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Professional Architectural Historian based in SF. MA in Historic Preservation and Museum Practice
@hardcasting.bsky.social(this spell makes two 4/4s and draws a card)
@hardcasting.bsky.socialAnother powerful one! Remember the order you stack your spell matters- Basri's Solidarity after Antiquities will put a +1/+1 counter on those freshly created spirits.
@hardcasting.bsky.socialSelesnya gets some of the most broken Opus spells! Convoke + Buyback is a classic (DIY Sprout Swarm), cheap flashback costs, and the best regrowth effects! I am confident green will be fun here. Here's what I think might be up there for best Opus. 5 mana they die?? Available in go-wide and pump!
@hardcasting.bsky.socialThank you- this deck looks sweet too! Lots of ways to use the Opus! Couple questions I ask: 1) Would you be excited to play this deck? 2) What other options did you consider for your Opus? 3) Was there anything that felt out of place in your draft?
@hardcasting.bsky.socialLET'S GO BEN! San Francisco has your back!
@benclemens.bsky.socialReposted by @hardcasting.bsky.socialSporadic MtG content: tonight two of my friends and I are playing in the finals of the Lotus League team cube draft tournament, against the end bosses: Hall of Famer LSV and his crew (who are no slouches themselves). We've got this, though. Go Team Big Trees. Watch it at twitch.tv/lsv at 6pm PT
@hardcasting.bsky.socialMake sense! Hope I never fall behind, because if I fall behind I am so toast. But the decks where I curve out (higher chance because I'm running 40 billion creatures) I am cooooooking with gas
@hardcasting.bsky.socialThe logic was that backup is an incredibly powerful ability, so I really tried to limit the non-backup stuff. I wanted to be playing 100% creatures (given my manabase) but Saw in Half did make me pause, card is great here. With backup, having a healthy curve is important. Get out ahead, stay ahead
@hardcasting.bsky.socialWell this deck has some curves that are completely busted, Dreadhorde Butcher into Voldaren Thrillseeker is pants shittingly terrifying for opponents (hopefully). 6 Rainbow lands meant I went way into the deep end. The Hoplite seems absurd.
@hardcasting.bsky.social🤝 we shall trade deranged fucked up piles. I'll have you know so far my first 3 picks were Abandoned courtyard, Abandoned courtyard, and Ancient Ziggurat (which could probably be a 3rd abandoned courtyard yannow)
@hardcasting.bsky.social-> opens the list -> first card I see is cruel sadist -> thinks "oh baby we call that POTENTIAL"
@hardcasting.bsky.socialHoly shit Scott @ollie.bostoncubeparty.com was not lying you were cooking. Lemme go draft the most deranged pile possible
@hardcasting.bsky.socialThen the classics, like e-wit, rec sage, etc. But Xantid Swarm has my heart
@hardcasting.bsky.socialToday is as good a day as tomorrow!
@hardcasting.bsky.socialLfg Scott, show us whatchu got!
@hardcasting.bsky.socialA very cool dream! I think it might be worth it
@hardcasting.bsky.socialThis really needs test drafts. I want you all to break the cube, help me weed out the bad play patterns/beyond the pale stuff. What is the most broken opus you can come up with during test drafting? I would love to see it!!
@hardcasting.bsky.socialSure! I went with your suggestion!
@hardcasting.bsky.socialSlightly hard for me to justify Zada in the same cube as lightning bolt, but I did consider it! Just worried the removal in the cube surpasses Zada's base rate
@hardcasting.bsky.socialAlso, I made it so that your Opus can consist of **up to three** instants or sorceries. Unclear if I will stick with this, but in theory you could just Opus High Tide or Glimpse of Nature (not currently in the cube but I did noodle on it)