Onderzeeboot
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But your cube could be running stuff to help with the evasion. It only needs to get in once to be great after all. Besides removal you could cube all sorts of cool things, like:
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Grillo_Parlante
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I like you're thinking. I've been trying to gimp removal lately and run more voltron effects (equipment, bestow) and intimidate effects. I already run profane command, and it is pretty great.
How has Mogis' Marauder and chariot been? Marauder looks like one of those cards that really fluctuates in impact, and chariot turned me off because it doesn’t buff the little aggro creatures' power.
I've been on the fence about nim deathmantle for a long time. Is it fun? Or does it just take over games? The 4 equip cost really turns me off, and the inevitability it represents on a difficult to interact with permanent makes me nervous. Otherwise it looks about perfect, since it brings that effect outside of black to more colors.
How has Mogis' Marauder and chariot been? Marauder looks like one of those cards that really fluctuates in impact, and chariot turned me off because it doesn’t buff the little aggro creatures' power.
I've been on the fence about nim deathmantle for a long time. Is it fun? Or does it just take over games? The 4 equip cost really turns me off, and the inevitability it represents on a difficult to interact with permanent makes me nervous. Otherwise it looks about perfect, since it brings that effect outside of black to more colors.
Onderzeeboot
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I only run Herald of Torment at the moment, but then again I run hardly any saboteur effects. I think those are quite interesting though. Marauder especially is a card I want to make room for, but the 3-drop slot is sooo crowded in black. It's very good in black aggro though. Chariot occurred me as a nice card, because first strike and trample work so well together with deathtouch. Haven't tried it though, and I wish they had pushed it a little more. We need more equipment on the level of Bonesplitter and Grafted Wargear instead of underpowered stuff like Heartseeker and batshit insane stuff like Umezawa's Jitte. If Chariot gave +1/+0 in addition to those abilities I would have run it in a heartbeat.
Once I figured out Bonesplitter was just about the perfect power level and mana cost for my cube, I went and upped it to three copies. After fiddling for months with the likes of Adventuring Gear and other underwhelming equipment, but having them not pan out, I'm finally happy with where the equipment is at. Triple Bonesplitter is one of the best changes I've introduced. Though I can't really take all the credit - Modern Masters probably planted the seed for this in my head.
Grillo_Parlante
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I think its just really hard to hit that equipment sweet spot. My games tend to go longer (multiplayer ect. ect.) but I still have a very tempo driven format, and equip costs over 1 can be a real beating. I should probably just do what Eric did and run triple bonesplitter.
Right now, however, I have high hopes for the equipment that isn't equipment:
Dom Harvey
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Power Matrix is kinda sweet! If only it granted haste...
Or if it had, like, an untap cost.
Power matrix was actually pretty good for me. Flying is a big word 'round these parts. Makes blocking and attacking pretty awkward for your opponent; they don't get the "kill your equipped guy, then combat stuff" tempo against power matrix.
But you can only use it once/"round" of course.
But you can only use it once/"round" of course.
Onderzeeboot
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Seems cubable at 3 colorless even. At 2 colorless it's pretty nutty I would think.
Chris Taylor
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YES! I've currently just got paper on magic cards proper but my drafters don't notice. Printing straight on magic cards sounds awesome, but I haven't taken the leap because I don't have the stuff to clean cards for it.
I've seen that video series before and someone around my LGS had a few a while back, and they looked gorgeous.
http://zeerbe.blogspot.ca/ Anyone seen this guy? He has some really great work, and I'm currently using his duals fetches IIRC
Edit: Turns out someone else made the duals I'm using, but his are pretty sweet too
Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation.
Ogre Battledriver VS Urabrask?
Onderzeeboot
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Battledriver has got to be the pick there, especially if you run a token subtheme. Siege-Gang Commander, attack for 16? I love Urabrask, but that 1 mana makes a lot of difference.
Onderzeeboot
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Ok, don't use acetone guys. Use a small safety pin and carefully push against the top foil layer under an angle of approximately 45 degrees in one of the corners. The pin is above the card, but you're kinda pushing up, trying to get under the foil layer from above as it were. When the foil layer comes off, use a pincer to pull it off a bit more, then use pull it off very slowly with your hands, making sure the foil layer is folded back on itself. That worked a whole lot better then using acetone, which just makes the paper layer under the foil layer tear off way too easily.
I think I have around 30 blank cards now, ready for custom lands! As soon as the decal sheets arrive that is
Ok, don't use acetone guys. Use a small safety pin and carefully push against the top foil layer under an angle of approximately 45 degrees in one of the corners. The pin is above the card, but you're kinda pushing up, trying to get under the foil layer from above as it were. When the foil layer comes off, use a pincer to pull it off a bit more, then use pull it off very slowly with your hands, making sure the foil layer is folded back on itself. That worked a whole lot better then using acetone, which just makes the paper layer under the foil layer tear off way too easily.
I think I have around 30 blank cards now, ready for custom lands! As soon as the decal sheets arrive that is
I was doing this with acetone, but I was using the acetone to remove the ink. I wasn't peeling anything off, I was just scrubbing away until I had a blank foil. Nail polish remover works too. I never had much success with this whole thing, I couldn't really get the printing right.
Onderzeeboot
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Oh yeah, if you want foils, definitely use acetone! I dislike foils though, so I want blank cards. Apparently using window decals solves all of the printing problems. I am going to find out whether this is true!
Aha ok, I assumed this was all about printing foils and I skipped through the video. I assumed, like all good magic players, that I already knew everything.
The problems with window decals are getting the size right, getting them aligned right, and getting the color right. You have to print them darker, I think. As I said I never really got it right.
CML
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nah -- it's not you, it's him
the 4-drop itself MUST DO SOMETHING RIGHT AWAY
(unless it's Galepowder Mage)
I guess I just have a thing for triggered abilities over EtB effects...
I mean I love some EtB creatures...but I dislike a critical mass of them. Feels better to earn something by doing a little more than just casting it successfully...
I mean I love some EtB creatures...but I dislike a critical mass of them. Feels better to earn something by doing a little more than just casting it successfully...