General CBS

[James Stevenson]

My cousin just lived with me for three weeks, and it turns out he's a kitchen table magic player. So I threw together a couple decks and we jammed. I finally got to play with two cards I've owned forever and never used:

They were awesome! Both very powerful. Genju was quite a bomb.

On the other hand, I greatly disliked these for taking the fun out of a couple games:

I might forgive Angel of Serenity if her art was actually a serene looking angel.

Speaking of golems, does Conversion Chamber suck?

 

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

Thanks for the reminder about the obelisk. Yeah, I think conversion chamber probably does suck. Might be okay if you have a lot of proliferate?

 

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

What ways are there to exploit having a high permanent count, regardless of what those are? Ascend is ideal but the actual Ascend cards are underwhelming; there's Smokestack/Tangle Wire and stuff like Read the Runes, but what else?

 

[James Stevenson]

edit: Well, only counts your creatures I guess.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I had a casual deck that used enchantments to ramp like crazy and then cast Flame Fusillade and Recoup to ping people to death over two turns with enchantments and lands. It was a blast

 

[whydirt]

Big leak of Dominaria cards:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/dominaria-leak-2018-03-08

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I... I got to D in the card file at the bottom, but I don't know if I want to read any further...

This set is going to shake up Commander real good though o_O

 

[frostymoose]

Oh God.

Spoiler

Muldrotha, the Gravetide
3BGU
Legendary Creature — Elemental Avatar
6/6
During each of your turns, you may play up to one permanent card of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.)

I'm really excited about a lot of the cards here. Now my fingers are crossed for good art.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I couldn't contain myself... There is a lot of cards I like, and I'm not even through the whole thing... Bunch of really sensible changes as well, I love that they are changing "he or she" to "they" as it's way cleaner. I'm neutral about abolishing the term "mana pool", but it does save space. Embelishing legendary cards could be fun, just like planeswalkers have that little extra because their art can pop out of the frame, giving legendary card frames a little flourish makes them pop out more from "regular" cards.

Spoiler

Jodah, Archmage Eternal
1URW
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
4/3
Flying
You may pay WUBRG rather than pay the mana cost for spells that you cast.

This is really fun with the new commander rules. Your lands can actually add any color of mana nowadays, you just can't have lands outside your color identity in your deck. Cards like City of Brass, however, are fair game. This means you can actually use this as your commander and go to town with rainbow lands and mana rocks!

 

[anotak]

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/101125

clearly i have created the ultimate cube draft experience

 

[Fulcrum]

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/101125

clearly i have created the ultimate cube draft experience

Ackchyually...

 

[Jason Waddell]

Speaking of golems, does Conversion Chamber suck?

Only if you consider paying 7 mana for a 3/3 "sucky". Pretty efficient compared to the cards I've been playing.

Spoiler

 

[Velrun]

Ackchyually...

That Predict <3

 

[Suicufnoc]

Picked up some foils

 

[James Stevenson]

Picked up some foils
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These are amazing!..... How?

 

[Chris Taylor]

Yeah those are real powerful!

I actually play with sylvan mentor under a different name. Props

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Yeah those are real powerful!

I actually play with sylvan mentor under a different name. Props

Heh, and I played with Burning Vision under another name (I believe it was Flames of Fate) Sylvan Mentor is a cool design!

 

[Suicufnoc]

Makeplayingcards.com. That wont print the actual card back and it can't have the copyright line. Brightened the images a bit first, as instructed by a guy on Reddit. Quality is good. I did 300gsm paper. Supposedly the 330gsm is a little nicer. I believe a real card is 310-320. These will be double sleeved and be indistinguishable. Pricing is good.

Sylan Mentor I believe I stole from from Chris. Burning Vision I started at 1R instand and Ond recommended R sorcery. Volatile Goo was designed by a guy on Reddit. Prettly sure the rest are all mine. Steadfast Hero may have been Chris? No idea.

Card frame is a guy on Reddit. Mostly used that because it's the only HD frame I can find for MSE. I'm thinking I'll switch to MTG.design.

 

[James Stevenson]

Makeplayingcards.com. That wont print the actual card back and it can't have the copyright line. Brightened the images a bit first, as instructed by a guy on Reddit. Quality is good. I did 300gsm paper. Supposedly the 330gsm is a little nicer. I believe a real card is 310-320. These will be double sleeved and be indistinguishable. Pricing is good.

Sylan Mentor I believe I stole from from Chris. Burning Vision I started at 1R instand and Ond recommended R sorcery. Volatile Goo was designed by a guy on Reddit. Prettly sure the rest are all mine. Steadfast Hero may have been Chris? No idea.

Card frame is a guy on Reddit. Mostly used that because it's the only HD frame I can find for MSE. I'm thinking I'll switch to MTG.design.

I'm trying to figure out the pricing on this site. Did you pay like$10 per card?

 

[Suicufnoc]

I'm trying to figure out the pricing on this site. Did you pay like$10 per card?

nah I want to say it was $30-40 for about about 50 cards

 

[Peter LaCara]

You wanna know what's awkward? When you drop an Oona's Prowler on turn 2 for your sweet Living Death deck, and then your opponent plops down a Drake Haven on 3. That was an interesting puzzle to solve.

 

[whydirt]

Looks like Card Kingdom is taking feedback on their starter cube! https://mobile.twitter.com/Chris_VanMeter/status/980844975347744768

 

[Velrun]

You wanna know what's awkward? When you drop an Oona's Prowler on turn 2 for your sweet Living Death deck, and then your opponent plops down a Drake Haven on 3. That was an interesting puzzle to solve.

I cut Living Death from my cube long ago. Was that a mistake?

 

[James Stevenson]

I cut Living Death from my cube long ago. Was that a mistake?

I love living death but dear lord is it a blow out. It's a great card to build your deck around, and if the opponent knows it's coming, that should help them a little. But yeah it's often a one-sided wrath that gives you a bunch of guys. Still, I love it.

 

[Peter LaCara]

I cut Living Death from my cube long ago. Was that a mistake?

I think the card is awesome, but literally every color in my cube cares about the graveyard in some way, so it's not as one sided as it is in, say, Masters 25. I like the effect so much I'm considering adding Twilight's Call for redundancy.