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Quote from SilverWolf_27 »

Why the f is the trebuchet a wall?

it was probably built on-site

Quote from desruprot »

well thats a ability salad, we usually get at least one each set. It seems like the 3rd ability line is around just to stop fogs as preventing damage is mostly faded out in standard.

protection is back though so the "can't be prevented clause" means that even pro-green creatures die no matter what due to its deathtouch.

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Is Faerie Noble in the reserved list?

It is.

Quote from KolbaneX »

4 mana for 6/6 across 2 bodies...is it good enough?

If it was as simple as that it would be. But 5 of that attacking power is so vulnerable. I mean Beauty can be easily destroyed (she's a 1/1), which shackles the Beast... but Beast can even be neutered by someone putting a +1/+1 counter on her!

Funny. Beast can't love a fatty.

Barkhide has been pretty good for me so far. Big upgrade over Kalonian Tusker.

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Quote from Cythare »

Added Blood for Bones, which was supposed to be IGN Brazil's spoiler but didn't appear to actually be spoiled yesterday.

Wait, Blood for Bones doesn't targets? So, correct me if I'm wrong, but theoretically you could sack a creature and revive the same creature you just sacked so you can get ETB+Dies triggers for value and still get a creature back to your hand? That's pretty neat. Ideally you will use it as a reanimation spell, sure, but the added utility is always nice.

I personally hope they don't intentionally start gaming when things target and when they do not in ways that are guaranteed to cause confusion.

Assuming we're understanding it correctly, you can essentially bounce a guy to reanimate something else, but with a detour through the graveyard.

Quote from Patrunkenphat7 »

This card needed trample and +2/+2 for EACH creature for it to be a sick Cube card... that would have been nice.

That's a pretty nuts card

Quote from Lord_Mektar »

Throatseeker is effective and hilarious, while Phantom Ninja converts Phantom Warrior into the more appropriate occupation.

The Portal version was basically a Samurai if you look at the art. And the original Weatherlight card was more of an apparition (its creature type was Illusion)

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The art is sort of childish...

I hope this is sarcasm.

Idk what you see but I see a Griffin getting "mulched" by a thorn tornado.

I think its because the Griffin is laying like a baby if you look closely at the art.

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we could make our own form vbulten is Only US $249.00 and blue host is and unmeteterd bandwighw is Normally $7.99

Do you have that kind of money? Because as a person on Disability, I certainly don't. Heck, I can barely afford this hobby, which is why Commander is my preferred format.

One would think crowdfunding $250 wouldn't be that hard for a site this size. But I imagine the total cost would be quite a bit greater than that

Is this is a slightly different application of entwine than we've seen before?

The problem I have with a card like this is it doesn't feel stronger than some of the other mono or 2 color 5 CMC variants.

- Dragonlord Ojutai
- Ao, the Dawn Sky
- Thragtusk
- Thundermaw Hellkite

Drawing a card on ETB/ Attack really doesn't feel that worth it.

On the other hand, I feel Maelstrom Wanderer is not really a commander novelty toy, but an important for the ramp archetype. Its haste (attacks into planeswalker), double cascade (plays around counter spells/ potentially sweepers), and overall value (plays around spot removal) has been incredibly important for ramp decks.

Its tri color really hasn't been a problem as I've found 80% of these ramp decks can support the colors anyways with off color talisman, rainbow lands/ dorks.

"rarity:common new:rarity is:reprint" might be what you are looking for

"I really wish this tiny community was smaller"

The joy of a pauper cube, for me, is being able to always come home from a prerelease with cards to add to my cube. Pauper Cube mimics in many ways a limited environment, since common cards usually make up the bulk of one's limited deck. A pauper cube is a place to cheaply construct a representation of your favorite affordable cards to play with through the ages. It's fun to see what old commons make the cut for cube, and what new commons do to change the environment. Pauper Cubes are also quite versatile and allow a great variety of cubes to be shaped around such a simple stipulation. Some people like a powered pauper cube - that's fine. It means you're always trying to find which commons have been pushed *just enough* so that they're always "strictly better" than other cards. Other Pauper cubes are focused around synergies - it's fun to construct archetypes through affordable cards. Some people like Pauper Cubes because they naturally restrict the complexity of the cards involved. It makes playing Magic feel like the old days when cards did less things. Some people like pauper cubes that run thirty Relentless Rats or ten Rune Snags.

At a certain point one has to concede that Pauper Cubes can be *ANYTHING* the builder wants them to be. The one thing we can all agree on, and the only thing we might need to agree on, is that we like playing with Magic cards that are printed at Common.

Quote from SaltMaster 5000 »

I don't understand the point of reaching consensus. If you want to min max everything and play the same few dozen cards as everyone else, why not play constructed?

I get the feeling that none of you guys actually like Pauper, you just can't afford a Vintage cube and don't like looking at proxies. If you want to max out on power just go all the way, why stick with commons?

Even if you don't want to minmax reaching a consensus is pretty useful, as if you're beginning you can either build a maximum power cube by knowing what are the essentials, or build a depowered cube with crap cards by cutting bombs right away. You also get to know what cards are actually useful and which ones look good in paper but have poor execution, because a curated limited environment is important for cube now matter which 360 you run (you don't want to have a full powered black section but everything else with mediocre power level for example).

About the second part, I'm not sure if you're trolling or actually serious. I have a Vintage cube with proxies for the most expensive cards (that actually look good, and can pass as the real thing as long as they're sleeved, so looks are a non-issue) and it's a completely different beast from Pauper, both from gameplay perspective and the actual power of the cards. By that logic, why play a tier 1 deck in any format, because if you wanted power you would go play Shops in Vintage, right?

decrease all ratings by one level and youre good to go