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Yay you made it human-readable! Thank-you <3 Yep! The hope is, you buy a turn or two so you can actually advance your own game-plan. I kind of don't want wraths for this format but there's got to be some replacement for the Wx control decks to create a tempo-breaking moment and this was the...

Oh yeah, Nyx Weaver is definitely the better card of the two, and very much agree with your reasoning - I'm just horrendously biased as Baloths are my favourite creatures in Magic and I have a soft spot for 6-drop 2-for-1 gold creatures.

I had been thinking about mentioning Grisly Salvage or Drown in Filth, but didn't want to make assumptions about your list/preferences. Now you put one of them before me and... I still think I have to go with Nyx Weaver tbh. As for why? Well, it's a body with a relevant keyword (Gotta stem the...

That's kind of why I want it to force sacrifices equal to damage dealt - a Seasoned Hallowblade attacking into No Mercy costs you a card, a Seasoned Hallowblade attacking into this costs you three. Not saying that's enough, mind, just that I do agree that a straight up 1-turn No Mercy would not...

After a hand workshopping a design for an entirely hybrid custom LRW/SHM cube. The goal is a mardu bomb rare that acts as a virtual fog or temporary Ghostly Prison by punishing one attack - Instant, enchantment, whatever - themed after the r/w Lorwyn Giants and w/b Shadowmoor Hags. The goal...

Am I the only one here that really likes Rosnakht? She's such a strong signpost for what your red section can do - go wide, pump creatures, make tokens - and you're equally happy with her in straight up aggro or aristocrats. She's not as powerful as any of the other three, nowhere near, but...

They managed outdo Reversal of Fortune on thirst bait and INN Liliana of the Veil for "screw composition and form, have boobs instead". I like anime and manga art - there are some amazing artists out there RIP Miura - but this is the kind of example that gives the rest a bad name. It, like the...

Ardoz is the kind of card that would make me build my cube around a Fires archetype if I was starting it today, and I'm sad it's not R/G for the EDH crowd. I did always love Primal Forcemage and Ogre Battledriver so it's great to see a similar effect at the low CMC it needs.

Oh yeah, 100% agree - I'd be prioritizing picks like Once Upon A Time, Abundant Harvest, maybe Oath of Nissa, all that sort of stuff. Lands is one of those degenerate decks I expect to see in a powermax or near-powermax list. There are a lot of premises in my argument for Gitrog over Uurg, and...

I would hard agree if it wasn't specifically for Fastbond and Exploration going with Gitrog so well and the deck tending towards larger spots on the curve - I'm trying to think of another case where I'm as comfy running a 5-drop as I would a 3-drop and I just can't Edit: Also, definitely agree...

Gitrog draws you so many cards and for me that's the critical difference. Like, if you're running a lands package, the 2 mana difference is pretty negligible - Gitrog can come down on 3 pretty easily if you're doing the whole Fastbond/Exploration thing, and then it's constant gas. You will lose...

Ignoring power level reasons, Uurg says "Gitrog was too good for my cube", and I'd expect to see other effects that chuck lands in the bin (Definitely fetches, probably triomes or other Cycling lands, KotR, Elvish Reclaimer, maybe some Deserts) or benefit from lands in the bin (LftL, Crucible)...

I have no idea how I forgot about Bloodrush! I run the Shaman and can attest to it's utility. Sweet in aggro, getting it back just once can prevent a mediocre draw step from costing you the game. Strangest play was swinging in with it, having it Disfigure'd before blockers, Kari Zev triggering...

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You have excellent taste Have you considered sleeving the pairs together during storage/drafts? You can fit two double sleeved magic cards (KMC inner, Dragonshield outer) inside a 7-Wonders card sleeve (Mayday Magnum 65*100s are the most available around me but I think FFG makes more durable...

Maybe instead of coming in attached to a 2/2 white cat, the come in attached to an x/x (colour) where x is the mana cost of the aura and (colour) is the colour of the aura? So Aqueous Form is an unblockable 1/1 that scrys, Blessing of the Nephilim is an Isamaru, etc. Is this the mythical cube...

this My favourite standard deck ever? I think I owned the lands and like, 8 cards. Everything else was on loan from like 5 other people, all of whom I was loaning stuff to in turn. Opinions about the latest stuff to happen on the pro tour, "How many copies of x is Chapin playing?" "What jank...

I for one would want ways to make sure lands weren't a dead draw (Retrace, filtering, spellshapers) and would depower aggro as an entire theatre. Level Up was a great way to set the pace of RoE limited, and while I wouldn't run those cards (with maybe two exceptions), Outlast did a very similar...

I come to you not with an archetype, but with the vague hope of one. A few things have happened since Mown blew my mind with that Sylvia Brightspear - I have tracked down and acquired a Faldorn, even though it's LP, and along with it came an Astral Dragon and Ebondeath. Plus, I do really want to...

I would like to second Rusje's sentiment here. I too really like getting into extended discussion on the merits and pitfalls of cards, archetypes, design approaches, and it really sucks that genuine rancor comes into those conversations - I personally cannot see how an opinion or perspective on...