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Are you an actual Leffen fan? I think competitive Melee is interesting, because I watch hours and hours of it every week, but I don't really have strong favoritism as a fan, like I do when I watch other games / sports. Armada winning wouldn't be a very compelling story line to me,but a Leffen /...

I was hoping that, in his explanation of the game, he would also try to sell me on the concept a bit. But I have made a habit of intentionally not Googling things on here, if nothing else but as a measure to drive the post count up.

Man, so many things have to go correctly for that card to be worthwhile. +1/+1 is fairly negligible, and you have to spend 4 mana for the first cast + equip. Also, there is a fairly small intersection between decks that want to attack a lot and decks that want to ramp. I think in general...

I hate all of you.

You're going to have to expand that acronym.

Get it? Single Card Spotlight? It's a Single Card and a Spotlight? Oh what's that, you got it and still don't think it's funny? Thanks meatwad.

I am a legitimate statistician but I can't be arsed to make these probability calculations, even though it would take so, so little time. I like giving vague estimations and having Zeeboot confirm them.

What is the increase in Standard Deviation of land count in that scenario?

What is your expected value calculation? > 0 * 0.036 + 1 * 0.193 + 2 * 0.361 + 3 * 0.293 + 4 * 0.104 + 5 * 0.013 [1] 2.275 Oh, I used rounded numbers, but you are subtracting 1 from the expected value for the land you discarded, right? Worth noting: in either case draws 1, 2 and 3 are the...

I can't see a 5-drop that just dumps power and toughness onto the board as being too risky to run at most power levels. I'd be more afraid of many other cube 5-drops hitting the other side of the table.

Should be noted that discarding a land is pretty mana-development neutral. You draw two cards, and you expect about 0.8 of them to be a land on average. You can even draw two lands off of it! You could probably insight on Turn 1 with a 2-land hand and have it not be completely unjustifiable.

I think it's too situational. Cube control decks would probably just prefer to board wipe and then play their creature. Besides, it's not like you can't set up similar things with a red sweeper. I don't see a home for it in cube.

For the sake of debate, are there any actual red 3-drop creatures people are omitting due to being too powerful? Blue 3 drop creatures omitted: True-Name Red 3-drop spells omitted Sulfuric Vortex Wheel of Fortune (not sure how much wheel counts) My guess is that most RL 3-drop red sections...

Other point: if Acolyte is blocked, the damage triggers before combat damage is assigned and you can finish the blocker off with burn damage, making the opponent hesitant to block even with say, a Baneslayer. This introduces some bluffing / reading, which isn't all that prominent in a typical...

Eh, kind of interesting to see people not let a point go in here. To argue against FSR, not blocking acolyte will make it a) grow and consequently b) harder to block in the future. FSR's argument is that of a punisher mechanic: if you give your opponent the choice, they get to choose the one...

On a scale of 0 - boring how much fun was this card?

I would be interested in seeing actual boardstates and comparing how each creature affects the flow of the game.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/scienceandtech/14276-Magic-The-Gathering-Cards-Made-by-Artificial-Intelligence

A product of Lucas' neural network.