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Aug 21, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - ALLIED GUILDS voting OPEN

I still believe 10 cards for each color is way to much. I don't feel like me and others can give reliable input since we are being required to include cards we've never even played just to make it to 10 cards. Are you sure we can't just shrink the list requirements? It's a simple fix.

1 Fractured Identity
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
3 Supreme Verdict
4 Talisman of Progress
5 Azorius Signet
6 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
7 Geist of Saint Traft
8 Spell Queller
9 Reflector Mage
10 Sphinx's Revelation

1 Baleful Strix
2 Hostage Taker
3 Talisman of Dominance
4 Dimir Signet
5 Lim-Dul's Vault
6 The Scarab God
7 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
8 Dragonlord Silumgar
9 Psychatog
10 Dimir Charm

1 Rakdos Cackler
2 Kolaghan's Command
3 Talisman of Indulgence
4 Rakdos Signet
5 Falkenrath Aristocrat
6 Dreadbore
7 Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast
8 Murderous Redcap
9 Olivia Voldaren
10 Fulminator Mage

1 Dragonlord Atarka
2 Xenagos the Reveler
3 Talisman of Impulse
4 Gruul Signet
5 Bloodbraid Elf
6 Huntmaster of the Fells
7 Wrenn and Six
8 Sarkhan Vol
9 Tattermunge Maniac
10 Ancient Grudge

1 Glare of Subdual
2 Knight of Autumn
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Voice of Resurgence
5 Qasali Pridemage
6 Knight of the Reliquary
7 Talisman of Unity
8 Selesnya Signet
9 Dryad Militant
10 Mirari's Wake

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Aug 21, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - GREEN Results

Oath is for any deck that can play big creatures and cut the small ones, especially if you have a tutor or two. So artifact ramp, sneak attack, reanimator, control, or even weird superfriends variants. Card is nuts and slots easily into plenty of decks.

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Aug 20, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 Planning

I can’t even name 10 cards from each guild for some guilds. Can I instead just submit as many as I can that I’ve played in the past from each color? Like the Azorious 10 is easy to fill out, but Gruul is gonna be impossible for me past the top 5 or 6. I feel like just submitting random filler cards that I’ve never played myself at the end is kinda bad for the stats. What do I do in this situation?

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Aug 15, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on [[SCD]] Kiora's Follower

I wouldn't cube this card without time vault. Don't get me wrong, it sees play in basically all the UG decks for its ability to tap for more than one mana, but its just another random ramp dork unless you play the vault that will always go to the last few picks of the pack. I play it at 360 but I play Vault, and UG is a weak enough color combination that I don't feel bad playing it over trygon predator or Edric. But no, Follower is not good enough to justify a slot without vault to push it over the top into playability.

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Aug 12, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - GREEN voting CLOSED

1. Channel
2. Oath of Druids
3. Sylvan Library
4. Natural Order
5. Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
6. Gaea’s Cradle
7. Green Sun's Zenith
8. Hexdrinker
9. Craterhoof Behemoth
10. Survival of the Fittest
11. Garruk Wildspeaker
12. Primeval Titan
13. Woodfall Primus
14. Birds of Paradise
15. Joraga, Treespeaker
16. Lotus Cobra
17. Tarmogoyf
18. Noble Hierarch
19. Elvish Mystic/etc...
20. Arbor Elf

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Aug 12, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - RED Results

This list seems like a bunch of stuff is way out of place, I'm guessing its because not everybody runs Wheel because of its high price and Confluence is from an older commander set so not everyone has one, but I can't explain how Wildfire, Young Pyromancer, and Inferno Titan ended up so low. Really is bizarre. Regardless, thanks for the list Waltz! You're doing the whole forum a favor compiling all this data, truly a blessing.

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Aug 8, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - RED voting CLOSED

1. Wheel of Fortune
2. Sneak Attack
3. Fiery Confluence
4. Wildfire/Burning
5. Sulfuric Vortex
6. Inferno Titan
7. Chandra, Torch of Defiance
8. Young Pyromancer
9. Faithless Looting
10. Grim Lavamancer
11. Gamble
12. Thundermaw Hellkite
13. Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker
14. Abrade
15. Lightning Mauler
16. Arc Trail
17. Bomat Courier
18. Experimental Frenzy
19. Lightning Bolt
20. Chain Lightning

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Aug 3, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on [CUBE][C19] Ghired, Conclave Exile

Probably better than Wild Nacatle for Tricolor sections, as this has a titan-esque ability and seems good in naya midrange and off of cards like sneak attack or revelark. I don’t run any naya cards, but if I did I’d probably replace it with this.

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Aug 2, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on [C19][CUBE] Anje's Ravager

In R/x aggro it's a 3/3 that draws you 3 cards every turn. Fails the Vindicate/Oust test but then agian so does Hanweir Garrison and this creature's attack trigger is much stronger. I'm definitely going to try this guy out and he seems great on paper to me.

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Aug 2, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - BLUE RESULTS

Time spiral is harder to justify, but Timetwister is just great. I'll splash for it in any aggro or ramp deck I build. Off color Wheel of Fortune is still a Wheel of Fortune, and goes into any deck that can dump its hand quickly.

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Jul 30, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - BLACK voting CLOSED

1 Mind Twist
2 Thoughtseize
3 Demonic Tutor
4 Vampiric Tutor
5 Dark Confidant
6 Liliana of the Veil
7 Griselbrand
8 Dark Ritual
9 Pack Rat
10 Hymn to Tourach
11 Entomb
12 Dismember
13 Scrapheap Scrounger
14 Duress
15 Bitterblossom
16 Nether Void
17 Braids, Cabal Minion
18 Imperial Seal
19 Collective Brutality
20 Grave Titan

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Jul 30, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - BLUE RESULTS

Quote from steve_man »
Shelldock Isle is a decent supplement to Cheaty Face / Channel type strategies, especially if you support Eldrazi. It's nothing special though, IMO. It's currently my 3rd favorite blue utility land after Tolarian Academy and Faerie Conclave. I don't think it's on the same level as Academy though, and certainly not top 20 blue material in my book.

The overall list is agreeable for the most part. I pretty much divided the blue cards into 3 territories:

- Obviously broken
- Build around
- Value spell

The one value spell that I felt is criminally under-represented is Fact or Fiction, especially over Consecrated Sphinx / Dig Through Time. Fact or Fiction is cheap, splashable, fuels my graveyard, and is very easy to ramp up to early game (especially in powered cubes).

Stuff like Ponder and Remand go into basically any blue deck I ever build, regardless of strategy and I pick them highly and early for that reason. Versatile cards are really high in terms of pick order, and that isn't reflected in this list all that well. Both of those cards are way higher pick than something like Dig Through Time, so they're pretty criminally underrated too.

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Jul 30, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - BLUE RESULTS

We've played Shelldock, and we didn't like it at all. Card almost never triggers outside of control mirrors, which makes it way to rare to be playable. Maybe our format was just to fast, but we didn't get any millage out of it.

like Twister more that Spiral since you can splash for Twister in your aggro decks, but then again Spiral can be used in control sometimes to good effect. I should have voted Time Spiral a lot higher.

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Jul 27, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - BLUE RESULTS

The lack of Timetwister baffles me when I think it's a top 5 card in blue. Crazy it didn't make the cut at all. Other than that the list looks solid. Thanks Waltz!

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Jul 26, 2019

NotScottMescudi posted a message on Ranking Project 2019 - BLUE voting CLOSED

1. Ancestral Recall
2. Time Walk
3. Mana Drain
4. Timetwister
5. Tinker
6. Opposition
7. Upheaval
8. Jace, the Mind Sculptor
9. Snapcaster Mage
10. Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
11. Ponder
12. Preordain
13. Mystical Tutor
14. Show and Tell
15. Tolarian Academy
16. Phantasmal Image
17. Vendilion Clique
18. True-Name Nemesis
19. Remand
20. Counterspell

How is Timetwister being skipped by so many people? The card is insane and easily splashable, did many just forget it exists?

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