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  1. TrainmasterGT

    General [TMT] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

    This set looks like a marked step up from Spider-Man! It still suffers slightly from the "there are a bunch of similar looking characters on legendary creatures" issue Spider-Man had, but not nearly to the same extent. I think the Villains are actively quite interesting: I know nothing about...
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    General [ECL] Lorwyn Eclipsed

    I doubt they regret it, but I don't think they would reprint it into Standard. They have really toned back the quality of removal spells since Scars block (even though they realistically need stronger options to deal with contemporary threats).
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    General [ECL] Lorwyn Eclipsed

    Honestly, this might just be a case of poor card evaluation on my part, I'm not entirely sure! I just don't understand why they're so careful with fixed-value Savannah Lions variants in a post-Ragavan world (that is also full of snowballing 1-drops with other statliness). It seems like a place...
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    General [ECL] Lorwyn Eclipsed

    Based take?? Honestly, I think Venser is mostly still popular due to nostalgia and LSV glaze at this point. I think most Cubes could do better (unless they're specifically looking for the nostalgia hit, of course!)
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    General [ECL] Lorwyn Eclipsed

    It's hilarious to me how conservative they are with giving Savannah Lions new abilities. We get Snowballing Threats and Looters that become Ancestral Recall Creation Devices at one mana now, but for some reason, they're afraid to give the Savannah Lions variants compelling use cases for when...
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    General Jank Spotlight

    Yavimaya Ancient Really cool for a "Toughness Matters" theme. I like how this can also trigger ferocious if you need it to!
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    General [ECL] Lorwyn Eclipsed

    Given that the Strixhaven students are central to the story for Lorwyn Exlipsed, I'm wondering if there will be Lorwyn stuff bleeding into Secrets of Strixhaven later next year.
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    Dom's Stream of Consciousness

    A Whistlestop, you say?
  9. TrainmasterGT

    General Big Spell Bullshit (And Other Noncreature Cards)

    Living Lore is sweet, and definitely a good example of the type of card that would work well with the "big spell" component of the Cube.
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    General Big Spell Bullshit (And Other Noncreature Cards)

    I'm working on a Cube where I want the following to be awesome: Brilliant Restoration Tooth and Nail This leads me to wanting: –A somewhat slower environment (minus pixie ninjas squirrels) –A Monocolor or Hybrid* Inclination –Some sort of rampy subplot? Some cards that might fit this bill...
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    This card is like... aggressively ok. It reads well, but in practice the type of deck that would want a card with this set of synergies at this cost would prefer a card which is better at pushing damage like Dragons Rage Channeler.
  12. TrainmasterGT

    General Making green more interactive

    I don't really agree with you here, I think there are a lot of cool big green threats you're not playing that match or exceed the other colors. Vaultborn Tyrant is the one that immediately comes to mind, you have to ramp into it a little harder than some of the other top-end cards, but it's...
  13. TrainmasterGT

    General (TLA/TLE) Avatar: The Last Airbender Testing/Includes Thread

    Honestly I thought it was banned too because ti fell off so hard after the other pixie peices got the gun. Glad to see Sokka's Boomarang was able to revive the deck card!
  14. TrainmasterGT

    General (TLA/TLE) Avatar: The Last Airbender Testing/Includes Thread

    The card was not banned and is now $30 btw. Badgermole Cub is my GOAT.
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    General Making green more interactive

    I'm going to say two things here: First, Green isn't really the most interactive color on the planet. It usually wants to ask "questions" that are difficult for the opponent to answer rather than trying to spend a lot of time trying to answer the opponent's threats. I think your green section...
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    General [TLA/TLE] [UB] Avatar: The Last Airbender

    Iroh's Demonstration Iroh's Demonstration being a real card is a pleasant surprise in my opinion. I acquired a copy for a second Cube project I'm working on, but I think I might give it a whirl in the main Cube for a bit! I'm a little sad it can't hit Planeswalkers like Thundering Rebuke, but I...
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    General [ECL] Lorwyn Eclipsed

    I think if they literally made it a Syncopate where X is the number of Faeries you control instead of a Spell Blast, we would have the card. Counterspells haven't really gotten much more powerful in the past 20 years.
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    General [ECL] Lorwyn Eclipsed

    Honestly, I was really expecting some good Faeries stuff in Wilds of Eldraine given how much they hyped up the Faerie stuff in the marketing. While we did get Spell Stutter and Picklock Prankster, which are both fun rewards for having some Faeries in your blue deck and will certainly be...
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    The Dandy Cube (Chris Taylor's Cube)

    It's amazing to me that pro magic players don't understand the color pie. You'd think after playing enough Magic you would know what is what!
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