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Probably as good a starting point as any. Just looking for the roughest ball of clay possible.

Cool, I'm on board now, much clearer.

Afraid I'm opening a can of worms here, but... Designing this as an off-the-shelf product greatly influences design. Things like guildgates actually have positive design value outside of the play environment because of their known inferiority to alternatives by providing the buyer with obvious...

Both options are worth pursuing, but I'd personally be more excited about innovating and demonstrating design philosophy in a new cube environment than building an efficient starter list.

Maybe to simplify it... Adapt Spider Adapt - Whenever a creature with flying deals damage to you put a +1/+1 on this. This has reach If it has a +1/+1 counter on it. That eliminates the memory issues and plays nice with other +1/+1 counter mechanics.

If I ever try to put together a custom set design I'll probably base it on Muraganda, a prehistoric style plane that Imperiosaur and The Mimeoplasm are from. One keyword I came up with and liked was Adapt. It's a basic one-time If/Then choice on creatures that represents them evolving and...

I've been thinking about it too and came to almost the exact same conclusion and list of cards. I also thought that it could be interesting to include a Cycling theme and bring back Astral Slide and Lightning Rift. Cycling puts cards into the graveyard easily (spells for U/R, critters and dredge...

I'm giving True-Name Nemesis a very guarded chance. I looked through my list and found no more than a dozen legit answers to him, more than half of them cost at least 4 mana and only 2 (Oblivion Stone and Ratchet Bomb) were usable by Green and/or Red. This probably isn't beatable if they untap...

Loam is a Johnny All-Star and one of my all time favorites. It's usually a mid-game value engine for B/G graveyard decks or recursive land destruction with Strip Mine and co, but I've seen synergies in Pox-type builds, Reanimator, G/R Wildfire and some BUG control builds.

I'm not very established in the community here, but I'd love to contribute, this sounds like a great challenge. Is the intent to use it for an article series or anything? Chronicling it could provide for some great "start-to-finish" type content.

We had a Gravecrawler/Reassembling Skeleton/Attrition/Blood Artist/Skullclamp deck 3-0 yesterday. I was on Mono-Red and didn't have a chance against it in the finals. Though I did steal a win against what was basically a U/R Splinter Twin deck round 2 when he thought it was safe to tap out with...

My Cube specifically has a Modern Frame only aesthetic requirement. It looks great and has actually been a lot of fun designing with the restriction. Sometimes old cards become "new releases" for me. Like recently, Sulfuric Vortex, Show and Tell and Hymn to Tourach all got first-in-modern-frame...

Thank you for the replies, they're all very thoughtful. I'm quite honestly not at the point with my own cube where it is stable enough to suffer from the stagnation I'm describing, where week to week the same decks are drafted and played out, maybe with some interchangeable parts (Rakdos...

+1, Grid and other 2 player formats would be great.

I've been trying to tighten up my cube lately, reducing its size and focusing a little more on archetypal centric design. It's working, the decks I'm supporting and getting drafting and playing well and incoherent piles are a little less common. But It's gotten me worried that the more defined I...

Last night I had an opponent ramp to Elesh Norn to wrath my board, but I got to untap and cast a brutal Living Death as a 10-for-1, he had nothing in the yard and I got to bring back an Angel of Despair, Inkwell Leviathan, Augur of Bolas and 2 more dorks. Angel blew up has man-land and Augur hit...

Makes me think of an idea I have on the back burner: The Misfit Cube. The idea is to balance and design around some archetypes that people (read: Johnnys) have tried to pull of and failed or joked about trying. Stuff like Door to Nothingness, Defenders, Mill, under-represented tribes, etc. The...