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Sadly that qualifier didn't go so well but I had a nice run in Standard, racking up four Top 8s in the weekend Challenges on MTGO and Top 4 in a PTQ (mine to lose I think but lost focus at the end, ah well). I started with a Naya adaptation of the Gruul Adventures deck that dominated the...

PIONEER CUBE As well as the perennial Vintage Cube, Magic Online now frequently has a new novelty Cube that's up for a week or two (and may return eventually). These vary in both premise (Set Cubes, Format Cubes, specific colour combos like Temur Cube or a mechanical focus like Proliferate...

In a general Cube, your usual Sneak Attack/Opposition/Grim Monolith etc. In this Cube... Pestilence?

I love the cycle. There's much more competition for CIPT lands now (and more reason to avoid them entirely - see the Fight Club discussion) but I still like playing with them. My ranking of them: Staple: Celestial Colonnade - Top-tier in the abstract and WU in most Cubes skews controlling with...

The most awkward thing about Treetop Village is that it's green - a typical green section that has a ton of Llanowar Elves variants and wants to use them to jump up the curve (a 3-drop on Turn 2, 4-drop on Turn 3 etc) can't afford to take the first turn off and has a harder time fitting that...

Hashep Oasis is a generally stronger and less painful/conditional version of Centaur Garden if you want that effect

I'm glad that we've given the newcomers a taste of who we are by debating LOTR nudity in the Funchian design thread and Funchian design in the Strixhaven spoilers thread

I admit to being thrown by Funch's tone initially and contributing to the problem myself but let's collectively dial this back a bit. This math is assuming 60 cards AFAICT? The 'stock' Sultimatum deck in Standard has 80 cards for Yorion, ~36 lands (including DFCs), and 8 'pure' ramp spells...

COMMANDER 2021 I remain in awe of how we ended up with Core Sets named after years that weren't [current year] but I'm glad we don't have to worry about that here. The preview week for this year's Commander decks was an odd experience - the Boros deck was previewed first and was so good that...

In retail Limited right now, arguably the two strongest schools have the explicit aim of casting expensive spells or getting to 8+ lands and leaning hard on mana sinks. If you draft Rise of the Eldrazi intending to ignore expensive cards, you're setting yourself up for failure unless you end up...

Picking up Adventure creatures or the DFC lands for another use is great too. Flickerwisp has basically everything too and that's why the two of them together are the cornerstone of any white section I'd want to build; I don't see them as in competition.

STRIXHAVEN Strixhaven is the opposite of Kaldheim for me - the set feels much more cohesive and I love its general vibe but there are few cards that pique my interest for Cube so this post should be considerably shorter. Schools Like most people, I was worried that a top-down design for...

I need to know more about this picture in the left of the background. There's a penguin and a... llama? Possibly a dog?

People always ask "Who is Jason Waddell?" or "Why is Jason Waddell?" but never "How is Jason Waddell?"

Fireflux Squad is a cute riff on that

For Brad it's an artifact

It's truly terrifying in a deck that's optimized for it - not necessarily Turn 2 Gaak as in Modern but Turn 4/5 'green or black thing that makes a bunch of tokens -> free 8/8'

Still a fave: Meloku the Clouded Mirror I like this as a flexible, self-binning reanimation target that you can just cast if you like: Waker of Waves At a high power level: Consecrated Sphinx A much more reliable Torrential Gearhulk if you can stomach the extra cost: Scholar of...

This thing is super cool and the Food Lord many were waiting for (don't mention the war). I like that the last ability can be used offensively to tap their board or defensively to protect Gyome itself or another threat An incredible card with echoes of Release the Gremlins but this is so...

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