Recent content by Jungle Bus

It seems like it would be worth figuring out what qualities make a card work better in a certain pack. Some thoughts: Dependence on other cards - Stuff like Natural Order and Reveillark I find most interesting in pack 2, where you have some idea of whether you'll be able to support them, but...

Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the recursive dudes: they seem solid, although you have to be really careful what sac outlets you include with guys that are so easy to bring back. I'd like it if they were all zombies so you could have tribal shenanigans, but that might make the theme a bit...

Random ideas: Crater Hellion could be a nice big red card, being both a sweeper and a finisher. Jaya Ballard, Task Mage could be a decent supplement to the Seismic Assault plan, or if you have a lot of graveyard synergies. You could try adding errata to Desperate Ritual to make it splice onto...

Coming up with cards is a lot of fun, so here are some: Stifle Bear 1UU Creature - Human Wizard Flash When Stifle Bear enters the battlefield, counter target activated or triggered ability. 2/2 Reasoning: I love Stifle, but it's too narrow for most cubes. Adding a reasonable body/cost might...

If you're the modifying sort, you could always take a few playable spells and add "you may exile a card from a graveyard" as a rider.

One thing I've noticed in historical formats is that mana fixing is often front-loaded - many blocks have two or three cycles of fixing in pack one, and only one in packs two and three. If you wanted to do this a possible distribution for a 360 card cube could be duals and shocks in pack one...