DRAFT REPORT - AUGUST 2026 (prologue!!)
Untap TO (our local mini-CubeCon - a nice dry run for my return to the full all-American CubeCon next week!) is this weekend - after winning the first one and missing the second I wanted to get a Cube in this one at the very least. I'm glad to report it's...
Vibe check on Griselbrand as a cheat target these days? I think I want one Really Big Thing to entice drafters, it's the prize my beloved Agatha's Soul Cauldron really wants (and other conditional reanimation like Loyal Retainers or stuff like Sneak Attack), and I have fond memories of it. In a...
Suppose you were starting a draft with a set of all 5 Moxen that you could put in your deck. What cards would you be more excited to see/draft as a result?
Miles got there first but Rx Discard has picked up more substantial tools than almost any other archetype in any colour in recent years and those two-drops + three-drops are a great core for aggro and midrange alike. Special shout-out to Sabin, which flies under the radar as a recent printing...
DRAFT REPORT - JUNE 2026
Our monthly all-day Cube-a-thon gave me another chance to draft, this time a pod of 7 with a lot of first-timers:
5c Lurrus Control
Gr Ramp (me)
UB Mid
GW Survival
WB Sac/Reanimator
BR Mid
UWR Prowess/Control
Ones
1 Mox Amber
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Chromatic Star
Twos...
MARVEL
This first (of many!) batch of Marvel releases has so many cards that you'd expect some to be interesting but there's a decent haul here even given that baseline. Aesthetically every character being a Named Legend is quite jarring but that's not categorically different from many normal...
The logistics can be annoying but I love these effects. They inherently add variety to how the games play out and make it uniquely sensitive to the contents of both decks; it's true that the average card in their deck is worse than the average card in yours but the exceptions make for...
The Commander decks are predictably full of bangers too; The Fantastic Four deck spreading Prowess-y stuff across four colours leads to some really nice stuff and I'm keen to see what the Villains deck offers Grixis (as long as isn't too parochial re. Villain tribal etc). Some more on top of...
The trend of the Jumpstart sets being goldmines even if the main set flops continues!
This fails the Firebolt test or whatever but has a lot of cool stuff going on. Mainly I wanted to highlight how neat power-up is with anything that cheats costs, blink etc - I want to find an excuse to...