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Would come down to how fast your cube is in general. If it's slower and 7 mana is non-trivial then this might end up being the generic good stuff issue you were trying to avoid as it's just a value engine if it gets to stick. You get way more out of it in a deck with more ways to trigger the...

This seems insane at 7 mana. I don't know how many colorless spells your typical cube deck is running, but even just getting the cast trigger and then +2 gives you a stabilizing draw engine.

Made some swaps on Cobra, fired it up for a draft and saw Ritual P1P2 and here's what I cooked up: Ones 1 Ignoble Hierarch 1 Llanowar Elves 1 Green Sun's Zenith Twos 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 1 Voice of Resurgence 1 Tidehollow Sculler 1 Fateful Absence 1 Regrowth 2 Birthing Ritual Threes 1...

Yeah I feel you on that, I'm mostly not playing anything UB that's too ridiculous art-wise in my cube. Stuff like Mawloc or Wizard's Rockets I can kinda justify, but anything that sticks out too much is a no-go. Same for any really dumb naming conventions for a card.

I agree with the special treatments and some of the more FF specific arts, but the regular art for this one just looks like a normal card to me:

Might just give these a test run in the draft and see how they turn out, alternatively may just run the full Painland cycle. What I really want is for the BFZ cycle to finally have the enemy lands printed, those would be my third dual cycle of choice, but it's already been a decade so I'm not...

Birthing Ritual How has this been so far? I'm going to get a chance to finally run another 8-man draft in a few weeks and I'm going through the list making a ton of updates that I've been holding off on. One of the big things is updating my Duplicate Voucher system swapping out Young Pyromancer...

This set has an entire aesthetic that I don't care for. I'll probably just do the prerelease and keep an eye out for standout cards, but this is an easy pass for me otherwise.

Hello! Been a while since my last post and I've had this draft sitting around unfinished for months now. I had friends in town months ago and we were able to scrounge up a full 8 man pod for a draft. We try to get together once a year for a couple of days where we mostly spend time together and...

I played against someone with Soul Sister effects happening so it was a real puzzle to figure out how to get them down to the correct life total. I even volunteered the hey, did you remember to gain a life when his life total became odd and I had two Whelps on board. Pretty much every time I...

Forgot to post this, just remembered when I went to de-sleeve my draft kit after prerelease. Had a solid R/G pool that I went 2-1 with that played really well. Likely would have gone 3-0, but I got absolutely stomped by this kid who opened a ridiculous pool full of bombs and removal aplenty...

Not too many cards to add this time around, I still haven't gotten a chance to test out anything from Duskmourn or even MH3. Too many sets in too little time. With the release schedule set to go into overdrive next year I might just pop in for one of these every 2-3 sets instead of keeping up...

The first Kellan card that I'm excited for in my cube. Awesome card. Figure of Destiny style level ups are always a nice addition as mana sinks that scale with the game and this has a solid body from the jump. It's simple to understand, has a great payoff if you fully level it up, and it has...

Pretty much kills any enthusiasm or hope of Constructed Magic coming back for me. Not interested in extra goofy shit when they go deeper and deeper as the UB well begins to run dry. I don't really think they even have a long term vision for the game with all these decisions in recent years...

Nah, Commander game quality is wholly dependent on the playgroup and always has been. When everyone is on the same page it's a blast. It's the closest thing that can emulate the fun of brewing up decks as a newer player and just discovering interactions all over the place. It's socially stunted...

These bans all make sense from a gameplay perspective as fast mana is inherently broken, but it's bizarre to suddenly decide to go nuclear with these seemingly out of nowhere. I just don't see what's changed recently for them to make such an abrupt turn into going FAST MANA BAD when they just...

Gave the card gallery a deeper look after Prerelease, these will be the additions for my cube: Toby, Beastie Befriender Overlord of the Mistmoors Overlord oft the Floodpits Overlord of the Balemurk Razorkin Needlehead Those 4/4s created by Toby are pretty big and if you can blink him even...

For the first time in a while I opened a pretty sick prerelease pool. The rest of my rares were whatever and mostly not playable, but it was centered around The Jolly Balloon Man and Toby, Beastie Befriender backed by a ton of removal: Ones 1 Clockwork Percussionist 1 Trial of Agony Twos 1...

I kind of disagree, not on the merits of Psychatog's inclusion in an environment but whether it's gotten worse or not. I think it's for sure worse just because general removal is better these days (not even premier removal, just the average kill spell), it's small for its mana cost, and...

The art direction for this set is...not great. I loved the early pieces but they went way too hard into contemporary 80s stuff. It seems at odds with the idea of a hellscape world taken over by a demon when half the humans depicted just look like they're on the set of an afternoon TV show.