Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Yeah, I feel you. When you have a single playgroup where noone is wearing glasses, like sigh apparently does, it turns into irrelevant trinket text like Yuriko's "commander ninjutsu".
Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight
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Chris Taylor
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Make one
I don’t run non-unique customs. In other words: If I include a custom card, the card has to be absolutely amazing and do something no other Magic card does.Make one
The reason is my cube already has custom rules which greatly exceeds the burden on the players than a custom card would.
I do run normal Magic cards with new cost or altered with a sharpie though. They kind of count as customs. I could technically alter a looter with a new cost.
Thank you for the suggestionWhat about
It‘s one mana and kinda loots. Just not from your hand.
It’s not what I am looking for but I appreciate it! I want it to trigger Drake Haven and I don’t want it to cost mana to loot. I know I am simply asking for a card too powerful than what we have so I will pipe down now 
I was going to suggest this card as well, it is really fun!
Well, technically it costs one mana, and technically it doesn't cost mana to loot.
Doesn’t it technically cost 1U to loot? I can’t see how one would technically loot with it without paying 1U the first time.
Well, technically it costs one mana, and technically it doesn't cost mana to loot.
try that new looter werewolf tbh, it’s pretty awesomeWhat are your thoughts on a card like this?
EDIT: cryptologist is cool too
This gives me serious Zack McKracken flashbacks.
(Is someone else here old enough to have played that game, too?)
Have you tried it yet?
I have it on my MID list.
i had it in a couple retail drafts and it’s super good there. punishes the opponent for not playing magic which is always something i’m looking to do
Not playing magic?
like if you just sit there for a turn or two and let the werewolf hit you, you’re gonna be a down. A LOT. it encourages players to be interacting with each other because of how hard it hits if you’re not interacting.
Oh. I feel like sometimes not casting a spell is not a choice but just a thing the game decides for the player. Luckily this one just attacks for 2 each turn.
i feel like if i’m without a spell for an entire turn cycle (other than MAYBE the first turn), i didn’t build my deck right
@Jason Waddell can we get a new emoji like
but saying "it depends on your environment?"
On topic, I do like looting werewolf as a 'funisher' card in that it dies to an aggressive sneeze but incentivizes interaction. It worries me how good it is--just transforming into a 2/1 unlockable looter would have been enough for my taste--but fundamentally I think it does good things.
This can be fine with things like Baleful Mastery because typically you're giving them a single card and removing something that can win the game if not answered as well as having the option to avoid this downside, but repeatedly letting your opponents draw cards is not going to work out well unless your deck is constructed with the ability to handle that in mind. Surfer wolf doesn't give you the option to prepare that way.
but saying "it depends on your environment?"On topic, I do like looting werewolf as a 'funisher' card in that it dies to an aggressive sneeze but incentivizes interaction. It worries me how good it is--just transforming into a 2/1 unlockable looter would have been enough for my taste--but fundamentally I think it does good things.
@Velrun, I think the 2 damage is actually negligible when compared to the card draw it provides. Letting your opponents draw free cards is going to undo all of your hard work of finding 2-for-1s, usually, and while you can try to tempo them out by ending the game before they use those additional cards it's a tough bar to clear. In most games, the person who can take the most actions tends to fare the best, so giving the other player more opportunities to take actions is generally a bad idea.
This can be fine with things like Baleful Mastery because typically you're giving them a single card and removing something that can win the game if not answered as well as having the option to avoid this downside, but repeatedly letting your opponents draw cards is not going to work out well unless your deck is constructed with the ability to handle that in mind. Surfer wolf doesn't give you the option to prepare that way.
That would require a specific kind of cube to 100 % of the times give you that option to build your cube in a way where you are guarenteed to have a spell in every single turn of your own turns and not spells in the opponents turns.
Because otherwise “sometimes not casting a spell is not a choice but just a thing the game decides for the player.”
Oh yes I very much agree. However then it stops being a looter and that is the topic. The Blurry Beeble conversation continues. I guess you can overdraw so much that you actually have to discard in the clean up step thus making it a looter again. But actually hitting hard, I do not think it does. It draws hard in my opinion. And it does it unblockably
Chris Taylor
Contributor
*Barbershop Quartet Voice*@Jason Waddell can we get a new emoji like
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Velrun, you're talking to blacksmithy here. They have built their cube around that, and also are fully convinced that everyone else should build their cube that way as well.
Come on, this is like talking to me and not going "what heinously stupid design restriction have you decided on today?"