Michael Bilan

IT Engineering Professional | MTG Cubemonger | Elder 🦩 | Ask me about my dogs. Or cube.
The best pairing for any cube is people.

[Michael Bilan @_Mikujin]

@matt_grenier Cubing and chatting with you has always been a good time. Here's hoping we still manage to bump into each other from time to time!

[Michael Bilan @_Mikujin]

@BearlyLupe @Lizzie_Baseball

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@BearlyLupe @Lizzie_Baseball But there's a good land in the pack?

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@bugsmaytrix @BearlyLupe Yrga also turns the abundance of artifact removal spells into vindicates.

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@BearlyLupe "Greedy" <insert archetype>, and/or "Bolas."

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@Jenn_the_Judge @SarahChiyasi It's not intuitive, but yes, you can!

Relevant rules are: 601.2a,e, f, and g. We announce we are casting Dreadmaw (a, e), then determine costs and activate mana abilities (f, g). We win the game before 601.2h finds we can't pay total costs.

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@HGSCube @CubeConOfficial 1. Tammy Moonsocks
2. Mayhem Devils
3. Yes; Urza (1) or Ob Nix (2).

In both cases I'm cutting two key pieces from desirable strats that both work well together.

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@RollToTweet Where was my invite to this rip-roaring good time, Ollie?

Also make sure you bug Dan at Commander Sealed - he'll be bringing Nu-MAD and you should definitely give it a whirl!

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@RollToTweet Every weekend has a major cube event if you're willing to organize it.

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@Nicole_Dubin @BearlyLupe

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@Cryonicity @BearlyLupe @luckypaperMtG Sounds like a great opportunity to also include 100 channels

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@windrune @CubeConOfficial Vaqueros on East Wash, and it's not even remotely close.

The downside is that it's a bit out of the way.

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@BearlyLupe It was a rip-roarin' good time. Many people doing many things.

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@CubeConOfficial @wizards_magic The Cube so nice they named it twice.

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@Nicole_Dubin If you prefer shoes with lots of cushion, Skechers is unironically pretty good for wide feet. Heard good things about Kiziks, too.

If you like 'barefoot' shoes (and I love 'em), I cannot recommend Lems enough as someone with ultra-wide-flippers-for-feet.

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@AetherVjorn @BearlyLupe A shameless strawman from one of the upper-crust sympathizers!

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@BearlyLupe For TOO long we have let our Aristocratic oppressors control our cube design space. No longer, my friends!

Join us, as we take back our design space from the Aristocracy - and cards from everyone else - as we keep their greed (and definitely not our own) in check!

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@BearlyLupe @CMDRsealed @CubeConOfficial I'm already going nutty to see how our most ambitious update is received!

Here's hoping our players don't hoard their feedback from us - that'd be the real crime!

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@Ratafiaaa @RollToTweet @RedFade3 @izzetskill @TheChicagoCube @RedFade3, if you're interested in some notes on the process, what we ended up with, and my own musings about it, check out the cube on CubeCobra: https://t.co/YxAPgqy5dd

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@Ratafiaaa @RollToTweet @RedFade3 @izzetskill @TheChicagoCube Fruitcake Cube was a roaring success - and like Ryan said, I'll credit our community and not myself for that. It's definitely got roots in Chaos Drafting, which was some initial inspiration. The reason we settled on 45 was so that everyone who participated could play.