Recent content by Nemo

Agreed. It's also a card that keeps the dream alive for some ideas of generic green aggro and WG humans in my cube. As many looters as we have, I still don't have the perfect one. To me, a 3/2 for 3 is a little too strong to also have a zero mana looting effect, plus this one untaps for some...

Murmuring Volume As somebody who was willing to entertain adding Jalum Tome, I'll buy a copy of this for sure. It's a little different than Collector's Vault. Both are cool. Murmuring Volume is a completely clean card that I can even add to my beginner cube list, assuming I ever find the...

Master of Barbs I want to play this with a Goblin Bombardment and some tokens in play. Theorix Charm I've had a hard time identifying a "signature spell" for Dimir in the same way that we have really good ones for the other guilds. But I like this. Generous Revival I initially glanced at this...

Darksteel Angel I'm gonna have to find room in my colorless 9 drop section for this, folks

On removal: Plundering Barbarian doesn't seem crazy to me, but you're the one who has experience playing the cube, so your info is better than mine. I think I'd be more inclined to replace Ingot Chewer to reduce the one mana stuff - maybe he becomes a one or two drop to help aggro depending on...

It's been downhill ever since Legends came out.

Icy Reception This is cool, because I would like to have a -X/-0 trick for blue that's actually playable. It will usually just counter a creature, but when they do get the creature on the board or you topdeck this, you have a chance to gang up blocking a big creature and kill it without losing...

Cool cube - I always love artifact stuff like this. And it has Sage of Lat-Nam, so what's not to love about it? I like four colors for this, because I'm a big fan of not having all five colors in cubes for less than 7 people. I'd even consider three colors if I was doing this as a 180 card...

So, we're definitely going to build this and run it at a little event that we have coming up in October. We're excited to try this thing. Based on your experiences so far, would you advocate for further reducing the Mountains? My instinct would be to remove about 4 Mountains and add a few more...

I ran the word count code on this, and here are the numbers: Excluding the Mountains, it's 13.8 words per card or 17.2 words with reminder text included. With the Mountains diluting things, it's a hilarious 8.5 words per card, or 11.5 with reminder text included. I'm making some guesses of how...

Damn, this cube is sick as hell. I'm late to the party here, but I read about it and I'm all in. It's really tempting to build this and run it if I ever get exactly 8 people. What length of time does it take to draft this? Presumably it's a little faster than a more traditional cube draft. I...

I added occasionals! We finally drafted at the end of the summer and got 9 drafters. Previously I had never gotten more than 7 into a draft, so this was really cool. I went with 2 occasionals for every 14 card pack, and with 9 drafters that means we were seeing 270 cards instead of the usual...

Being reminded of the duplicate voucher system triggered some conversation between me and another cube player. We might be interested in trying that out, but it's also fun to think of expanding it to a pool bigger than the 8 or so cards in Shamizy's system. The Shamizy voucher is really simple...

Does anybody else kind of like the colorless utility cards at all for a lower powered cube? I can picture a player who stretches into an extra color and has an awkward draft, needing a couple of 2 drops in the last pack to hold things together a bit and avoid a train wreck. I wish these were...

Check it out - when they don't try to create five new mechanics in the set, they can still design cool cards. Now do that in a real set.