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Day: 031 Set: March of the Machine Commander (MOC) Release Date: April 21st, 2023 Cards: 57 New Design & Development: Ethan Fleischer (Lead) All New Cards on Cube Cobra: Link Commander sets are really interesting for Cube. With an eye towards both eternal, they were, for a long time, some of...

I'm getting more in line with the sensibilities of Bloomburrow or Eldraine from these, but the first round of spoilers was slightly closer to what I was hoping for. I think we're going to end up a bit far away from what made the plane charming on the first time around, but it's early and I need...

Stridehangar Automaton Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender Legion Extruder Rosie Cotton of South Lane Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge Aloy, Savior of Meridian Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade Biotech Specialist Bumi's Feast Lecture Campsite Cuisine I've been trying to figure out more ways to jam in food as part of...

I'm doing the survey for the best new basic lands of the year again! Please contribute if you have a few minutes!! Here are the infographics I made last year from those results.

Day: 030 Set: Judgement (JUD) Release Date: May 27, 2002 Cards: 143 Design & Development: Brian Tinsman (Design), Randy Buehler & William Jockusch (Development Co-Leads) Art Direction: Jeremy Cranford & Dana Knutson All New Cards on Cube Cobra: Link A Brian Tinsman set! Great designer, and I...

You know, I just might. I loved Deathclaw for the first year or two he was in Cube, but I feel like he's kind of...boring now? It's nice for GB to have a big boy payoff to either lightly ramp or reanimate into, but he's just "generic good" and isn't a fraction as evocative. It's an interesting...

As someone with negative interest in the Fantastic Four, this is truly the ideal kind of card design for UB. Like, that's cool. You get the story even if you're not familiar, and the impressiveness of Galactus is self-evident. It's a good card for all levels of Cube, but it's mostly there for...

Between Bruce and Quicksilver, Brash Blur, we're getting so many 1MV legends. I'd be happy if they weren't Marvel! I really like Namor (that links to my comments on Reddit). Aesthetically, it doesn't feel as out of place with Magic either.

Ran it for a few years, it was a trap for me. The card is fine, but it was valued too highly by our less experienced players and made for a lot of stalemates. I wouldn't be against putting it back in now days, but I like Shadowspear and Pip-Boy 3000 and even Lost Jitte more, and other 1MV...

I think that's smart. Most of the cards I listed have left my Cube and even fell out of my on-deck binder, so I didn't think they'd be hits, but they're interesting as a thought experiment, if nothing else. I think Benthic Biomancer and Ingenious Prodigy are reasonably fine, but blue tends to be...

Piper Wright, Publick Reporter Danny Pink Benthic Biomancer Chasm Skulker Ingenious Prodigy Spark Double O'aka, Traveling Merchant Thrummingbird Wave Goodbye Tezzeret's Gambit Ripples of Potential Piper Wright, Publick Reporter is on the weaker side of my Cube for sure, but it's proved much...

Like I said, if I cut this whole set from my Cube, it'd hardly be a bother. But I will acknowledge there are plenty of interesting cards to talk about! Huh, for whatever reason I thought Questing Druid was identical text to Reckless Impulse like Wrenn's Resolve is. I think I like Questing...

Day: 029 Set: Crimson Vow (VOW) Release Date: November 19, 2021 Cards: 277 Design & Development: Mark Rosewater (Vision Lead), Adam Prosak and Erik Lauer (Set Design Co-Leads) Art Direction: Taylor Ingvarsson All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: Link Pretty unimpressive set! Again, goes to show the...

If you're punishing your opponents for drawing cards like with these: Scrawling Crawler Hullbreacher Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Orcish Bowmasters Spiteful Visions Underworld Dreams Fate Unraveler ...but really it feels more multiplayer-focused. I used to run it in 2011-2012ish, but it's not...

Day: 028 Set: Magic 2013 (M13) Release Date: June 3, 2005 Cards: 249 (~100 new) Design & Development: Doug Beyer (Design Lead), Zac Hill (Development Lead) Art Direction: Jeremy Jarvis All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: Link I don't have much to say about this set. This came out when I was playing...