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So, you claim to define "true old school fans"? And if someone would be playing for 25+ years, be well versed in old mtg lore, loves playing old school cards from pre modern area etc. but doesn't hate UB in general, they wouldn't be a "true old school fan"?

You're not representative of all (old) fans. I am an old fan and I prefer a rich UB world to many of magic's original settings, which are sometimes super one note (even older ones, like theros being a whole plane looking like a single place from our world in the past, same...

It's weird that you are such an UB hater, dude, you even made some Pokémagic cards yourself as well.

It is not even that difficult to blend in with Magic's aesthetics, even if you discount negative outliers like Aetherdrift. I mean, there is a lot of room on a spectrum between Bloomburrow and (New) Phyrexia. "Feeling Magic" is really mostly just being essentially a fantastical world telling a...

This was meant to say double strike, right? Super sad that they nerfed that, it would've been a great fit for my CCC if it wasn't so so bad.

This set has so so many cool cards that I can't really fit into my cube, with all the additional jumpstart cards (including great reprints with fitting art) I am really considering to make an Avatar Cube. I'll probably do this once the inevitable Legend of Korra Set arrives

Obsessive Pursuit {1}{B} Enchantment When this enchantment enters and at the beginning of your keep you lose 1 life and create a Clue Token. Whenever you attack put X +1/+1 counters on target attacking creature where X is the number of permanents you sacrificed this turn. If X is equal or...

This set just keeps on giving cool cards: Why play a man land when you could have a land that turns all your lands into man lands? Sorcery speed probably kills this for most of us, but I love how cool they captured that creepy character here. Note how she is not legendary! Neat...

This is so cool. I'm not sure that it's much better than good ol' Gravedigger, and it's a bit wordy, but it would make for a neat occasional.

Some cool playest cards I stumbled across today. Lutri, Pauper Otter I never thought I'd be ever companioning Lutri in Cube, but this one is honestly intriguing. In my core 21/45 blue cards and 19/45 red cards would go with him, plus a bunch of colorless, hybrids and my 13 proxied Prismatic...

Ramp in white feels just completely wrong to me. Like lifegain in red.

One very interesting spoiler from this small leak. Professor Zei, Anthropologist {U/R}{U/R} Legendary Creature — Human Advisor Ally {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during...

You could just play the lessons you like, almost like cubing the elves you like without caring about them.

The two things my wife loves the most doing in magic are casting one mana fliers and gaining life. Her favorite AtLA character is Momo. I guess I have to squeeze that into my cube.

Aangs face is the main set. The fan is only eternal legal cards from jumpstart/beginner box/bundle. Mostly jumpstart cards.

Sadly, ECL seemingly won't have much more hybrid than other current sets, based on number crunch. Ashlings Command is probably one of the first multicolor cards (they put them together) at 205 and Blood Crypt is the first land, most likely, at 262. That leaves up ~60 cards, but there would also...

We won't get 30+ Aangs I hope. But I don't mind getting a few different versions of key characters, especially in UB sets. Just makes it more likely to find a fitting one for any given cube. If there was only one Toph, it would probably be too powerful and I couldn't cube my favorite character...

Who even likes these "source material" cards? Even when they choose less ridiculous images, it just looks weird to have rules text with black outlines hovering in the weirdest spots.

Preview Stream managed to get my mtg hype-o-meter up and even distracted, for now, from ECL. That's my favorite spoiled so far, I really wanted to get a cool Toph, as she's my favorite character and this card should fit my cube very well (if it doesn't proof too strong, actually).

Before my baby break comes, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at how the CCC meta has been for the last three years. For that purpose, I will take a look at quantitive data but then also make that much more relevant with qualitative recollections, as far as possible. And to structure...