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Odd question, but... what's your favorite way to kill yourself in Magic? I've got it in my head that a cube where you're trying to lose before your opponent can is cool, but my brain's stuck on damage, and I'd like some more variety (some representative cards that point towards stuff I'm...

Shout out to Sneaky Snacker which is an honorary Phoenix with a surprising amount of play to it.

My suspicion is that it's less intimidating. A new player who just got into EDH can just kinda sit off in a corner and durdle because they aren't villain's sole focus and they don't have to worry about any deck adjustment until they feel ready (vs. 1v1 Magic where sideboarding is an integral...

For whatever reason, I find Star Trek to be way more charming as a UB set than I expected. It's not even like I'm a Trekkie - I've seen a few episodes of Lower Decks and the first J. J. Abrams movie and that's pretty much it. But anyway, cards - none of the draft archetypes really stand out to...

One of the cool things about designing a cube is that you get to realize that a card can be good and bad at the same time. From a winning the game perspective (which is the one that playing Magic trains you to take), a 3/1 unblockable is 100% strictly better because there isn't much...

I was browsing Scryfall, and I came across this little fellow that seems fantastic for a bar cube (or other format where having a bunch of throwaway creatures to feed to edicts is uncommon): Ogre Marauder I don't have a good place to test it right now, but on paper the play patterns it opens...

I feel like the slith with a cheap evasion+card advantage trigger is probably the right choice to cut. Granted, I'd also argue that creatures that reliably can't be blocked don't really engage in combat - Basim is effectively the following in a deck that can reliably trigger its first ability...

Clearly what they need to do is make them DFCs that you put into your graveyard transformed.

I think the problem with Vengeance is that it's going to be on Marvel cards. (Is this me being kinda salty that our revisit to both Powerstones and Arcane are on cards belonging to the only UB that I legitimately cannot stand? Yes.)

I think that's a symptom of the fact that the kind of people who get into cubing have probably been playing Magic for a while, and are used to evaluating cards through that lens. It's not even that they don't think in terms of gameplay experience, it's that they've been trained to only consider...

Prodigy's Flame was originally just going to be Glacial Ray but with Splice onto Lesson, then I flipped it around on a whim and liked the result. I started with that and got to Swimmer Between Moments Creature - Leviathan Horror Hexproof When this enters, if it was cast, take an extra turn...

Thank you, weird brainstorm: Reverse Engineer - {2}{U} Creature - Human Artificer Discard a non-artifact card, {T}: Draw a card. Discard an artifact card, {T}: Draw a card, then learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to...

Equal Treatment is a hilarious piece of tech. I was going to suggest Transpose, but then I saw that you're already running it. :p That said Scorched Rusulka

I'm a fan of Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

I mean, yeah, but it also comes down to the idea that Liliana in her ISD portrayal is less acceptable to a hypothetical female audience than Elspeth's paladin girl aesthetic due to her cleavage. I agree that Liliana's pose is on the pinup-y side, but it wouldn't be out of the norm for an...