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After doing a couple more drafts, I'm currently in the process of taking the cube through a major overhaul. The main thing I'm changing is lowering the number of copies per common to free up more space for cards I want to try out. I had it at 3 copies per common, I'm dropping it to 2 copies per...

You might be right. Could be that I'm overreacting, the 5 toughness isn't all that intimidating. It does have a lot of support in Dimir, and to a lesser extent Rakdos, with Cabal Initiate and Trespasser il-vec in black, Faithless Looting in red and Waterfront Bouncer and Cephalid Looter in blue.

Update time. I managed to get two full 8 man drafts in, and got a boatload of data. The main thing I learned was that having duplicate effects in a non-singleton cube really hurts deck diversity. It's a bit touch and go building a set cube, with a pretty steep learning curve. Anyway, these were...

Reminds me of one of my old modern decks, super fun to run! Having only 1 copy of young wolf really hurts, though, because having it enter as an undying 2/2 is what makes the engine go. I think you'll be forced to run stuff like Tukatongue Thallid and blisterpod to make it consistent enough with...

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Edit: I mean, like, it's like, whatever, man.

I think I'd prefer it if it buffed a certain creature or token type, but creature type would likely make it too strong with enough cheap cantrips.

Would make it more in line with what Flashback usually costs, when considering Threshold as part of the casting cost.

So I wanted to try my hand at creating some custom cards for my cube, mostly because I kinda want to have a few more half decent threshold creatures in red, and I'm not happy with the 1 and 2 cmc slots, but I have no idea what I'm doing so I could use some help. I'm considering something like...

That and players dislike giving other people choices. As for the pack: Can't go wrong with good old Disintegrate. It slices, it dices, it exiles, it finishes games. New pack? New pack. sandblast Arcane Sanctum Mulch Burning-Fist Minotaur Zenith Seeker Bishop of Rebirth Cartographer...

If you have enough decent ETB effects across the other colors, blink spells won't be overly parasitic. And they can be used to save blockers or counter kill spells by removing your creature as a target. Blink cards that give an additional benefit, like Otherworldly journey or Touch the Spirit...

It's interesting, Flashback is a big plus. Casting it for its flashback cost might be what a white based aggro deck needs to push through the last bit of damage, since it can bring back two Benalish Knights or Benalish Cavalrys. I haven't leaned into white's low cmc creature reanimation at all...

So I gave the cube a minor overhaul this week just in time to test it with a 4 man draft! The main changes were to support token strategies more, and to reduce the amount of cycling present in the cube. Below are the biggest changes I've made, besides some smaller adjustments in the common...

I love how flavor and mechanics come together on this one. He's a squire that becomes a knight if he gets enough +1/+1 counters.

Sure! We seem to have the same general ideas, lol.

My advice would be to build what you enjoy. I've built maybe 5 different iterations of my graveyard cube over the years, adding more complexity, cutting down, streamlining, growing to 720, breaking back down to 450. It's an ongoing process, and that's the fun part of it. There's never going to...