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Traveled up to the Bay Area to visit some friends and see one of my favorite bands play a gig, stopped by for pre-release at the old CFB game shop. Went 2-0-1 at the FNM prerelease and split the final round for prize packs while playing for fun (won 2-1). I opened a very solid pool that was...

Most of these are maybes, but I'm definitely going to be trying out Recruitment Officer, Siege Veteran, and Saheeli, Filigree Master. These all slot in neatly into specific niches. Not much to be said about Officer as it's yet another 2/1 Human with some upside and that makes it just fine for...

Champion of the Parish just keeps getting better and better.

This card is sweet for any dedicated U/R Artifacts deck. Nice archetypal walker that can put in work, especially if you can pump it out a turn earlier off an early rock or something. I do wish it had started at 4 loyalty and ulted at -5 however to open up the line of just flooding the board with...

If I had to choose between the two as the secondary piece to Oracle, which is the best version by far, then I'm going with Lab Man as he's just easier to recur and much easier to cast than that Jace. For this specific alternate win-con I think recursion is a big plus because a lot of times you...

I don't know about that. A lot of times they bring it back for a set period of time for drafting, but I'm not sure how popular it would be year-round. I feel like the novelty of "limited time only" is what keeps people at it again and again like I've seen on streams over the years. I think it's...

I dunno about this. I find spelling out what the card does, in a proper format, makes it much easier for newer players to understand EXACTLY what should happen. As long as it is consistent, it creates a sense of familiarity and promotes pattern recognition for ease of access. The shorthand...

The idea of Skaab Ruinator is usually MUCH better than the actual card in practice. You imagine being able to recast it for additional value and outvalue your opponent turning dead creatures into a resource, getting in there with a beefy 5/6 and push the advantage, but in reality this just gets...

This card seems pretty damn good. Coming in as a hasty 3/1 is great in the early game, pumping every hasty creature by 2 power is massive; 2 extra damage is LOT for aggressive shells. Looking over my list, I've got the following cards in Red that can benefit from this either via haste or...

Expressing differing opinions isn't fighting; that's just a discussion. This has always been a forum to engage in a variety of takes on card design, card inclusions, and cube design. I find it strange that you're hung up on objectivity when that isn't really compatible for a niche hobby within a...

As dumb as Ragavan has been in Constructed formats I don't think it's near as busted in cube and it mostly comes down to the difference in deck composition. The lack of 4x copies of a given card like in Constructed, especially cards that you can cast for real cheap ala Expressive Iteration and...

Definitely. Whenever I see an early JTMS I already start prepping myself for a classic U/x Control shell. Maybe splash red for some burn or black for more removal or Lingering Souls. If I see a wrath and some counterspells the next couple of picks I'll just go all in.

Echoes my experiences as well. The LGS that was the go-to for my playgroup throughout my college years (2013-16) with full pods for Standard and multiple pods for draft has become a skeleton crew over the past few years. I'm talking 3 draft pods and 25+ person Standard FNMs WoTC completely...

It's still strong if the game is at parity or has ground to a halt. The sheer number of cards you end up seeing lets you bump up your card quality in a big way and break through. It's gravy if you're ahead in any way. However I don't think it's dominant at all nowadays, especially if your cube...

The sheer number of releases just make everything meld into a non-descript mass to me. It is fun to see individual new card designs, but I'm just not excited or looking forward to releases as a whole like I was in the past. I remember being really excited way back after Theros when we had...

Blossoming Defense Become Immense Embercleave The only three I run right now. BD pulls double duty as a small pump/protection spell, BI can close out games out of nowhere, and Cleave just means that you win combat barring spot removal. It gets tougher to make inclusions the higher the power...

Is it better than Bloodsoaked? A relevant creature type and an easier trigger for aggressive decks to pull off makes it more appealing for me. I've done the machine gun drain ala Blood Artist + Sac Outlet + multiple Raid recursions before to close out games if they stalled out. Suicidal attacks...

I'm on Team Not Broken for this as well. The gold standard for recursive 1 drop to me is Gravecrawler and I think this is definitely worse. Enters tapped, still has timing restrictions at sorcery speed, less relevant creature type, and its more restrictive to recur with the retrace. Unless...

For myself, once I see a Stoneforge Mystic early enough I will then be on on the lookout for any and all equipment to maximize it. You've got some big targets there with the likes of Grafted Wargear and Embercleave that I'm happy to see in just about every aggressive deck, but I wanted to see...

I just put in a couple of drafts earlier, all of them ending up with different decks: Zeros 1 Stonecoil Serpent 1 Mox Diamond Ones 1 Mother of Runes 1 Retrofitter Foundry 1 Preordain 1 Chromatic Star 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe 1 Aether Spellbomb Twos 1 Stoneforge Mystic 1 Selfless Spirit 1...