Recent content by Nanonox

This is a pretty good land and I actually really dig the art.

Continuing from the previous post, I really like the idea of this blink package Displacer Kitten Ghostly Flicker Kitten is the headliner here as a fragile, but really fun build around. Combo Kitten has two main avenues that I can think of currently in the cube Teferi, Time Raveler Eternal...

Storm is a rather unique archetype in that it generally requires your whole deck to be an engine producing mana and drawing cards, eventually finding a win somewhere. The main home for it is in the Grixis colors and sometimes Green, depending on the build. The idea in this post isn't to spell...

I think it's a great card to bridge those themes plus the random added benefit of working with discard/GY matters, sacrifice and draw 2. What I don't know is how often you will be using the ability since wouldn't you rather attack with a 4/4 flyer instead? If not, then the spell you are casting...

Only synergy I can think of would be a Land Tax or something. Maybe a draw 7 to reset hand size. But like safra said, it’s a control mirror breaker (kind of like Umezawa’s Jitte is the aggro mirror breaker)

I dislike vigilance on Adeline. You are already hitting like a truck AND you have a big defensive butt, good luck cracking back. For that reason alone, I would go with Zenith.

I've really enjoyed adding the spells matter cards back, especially Dreadhorde Arcanist and Young Pyromancer. With the added Strixhaven support and extra density of instants and sorceries, I've found the decks to come together quite often and take on all sorts of speeds and archetypes. Before...

Whether it's correct or not, I am treating the data as a way to show the more obvious archetypes that a cube contains. Another leap of dubious logic and now I'm equating that to what a newer player would find signals for. I'll be posting more in my blog, but for example my lands/ramp cluster...

In case people missed it, a big CubeCobra update went live today. There are some really cool features that were released and that are worth checking out! The coolest one in my books is a sort of time capsule where you can check out what your cube looked like when you made an update. You go to...

I've had success killing Commander in my fast multiplayer cube where I struggled to have people attack in a FFA game. I came up with some similar ideas and others I’m going to steal! What are your thoughts on damage outside of the combat step? I see these as training wheels until everyone’s...

Man I feel this so much! Making the tough cuts takes practice and a lot of trial and error. Sometimes I start designing a cube I know I’ll never finish just to get it out of my system. I'll get to it later in the post, but I've yet to find a GY aggro strategy in Red that I like that doesn't use...

Blue aggro/tempo I love Blue tempo decks and want to make sure it is present here. Judge's Familiar Aether Spellbomb Silent Departure Waterfront Bouncer Exclusion Mage Vendilion Clique Ninja of the Deep Hours Venser, Shaper Savant Riftwing Cloudskate This is the core of that deck, including a...

Thanks for the kind words. These writeups actually help me when I'm stuck on my designs, glad they can help others too. I think the issue was that I used too many recent cards. While they offered up more synergistic connections between archetypes and allowed new themes to emerge, they outshone...

Necromancy I've stopped working on this cube about a year ago. While I am happy with how it ended up, it didn't quite capture the Riptide feel that I was looking for. I tried my hand at another cube but that was even further away from what I was hoping to build. It turns out I was more so...

Appreciate the in depth write up! Just to be clear, I agree with what you are saying and couldn't hope to formulate it as eloquently. I wanted to touch on this sentence You've made compelling arguments about using different removal options, the choice of aggressive creatures and the types of...