Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight
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Grillo_Parlante
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Showed up in draft today. Two thumbs way up, really amazing card.
I think it's the best Pacifism variant yet. As an aggro deck, you can slap it on an Augur of Bolas guilt-free and go to town, knowing that you can still switch it to a larger threat later.
CML
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Showed up in draft today. Two thumbs way up, really amazing card.
yeah there's a lot of fun built into this one. the prison termed guy has to figure out when to play creatures and the warden has to figure out when to move it. it's an elegant design for what's up with it
yeah i think it's pretty solid but i have qualms about it because it's a multicolor card you'd have some difficulties playing main. looking at the context in which it's a good sideboard card in legacy might yield some results, but i'm not sure how to interpret "universal inclusion for RW/x"
About 20% of my cube is enchantments/artifacts - that number went up with all the enchantment creatures. What are the odds of you facing a deck that has no enchantments or artifacts in it? I'm thinking it's pretty low. Anything that can hit both of those card types is probably maindeckable in virtually every matchup in cube. So the only thing really hurting wear//tear is that it's a gold card so fighting for a slot in the most competitive section of the cube.
With that said, disenchant is infinitely more splashable (even though you lose the two for one opportunity). And I don't even run disenchant.
With that said, disenchant is infinitely more splashable (even though you lose the two for one opportunity). And I don't even run disenchant.
In the other thread, nobody even wants to cube a 
vanilla 4/4...
I think big guys with drawbacks need to have some kinda evasion nowadays. See Desecration Demon, Abyssal Persecutor.
vanilla 4/4...I think big guys with drawbacks need to have some kinda evasion nowadays. See Desecration Demon, Abyssal Persecutor.
FlowerSunRain
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This is what I expect to get these days out of a 4 mana 5/5. I don't think being black is enough of an "advantage" to take a Juzam Variant.
Grillo_Parlante
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Oddly enough the flavor text on hypnotic specter describes perfectly my experiences with winter orb.
At least that's only a problem if you have an Alpha Beta or Unlimited one. Revised and forward don't have continuous on it.
It was still an issue for one of my friends. He has one from unlimited. I don't, but he still insisted it was turned off when tapped. Not everyone subscribes to the rule changes handed down from Wizards. Admittedly, this one seems hard to defend since it completely changed how the card plays. I don't know the history of why that feature got removed from some cards and errata'd on others (howling mine for example).
what? cant you just show them the oracle text? how is this an argument
also, about the change
"Once we decided to stop doing functional errata, we went back and undid any functional errata change we had done. The one exception was on cards where we had printed the new rules text on cards. Thus, Howling Mine, which had been reprinted, kept the new wording while Winter Orb, which had not, was reverted to its original text."
also, about the change
"Once we decided to stop doing functional errata, we went back and undid any functional errata change we had done. The one exception was on cards where we had printed the new rules text on cards. Thus, Howling Mine, which had been reprinted, kept the new wording while Winter Orb, which had not, was reverted to its original text."
Thanks for the explanation on the rule change.
To answer your question, no. It isn't that simple. My cube is "retro" for a reason.
Chris Taylor
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Yeah I get people asking if I still play with damage on the stack. Usually out of an unnatural love for mog fanatic
I don't have a lot of weight in this argument either because I rejected the M10 rule changes. So when my friend who had been playing since alpha did the same thing with contiguous artifacts, what was I going to say? Read the Oracle text but ignore any reference to M10? LOL.
So I got rid of winter orb and everyone seemed content sticking with 6th edition rules (which most of us knew really well). I've kept things that way ever since and that's why I don't run some of the newer stuff (DFC, walkers, etc.). My cube is retro-ish, but I've been slowly integrating new cards over time.
Grillo_Parlante
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Thats good to know that someone else still plays with damage on the stack.
Yup. And mana burn.
When I told my long time friend that Wizard's removed mana burn, he was like "WTF? Why?!??!". So we all kind of agreed to keep playing the version of Magic we all knew and liked.
VibeBox
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always and forever
Dom Harvey
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I still play with interrupts #getoffmylawn