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I'm here to bumble about and not really do a lot of good! Guul Draz Assassin Opt Soul of the Harvest Guardian Idol

So much wrong with 'pro level' magic. Never been impressed with... any, really, of wizards' marketing. Their PR is such a mess. Part of cube's appeal to me is the generally high skill ceiling + extremely casual, fun games. The jab at Chapin meeting no response would've been the backbreaker...

Uhhhh Consuming Vapors Golgari Brownscale Genesis Wave Fusion Elemental

As someone who never played either, is thunderblade charge's recast requirement not worth saving the mana? I've seen someone soft-lock their opponent with forbid, squee, and hammer though.

The "combo kill" is master of cruelties- if you can remove their blockers or they commit life total to some other board presence they just die. (Unblocked trigger goes off, setting them to 1, alesha or others finish them off). Other cute things: Golgari grave-troll Gigantomancer Kalonian...

Finding Alesha targets for a bad modern brew was the most fun I've had making a constructed deck in years.

My line of thought is something like And then the completely fake force of will is still $15+ on eBay at its very cheapest. Literally what.

As far as designing enemy manlands I'd want them to play well enough outside of specific archetypes, but generally have something going for them within the lines of that color combo's general playstyle. Your camp is neat because it's sizable enough to be a threat but isn't something your...

I'm speaking as someone with a very generic cube: I'm not pushing any super-specific archetypes, so take what I say with a grain of salt. 1/1s and even 2/2s are easily outclassed in my list. (Pingers may be especially good in your list, but are too weak in mine, etc.) Red Cheap (CMC <4) Not...

Pretty great- fair number of high-power cards, fixed cards (tormenting voice!!), and entire new archetypes for low to mid-power cubes. Morph is an unfortunate block-wide bust for some, but I'm pretty sure the sheer number of cards that slide into cubes outweighs any other single block's. Is...

The pre-mardu {R}{B}{W} deck was always a minor favorite among my players as "the removal deck," and that's basically what 'big rakdos' pans out to. Hand disruption/removal until you slam big dumb bombs. IMO this archetype is where reanimation/graveyard-to-hand effects feel most potent- their...

Sunblade Elf Guul Draz Assassin Gnarled Scarhide And crowd (AKA only me) favorites Scute Mob Dragonmaster Outcast

Good lord what happened to this thread while I wasn't looking? As far as GoT goes I actually prefer this Stephen King-style durdling (AKA going on forever about nothing) when it's in fantasy land and a fair number of the characters are relatively interesting. Too many fantasy novels push...

I don't like swans, it's an infinite blocker that coincidentally punishes your opponents for drawing cards / self-milling. "Your opponent draws" as a downside has always rubbed me the wrong way in 40-card formats. There are other 4/x flier options in the 4-slot. How unfair is this guy with...

I can't believe how jumbled this name is

I didn't play far enough back to be enamored with any of the established pros; most don't seem much better than my local pro tour grinders. Didn't twoo's mono blue list make disrupting shoal exponentially pricier? A lot of his stuff is goofy one-trick ponies, but I can respect being able to...

I play with a lot of newer players. Here's my two cents from what I've personally witnessed/discussed with new players: The fewer block keywords, the better. Cards like stromkirk noble and roaring primadox, with non-keyword abilities, actually grok more easily for most than something as...

Opened the pro tour stream, watch Chapin get awarded his second game loss in a match at the 5-0 bracket. Thank you, Pro Magic.

Nah, it's sweet anti-pact tech. They counter your tap-out so you make them unable to pay. And that's kind of its only reasonable use, isn't it?

I just can't get into modo. On one hand it makes the game much easier to play (too easy, sometimes), saves a lot of shuffle time, has a strict chess clock (one of my main gripes about playing the game at all) and is freely available whenever you want to draft or something, but it's so damn...