting 3 mana worth of tempo to play it and then most of your flashback spells cost like 3+ mana and mystic retrival and it's ilk are really not worth the tempo investment to get rolling. Like if I were sinking that mana in there...

Does that also mean BTE gets super mega better? Thanks for the reminder though, gotta find room for those guys in my peasant list!

Actually eric, I feel like they might not be the safest choices in your cube. If you would get the vault of the arch angel out of your land draft ahahhaha! I do admit it's probably worse the more sorcery bolts you have around, but spending 5 mana making a creature better in your cube isn't...

Man some weird posts here. I really don't understand the hate for FOF. I guess it adds a level of gameyness and complexity to play that are skills the average magic player may not have developed very well in the course of his normal matches. I rather like green sun myself but I understand why...

Like Triplicate Spirits seems like it's just supes castable and potent if you've already got Raise, Screech, Souls, Procession running around. Screech benefits from more hybrids and multicolour spells too. And like I dunno I like mini token generators like beetle butt and war marshal too. Like...

Speaking of Arc-Slogger, how many cards would that have to mill to be playable in cube. I mean it's amazing against most point based removal and in wildfire decks!

I'm sure that's a fine preference decision to make in favor of huge chanpions. I just found cards like raise the alarm and midnight haunting a lot more attractive for my tempo and control decks than the sorcery versions. But I don't need to bicker of be convinced, I'm just telling everyone...

2/1 for 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!