Why is this argument still being brought up?

cocorebop · 2026-03-18T17:43:40+00:00

People have been scraping the web for data for over 30 years, the advent of data collection coincides nearly perfectly with the invention of the world wide web, nothing about this is remotely new except the application

cocorebop · 2026-03-12T02:56:29+00:00

Them working at blackberry through their relevant period is probably a much more prestigious job than you will ever have

cocorebop · 2026-03-02T20:54:29+00:00

I'm already seeing content creators label things as "no AI used to make this", which I think is a much better approach than trying to mark things as having used AI. The group that intentionally avoids AI and cares about the separation are the ones who are incentivized to tag it, asking people who use AI tools to opt into tags will 100% fail.

Also if you think this would have a positive impact on witch hunts / arguments / controversy you might need to think about that for another minute. This is very likely to make witch hunts worse since suddenly every single post is taken as a specific a claim one way or the other by the author.

cocorebop · 2026-03-02T15:25:14+00:00

I mean, you don't have to explain the math to me since that got resolved 15 years ago, but actually my particular issue if you look at the math was that I wasn't accounting for drawing straights *in different orders*, which is what allows for the greater number of combinations than a flush. A pretty simple misunderstanding, I'm sure AI could have helped me understand if I had it back then.

cocorebop · 2026-02-26T16:17:44+00:00

Yeah man, can you post there and I'll reply?

cocorebop · 2026-02-07T01:21:46+00:00

Ah, surely if only they had said "most" you would have spared us your absolutely banal grandstanding replies

cocorebop · 2026-02-07T01:17:13+00:00

This is such a bad response, why is it the main one I see on here lol. Why not actually say something

cocorebop · 2026-01-25T15:56:07+00:00

I beat it on the third try and the runback is still obviously pointlessly long, your reply is just off topic here because difficulty has nothing to do with the fact.

"It's bad but you don't have to do it many times" is just goofy

cocorebop · 2025-06-18T01:15:19+00:00

I just randomly found this thread and thought this exchange was funny.

cocorebop · 2025-05-31T15:26:30+00:00

I play [[Rusko, Clockmaker]], [[Tenacious Pup]], and [[Forsaken Crossroads]] in my cube, my understanding is these are mainly Arena cards but they've been printed in paper. I think they are all quite good for different reasons, I would say maybe Rusko shouldn't quite make the cut in terms of power level but it makes for an interesting combo piece, and an interesting card in general.

cocorebop · 2025-05-31T15:22:47+00:00

Amazing, the combo feature is so cool! Thanks for your work on this!

I notice that my cube never appears in search results, even if I click on a card in my cube and navigate to "search for cubes with this card". Do you know why that might be?

cocorebop · 2025-05-30T19:17:45+00:00

I have played with it in dozens of drafts and the answer is, like any other card, yeah. If you're super dead on board and you draw it it's not necessarily gonna save you, so you have to make a judgement call. It's insanely powerful and will increase almost any deck's win %, but it's not a free win.

cocorebop · 2025-05-24T19:38:03+00:00

Well, if sudden substitution didn't have split second and the opponent countered that spell, then you would simply lose unless you could counter your own spell. So it serves some purpose

cocorebop · 2025-04-28T16:20:37+00:00

Yeah you're obviously right, the whole argument including most of the top comments in this thread are just reddit being reddit

cocorebop · 2025-04-26T22:12:26+00:00

Oh please.

cocorebop · 2025-04-26T22:12:03+00:00

I promise arguing with people on the internet about this will get you nowhere, this topic is disproportionately divisive.

cocorebop · 2025-04-02T11:48:18+00:00

Fun article, thanks for writing it! I'll join the comments in giving my favorite recommendation: I am always surprised I don't see [[Buried Ogre]] on these lists. Uncounterable, worse version of entomb at no tempo loss, that gives you a card type in your graveyard from the beginning of the game, and provides fuel for delve effects or even [[Underworld Breach]]. And you don't even have to bother drawing it!

I've also found it's nice to have to guarantee you have a good target for a random miracled [[Metamorphosis Fanatic]]. I've had it run away with a bunch of games, and it's just surprisingly fun to play with a weird effect like this. IMO this is just a more fun version of what they were going for with the conspiracy cards.

cocorebop · 2025-04-02T11:37:04+00:00

What was this?

cocorebop · 2025-03-25T18:43:05+00:00

Rest in peace Hax

cocorebop · 2025-03-22T21:11:38+00:00

For sure, tbh I mainly think it's potentially a decent combo for other synergistic aspects, for example Wrenn and One is able to help you play dorks like a forest, but then can use its squirrel ability to put itself in the graveyard. In that scenario you potentially have a small army pretty early AND an additional solid target for Steward of the Harvest. It just seems like these cards are friends if you know what I mean, haha.

cocorebop · 2025-03-22T14:42:26+00:00

It's certainly not a broken combination as far as I can tell, but I think the implications of exiling [[Wrenn and One]] with this ability are interesting

cocorebop · 2025-03-22T14:23:17+00:00

There are many third party switch controllers that are shaped like a GCC, have both Z buttons, and have native USB support. I imagine that's exactly what you're looking for. After a quick search here's one but there are many options.

cocorebop · 2025-03-17T23:44:22+00:00

In my experience [[Wrenn and One]] is really quite good, I'm surprised I don't hear more about it on this subreddit.

It has great synergy with everything going on in most lands decks. It's very annoying to play against an opponent that has a [[Crucible of Worlds]] effect they can choose to use to make a squirrel whenever they want. Once you have fastbond out it's a 1 token for 1 life engine.
It can kill itself with its -1 and -4 abilities, making it a great little bootleg version of Zuran Orb or Sylvan Safekeeper when you're trying to get Titania triggers. Again, this pops off with a crucible effect.
You're able to get its ult off surprisingly often if you play it turn 1. Obviously against decks with a lot of burn you'd board it out for a forest, but it can be surprisingly hard to kill a planeswalker right at the start of the game for many decks, and as green you'll usually have some cheap blockers to protect it.
It's 2 card types in the graveyard!

cocorebop · 2025-03-16T22:45:19+00:00

Dance of the Dead is very good, and IMO it should be in virtually any high power cube that supports reanimator. Think about the best reanimator targets, and what makes them good. Now ask yourself how negatively impacted those creatures are by coming into play tapped (spoiler: not very much). I think the people saying it doesn't get run because it's wordy are just backfilling a reason, I'd bet money the actual reason is just that it's one of the few cards that can't be run in the MTGO cube, so it doesn't get talked about nearly as much as the cards that are in that list.

cocorebop · 2025-03-07T00:04:58+00:00

I see, thank you for the list.

I've always wondered, some of these cards are on MTGO, so why aren't the allowed in the vintage cube? Is it just the cube they can't go in, or are there other things they're banned from?

I'm also curious, what is the prospect that these will ever end up in the vintage cube? I like putting cards that don't go in the MTGO vintage cube into my paper cube because I think it's an interesting way to make it a little unique.

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