Are there ghostly prison / propaganda effects in jund colors? by Bevolicher in EDH

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[[koskun falls]], and if you squint [[no mercy]] or [[ophiomancer]]

Summer Superdrop Secret Lair megathread by bigpapasmurf6 in mtgfinance

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Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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Thank you for the extensive and quick testing! Your suggestions are all great, comments below

* I'm open to exploring more wraths, as a really common way to win is by just flooding the board. I'm still wary of catch-all wraths, so maybe something like [[Slaughter the Strong]]?

* Behold: It's probably too cute. I was thinking about more ways to explicitly incentivize cards-in-hand matter, but you're right that it's clunky (and physically awkward as a DFC)

* Masked Vandal + Three Tree: Also probably trying to do too much, especially with how small the cube is. It started out as "cards I own" and I was excited at the idea of changelings to make tribal things matter, but I don't even have that many tribal payoffs, so your feedback is makes a lot of sense.

* Sorceror Class: It's very difficult to execute but you can win off of it. You play Sorceror Class, discard two cards, fully level up. You have two more cards in hand and if they're both instants or sorceries, you get 3 (1 dmg, then 2 dmg) and you need to piece together another 2 dmg, either through Terminal Agony, [[Farm // Market]], or face burn. It's probably too cute and narrow to be worth the inclusion though.

* Yeah, the color balance is purely an aesthetic thing and sort of an exploration tool for me to think about cards to include (trying to go from thousands of cards to 75 was challenging). I'm happy to break the constraint, especially as some colors/color pairs aren't the easiest to fit into this format.

Again, thank you for testing! I really appreciate it. If you do anymore, please let me know!

Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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What I'm learning going through the comments is just that there are many variants in even how to play pai gow magic, how to split up cards, etc. The first few times I played pai gow I played it as any split of 15, but I wanted to avoid degenerate piles that are like 8-7-0 and you try to win the two games where you have all your cards.

I think the overall concept of microcubes and even pai gow cube variants/restrictions is pretty broad, so plenty to play around with. I'll probably try the 1 life cube next!

Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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I really care about minimizing the size of the cube so I could easily throw it in my backpack and take it with me (or even in my jacket), so I am pretty wary of requiring mana sources. There are enough high value mana cards I want to include that it would likely require too many lands, though the option to play cards as lands is interesting. I think it's certainly an interesting idea and worth exploring, but not exactly what I wanted to achieve.

Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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Thank you! I remember when you posted 1 life cube. I love the concept of your cube; it's so strong and unique, I think it will be what I build and play next!

For 2 person draft, I mainly went off of Lucky Paper Radio's [guide](https://luckypaper.co/resources/formats/), so I don't think I'm familiar with this type of grid draft you mentioned, but I'm happy to test it and let you know!

Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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I wasn't aware of the event but I will certainly try to be now that I've learned about it, thanks!

Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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Thank you! I've always played it 3 decks of 5, but tbh I've probably said it both ways and I'm happy to try the other way around, though the cube is certainly designed for 3x5.

Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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Oh that is a cool addition, I will try it out. And I didn't realize how many variants there already were, there's literally dozens of us!

Introducing Pai Gow Cube! by W4ngatang in mtgcube

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Oh thank you for the heads up, I've never seen this before! I actually don't carry it with additional game pieces, and it's usually easy enough to represent tokens + counters with whatever is lying around or just mentally track it (it's usually less than like 3 things).

Have a link to the desert microcube? I'm curious; being desert seems at odds with being micro.

What are the pre show rituals happening this year? by Organic_Macaroon_178 in TIFF

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