I'm of the belief that the two life is a bigger cost than most of the target restrictions of the other 37 doom blade variants out there.
Black has so much other good cards that lose life and creature based matchups are where doom blade effects tend to shine... (where life total matters the most)
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LucidVision posted a message on [MID][CUBE] Infernal GraspPosted in: Cube Card and Archetype Discussion -
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steve_man posted a message on Modern Horizons 2 HOT TAKES!My Modern Horizons 2 HOT TAKES article is up on CubeCobra!Posted in: Articles, Podcasts, and Guides
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Thundermare3 posted a message on [MH2][CUBE] DamnWhile an obvious cube staple until the end of time, a cool thing is since the casting cost is 2, Spellseeker and effects like that can tutor a wrath now.Posted in: Cube Card and Archetype Discussion -
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wtwlf123 posted a message on [STX][CUBE] Witherbloom Command-3/-1 UEOT is a bizarre line of text on a sorcery. I don't think this pushes out anything I'm currently playing.Posted in: Cube Card and Archetype Discussion -
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Warforged Canuck posted a message on Secret Lair: Black is MagicTragic the pandering. More woke dollar milking for people to virtue signal with.Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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LuckyJoe1988 posted a message on Secret Lair: Black is Magiclol As long as these are great cards with great art that gives me those sweet sweet MTG vibes, keep pumping out new cards and reprints!Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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lookingupanddown posted a message on Secret Lair: Black is MagicPosted in: The Rumor Mill
More cards coming the 9th and the 16th. I'm guessing there will be a reprint that's also in Time Spiral Remastered, and a card with Koth in it. We're definitely getting a Kaya card.
Here's the product designer talking about why Shalai is in this set, along with a short story on Rielle and that child on Ponder.
EDIT: Unlike the last charity SL, this says ALL PROCEEDS go to Black Girls Code -
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ThyLordQ posted a message on [KHM] - Commanders OfficialPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from WarMachinePrime »
There is, ever hear of a glacier?
This is honestly a perfect example of something, I'm trying to get at.
Glaciers, Scion of Glaciers,
Sejiri Glacier, Thawing Glaciers, Glacial Chasm, Glacial Crasher, Glacial Crevasses, Glacial Fortress, Glacial Grasp, Glacial Plating, Glacial Ray, Glacial Revelation, Glacial Stalker, Glacial Wall, Panglacial Worm.
All of these cards reference something incredibly snowy and icy and some even showed up in sets with the Snow Mechanic, and only 3 of them are even Snow related. Ice and snow and glaciers, even Cloud Glaciers do not necessarily mean snow is on the card, let alone the set.
EDIT: It also doesn't mean there isn't, to cut that off at the pass. My goal here is not to convince anyone that snow definitely isn't happening. I just don't want people to jump to conclusions and get upset if that conclusion isn't met. -
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Resarox posted a message on Jumpstart CubeHey JuiceBox, how is the project going? Your Nissa-sample looks amazing, so I'm on the lookout for other ideas you have!Posted in: The Cube Forum
I've been brainstorming some ideas myself and managed to put some packs together - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/5fa471bc57aea647df001a7d
That's what I've come up with so far, sort by Name Tag if you want to see the different packs.
Many themes are unoptimized - I don't feel like putting in significant amounts of money, since my basic Cube is expensive enough, so I went with what I had lying around. Still some ideas are quite good, if I may say so myself
While working on it I started to agree with your two points against a full Jumpstart format. One being the inequality in powerlevel and the other being the fact that some themes cannot be fully fleshed out in a pack. Nonetheless, the upside of a format completely void of deckbuilding (at least on a pedagogical level) outweighs these downsides for me, put I'm stoked to see your re-interpretation of the format! -
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Cranky posted a message on Making our own RC?Juice, you're just banging your head against a wall there. I blocked and reported that dude a while ago, either he's completely unhinged or a dedicated troll, and your efforts to apply logic to the situation are just going to wear you out while he simply finds another way to weasel around what you say to support his own points.Posted in: Commander (EDH)
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There is an entire team working on these sets. It isn't stupidity past a certain point. The likely hood of it being a mistake drops dramatically as time increases and as the number of designers involved increases.
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I will preface this with the statement that I am a designer by profession.
You don't encounter situations where your cards consistently trip bans by accidently pushing cards too far. Design is an iterative process and even when you are designing a backlog of product in advance - you only get to ride the "oops" train for so long before it is either apparent that the oops are deliberate or that your design process is a wreck. In this particular case, the bans have gone on long enough and with such frequency that whoever is in charge of it should have recognized their mistakes by now and addressed them or embraced them.
Not sure what you think WOTC has to lose from banning cards. The adjustment to their ban schedule has suggested they realized it is only upside for them. They get to push product short term, wait for print runs or demand to dwindle, then address the card. A classic bait and switch we have seen in video games for years now, where they release characters then power them down later.
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The problem here is that people already associate wizard schools with things outside of MTG. I am reluctant to say that this won't feel like Harry Potter or something similar, because humans are creatures that observe patterns and make associations based on them.
Really, there isn't a good way to do this without it having a Harry Potter feel anymore than it is possible to remove Mindflayers from the feel of Cthulu, Theros from Greek Mythos, Ixalan from Un'Goro, etc.
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I just wish there was not the showboating to go with all of it, and that things like this could be done in silence and everyone who makes the game and plays the game not bat an eye about it.
Man what a world that would be.
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Anyways. i might actually buy this SL and I hate SL products to date. Really dig this.
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This is a pretty important aspect to discuss. I think a lot of people get so upset that Commander is becoming a less casual format, and I think that is true to some extent. It people want to preserve the casual nature of the format as much as possible, reducing deck size isn't the way to do it.
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As for just changing your basics to snow basics, I don't have an issue with that. But even then, these cards don't cut the mustard for most average Cubes.