While my actual preferences vary from card to card, my overall preferences are old border foil > 93/94 nonfoil (The Dark or earlier) > promotional foil > other new border foil > Ice Age-Urza's Saga nonfoil > newer nonfoil.
There are always exceptions, and they'll vary from one cube designer to another. My favorite Wasteland art is the Zendikar Rising Expeditions art, and the frame is also neat, so I'm planning to pick one of those up instead of tracking down the old-border foil.
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Mar 4, 20211
Cythare posted a message on [Official] Altered/Pimp Cube Cards ThreadPosted in: The Cube Forum -
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Resarox posted a message on [Official] Altered/Pimp Cube Cards ThreadI would rank original non-foil borders above new border foils.Posted in: The Cube Forum
On a similar note, I'm interested in what people think of Timespiral Remastered old border treatment of new cards. I am somewhat hyped for a few, but I realised that this is only the case for cards from either supplemental products, from products that I have no attachment toor ones that just fit into old border.
The first category would be Palace Jailer (from Conspiracy), the second Young Pyromancer (from a core set) and the third Yawgmoth (who really belongs into the world of old border). Everything else I don't want, even though I love old border. I would never exchange my Lorwyn foil Ponder with this new Ponder. Not because it's foil, but because Ponder comes from Lorwyn and I remember playing the card in the old days.
I first realised being pedantic about that when I bought an extended art Mulldrifter from Commander Legends and realised that I don't want to play the card over my Lorwyn Mulldrifter.
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calibretto posted a message on [Official] Altered/Pimp Cube Cards ThreadI agree that old border foils typically look better than new border foils. That's especially true of foils printed in the last year or so. However, it's all subjective. Bling your cube with the versions of cards that you like best!Posted in: The Cube Forum -
Mar 4, 2021
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wtwlf123 posted a message on [Official] Altered/Pimp Cube Cards ThreadIn general, I would rank old border foils higher than newer frame foils in most circumstances.Posted in: The Cube Forum -
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Mister Lamp posted a message on [Rumor] Dazzling RampartsI think there's a size of cube where this is playable. I don't think that cube fits in my car.Posted in: Cube Card and Archetype Discussion -
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rantipole posted a message on [[SCD]] [M15] Genesis Hydra.Posted in: Cube Card and Archetype DiscussionQuote from BanDurton »Indeed. Apologies. I wasn't familiar with the Cube format until just now. Interesting....
Come to the dark side. We have cookies.
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rantipole posted a message on [450][Powered] Geena's Shiny Cube (Origins Update!)With the cut of Simic Sky Swallower, I'd consider adding another fatty to green to give Natural Order and reanimator another good target. Hornet Queen doesn't have a foil yet, but Terastodon does. Or you could replace Knight of the Reliquary with Armada Wurm or add Hellkite Overlord as a miscellaneous card. Good update no matter what.Posted in: Cube Lists
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Goodking posted a message on [450][Powered] Geena's Shiny Cube (Origins Update!)Those are two amazing upgrades. Aetherling is a really awkward guy to get rid off and offensively much more impactful than the vanilla flyer.Posted in: Cube Lists -
Dec 31, 2013
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GlissaPox posted a message on [450][Powered] Geena's Shiny Cube (Origins Update!)Wouldn't bident of Thassa be strictly better than coastal piracy? Same CMC with added bonus of giving unblockable + they were given as promos so I know finding one foil won't be hard ;DPosted in: Cube Lists - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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As an aside, I would love for you to write an article or a post sometime on the "misses" that you had when evaluating in your set articles and then an explanation on what changed or what you didn't see. I think it would help a lot of people when they are evaluating cards for themselves.
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I’m Geena - I used to hang out here and had two cubes - one of the earliest 180 Travel cubes and a 450 All-Foil cube. Life happened, I drifted a way from cube a little and I had to sell a lot of cards to make some ends meet. Things have gotten better and I can now start to slowly put together my cube again! I have always been drawn to smaller cubes, I enjoy the mind game of trying to support everything in a small footprint. I also like to have something easy to transport. I currently have the entire 270 in a Dex Protection Supreme One Row with enough room for some tokens and a few spin downs.
I probably will never have two cubes again because of the expense, and right now I am happy with the 270. I have no one to really play Magic with and no way to get into a group with COVID and all so I feel like this is the right size. Right now its all about enjoying putting it together by myself. I will probably land on 360 sometime, but I don’t want to water down the quality, so I’d rather it be smaller than a bunch of filler cards.
Anyway, I feel bad I just disappeared, but I am happy to be back doing cube. My cube is in my signature!
— Geena —
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I love the old border in general - I will likely take a look at what I get in my Time Spiral packs and decide if I want to move any of them to old border. I think we agree in that I like to have the card represented in the cube with its original printing. For me it shows the history of Magic captured in my cube.
However - there are some cards that seem to fit the old border really well. People complained when the art style changed on Magic Cards but have you noticed how some of that more "modern art" just looks right when in the old border? Kinda neat. I think my favorites in that vein are Solemn Simulacrum, Flickerwisp and Remand.
I don't know how many will make it into my cube, but glad they exist. Im sure people who have "old border only" cubes are going to have a field day if they decide to include them.
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So I figured I'd join in here! I've been doing the "Travel Cube" thing a long time - it is a challenge to put one together, but they are really fun to play.
My updated list is here: http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/1244
I'ts a "traditional" 180 card cube. 29 of each color, 25 colorless, one multi-color cycle, one land cycle, two utility lands.
In addition, I have been writing a series of cube articles you may find useful. They are written for beginners, but the entire series is intended to teach them how to set up a small 180 card cube or "cube skeleton" if they want to go bigger.
The first article can be found here: http://www.nomadgamer.com/2016/7/18/travel-cubed
I don't pretend to be an expert, but I do have a lot of trial and error experience, so if anyone has a question let me know
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In all seriousness, it has taken me a long time to get to this place and Magic and the cube community pulled me through some pretty dark times without even knowing what was going on.
I don't expect negativity here, but if you are so inclined you always have the ability to just ignore my posts or block my user. It will be easier on both of us.
Anyway, thanks for being there, and I now return you to the previously scheduled cube list thread.
-- Geena --
BTW it apparently gets an act of Congress to get someone at Curse to change a user name. If anyone knows who I can PM to get it done let me know
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As for the whole rarity thing, I am SO HAPPY when a kick-ass common or uncommon comes out that is cube worthy. They are easy to get in foil and affordable as well. I will frequently buy a copy of a cube-able card at common and uncommon for the on-deck binder or my "box of cube worthy stuff that isn't good enough for the binder" regardless if I am going to immediately run it. They can be nice just to have if I want to swap out a few cards for freshness sake.
For what it is worth, my playgroup doesn't pay attention to rarity at all <old guy rant>however, in OUR day rarity wasn't advertised - we had to figure that out for ourselves and we liked it! Sometimes sets didn't even HAVE any rares and we had to "make do" with uncommons.</old guy rant>
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The 100 life total thing just screams "it's a trap" to me. I'm not saying its a bad card. It would be awesome to crack this in a pre-release type environment - and I'm sure casuals and kids will love it for the splashiness. I wanted to like this card but I must be getting better at evaluating for my cube because I just see it as a 50.00 foil money sink that will ultimately end up in my on deck binder.
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It does make me happy that I made the right choice with including the vivid lands. They really shored up my mana fixing since foil fetch lands are still too expensive for their inclusion -- c'mon reprint!
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Congrats on the PhD! Quite the accomplishment! I think your changes look great. I added the Hydra as well, but I am still on the fence on getting a foil Genesis.