Recent content by MurphysHuman

Others have made similar points already, but one of my favorite parts of cube is that each environment is unique, and each matchup within that environment is unique. Rather than having a codified aggro/midrange/control ecosystem, each deck is going to have a mana curve which suggests a "critical...

We've been on it for a while! It's a little tricky deckbuilding-wise, since it wants you to have a bunch of artifacts AND a bunch of spells which are not artifacts to cast with it. I have a lot of Thopters and Clues in my environment, so when it hums it sings. But I have had people build an...

Thanks, everyone, for excellent suggestions! In looking at your posts, I think there are two broad types of cards that make me say "Yo!!": 1. Cards for which I think, "This is really powerful! I know I can make this work - now I need to figure out the manner in which I will do so": Young...

Hi all, I'm in the midst of designing a cube which will be mostly custom cards. This project started because I have an aesthetic preference for cards without too much text at a medium-high power level, and Wizards seems more into printing wildly strong cards with tons of text these days. I'm...

Chandra, the Firebrand is really fun! Which is to say the focus is not on casting big spells for free per se, but instead being a normal control deck with some incidental doubling or other ways to make use of the one or two big spells in your deck. The planeswalker Forks are nice for this...

Some of my favorite cube archetypes work this way (loose collections of different verbs with a broad overarching theme)! I think landfall triggers and Awaken the Woods are the only win conditions that have been posted for the deck, though. What about some old tech? Rude Awakening...

Selesnya Mechanic: Flourishing! (You are flourishing if you control more permanents than each of your opponents). Selesnya Grovetender - {1}{G} Creature - Elf Druid (C) When ~ enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 green Saproling token. 1/1 Dawn's Light - {3}{W}{W} Sorcery (U) Create 2 2/2...

I think these are both somewhere between Glorious Anthem (which I think is just "pretty good") and Goblin Bombardment (which I think is often "extremely good"): Glory of Warfare Showdown of the Skalds I was surprised not to find more high-power creatures that fit this description, but I...

Homestead Courage Travel Preparations …could be a lot!

I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 with some friends and wanted to highlight a neat intersection of rules that leads to a very expressive play pattern. My friends are all playing casters (Wizard, Warlock, Cleric), while I'm playing a Barbarian. I'm the only one who's consistently in melee range...

In my experience the text "enchant permanent" is worth a lot, and kept Confiscate in my cube for a long time. At six mana, big enchantments and planeswalkers are often on-board already (in addition to creatures and artifacts), so I would guess that even at six mana Confiscate is more powerful...

Is it worth anything that, at baseline, this goes down to {1} to activate after the first activation? Probably not, but I really like this card! I could imagine it as a custom with {2} MV; {1}, {T} to activate.

Combustible Gearhulk Torrential Gearhulk Sun Titan Primeval Titan Herald of Anguish This feels about right to me! They are probably too new to be iconic for the game broadly, but I've been cubing with them a long time, so it counts for me. The Herald is probably the least iconic, so you could...

These role-player type cards would be much better (for my cube, at least) as hybrids. Imagine this as a {W/B}{W/B} card! It's not exciting for me as a card that goes in ~10% of decks, but as a card that could feasibly go in any white or black deck it's very elegant-looking.

Funnily enough, I cut Consuming Vapors in...2015? for being too devastating off of a mana rock. This was before I had a big token theme, and the 2-for-1 plus life gain was way too backbreaking for aggressive decks. Given the previous discussion, it's probably fine now!