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I haven't touched this cube in close to six months, but I really should start tinkering with it again. I think my frustration with white came from the fact that maintaining white as a color that felt meaningful in a graveyard enviroment by itself required a lot of newer cards, and that eroded...

Thanks! If you would, what color would you cut? White and black both have the least artifact synergy, but they do have distinct things they add, though there's a lot of aristocrats overlap. Thanks! Well, I do love all of those as well. I'm not sure why I missed Reinforced Ronin in red, it's...

Oh God, I know exactly how you feel, and I love this project of yours exactly for how you went about it. I tried building a cube a year ago with werebear being like a good creature, as a yardstick for the powerlevel, but it didn't work how I wanted it to. I kept getting tempted by newer cards...

Got the first draft in yesterday, and it was a blast. The draft was fast and fun, everyone liked their decks, and they want to try it again. So, mission accomplished on that end. As for insights provided by my drafters (who have particular tastes, they prefer the feel of retail limited over...

I wanted to make a new cube, but I didn't know what about, but then I saw this little guy, and I knew it was the universe whispering sweet, sweet nothings into my ear. Upriser Renegade Everything about this card speaks to me. The art. His hair. His hair in the art. So I had to make a cube...

This entire list is nostalgia bait from when I really got into magic, around 2001, and the order changes every time I think about it, probably, as MilesOfficial said. I might have a slight, slight fondness for blue and green. Only slight.

Got another draft in this weekend, which I'll get to in a little bit, but first a bit of musing. My last 4 drafts have all been with 4-6 players, and the results of running drafts with lower numbers of players is kind of, idk. My regulars aren't fond of grid drafting, and want the experience of...

Big update, I guess. I've cut down the cube down to 360 cards, and decided to finally put an end to the "set experiment" after a year. It was a fun experience, but I've decided to return to mostly singleton, with a couple of key breaks, because I play with 4-6 players 90% of the time. Moving...

Clay Statue I hated this thing so much as a kid when my brother played it. It's not even that terrible. It just brings back so many godawful memories of chumping my Craw Wurm forever. Incidentally, I just love how weird and all over the place the art for this set is. It gives off that feeling...

Eidolon of countless battles It's kind of an old favorite of mine. I think this is one of the bestow creatures, if not the only one, with a reasonable cost and a decent payoff. It fits in Enchantress and tokens, and it gets around removal.

I agree with this. The problem with old border shifting moderns cards, particularly creatures, is that old border creatures were designed on a completely different axis. They're clunky, lumbering, slow, expensive, or weak. I forgot where I read this, but it rings so true: Like, you'd have...

God, this set was just an absolute unit. So many fun things to choose from. Designwise, it doesn't get much better, really. There's just so much stuff. Totem auras: Kor SpiritdancerAura Gnarlid Self saccing spawns are just beautiful design, along with everything in green like awakening zone or...

Pretty much. Also, kicker was introduced in Invasion, so it also helped as a way to "reset" creatures you didn't kick but who were already on the battlefield by returning them to your hand and allowing you play them with their kicker, or replay as them in the case of the battlemages.

patrol hound I like how this thread has evolved into digging up the most obscure old border cards.

We must fight awesome power with even awesomer power. Grotesque Hybrid