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  1. Eric Chan

    GBS

    This is a great point. I think that from a big picture view, WoW TCG actually had a great set of rules in place - a different and interesting take on the mana system, a fresh style of deckbuilding (with their classes, heroes, and hero specialization), and the possibility of varied and unique...
  2. Eric Chan

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    it took me forever to skim through pages 247 - 251 of this thread, but my only question now is, do we need to add "Thoughtseize" to the swear jar, much like "tempo"
  3. Eric Chan

    GBS

    I actually have a ton of thoughts about WoW TCG, and while my post above may have had a negative tone to it, I should make clear that as a whole, like Onderzeeboot, I thoroughly enjoyed the six months I spent doing a really deep dive into the game. So much so that I think it spoiled me for...
  4. Eric Chan

    GBS

    I played a lot of WoW TCG back in the day, and the mana system was one of the most divisive aspects of that game. To be sure, it was nice to have very few non-games in WoW - you could still have bad opening hands, without question, but the number of games where one player didn't get to play at...
  5. Eric Chan

    General Fight Club

    i'm suuuuuuper late to the discussion here, but bear in mind that until recently, he ran Juzam Djinn in his "power max" list, out of pure nostalgia. when challenged on this, he went on a tirade about how good a vanilla 5/5 for four in black was, even as reasonable commentors replied that no one...
  6. Eric Chan

    General CBS

    We have a quota to discuss cube on here three times a year. While there's a ways to go, I'm not sure whether we're going to hit that for 2017.
  7. Eric Chan

    General CBS

    Yeah, to be clear, debate and criticism of other people's cube design is always welcome here. Who are we if we can't make fun of each other's bad design choices now and again? But Jason & I deleted your post because your disparagement of her character and her gender went way over the line...
  8. Eric Chan

    General CBS

    Uh, if this comment no longer makes any sense in this context, it's because we had to mod CML for... being CML.
  9. Eric Chan

    General CBS

    The next Magic Online cube is going to be Modern - and it comes courtesy of an OG Riptide Lab member! :eek: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/magic-online-modern-cube-2017-03-02 Okay, so Natalie (who went by nex3 around these parts) actually stopped posting on here...
  10. Eric Chan

    General CBS

    You can actually do this with CubeTutor - if for every card you add to your cube, you select the card's first printing, rather than the actual card that you own. It'll make your CubeTutor list less pretty, as any sweet judge promos and stuff like that won't be represented online, but on the...
  11. Eric Chan

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Anyone got any lower power alternatives for Fact or Fiction? Preferably also at instant speed? While I personally love Fact or Fiction, it's a little bonkers for :3::u: in a format with a relatively constrained power level. It's also super punishing to newer players: while veterans of the game...
  12. Eric Chan

    General CBS

  13. Eric Chan

    General The Cube Contest

    did you know that you own a website, where you are technically also the editor & publisher
  14. Eric Chan

    Sets [KLD] Kaladesh Spoilers Thread

    Yeah, the mothership article last week that explained how vehicles are basically "fixed" equipment sold this new direction for me. Basically, you don't have to pack artifact removal specifically to deal with troublesome vehicles; they're still useless without bodies to jump aboard them; they...
  15. Eric Chan

    Sets Conspiracy 2 Spoilers Thread

    Anyone done a draft with Conspiracy 2 yet? Based on the spoilers, I expected to enjoy it a lot more than the original, but in practise, the games turned out to be mostly giant board stalls with few ways of breaking through or moving the game state forward. Monarch is a fantastic mechanic, and...
  16. Eric Chan

    General Fight Club

    I had a friend who tried to make Maelstrom Archangel work in Standard way back in the day. He would go to great lengths to get all five colours in time, land the angel, have it survive for a turn, then connect with the opponent in the red zone... and be all out of gas to cheat out. I think...
  17. Eric Chan

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    I've cubed with both, and found that {U}{U}{U} is asking a lot of a player, even if most times the pilot does have the mana by the time they hit turn six; it's just that the few times they don't, it's usually catastrophic. Confiscate steals planeswalkers plenty fine, anyways!
  18. Eric Chan

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    I tried Mind Control for a while, but it was still in the upper echelon of cards in my list, so now I'm using Confiscate, which is at the right power level I'm looking for in a Control Magic variant. At six mana, it's really only usable by control decks - and, realistically, only against slow...
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