Recent content by Dom Harvey

STE + Cauldron is the kind of synergy that gets me going - an old card that I've loved for 20 years and will never leave my Cube + a recent banger that gets your wheels turning

Back in the day power-max Cubes built their own cage with a commitment to aggro: if you wanted white or red aggro you had to focus on quantity as well as quality and pack your Cube with Savannah Lions and Jackal Pups that nobody else wanted (and they had to be as narrow as possible because they...

Impromptu Draft Report - Aug 2025 Update here because the Cube is still in its informal state but it was ~drafted~!! == "How close are you to having this ready to go?" Tom asked of my unnamed box of cards that loosely corresponds to anything I write about Cube online (UBOCTLCTAIWACO for...

I don't hear people actually get confused about Omen/Adventures as much as Cube designers talk about that fear but I find it quite jarring myself and it blocks a lot of marginal Omens for me. My one exception currently is Marang River Regent which is cool/good enough to earn a spot anyway and...

On Monday I watched someone curve T1 Birds of Paradise T2 attack with it + raid Chart a Course and I don't think there's more beauty to be found in games than that

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It might prompt a double take at first but once you parse the card fully it makes total sense and is a blast to play with - it's the kind of card I'd use as a bellwether for a slower Cube than mine are these days

Black 3/2 + upside for 1B isn't totally new - compare Wight (unplayed ~everywhere) or Tenacious Underdog (sweet card and role player but nothing offensive). If its stats are too weak then it would just be another sac engine ala Viscera Seer - having decent stats means a more normal deck can play...

SPELL ENJOYERS As I apparently posted years ago (along with thoughts on UR Artifacts and UR discard/draw... time is a flat circle, if not a Cube), I want to cast spells and get a pat on the head for it but that was always harder than it seemed. The bounty of cards for those decks over the past...

UR I've struggled with blue, red, and UR for a long time (to the extent that I once made an Abzan Cube more out of frustration than anything else). There's a lot to like in each colour but it felt like every possible theme was a bit too shallow and you had to settle for generic blue and/or red...

Some general thoughts before starting on archetypes: - A reminder to myself that I know I have a very bad perfectionist streak at all levels when it comes to Cube: this is an iterative and imperfect process, that's the whole point! - Especially as the main form of 'feedback' is drafting vs bots...

To take an extreme example, I think Black Lotus is a much better card to add to a Cube than Moxes even though it's stronger - you're much more excited to see it, it's more unique, it makes you prioritise cards that find/loop it, it leads to better stories (I cast this thing on T1 and/or I beat...

Warden is fantastic, my favourite white one-drop in a long time - it lets you feel like you're actually doing something important with your trinkets and it represents a real threat more quickly than you expect Planisphere feels almost overengineered to be a glue card for Riptide-y Cubes - not...

Time to grow up and actually get my main Cube list in a tangible form. What better way than to reinvent it from scratch in public? I'll be working on the template here and talking through it in this thread. For similar Cubes I've been drawing a lot of ideas from: - Returning the love to...

That was 9(!!) years ago. What does the game look like now? - The themed/engine aggro or aggro-combo decks I was pining for back then are flourishing; every set brings a new bounty for the Tokens, Counters, Sac etc decks of the world. Meanwhile, the Savannah Lions tribe is racking up more and...