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Brion Stoutarm+Phytotitan

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Thank you everyone. I was still willing to believe in By Gnome Means but the hexproof counter does make it slightly uglier. Is there a sane solution? I really like the card but I hate the idea of handing the players a piece of paper and saying "so these are the counters you're allowed to use."

By Gnome Means Is this absolutely unreasonable with the new Ikoria counters? It's already kind of unreasonable with +2/+2 counters, etc... And I suppose you could always make a list of allowed keywords or go by what the cards in your cube refer to. Has anyone tried it?

This is a great and - hoping I don't sound too dramatic - urgent thought. It slots itself into the timeless (recurring) discussion around the value of Serendipity, which we seem to always forget and then rediscover. In the Humanities I'm watching it happen right now, as people realise naively...

I also dislike that, so I'll share my Gallia custom : )

Thanks everyone, those are great suggestions and seeing all of the cards together made realise how wide you can go with this "theme" and how well it already plays into some other strategies I had planned. And I can't believe I had missed Intruder Alarm. Stonybrook Schoolmaster is really cool...

I cannot figure out whether this can work, whether it makes any sense. I wanted to have a tap/untap archetype that would flow nicely into different strategies in all five colours. In red you have the pingers such as Cunning Sparkmage as well as Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient, Ghirapur Aether Grid...

Since I have a discard theme I'm also running this guy: Mindless Automaton Then I have the Changeling utility cards that Scrapyard Recombiner can pick up: Nameless InversionCrib SwapChangeling Outcast You won't want to tutor for outcast many times, but he also acts as a good ninjutsu target.

Onderzeeboot that looks great! It's really funny, though, since I have been, since yesterday, typing up a new cube blog which started precisely from the same group of cards: UB ninjas/saboteurs with an artifact strategy, and leading into a discard/self-mill theme. What made me laugh was that I...

You know what, this is precisely why you should talk to people. After some auto analysis, I concluded that my reaction derived mostly from seeing the word Horsemanship! In my mind I just threw it into a mental drawer together with Invisible Stalker. But you are absolutely correct. I still...

The thing that bugs me about Lu Xun is that he basically just hangs around until the opponent has a removal spell. I will always favour conditional - or circumstantial - unblockability, but even in the case of Looter il-Kor the ability is about filtering and not just card drawing. You need...

I've been working a new cube and started precisely with a broad set of ideas that all center around the possibility of building Dimir Saboteurs/Ninjas. But, since I love Whirler Rogue, I decided that the deck could go the traditional ninja route (with plenty of the cards that people in the...

I suppose it depends on how the games play on your cube but as a fan of strange ways to twist a regular Magic game into other things I find this very very interesting. Except I would make it so that you take the cards you drafted from the Isochron Scepter draft and make a little deck so the...

I was about to jump in to say exactly that. For all that the community suggests (and some suggestions do seem insightful or wise) it must be very hard to just depart from a blank piece of paper instead of a finished product that you just get to criticise. And they've managed to keep me...