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I agree about the power maxing/color balance dichotomy. To actually power max you're going to have Reanimator specific cards (inc Bazaar of Baghdad), heavy artifact support (probably including Time Vault), heavy combo presence (mostly seems to be based around Dream Halls and Draw 7s) along with...

I don't think Jungle Lions would be a total embarrassment if Green had the shell for it. But nobody's going to play Skinshifter or even Leatherback Baloth or anything like that either because it isn't worth forcing it. The weird thing is that almost every Cube seems to play in between cards...

If you look at the stats, it appears that many Cube designers are such slaves to the "guild system" that ~100% include Savannah Lions and Elite Vanguard while only ~90 have Dryad Militant. That is the height of insanity.

G/W has a distinct feel in a powered Cube IMO with disruptiveness when you have cards like Gaddock Teeg, Voice of Resurgence and Qasali Pridgemage. In general, we like almost every <3 drop but feel that non Knight of the Reliquary 3s (like Loxodon Smiter) are pushing things too much.

We've been thinking about how best to aggro in green and we came to a strange conclusion that I'd like to bounce off other people to see if anyone else thinks we're on to something. The naive (without being derogatory) approach is to add last pick cards like Jungle Lions and Wolf-bitten...

One reason I've gravitated toward playing the Unglued cards is that they are end up being format defining cards that you otherwise totally miss out on EVER playing. Contract from Below Chaos Orb Topsy Turvy = bizarre pseudo Time Walk We haven't figured out what to do with Necro-Impotence yet...

Probably over 90% of custom cards are terrible for this reason and the related (but not totally the same) Wall of Text. Personally, I think the design team should be keywording more not less. Yes, more keywords = more to remember (which is one interpretation of "complexity") but I view it like...

To be honest, we will probably try it but there is a bit of a stigma attached to "out there" ideas so not everyone who plays with us will be thrilled about it. So it may not last long. We have already boosted white a bit by playing Cold Snap. Thats another thing we don't always play because...

The reason I don't think it would be hard to balance is that we wouldn't really change anything else. She basically augments the creature base that is already available, with prime targets being Hero of Bladehold Mother of Runes Thalia Silverblade Paladin Mirran Crusader Mirror Entity maybe...

Has anyone tried her by making all Humans be Rebels? It more or less fits thematically and White is super heavy on Humans to begin with. We're thinking of trying this out because we like it much better than the ad hoc method of errata'ing various creatures (permanents..) to be have the Rebel...