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Flinthoof Boar is one of the strongest (if uninspiring) aggro cards you can run. I'd say it's even deceptively strong. The ability for a card to be either a 2-drop or a 3-drop massively improves the consistency of an aggro deck's output.

I think the prevalence of a given tribe in your cube can impact your card selection. If your cube already incidentally has 50 humans (that are good without the creature type mattering), you could toss in a couple humans-matter anchors without making the whole setup parasitic.

Hey, good questions. Yeah, Bonfire turned out to be too powerful, it's kind of a feel-bad blowout without much the opponent can do about it. Pestermite isn't bad, I tend to really like flying 3-drops as my beaters in Ux tempo decks. Even just tapping an opposing permanent can provide a key...

Oh man, how many years has it been since they printed snow cards? I remember having some fun with that red burn snow-card in pauper once upon a time.

Any of you guys play Gloomhaven? I got a gift card to a local game shop and picked up Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion. It seems pretty mechanically sound, and the box has a much smaller footprint than the original. Each turn is an engaging little puzzle, and this version has a wonderful tutorial...

I never liked Token spam, especially repeatable token spam. This card isn't the strongest, but in my experience it never created interesting board state.

Thanks for the well wishes everybody! In another 10 years or so I can start cranking out some child-approved drafting formats!

I hope your whole family is doing well now. My family is on another continent and wouldn't have been visiting right after the birth anyways, but we'll see how the days after we get home go. Technically we're supposed to keep to a bubble of our household plus 5 people, which will fill up quickly.

Thanks! We'll have a cozy few days at the hospital since no visitors are allowed. Reportedly the change has been great for parents and babies alike.

My 39-week pregnant wife brought home some packs for Pack Wars over the weekend. She likes Magic but hates deckbuilding, so most of the formats I've invented are ill-suited for her taste. When we play Pack Wars, I tend to fiddle with the mana base to smooth things out a bit. I wanted to make a...

Oh man, this thread got revived just to poop on Arsenal?

I'll weigh in here because I think it's an interesting topic and Nemo makes a nice proposal for how to run a cube. $10 or so could give you an all-access pass to cube drafting online, and if there were a standardized list that was pushed around, I could see it getting some critical mass...

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I think this looks interesting. How would said cube be drafted? If you're doing a traditional 8-person booster draft style, then probably you need to set the number of lands required to a number lower than 8, as forcing people to play almost-monocolor decks will mess up your draft dynamics in...

I think if you lock everybody out of each other's colors entirely you limit a lot of the possibilities. If you're already breaking things open, I would think one of the main appeals would be to enable the player to include cards of different classes and find interesting combos / synergies...

Does anyone know if they ever fixed trading on MTGO? Or is it still a huge headache to loan somebody cards and get them back (given the different versions)?

I wonder if color is even a concept you have to deal with in such a context. The 'mana' in Hearthstone is all colorless, and the main reason why archetypes are tied to colors in retail drafts (aside from flavor, color identity) is that a player can only reasonably wield a 2-2.5 color deck in...

I've been out of the loop for a while, is it even possible to construct decks in the client with cards from multiple classes? Thinking of drafting, I guess you would then need 2+ accounts with all the cube cards unlocked on it? Err... were you thinking a 'custom card' version? i.e. non-digital?

I beat A20 with Watcher this morning. It really is easy mode compared to the other classes. I pretty much always ignore her Scry synergies, and tend to build some stance shifting Talk to the Hand + Flurry of Blows deck. I like the design on the whole, but it is tuned quite differently than...

I guess for someone who's followed competitive Melee for almost 15 years, I thought the intro (maybe half of the video) slogged on a bit. There's only so many times I can see somebody talk about Evo 2013 or the Five Gods or various other history lessons. I get that these things are necessary...