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Scry is more universally strong. Fateseal is randomly stronger depending on what your opponent is doing (playing with top of library revealed, just tutored and put on top of library, etc.) and whether it's at instant speed or not.
Chris Taylor
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Depends who's playing the combo deck
maro
on powermax cube
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/80531699024/just-to-interject-i-know-of-several-people-who-have
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/pos...-that-bad-cards-are-a-necessary-evil-and-seem
on breaking singleton
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/80535362622/while-were-on-the-topic-of-cubes-do-you-have-any
so yeah whats up
on powermax cube
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/80531699024/just-to-interject-i-know-of-several-people-who-have
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/pos...-that-bad-cards-are-a-necessary-evil-and-seem
on breaking singleton
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/80535362622/while-were-on-the-topic-of-cubes-do-you-have-any
so yeah whats up
MaRo good at design, film continues after these messages.
I picked up a box of Morningtide that my friends and I drafted over the weekend. That may be the most 1- and 2-drops I've ever seen maindeck after drafting boosters. The Born of the Gods packs after that weren't quite as exciting. There isn't nearly as much synergy/speed/silly interactions. (I watched someone race a Lightning Crafter/Thornbite Staff combo and win. Another came very close.) It isn't necessarily bad, but the games are longer and board stalls often happen without either player being close to dead. I guess I should say it feels like I accomplish less in BNG.
Like MaRo mentioned on Tumblr, they definitely went overboard with Tribal in Lorwyn block. Prowl and Kinship are pretty silly mechanics, and we all drafted based on creature types. Damn was it fun though. If only people weren't too drained to draft cube afterward. At least I have some new cards to add to it...
Like MaRo mentioned on Tumblr, they definitely went overboard with Tribal in Lorwyn block. Prowl and Kinship are pretty silly mechanics, and we all drafted based on creature types. Damn was it fun though. If only people weren't too drained to draft cube afterward. At least I have some new cards to add to it...
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I kinda like the idea of typeless prowl, kinda bloodthirst: This card costs less and might do something different
Kinship seems pretty dumb though
Kinship seems pretty dumb though
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Colorless Bears with shroud: the mutavault story
CML
Contributor
drafted my friend's power cube last night. postmortem with another CML's cube hadji:
B: that cube is so bad
My deck was so good bad
I won 1/3 of my games easily, lost 1/3 without doing anything, and 1/3 were really, really6 good games
CML: "huh ancestral recall"
"guess ill draft it"
B: even my 4 wildfire deck turned out that way
what a fun deck btw
4 wildfires
awesome
CML: yeah i couldnt get it to work in my cube
always wanted it to
B: it didn't work and sucjked
I prefer 80% good games 20% bad to 30% great games 70% terrible
the deckbuilding also sucks
Half of my deck obviously fit together and the other half was off-curve, unsynergistic "good cards"
I complained loudly
i hate moxen in packs
I already hate picking fixing instead of fun cards
I hate choosing between a fun archetype enabler and a card which breaks the fundamental rules of the game as it currently stands
hmmm do I take the card which is always good in every circumstance?
or the card I want to play in my fun cube deck
I mean the good games were very good
B: The game I had to triple geddon / wildfire shawn [ed.: SmugAsianMan] and his recurring nightmare indrik stomphowler derenged hermit loops while also managing a trading post and a welder several artifacts coming in and out was among the best games I ever played
To finally win with a 14/14 blightsteel against his 11/11
15/15
---
so I wonder the extent to which the point of powered Cube is to have one of those rare games where you each trade outrageous blows that somehow line up perfectly to produce a memorable game, even if it's only one game per draft or whatever and the decision trees were 'pruned' compared to a typical game in a Cube here. indeed, "the stories" is a common trope among the BDM and other Cube mongoloid cabal on social media, though anyone who's read anything with hashtag MTGstories will already be skeptical of that end, especially if "80 percent" of Cube games have been sacrificed to it.
B: that cube is so bad
My deck was so good bad
I won 1/3 of my games easily, lost 1/3 without doing anything, and 1/3 were really, really6 good games
CML: "huh ancestral recall"
"guess ill draft it"
B: even my 4 wildfire deck turned out that way
what a fun deck btw
4 wildfires
awesome
CML: yeah i couldnt get it to work in my cube
always wanted it to
B: it didn't work and sucjked
I prefer 80% good games 20% bad to 30% great games 70% terrible
the deckbuilding also sucks
Half of my deck obviously fit together and the other half was off-curve, unsynergistic "good cards"
I complained loudly
i hate moxen in packs
I already hate picking fixing instead of fun cards
I hate choosing between a fun archetype enabler and a card which breaks the fundamental rules of the game as it currently stands
hmmm do I take the card which is always good in every circumstance?
or the card I want to play in my fun cube deck
I mean the good games were very good
B: The game I had to triple geddon / wildfire shawn [ed.: SmugAsianMan] and his recurring nightmare indrik stomphowler derenged hermit loops while also managing a trading post and a welder several artifacts coming in and out was among the best games I ever played
To finally win with a 14/14 blightsteel against his 11/11
15/15
---
so I wonder the extent to which the point of powered Cube is to have one of those rare games where you each trade outrageous blows that somehow line up perfectly to produce a memorable game, even if it's only one game per draft or whatever and the decision trees were 'pruned' compared to a typical game in a Cube here. indeed, "the stories" is a common trope among the BDM and other Cube mongoloid cabal on social media, though anyone who's read anything with hashtag MTGstories will already be skeptical of that end, especially if "80 percent" of Cube games have been sacrificed to it.
I think it's fine. Not good, but fine. It doesn't feel quite as bad when you cast it for a relatively small amount and even gets random buffs from Avenger of Zendikar. If only it had Cascade instead.
Upheaval at CCCCCC would probably see as much play as Cruel Ultimatum and other awesome 3-color things. Basically only 3-5 color green and 1st pick build-arounds. I don't know if you want Upheaval to be wheelable, because it would feel bad to hate draft such a prohibitive card.
Upheaval at CCCCCC would probably see as much play as Cruel Ultimatum and other awesome 3-color things. Basically only 3-5 color green and 1st pick build-arounds. I don't know if you want Upheaval to be wheelable, because it would feel bad to hate draft such a prohibitive card.
question:
how good would traditionally insanely-good-in-cube cards would be as 3 color cards (example: upheaval except it costsor something)
This feels like pretty awful design. Upheaval is already a card that requires some context, and now you're pigeonholing the archetype to one very specific color combination. That's not really the direction I want three-color cards to go.
I think in general I want any CDE card to work in any CDE deck, because the color combination requirement already places the card in such low demand. Say, something like Rhox War Monk (sorry Dom).
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I had the misfortune of playing against whip of erebos in the pre release yesterday. Dear god is that card miserable to play against. Oh, I've beaten you down and killed your guys? Oh look at your life total rise again...