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Madmarker posted:Banding confirmed as the Jeskai mechanic. Banding is really more of an Abzan mechanic.
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Jeskai gets Flanking. Mardu gets Bushido?
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odiv posted:Jeskai gets Flanking. Mardu gets Bushido? Temur gets Rampage
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Dec 18, 2014 18:04
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Mardu seems to make more sense with flanking, IMO.
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Dec 18, 2014 18:08
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Who would get Horsemanship?
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bhsman posted:Mardu seems to make more sense with flanking, IMO. I think this is the week I'm going to try to complete a playset of all the Khans fetches. Wish me luck!
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Dec 18, 2014 18:10
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Cactrot posted:Temur gets Rampage Craw Giant reprint confirmed. 
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Serperoth posted:Who would get Horsemanship? Horsemanship would be really good for them as well, but I think they'd be more comfortable with Flanking than unblockable as a mechanic.
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Dec 18, 2014 18:13
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LordSaturn posted:gently caress Transmute, give us Transfigure. Can't wait to offload all these Skaab Ruinators when they make a 3cmc transfigure guy.
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Dec 18, 2014 18:26
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Considering the kind of play style Jeskai promotes, it would be cool if their mechanic read something along the lines of "Do X. If you cast another spell previously this turn, also do Y/instead do Y." Go for those explosive turns.
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Dec 18, 2014 19:12
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Just give jeskai storm. But yes I agree lets put the combo mechanic from hearthstone in 
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Hearth stone's combo mechanic is sweet. The only complaint I have about it is how strongly it warps the rogue's tempo since it counts the coin. Would be fun to see combo cards in petal decks.
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Someone a while back mentioned how busted Ancestral Visions is in Cube.  I had a game last night where I had to mul to 5, leaving me with Island, Mox Sapphire, Balance, Visions, and something useless (probably Glen Elandra or something). I played my Island and mox, suspended the visions, and passed. No land drawn for 4 turns, but I did get my mox blown up by Abrupt Decay in perhaps the most unfun play I've been on the receiving end of in a while. Then Visions popped and gave me a Plains, which let me cast balance against a junk aggro/ramp player with 7 creatures in play. I had to discard to 2 cards in hand, but I was able to keep Oblivion Ring, and Mishra's Factory, and he was left with two lands and a Voice elemental token unfortunately (hence why I kept the Ring). Next turn he just went land swing for 1 go, and I was able to take it out with the ring after drawing Sphinx's Rev, and I just went to town with Mishra's Factory and cast my Geist of Saint Traft (which he tried bouncing repeatedly with Karakas and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working). Then he stuck an Archangel of Thune, which I was planning on stealing, until he landed a Baneslayer Angel, so I let the first angel go and stole the second with Sower of Temptation. Unfortunately that died immediately, but it bought a turn that allowed me to Miracle a Terminus and go back on the Factory plan until he cast a Brimaz. Thankfully, since that took so drat long, I finally drew my sixth land to cast the Frost Titan that had been chilling in my hand for too long, tapping it down and knocking him to 7 with the Factory. This is where I screwed up but was still fine. My last card was Daze, and my opponent tapped out for Garruk, Apex Predator. I had F6ed to walk away and get my thing in the microwave that was beeping, assuming at this point that Daze was a dead card. I was bailed out by that last line of text on Frost Titan that I always forget: Counter poo poo that targets it unless they pay 2! He tried killing my Titan and it fizzled for the win. The correct play (for him) would have been to kill his own Brimaz, which put him out of lethal range, then next turn kill my Titan when he has the mana to pay (or draw something else). Probably the most insane mul to 5 win I've had, and it was all thanks to Ancestral Visions. If anything, it was a good thing I didn't draw land, since it let me hold off on Balance until Visions popped and get a nice clean 7 for 1 (11 for 1 if you count his lands). There were at least 3 points where I thought I was doomed but bounced back because the power level of individual cards is just so high.
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Dec 18, 2014 19:32
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Visions is almost as good as Treasure Cruise 
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Gyshall posted:Visions is almost as good as Treasure Cruise It's not even close to as good.
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mcmagic posted:It's not even close to as good. No, but I can't think of a single point in any cube draft where I would have wanted to cast Cruise. Visions is more powerful in that I can cascade into it, it can bail me out of a horrible mulligan for free, etc. Cruise is the better card, just not in this environment.
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forbidden lesbian posted:A card with the name LOL, no mana cost, text that says this card cannot be played, and Dredge 20 We've talked about this before, that card could read "At the beginning of the end step, if this card is in your graveyard, you lose the game" and still see play as a 4-of in Dredge.
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Chamale posted:We've talked about this before, that card could read "At the beginning of the end step, if this card is in your graveyard, you lose the game" and still see play as a 4-of in Dredge. You missed the point
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mcmagic posted:It's not even close to as good. Which is why they should unban Visions when they ban Cruise. My guess is they just have both of them banned. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Dec 18, 2014 |
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Dec 18, 2014 20:36
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Oh they're banning Treasure Cruise? THat sucks.
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rabidsquid posted:Oh they're banning Treasure Cruise? THat sucks. It's only banable in Modern.
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Dec 18, 2014 20:45
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rabidsquid posted:Oh they're banning Treasure Cruise? THat sucks. Some people want it banned. We haven't heard from Wizards yet.
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kizudarake posted:Some people want it banned. We haven't heard from Wizards yet. We're lucky that they already forgot to ban it once but I guess its RIP now 
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Dec 18, 2014 21:20
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Ban gitaxian probe imo
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Gyshall posted:Ban gitaxian probe imo
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The most infuriating thing to play against in Holiday Cube is when someone manages to assemble the ridiculous four-color hyper-ramp reanimator train. Even worse is when they come back online entirely because they topdeck Bloodbraid Elf, Cascade into Shardless Agent, then Joraga Treespeaker when they'd been dead next turn if they hadn't.
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I'd just like to point out that awakening zone is the best it's ever been in the cube, as it synergizes so lovely with skullclamp, craterhoof behemoth, and just being able to ramp in general. Edit: also opposition trololo
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Mighty Dicktron posted:The most infuriating thing to play against in Holiday Cube is when someone manages to assemble the ridiculous four-color hyper-ramp reanimator train. Please tell me they had vengevine in their graveyard.
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CountFosco posted:I'd just like to point out that awakening zone is the best it's ever been in the cube, as it synergizes so lovely with skullclamp, craterhoof behemoth, and just being able to ramp in general. It has been v. good for the past few iterations actually!
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cheetah7071 posted:Please tell me they had vengevine in their graveyard. Pretty much the only way to make this play more absurd, but no, they at least didn't have that.
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Infuriating Loop: Recurring Nightmare + Wurmcoil Engine + Phyrexian Metamorph. Makes it worse: Black Lotus powers it out turn 2.
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I love when a mono green ramp player just scoops to my Stoneforge Mystic fetching a Sword of Body and Mind.
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Turn 1 Daydo Fackman isn't a good combo!
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Dr. Stab posted:They've made it a keyword action and not an ability. So, presumably it's going to be on more than etb triggers, and will be stapled on spells. e:f,b
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BaronVonVaderham posted:No, but I can't think of a single point in any cube draft where I would have wanted to cast Cruise. Visions is more powerful in that I can cascade into it, it can bail me out of a horrible mulligan for free, etc. In my cube I consider Treasure Cruise to most often be a 4 mana spell with the potential upside of being less mana. I'm a big fan of it, and I run it over Ancestral Vision just because my only cascade spell is Bloodbraid Elf and I already run a slough of draw spells.
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loving christ, I drafted an amazing Mardu deck online, win the first game quickly, have to wait 30 minutes for round 2, win the first game super quick, and the fucker just stalls me until I run out of time in game 2.
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BizarroAzrael posted:loving christ, I drafted an amazing Mardu deck online, win the first game quickly, have to wait 30 minutes for round 2, win the first game super quick, and the fucker just stalls me until I run out of time in game 2. How is that possible? You mean he didn't die fast enough and you ran out of clock? Isn't that your fault?
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