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Recently one of my players had both of the following in his draft, and his curve was a little wonky so he had to cut one: Drana, kalastria bloodchief Ob Nixilis, the fallen He ended up cutting Ob Nob because his team determined the entire other team was aggro, but what are you guys' thoughts...

I view them as a risk/reward, allowing people to trade a card for a temporary two-turn mana advantage. The only one I run has is dark ritual and that gets people anywhere from turn 1 hypno to turn 3 Sorin Markov (after a 2-mana ramp or dork). It's still the most requested drop in my cube, but...

I love massacre wurm and everything it does. Just a couple days ago I had to remind my players that the 'lose 2 life' clause is not part of the ETB effect, and that had lots of eyes widening. The only big black I run that hasn't been mentioned yet is Rune-scarred Demon and that sees plenty of...

This is also my setup. I've had the shields for almost two years and only recently have the dings and scratches become commonplace/bad enough enough for me to consider resleeving. I used one of these, which set me back a whopping $2, for a long time But switched to the holiday box when a...

I have it, and it gets its fair share of play, usually as a midrange or even ramp finisher. Only once has anyone ever lived the markov -3 into vengeance dream. One player joked about getting the card altered to have Gideon as the victim, since the card seems to kill more Gideons than players...

On this note everyone in my LGS yells "BONFIRE OFF THE TOP!" when they have some game-winning or board-sweeping card they could draw. And it's pretty much never bonfire anymore.

It's great pals with all of these buddies Chandra, the firebrand Snapcaster mage Eternal Witness Archaeomancer HIdetsugu's Second Rite Alright, so maybe that last one is kind of a joke in my community...

I'm not very keen on what I've dubbed "durdle cards:" cards that promote/suggest/allow you to just untap, land, pass because their activated abilities alone can slow or stop your opponent enough that you're comfortable doing absolutely or next to nothing with your turn (Azorius guildmage...

Completely depends on your cube. I tried it for a bit and it actually got too oppressive when combined with cheap spells. It's so crushing to counter say, a planeswalker ultimate, and can even make some turns for aggro/tempo really awkward. Counter your equip cost or something so you can't do...

Oh snap you just reminded me of a draft not terribly long ago that I observed (was taking a lot of job-related phone calls so settled for literally sitting outside on the windowsill with the draft directly on the other side of the glass) where one player had the following board: Sorin Markov...

I don't think there's anything wrong with comparing them; trade off instant speed for flexible level speed. I don't watch much tournament coverage at all but I cube plenty and I have never ever seen a full-sized figure.

I watched a couple of the videos what feels like a long time ago (at least a couple weeks) and he wins on the back of cryptic most of the time... hardly pauper but I guess even mythicless is a sort of achievement these days? Just last week one of my LGS's store owners sold a set of...

I freakin' love kargan dragonlord. He's usually terrible in an average cube where removal and bounce are commonplace, but he gets there so often I'm not sure it matters. Basically do you want your {R}{R} card to be a seal of fire in the form of ember hauler or a mana dump finisher?

I like him, and I also like sorin's vengeance Life total? uhhh nine Pow But I think planeswalkers mechanically make combat too clumsy and make a lot of old cards designed to be board sweeps, like pernicious deed, that much more ridiculous, so the effect at all should be overcosted IMO.

It would have to be kind of drastic... card has an ability when it doesn't have a counter (reverse unleash??), can only be played precombat so you're forced to have a pinger/burn, but it's really sweet. Something like that.

Yeah, the whole thing started because someone handed me a stack of the uncommons just in case devotion got good. These are by no means going in now. And even then a few of them are icky enough to not force devotion with, they're just part of the cycle. Devotion is already much more heavily green...

Last night I was presented with the following "in case devotion gets cool enough to push:" Plumeveil Restless Apparition Hearthfire Hobgoblin Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers Wasp Lancer Crag Puca Wistful Selki Ashenmoor Gouger Stalker Hag Boggart Ram-gang Clearly there are a few legitimate replacements...

I think of it completely differently. Instead of "you'll be damned if you aren't playing it" because it's so good, it's more like "well I guess I'd better play this because it's awful if I draw it."

Lorne seems like a remade Liliana of the Veil in that it makes your opponent sac a guy as 'the good thing,' and the + is kind of weird. It's worded like you only sac a guy if a creature was put into the bin from anywhere already, but you're drawing a card regardless. Even if you just wanted a...

Dislike miracle. Would rather have something besides a topdeck determine whether or not you can fireball a huge / huge. I don't have top in my list, but my distaste for the mechanic "topdeck for undercosted effects" led me to cut them out entirely. I ran sudden demise for a bit but another...