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  1. Nemo

    General [TLA/TLE] [UB] Avatar: The Last Airbender

    It's a Flametongue Kavu of sorts in the blink-est color. This is something we haven't had before. Momo, Rambunctious Rascal
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    General [TLA/TLE] [UB] Avatar: The Last Airbender

    Cool, that last mountain is a nice one.
  3. Nemo

    General What are the hallmarks of a "riptide-style" cube to you?

    This is my thing. I could try to dial up the rest of the cube to make 3/2 for 2 okay, but I don't think I want that. I don't want the format to be so fast that you can never afford to whiff on an early turn. I also don't think I'd be able to find enough cards at that power level without dozens...
  4. Nemo

    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    These sound fun. DuplicantSneak Attack
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Sweet, thanks for the endorsements. I'll run it.
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    What's your opinion of this card? Key to the City On one hand, I hate it because it's a little confusing to read at first. On the other hand, I love a colorless discard outlet that activates for zero mana, which also doubles as a source of evasion/reach that can end a stalled game or push an...
  7. Nemo

    General [TLA/TLE] [UB] Avatar: The Last Airbender

    There's a Strixhaven set coming out next year, so maybe they'll bring back Learn there. But, knowing them, they'll instead create some updated version of Learn called "Study" that tweaks the mechanic to fix some issue they thought they had with Learn.
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    General What are the hallmarks of a "riptide-style" cube to you?

    So many cards would awesome if the rate wasn't all wrong. Right now I'm lamenting Umbral Collar Zealot in particular, because I just can't get behind a black 3/2 for 1B with nothing but upside. It sounds really fun to play that with the WB humans/aristocrats deck, I think it's just too strong...
  9. Nemo

    General CBS

    Folks, I thought you'd want to see these gibbons, which are somewhat hidden in the photo here.
  10. Nemo

    Riptide Artifact Cube?

    Gate to Phyrexia
  11. Nemo

    General CBS

    Nice upgrades! I was thinking more of a card like Telling Time. You would end up with two extra cards and not know where to put them.
  12. Nemo

    General CBS

    Yeah, that's irritating. They went for a lot of scry cards in LTR and WOE, before they seemingly made the switch. They could do "whenever you look at or reveal cards from the top of your library, look at or reveal two extra cards." That would buff lots of effects. It's probably best as a...
  13. Nemo

    General CBS

    I'm probably late to the party on this one, but who else noticed that they've cut way back on printing new cards with scry? They made Surveil deciduous starting with Brothers War (Oct 2022), but I didn't realize until now that they've nearly stopped printing new cards with scry in retail draft...
  14. Nemo

    Riptide Artifact Cube?

    I'd love to see what the community comes up with. Here are some of my favorite things to do with artifacts. These can't necessarily all go in, but this is the stuff that comes to mind for me. Master Transmuter flipping big ETB effects like Sharuum the Hegemon or Spine of Ish Sah or Duplicant...
  15. Nemo

    General Average Words Per Card

    I've been studying the Foundations products as I think about cube updates, and I decided to check out the word counts of each product. Product No Reminders Full Oracle Text Beginner Box 13.6 17.3 Jumpstart 18.2 23.8 Starter Collection (Duplicates Included) 18.2 23.1 Booster Draft...
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    General CBS

    I really like the concept of a core cube with occasionals and putting carefully chosen duplicates into the occasionals. That would change the odds, and provide some levers to customize the odds. I think it can be managed to create an interesting level of variability within an acceptable range...
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    General CBS

    I like the idea of some variance in which cards get duplicates. I'm reminded of this post on Japahn's blog regarding duplicates of build-around cards. https://desolatelighthouse.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/cavalcade-of-calamity-and-build-arounds-one-card-a-day/
  18. Nemo

    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    I agree with the design smell sentiment, and with your other posts earlier in the thread. A few times, I've played a board game and wondered if I'm having fun or if I'm just moving a lot of little cubes around. Sometimes it really is fun to move the cubes around in service of whatever type of...
  19. Nemo

    Medium Complexity Cube

    We did another 4 person draft with a slightly different group and had another fun night. Let's look at some decks. All four drafters went for red, which doesn't surprise me a ton based on the people involved. Once again only one drafter went for white. Three of us did three color decks, which...
  20. Nemo

    Medium Complexity Cube

    Number Crunching This cube is 231 cards, allowing it to be drafted in 11 card packs by 3, 4, or 5 people. This is carefully chosen to allow packs to only be seen twice by each player, and for each pack to have approximately 2 cards of each color. No gold cards and only 4 colors makes the 2...
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