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I had a hard time getting the Standard Bearer to work in regular M21 draft, but the Devotee was always good value there. So while I don't think we can draw a perfect line between my and Japahn's data points, I'd err on the side of the Devotee.

I think the better card by far is Momentous Fall, tbh, if you can spare holding up four mana in a green deck. Greater Good is good when you're running things with death triggers that are worth more than a card, so if you have, idk, Protean Hulk or Abyssal Persecutor it can get pretty busted...

I am in LOVE with the commander decks. Also in love with how they powercrept Search the Premises INSTANTLY. They knew how freaking bad this was and I'm glad to see they know how to do better. This isn't even close in terms of powerlevel, at least outside of :edh: Also, this seems kind of...

Depending on what you're looking for, Orcus, Prince of Undeath from AFR might fit the bill. He's not quite as explosive as the Aristocrat, but has a lot of versatility if Rakdos decks ever go to 6. Sure, a 5/3 flampler for 4 isn't the best base rate, but that body will still end games and if...

Remember how we were talking about Delver decks a couple of weeks back? I think I've found a better card for that deck. Also, we finally have a sweet payoff for playing mono-blue apart from Cryptic Command, and that makes me very happy. It's a little weird to me that Bob the Skull doesn't have...

Oh, yeah, absolutely, but I was thinking more along the lines of Black brings the creatures and Red brings the bolts, sort of the way that Draw/Go U/x decks get very different things from their two colors. Thanks for the second through fifth opinions! I'm definitely going to test this guy...

Would translating "tonijn pikant" as "spicy meatball" be appropriate? Because if so, yeah, it sure is. One of the better ones in the set, too. How hard is it going to be to get this dude to work? It obviously gets a lot better with your cube's instant-speed removal, but my question is how...

@Peter LaCara How well does that theme work for you? Sorry for the necro, I meant to bring this up when you mentioned it but got distracted. Ravnic's previous comment made me think of it. Do you run into the problem of people mixing up cards at the end of games? For context this is something...

Cool card, but this is all I could think of when I saw the name. To weigh in on the ability names, I think they're going to really help newer players much more than us enfranchised players because they make it so much easier to grok mechanics--"oh, Pack Tactics is how they're representing things...

It is for me! I've chosen to price unrestricted reanimation at {4}, so going to {5} buys you an extra blink and the ability to play draw/go. I also have a comparatively higher number of reanimation targets than most cubes (1-3 in each color + 2 colorless), I think, so it's much more valuable...

You'd think I'd have learned by now to wait to post until after breakfast, lol.

Thanks for the questions! It's a combination of things. --Uyo, Silent Prophet is getting replaced by Rootha, Mercurial Artist, because the effect will actually get played at this MV; I just haven't updated my lists in a very long time. The idea behind Uyo was to combine spells and lands, but...

@Brad, I totally agree about the color not being great, but I think this specific shade of red is a callback to some of the original D&D materials, specifically the "Red Book." Agreed that it's awesome and yet that I don't want it at all, and not only because it would probably be too strong for...

Kinda prefer this Squee over that one (unless you explicitly want the discard synergies): Squee, the Immortal Especially due to the recent SqueeBlade deck. But yeah, as has been said:

This is from a mashup of my current cube and my super-secret, still-in-progress rework of that cube in which I embrace breaking singleton, so the proportions aren't quite accurate. Still, for my genius-tier includes (21 cards-ish each, with most shared across cubes for roughly 5.5% of each...

"Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. When it enters the battlefield, it Investigates. When a Squirrel you control Investigates this turn, it creates a Food token." Idk if we're just running around trees here, but it's cute! Besides, given that it's essentially a silver-bordered card...

As for the cards themselves, I really really like the designs. I know we (well, you and other people, I mostly watched) talked a lot about 'simplicity' and what it brings to a card. I don't have too much to add to that discussion other than to say that I think you struck a really good balance...

No, and that's a good point! Sorry, I should have distinguished those two segments more by picking a different example. However, I do think that the idea holds true, that more fixing leads to more splashing in large-delta'd cubes than that same fixing would lead to in cubes with smaller deltas.

Amulet of Vigor cube when? In all seriousness, I think one discrepancy we're not highlighting enough here might be the difference between actual sameyness and potential sameyness. Actual sameyness refers to whether or not the decks actually turn out the same, whereas potential sameyness refers...

Generally speaking I'd agree, but they tend to drive you towards one very specific strategy, as the benefit of getting a free card from not one but two cards in your deck that work towards that synergy is not so subtly very strong; essentially, "Partner With" reads "draw a good card," which...