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This Warhammer spoiler season is such an unexpected blessing. I like how I wrote off the Necron deck as a dud earlier today and now it has its own batch of cards I love that would rival a normal full set by itself

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I think I like Old One-Eye? It's possible that it just stamps on any interesting part of itself with its raw numbers but if I'm pushing the envelope elsewhere I want my sixes to take over games and this one does that while tying into other themes I like and being splashable (an upside here since...

Draftapalooza - Baltimore A few weeks ago I made the trip to Baltimore to play in the SCG team event but also to hang and Cube as much as possible. Due to real life distractions my Cube wasn't quite as refined as I'd like and followed the 'here's a big box of cards I like' approach (especially...

DOMINARIA UNITED These Dominaria sets feel quite safe, with all that implies. You get the familiar warmth of the backdrop for Magic for much of its early-middle era and the proven mechanics from visits to Dominaria five or twenty years ago. A lot of mechanics are just riffs on kicker and every...

PROMOTING VARIETY IN CUBE Some thoughts on how to create more varied experiences in Cube: Macro-archetypes The first answer you hear to 'what types of deck are there?' usually involves aggro, control, and... something. In the early days of Magic this was combo, with a suggested...

The incentive problem is my biggest issue with Lands, which I really want to support as an archetype. In Vintage Cube you have to recur Strip Mine over and over or punk people out with Depths + Stage; otherwise the best you can do is Field of the Dead, which is repetitive in its own way and...

I don't really understand the obsession with Death's Shadow. It's a unique incentive but one that only works under the very specific constraints of on-demand fetches + shocks (just look at how it fell flat in Historic) and I think in practice it would be very hard to draft an appealing Shadow...

CONTENT ALERT I had the pleasure of joining Andy + Anthony on Lucky Paper Radio this week to talk about Constructed, Cube, the crossover there, and Cube as a form of personal expression https://luckypaper.co/podcast/112/

Woe Strider This little guy does it all in a colour that needs good bridges between its themes. It's both a sacrifice outlet and a source of sacrifice fodder and can fill this role several times as a recursive threat for a graveyard theme (there's even a minor +1/+1 counters tie-in too). It...

Amazing card in my experience but Fable is a more safe/generic home run

The Shapecaller combos sound pretty cool to me and a goal worth chasing - if someone gets to pair a transformed Fable with it, more power to them IMO. There's enough removal in the format to keep that in check and it's not a Twin-style infinite combo that officially ends the game on the spot if...

It's pretty embarrassing that it's been over three years and I'm still the most liked post of 2018. Step up your games!

They printed lots of Magic cards this year and there's more to come! KAMIGAWA: NEON DYNASTY STREETS OF NEW CAPENNA

I went 9-6 in that Set Championship - good for $3000! - and got to prepare with some of the best in the game. Before the next one they announced the overhaul and reintroduction of the paper Pro Tour - to seed the initial round, the same record of 9-6 at this one would get you an invite to the...

Too true

You can't figure out the link between the string 'from your graveyard' and the mechanics you listed? You really have to stretch to think Chris is saying every one of those >1000 cards meets your technical requirements.

Dodging the question a bit but free spells often make good synergy pieces - Solitude is a top tier pick in my Cube not just as a removal spell but as the perfect pairing for blink, reanimation, sac, Vengevine/Clarion Spirit etc I think hard rules about the shields being down go a long way for...

Dropped onto Page 2 deservedly after a long hiatus from posting but circumstances forced me out of retirement! Some members of Chris' playgroup wanted to Cube but we didn't have one to hand so I volunteered and scrambled to reassemble my paper Cube that had been split in half in service of...

I really think you need to reassess recent sets. Kaldheim is a very strong set - even if you discount the Valki/Cascade interaction spawning the best Modern deck of all time or the Tibalt's Trickery nonsense that got banned in several formats, it was the set that defined Standard recently...