Dom Harvey
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This is a very neat incentive - feels like a nod to Lorwyn and the UB Faeries/flash stuff we hopefully get to feast on again soon
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This is a very neat incentive - feels like a nod to Lorwyn and the UB Faeries/flash stuff we hopefully get to feast on again soon
not for me, haven't got enough cheap artifacts. definitely for someone who wants Kappa Cannoneer but with slightly less power level but still high
Dom Harvey
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Neat card with Helping Hand/Recommission etc variants yeah
I always had a soft spot for Desolate Lighthouse and this is a really nice one
I always had a soft spot for Desolate Lighthouse and this is a really nice one
I like this one a bit, but yeah, not doing anything on its own is rough. Final-Word Phantom is probably better for this kind of ability, even if you don't get the potential draw engine out of it.
I much prefer this to Zack Fair, and I think it's a big improvement on the art.
I like keeping the dude around. I like not having to spend mana on this effect. I think hexproof plus a +1/+1 counter is generally better than indestructible. But most importantly, I like that it's much simpler to read and understand.
Devoted Caretaker was in my Cube for a long time, but I think this is preferable in most ways other than art.
I think it's significantly better than Curse of Predation, because green has so many dudes that love to tap for mana. It feels like the power delta is a bit too big for having it in the same Cube as Ouroboroid for me, but that's kind of the case for any +1/+1 counter generator the more I think of it. I think with the big improvement over Curse of Predation, I'd put it in this class of cards, all of which I run or have in my on-deck binder:
as well as the recently spoiled:
Master's Guidance (should be up on scryfall within a few hours) is a super neat card that sucks unless you're deep in the legendary theme. Probably a little too much crossover between the +1/+1 counters, go-wide tokens, big dudes, and legendary-matters themes, but it's kind of nice it does that all. I like drawing an extra card every turn. I like getting multiple +1/+1 counters a turn. It just asks a lot, is all. Happy it exists either way.
Finally, new Consider art! I'll probably keep my Saruman version, but this is a huge improvement over the original.
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Obsessive Pursuit is a great recurring trinket generator for me that also pairs very nicely with aristocrats cards. I like this more than the new Bitterblossom dude that was spoiled!
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Fire Nation Occupation is more exciting to me than a Monastery Mentor. What a sweet card that really fires you up as a build-around. Don't love that it asks for its own token types, and don't love firebending on them, but I think it's worth the Cube curator-side accounting problems.
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Professor Zei, Anthropologist feels like it was made for Cube curators. Lovely card. Not sure I'm going to have room for it, but I love the simplicity and the lack of sacrifices asked of its players.
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Jet, Rebel Leader would've been so sick a few years ago. I love that it puts the dudes in attacking.
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Airbender's Reversal is like Iroh's Demonstration in that it's a modal spell that really doesn't ask you to make much of a sacrifice for it. I'd still prefer Spectacular Tactics or Battle Menu or Thraben Charm (of which I'm currently only playing Battle Menu) but I think a lot of this is up to the Cube curator's preference and I'm happy to have the choices.
Nyla, Shirshu Sleuth creates a ton of trinkets all at once, and I think is super cool. Power level is somewhat lacking, but I think I'd rather have this than Doom Whisperer, for example.
Dom Harvey
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If you like ambitious mana bases...
Kind of makes me question why I'm playing Dryad of the Ilysian Grove! I think I'd rather have my greed-enabler also be able to tap for mana, and costing a whole mana less is huge. Losing one point of toughness and the Exploration ability seems like a small cost.
The issue is my stupid sexy Dryad is very sexy. Feels like a bit of a downgrade to the vibes!
It can even protect itself from land destruction if you have the mana available.
Okay fine, you win Ba Sing Se, you have my attention.
This set has so so many cool cards that I can't really fit into my cube, with all the additional jumpstart cards (including great reprints with fitting art) I am really considering to make an Avatar Cube. I'll probably do this once the inevitable Legend of Korra Set arrives
As we're wrapping up spoiler season (today's TLE cards round out the mechanically new cards in the set and we're down to just ~20 cards from the main set, with 270/296 revealed), I'm currently at 26 swaps planned for this set. Not a record-breaker (nothing close to FIN/FIC), but there's a lot more high-confidence cards than usual here. I spent some time this morning procrastinating and finding swaps, so I'm ready for the Includes thread as soon as we can get it going!!
Speaking of the last few cards, though:
Not necessarily for my Cube, but hell yeah. HELL YEAH. You don't need to know Avatar lore or anything to appreciate this design, how well it integrates Magic and Avatar lore, or how perfectly tuned every element of this card is. Just a fantastically designed set overall.
Speaking of the last few cards, though:
Not necessarily for my Cube, but hell yeah. HELL YEAH. You don't need to know Avatar lore or anything to appreciate this design, how well it integrates Magic and Avatar lore, or how perfectly tuned every element of this card is. Just a fantastically designed set overall.
Dom Harvey
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Nice one here for any fans of Cryptic Command loops etc (or Doppelgang, Flash Photography etc...)
but you're gonna need something to do with it all, so spend your turn one green mana on
Bumi's Feast Lecture is another card in the vein of the earlier-discussed 2-drop-with-a-food-token Michelangelo, the Heart / Spider-Ham, Peter Porker / Tough Cookie / Unlucky Cabbage Merchant, and it's pretty cool! It plays better if you're playing with more of the others, because you really would prefer this not play out as a Bakersbane Duo (especially since it'll enter tapped if you've only got two lands to cast it with). Lower power-level than what I'm trying to do, but interesting nonetheless.
Chris Taylor
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Oh hey it's another Bear (that isn't a bear) that makes a bear (that isn't a bear)
not for me, haven't got enough cheap artifacts. definitely for someone who wants Kappa Cannoneer but with slightly less power level but still high
The funny thing is that a couple other cards that work well as cheat-y Unearth targets effectively use unkeyworded waterbend:
It's honestly one of the stand-out cards from this set for me.
That said...
(Ezuri's Predation is the only other non-creature mono-green spell that lets you fight a creature without having any pre-existing creatures of your own.)
I don't know man, I know a lot of people who are into exactly the kind of man the Great Divide Guide appears to be. I think there's an argument that he might be the more attractive one tbh.