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What is the increase in Standard Deviation of land count in that scenario?

What is your expected value calculation? > 0 * 0.036 + 1 * 0.193 + 2 * 0.361 + 3 * 0.293 + 4 * 0.104 + 5 * 0.013 [1] 2.275 Oh, I used rounded numbers, but you are subtracting 1 from the expected value for the land you discarded, right? Worth noting: in either case draws 1, 2 and 3 are the...

I can't see a 5-drop that just dumps power and toughness onto the board as being too risky to run at most power levels. I'd be more afraid of many other cube 5-drops hitting the other side of the table.

Should be noted that discarding a land is pretty mana-development neutral. You draw two cards, and you expect about 0.8 of them to be a land on average. You can even draw two lands off of it! You could probably insight on Turn 1 with a 2-land hand and have it not be completely unjustifiable.

I think it's too situational. Cube control decks would probably just prefer to board wipe and then play their creature. Besides, it's not like you can't set up similar things with a red sweeper. I don't see a home for it in cube.

For the sake of debate, are there any actual red 3-drop creatures people are omitting due to being too powerful? Blue 3 drop creatures omitted: True-Name Red 3-drop spells omitted Sulfuric Vortex Wheel of Fortune (not sure how much wheel counts) My guess is that most RL 3-drop red sections...

Other point: if Acolyte is blocked, the damage triggers before combat damage is assigned and you can finish the blocker off with burn damage, making the opponent hesitant to block even with say, a Baneslayer. This introduces some bluffing / reading, which isn't all that prominent in a typical...

Eh, kind of interesting to see people not let a point go in here. To argue against FSR, not blocking acolyte will make it a) grow and consequently b) harder to block in the future. FSR's argument is that of a punisher mechanic: if you give your opponent the choice, they get to choose the one...

On a scale of 0 - boring how much fun was this card?

I would be interested in seeing actual boardstates and comparing how each creature affects the flow of the game.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/scienceandtech/14276-Magic-The-Gathering-Cards-Made-by-Artificial-Intelligence

A product of Lucas' neural network.

Are there any worthwhile UG split cards?

Get them into the red zone once, then they're too big to be unblockable?

Coiling Oracle Shardless Agent Horizon Chimera Courser of Kruphix Lorescale Coatl Everything in UG interacts with Brainstorm!

Ah, right, good point.

I think now that a WOTC sanctioned scry variant exists, it's going to be harder to push marginally better alternatives to your player group.

I run Coatl + Courser + Shardless + bucket of Brainstorms in my cube, I like UG as weird spell + creature interactions. Running 5, 6, and 7 drops in the UG section kind of says "you only get rewarded if you go ramp in this combination", which is fine. I mean, my RB section probably says "you...

What if, instead of focusing on cards specifically, we focus on what we want decks containing U and G to do in the abstract?