Get your Sound of Music DVD in the player, because these are a few (more) of my favorite things (in cube)! To give you an idea of how excited I was writing this article, there are a lot of exclamation … Continue reading
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A Few of My Favorite Cards
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There are certain cards that, when I see them, their allure is too strong for me to resist. They are like sirens: sometimes they sit on rocks, tempting me from the shore to crash my ship if my deck is … Continue reading
Dragon’s Maze in Cube and RTR Block Limited
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I love limited, and not just cube—some of my favorite formats have been limited formats. The first cube set review I did was on Rise of Eldrazi because it was my favorite limited format of all time, as there were … Continue reading
Future Sight and Cube
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Finally, the third edition! I literally just opened up my new computer, went to Open Office, opened up the whole set for Future Sight, and started writing this article. There were tons of things I could’ve done first—facebook, porn, check … Continue reading
Planar Chaos and Cube
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Sitting down to write the article today, I looked at some of the comments about the Time Spiral article and people seemed to enjoy it. I enjoyed writing it as well, and decided to continue through the block, covering Planar … Continue reading
Time Spiral and Cube
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Time Spiral was a funny set. Each card is a homage to something else in mechanics, style or name, some more apparent than others, while others really obscure. It’s a lot of fun to go through the set and try … Continue reading
A Basic Guide to Storm Combo in Cube
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When Wizards first released the 720 MTGO Cube, I had the same reaction as a lot of people: what is storm combo doing here? The archetype is unplayable, you need to get a lot of cards to make it work, … Continue reading
Cube Drafting WBr/”Kaalia” Aggro
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There are two ways to understand why you failed in a game of magic. One is to blame luck. This may seem like a cop-out, but sometimes it is true: you do get unlucky in magic. Last 20 cards only … Continue reading
Cube Drafting RW Aggro II
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Mono red aggro is one of the best decks you can draft in cube. This is a sentiment that has been repeated a decent amount, but it’s for a reason. In unpowered cubes, a good mono red aggro deck will … Continue reading
Storm Combo Solitaire Videos
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In this video Sam plays through some solitaire games of a storm combo deck he made using the MTGO holiday cube. Decklist below. 1 Mox Emerald 1 Brain Freeze 1 Griselbrand 1 Dream Halls 1 Compulsive Research 1 Yawgmoth’s Will … Continue reading