It's my favorite cube, probably.
The two keys are:
You have to have a clear lower bar. (Mine was grizzly bear, or 2/2 flier for 4 with soulshift. That sort of thing. 3/3 or 5/2 vanillas for four being the biggest outside of green.) This way, people can play something that still looks like magic.
And you have to give people lots and lots of tools. The weird ones.
I've also determined that dancing scimitar is one of the top 1st picks, barring something abusable. Right now my current issue is that the first big flier tends to win the game, but it stops it while also being useful for spirit synergy
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No enchantment theme, no artifact theme aside from a couple of cards like stoneforge mystic. My first concern would be "can aggro survive in a format with 25 wraths"?
Well, monocolor should be extremely easy to build, and from there cards like student of warfare and relentless dead could be able to make it work.
It depends a lot on the kind of wrath you include. Running all the four mana variants is very different than running something like Rout. Black also has a couple of recurrable aggro creatures, you seem to have included all I can think of off the top of my head.
Personally I'm a bit sad there's no echantment theme.
Oh, and homarid, when I said that grizzly bear was my lower bar, I meant it as my upper bar stats-wise. um... I had... 1/2 flier + lifelink at 2 mana, sigiled skink, and 1/2 llanowar elves on 2. This is about the power level I was looking at for 2 drops.
The high drops would get up to like mosstodon, craw wurm, or the stormwing dragon cycle. For texture I included indomitable ancients as a meme card. Moon heron and telethopter to contest some of the 2/3 fliers in black and white for 4-5 mana. And most of the starter deck planeswalkers like liliana, death wielder.
Have you felt that deathtouchers work OK, or do they contribute negatively to the board stalling by making it even less likely that there are good attacks? (To the extent that you should be careful about having too many of them)
If the Legendary Sorceries from dominaria didn't work the way they did now, but instead only let you cast one copy of them per game...
how do you think this should be worded?
My roommate and I are stuck between these two options:
"For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells named Yawgmoth's Vile Offering"
and
"For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells named Yawgmoth's Vile Offering. Exile Yawgmoth's Vile Offering"
I think the Thanos love for Gamora is super complicated and deep. He has his priorities all screwed up and he's a terrible father (figure), but he does care for her in some way. I really liked that part where you could see that it saddened him to have to do it, but he didn't even think twice about it.
Agreed on Loki. He chose poorly.
Star Lord was blinded by his own love for Gamora. We've seen that same plot line play out in 100 other movies.
What do you think happens in 4? I think we'll get the Captain Marvel origin and find out where she's been all this time in her movie. Then she gets the distress call from Fury either in her after credits scene or early in Avengers 4. She'll show up and get the scoop from the survivors and they'll figure out a way to turn it all back and get a second chance at stopping him. I also think that second chance will end up in different heroes dying, possibly some of the big three.
I buy Thanos's personality and motivations in almost every other sense. But he doesn't treat gamora or talk to gamora in any was as an adult that works as far as buying his paternal feelings. Even when he adopts her, it's sorta... rushed. She asked him where her mom was, he called her a fighter, and... there you go.
Well, I guess he calls her "little one". It first seems like a put down, but he does it to her when she's an actual little one, so that's cool.
Loki saw him literally beat up hulk. What did he think his knife was going to do?
Now that I mention it, thanos' durability and strength was all over the place. And don't get me started on how he doesn't use the reality stone to hack his way to victory easily.
/
In 4, I... really don't know.
Sure, Thanos will lose, we'll get back everyone who turned to ash (thanks to marvel release schedule for essentially spoiling this),
but how they will win depends on doctor strange's plan and captain marvel's power set.
I'm more interested in how Ant Man and the Wasp will handle the events of Infinity war. It would be completely amazing to have the *snap* happen at the end of act 1, and the rest of the movie dealing with the fallout and predictable anarchy.
I buy Thanos's personality and motivations in almost every other sense. But he doesn't treat gamora or talk to gamora in any was as an adult that works as far as buying his paternal feelings. Even when he adopts her, it's sorta... rushed. She asked him where her mom was, he called her a fighter, and... there you go.
Well, I guess he calls her "little one". It first seems like a put down, but he does it to her when she's an actual little one, so that's cool.
Loki saw him literally beat up hulk. What did he think his knife was going to do?
Now that I mention it, thanos' durability and strength was all over the place. And don't get me started on how he doesn't use the reality stone to hack his way to victory easily.
/
In 4, I... really don't know.
Sure, Thanos will lose, we'll get back everyone who turned to ash (thanks to marvel release schedule for essentially spoiling this),
but how they will win depends on doctor strange's plan and captain marvel's power set.
I'm more interested in how Ant Man and the Wasp will handle the events of Infinity war. It would be completely amazing to have the *snap* happen at the end of act 1, and the rest of the movie dealing with the fallout and predictable anarchy.
The Ant Man schedule really confuses me, honestly. Wouldn't it make more sense for Infinity War to have been the last Marvel movie of the year? With it ending the way that it did, I think it's odd that Ant Man & Wasp is happening after that. Obviously it could be set during or before the snap, but being set during doesn't really make sense either. With a threat like Thanos, you'd think Ant Man would be there with the rest of the Avengers, especially considering her showed up during Civil War to help out. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but I hope it makes sense and doesn't feel like we're watching them out of order.
It's good to have civil discussions with you, Leelue. Perhaps we agree on more than we originally thought.
A little dog told me Bloodhunter Bat was good. I'm still not running it, though.
That excuse for Hawkeye makes more since. Like I can see this going down and him just being like, 'Nah. They got this. I'm not going back to that life.' But with Ant-Man he's literally still out there superhero-ing.
I suppose we really don't have an understanding as to how he got out of house arrest or what the plot is. If it's just alongside the same story, well... yeah that is confusing.
It's still possible the movie opens with him refusing to fight with the avengers, because he's finally going to serve his time and be a responsible role model. I buy that. Infinity war doesn't even take place over 3 days, it seems, so that could slot into the first 20 minutes of Ant Man
But seriously, there's a saying about biking: The best way to not get into a motorcycle crash is to not ride them, OR; it's not if, but when.
Thankfully LA has a safety law, but the number of people I know who have been hurt or died on bikes is larger than I thought it would be at this point in my life, and that's in a state with helmet laws.
I've also seen a couple fatal crashes, and it wasn't like other motor operators being irresponsible themselves, or even the bikers: it was bikes doing bike things, and then crashing and death.
Don't mean to debbie downer here, but for as fun as they can be they're also incredibly dangerous. You're 37 times more likely to die on a bike than in a car, according to the internet; take every precaution not to be a stat.
I definitely agree with the safety bits. Not a downer at all, but rather the honest truth about them.
I wanna see if I enjoy riding rather than find out I don’t $6000 later after purchasing one. Hence why I am taking a 3day class.
There's that aspect too. I had a friend who bought a bike because her boyfriend liked biking and she wanted to spend more time with him. Since then they've broken up, and she's selling her bike lol
Being how inconvenient they are for a lot of travel in addition to all the death stuff, you def have to reallyyyyyyyy like riding them to justify it.
If you could remix any official draft format, what would you do?
A friend of mine and I are looking at lorwyn. It's known as an extremely linear (and thus uninteresting) draft experience with a good play experience, except the bombs are too heavy.
I was looking to eliminate clash, introduce the class card bonuses from morningtide, upgrade all the draft chaff, and push the weaker tribes to viability.
Doing it one card at a time is tough, but better than doing a set from scratch. I figure I can take these out for a spin at a store over the summer.
The two keys are:
You have to have a clear lower bar. (Mine was grizzly bear, or 2/2 flier for 4 with soulshift. That sort of thing. 3/3 or 5/2 vanillas for four being the biggest outside of green.) This way, people can play something that still looks like magic.
And you have to give people lots and lots of tools. The weird ones.
I have gone way out of my way to make lots of dumb strategies work. Giant tribal, muraganda petroglyphs, where ancients tread, death pit offering... I even have lantern control by maxing cards like soldier of fortune, mill thanks to running every single howling mine variant, and combos with those cards like viseling or runeflare trap
I just bought coalition victory, door to nothingness, strands of night, and a sanguine bond.
I've also determined that dancing scimitar is one of the top 1st picks, barring something abusable. Right now my current issue is that the first big flier tends to win the game, but it stops it while also being useful for spirit synergy
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I can try to put up a list. Remind me
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No enchantment theme, no artifact theme aside from a couple of cards like stoneforge mystic. My first concern would be "can aggro survive in a format with 25 wraths"?
Well, monocolor should be extremely easy to build, and from there cards like student of warfare and relentless dead could be able to make it work.
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Personally I'm a bit sad there's no echantment theme.
Nether traitor is the only one I can think of that I am missing. Off the top of my head/my ctrl+f skills
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The high drops would get up to like mosstodon, craw wurm, or the stormwing dragon cycle. For texture I included indomitable ancients as a meme card. Moon heron and telethopter to contest some of the 2/3 fliers in black and white for 4-5 mana. And most of the starter deck planeswalkers like liliana, death wielder.
Removal was weird to do, since I didn't want them to just be the easy first picks either. So deny reality cannibalize, urgent exorcism, hornet sting, release the ants, and reveka, wizard savant were the kinds of cards I looked at.
Also important to have mana sinks. These games are a slog. Flamewave invoker is legitimately a win condition, as is a card like debt to the deathless.
So at the high end of playability you're looking at pack filler in a core set, but on the low end you inject variance. Weird buildarounds (cradle of vitality, booby trap), slow value engines (whirlermaker, ring of three wishes), etc.
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Yeah, this is what I see as a likely outcome. Board stall and then Silver Erne wins it. I guess it depends on how bad you make bad, but could it help to run a decent amount of lower-tier removal? Stuff like Sip of Hemlock, Throttle, Death Wind,Vicious Hunger, Magma Rift, Smite the Monstrous, or do they just become too obvious top picks?
Have you felt that deathtouchers work OK, or do they contribute negatively to the board stalling by making it even less likely that there are good attacks? (To the extent that you should be careful about having too many of them)
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I started a thread, if you want to contribute.
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If the Legendary Sorceries from dominaria didn't work the way they did now, but instead only let you cast one copy of them per game...
how do you think this should be worded?
My roommate and I are stuck between these two options:
"For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells named Yawgmoth's Vile Offering"
and
"For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells named Yawgmoth's Vile Offering. Exile Yawgmoth's Vile Offering"
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
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Legendgeddon -- 3W
Sorcery
If you've cast another spell named Legendgeddon this game, exile this spell.
Destroy all lands.
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430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
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"You can't cast cards with the same name [cardname]." or something similar.
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I didn't really buy that thanos loved gamora
And I cant believe loki was that stupid
And starlord... Cmon man
But the movie was pretty good
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
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I think the Thanos love for Gamora is super complicated and deep. He has his priorities all screwed up and he's a terrible father (figure), but he does care for her in some way. I really liked that part where you could see that it saddened him to have to do it, but he didn't even think twice about it.
Agreed on Loki. He chose poorly.
Star Lord was blinded by his own love for Gamora. We've seen that same plot line play out in 100 other movies.
What do you think happens in 4? I think we'll get the Captain Marvel origin and find out where she's been all this time in her movie. Then she gets the distress call from Fury either in her after credits scene or early in Avengers 4. She'll show up and get the scoop from the survivors and they'll figure out a way to turn it all back and get a second chance at stopping him. I also think that second chance will end up in different heroes dying, possibly some of the big three.
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I buy Thanos's personality and motivations in almost every other sense. But he doesn't treat gamora or talk to gamora in any was as an adult that works as far as buying his paternal feelings. Even when he adopts her, it's sorta... rushed. She asked him where her mom was, he called her a fighter, and... there you go.
Well, I guess he calls her "little one". It first seems like a put down, but he does it to her when she's an actual little one, so that's cool.
Loki saw him literally beat up hulk. What did he think his knife was going to do?
Now that I mention it, thanos' durability and strength was all over the place. And don't get me started on how he doesn't use the reality stone to hack his way to victory easily.
/
In 4, I... really don't know.
Sure, Thanos will lose, we'll get back everyone who turned to ash (thanks to marvel release schedule for essentially spoiling this),
but how they will win depends on doctor strange's plan and captain marvel's power set.
I'm more interested in how Ant Man and the Wasp will handle the events of Infinity war. It would be completely amazing to have the *snap* happen at the end of act 1, and the rest of the movie dealing with the fallout and predictable anarchy.
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article
The Ant Man schedule really confuses me, honestly. Wouldn't it make more sense for Infinity War to have been the last Marvel movie of the year? With it ending the way that it did, I think it's odd that Ant Man & Wasp is happening after that. Obviously it could be set during or before the snap, but being set during doesn't really make sense either. With a threat like Thanos, you'd think Ant Man would be there with the rest of the Avengers, especially considering her showed up during Civil War to help out. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but I hope it makes sense and doesn't feel like we're watching them out of order.
It's good to have civil discussions with you, Leelue. Perhaps we agree on more than we originally thought.
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Ant man was supposed to be refocusing on family. I can... Imagine a world where he skips out on infinity war assuming the rest can handle it.
His appearance in civil war was almost as bad as hawkeyes, as far as character development goes.
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That excuse for Hawkeye makes more since. Like I can see this going down and him just being like, 'Nah. They got this. I'm not going back to that life.' But with Ant-Man he's literally still out there superhero-ing.
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But seriously, there's a saying about biking: The best way to not get into a motorcycle crash is to not ride them, OR; it's not if, but when.
Thankfully LA has a safety law, but the number of people I know who have been hurt or died on bikes is larger than I thought it would be at this point in my life, and that's in a state with helmet laws.
I've also seen a couple fatal crashes, and it wasn't like other motor operators being irresponsible themselves, or even the bikers: it was bikes doing bike things, and then crashing and death.
Don't mean to debbie downer here, but for as fun as they can be they're also incredibly dangerous. You're 37 times more likely to die on a bike than in a car, according to the internet; take every precaution not to be a stat.
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I wanna see if I enjoy riding rather than find out I don’t $6000 later after purchasing one. Hence why I am taking a 3day class.
There's that aspect too. I had a friend who bought a bike because her boyfriend liked biking and she wanted to spend more time with him. Since then they've broken up, and she's selling her bike lol
Being how inconvenient they are for a lot of travel in addition to all the death stuff, you def have to reallyyyyyyyy like riding them to justify it.
Also, follow us on twitter! @TurnOneMagic
A friend of mine and I are looking at lorwyn. It's known as an extremely linear (and thus uninteresting) draft experience with a good play experience, except the bombs are too heavy.
I was looking to eliminate clash, introduce the class card bonuses from morningtide, upgrade all the draft chaff, and push the weaker tribes to viability.
Doing it one card at a time is tough, but better than doing a set from scratch. I figure I can take these out for a spin at a store over the summer.
Thoughts?
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article