MTG Salvation

Proxied the Monk up and seeded him into a cube draft this afternoon. I ended up playing against it, and it was a legitimate pain in my butt every time my opponent played it. He saw play in three games and was on the board for a total of 7 turns... and triggered 9 times. It is NOT hard for this guy to take over a game. Objectively it's probably not as good as Goblin Rabblemaster, but it was just as scary as a turn three threat when my opponent had 5 cards in hand. The fact that the tokens have prowess should not be underestimated. Definite include for me.

Side note, Sacred Fire Grandmaster was also in my opponents deck and was a grizzly bear with lifelink the only time he was played.

The triggering off anthems part is huge in my mind. He has synergies with so many different cards. Anthems, removal, planeswalkers, swords, mana rocks, ect ect ect. It would be easy to build a deck with 10+ cards that trigger his prowess/token ability. I am stoked for this guy and plan on testing him out. Colbycube, good call about the Soltari Champion cut, I think that is what it will be for me.

This set is looking nice!

I'd put Fleshbag equal to Hyppie and Master of the Feast. Very versatile, abusable creature with solid stats.

I've loved him so far at 450. Great body, great ability, fits perfectly into an agro curve and is a great midrange threat. He's been snagged by a couple control players as well and while the ability isn't worth much in that archetype, Jazal is a great defender.

My cube partner and I used to play "Modified Winston" exclusively before we started Glimpse Drafting.

How it works:
1) Each player receives 2 fifteen card boosters, and opens them like a mini sealed pool.
2) Winston draft as usual.

It seems like a small change but having 30 cards in your pool pre-Winston really changed how we drafted by giving each player a trajectory from the start. We found that the power level of our Mod Winston decks was much higher than when drafted vanilla Winston. It also stretched us as deckbuilders by pushing us in directions we wouldn't normally have tried. I don't know if this warrants a separate entry in your genealogy of drafting, but it worked quite well for us for hundreds of matches.

Just want to chime in and say to ColdyCube and wtwlf that glimpse drafting is INSANELY AWESOME and has totally changed the way my cube plays. The powerlevel of our decks has gone up significantly, but they aren't broken. Archetypes are also WAY easier to draft than they are in Winston. It seriously feels like I'm playing a new cube. It seems like there is also a great deal more freedom of choice during the draft. The other day I started drafting a blue deck, then got some reads off my opponent and started going heavy into green and red. I was able to assemble an insane RUG Fires/Hammer deck, but I could have just as easily gone UB reanimator if I was feeling it. I also managed to put together a Grixis reanimator deck, which is something I've been trying to do forever. That feeling of building a great cube deck with a unique strategy and no filler cards is something special. I think that it happen much more frequently now that we are glimpse drafting.

If I understand correctly, Colbycube, you came up with the idea, and wtwlf, you refined it. I thank you both.

So far the only new cards to see actual play for me are Song of the Dryads and Malicious Affliction. Song has performed as expected and been a solid removal option in green. It was played against me and I gotta say, sucks to have your Falkenrath Aristocrat turned into a forest haha.nMalicious Affliction has performed better than expected. KEEPER.

I'll be cubing this card for the first time tonight, will report back and let y'all know how it goes!

Venser, the Sojourner vs Momentary Blink? I have cubed Venser for a couple years now but he has spent more time riding the bench than I would like. I really like the blinkity blink U/W deck and am starting to wonder if Momentary Blink might actually be a better cube card for that archtype.

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1- Borderland Marauder vs Gore-House Chainwalker vs War-Name Aspirant vs Ash Zealot ? What is the order of preference?

2 - Searing Blaze vs Forked Bolt vs Shrine of Burning Rage ? What is the order of preference? I can count Shrine of Burning Rage like a burn?

3 - Monastery Swiftspear vs Chandra's Phoenix ?

I agree with Wildfire except that I'd put War-Name Aspirant right behind Borderland Marauder. The upside of being able to swing through tokens and walls has been more relevant than I thought it would be. She's an Elspeth killer! I also think Ash Zealot is objectively the most powerful card of the group. While the RR cost is somewhat prohibitive, if it is the only red 2 drop in your cube that is CC you will be fine. I like having a couple CC two drops available in each color, if the card is powerful enough, to reward people for going heavy in one color. It's going to be a long time before I cut the Zealot from my cube.

We tried to cut original Masticore recently, but it wouldn't let us. True story.

I'll probably play 1 more masticore at 450. At 360, though, molten tail is the only one worth running. And well, it's close to staple, if not a staple.

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You are right.

What I want to do now that I know it triggers each upkeep is throw all those snakes at my opponent with Goblin Bombardment or Blasting Station. Yay, fun times!

I've actually thought long and hard about Mortarpod. More expensive to use but tapping is for wussies.

And for everyone thinking of adding in more ways to kill their own creatures. Please add Abyssal Persecutor he misses you.

This has a fun interaction with Ashiok!

Magic's high prices prevented me from ever seriously considering the traditional 60-card competitive formats. (Vintage, Legacy, Modern, Standard) The only format that I can really compete fairly in is Pauper, but I've found singleton formats to have a much more interesting dynamic. Gaming isn't nearly as stale, (seeing the same cards over and over) and deckbuilding is also more interesting. Commander is the only majorly popular singleton-constructed format, so I of course play that. Otherwise, I've had a lot of fun with custom-made limited environments and big-stack variants such as Cube and Danger Room. I'm not tired of raising prices. I ignore them and play formats that don't need (or want) the expensive stuff. High quality proxies allow me to use the occasional card that's outside my budget, too.

Your poll doesn't have a choice that fits this, so I thought I'd share.

It's not going to be reanimate. I can see raise dead though. But reclaim? That's almost exactly the same thing.

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However, it is worth noting that city governments have been 'deciding' which businesses should be in their respective cities for quite awhile. So even if the mayor of Boston does decide not to allow a Chick Fil A to build there, it won't be anything unprecedented.

This isn't quite accurate. City governments have been deciding what types of business should be in their respective cities for quite a while. Not what specific businesses.

Trust me, there is absolutely no way a city government could bad chic-fill-a and not other fast food restaurants and have it pass legal muster. Especially if they state explicitly that its because of the political views and actions of chic-fill-a

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I reject the idea that their marriage undermines mine; I actually feel the opposite. The notion that reality TV marriages hold more validity than marriage between two genuinely loving individuals bothers me. I want to be taking part in a social bond extended to all loving couples, not one artificially limited to my benefit.

Marriage also carries a specific definition and "romantic coupling between two consenting individuals" isn't, and hasn't ever been, that definition. The point being that its great, and I appreciate that you want to participate in a social bond that extended to all loving couples... but thats not what "marriage" is. I'm saying such unions shouldn't be recognized -- or even that they shouldn't have the exact same legal benefits. I'm saying the union between two men isn't a "marriage" anymore than a bus is a car. They share many similarities both in function and form, and if we want to confer benefits to both we should use a term that covers both. If only there was some term that could confer civil benefits on a union between any two people.

Yes, I think the "benefits" legally conferred by marriage should be changed to being provided to any civil unions. Then, the government should stop recognizing a difference except where its legally necessary (biological parent issues is about all I can come up with where it would be necessary).

I like the Lich more myself. It seems much more fun and interesting.