Recent content by OlegKlishin

As someone who also ponders green spell desnsity prospect, but without elfball combo, possibilities are not that amazing. Though I'm also excited by new Strixhaven cards, marrying mechanics across different colors. For green spells, I'm looking at cheap hand neutral cards like: Bushwhack...

It's uncanny how you are on a similar path as me, but way ahead. I'm totally stealing some cards from here. How do Enduring Renewal decks work? Something like grindy stax? Also, what are your thoughts on: Jace, the Perfected Mind vs. Jace, Wielder of Mysteries?

Thanks a lot. This advice is very valuable, and helps me see other perspectives I've missed. Most of these cards were already on my radar to weed out on the next passes.

Thank you so much, this is very valuable to me! I understand the trap of a seemingly synergistic card, that's actually just broken by itself. I'm taking notes, because I haven't played with most of these yet, so I trust your judgement.

As advised, I've moved my future musings and updates into Cube Blogs forum: Oleg's synergy cube

I'm bad with names. Maybe I'll come up with a cooler one later: Oleg's synergy cube list. Intro After months of tinkering, my first cube was finished out of necessity to actually finish it, and be accessible to a regular board gamer, not core MtG-players. So it had a lot of concessions and...

I'm super happy you see through what I was trying to do here. You have some great points. That's why I love this forum. I've been wanting to make auras and combat tricks work, like in good old Magic days. But I noticed it requires a lot of concessions in removal power level and sorcery speed...

Thanks a lot! I consider the current cube to be pretty much done. It served a purpose of simplified entrance for non-Magic players. Half of them are ready for more, the other half aren't enthusiastic about the game. There are a few banned power outliers tagged "cutting floor", but seems I...

My work and social links: https://olegklishin.portfoliobox.net/ My cubes: https://cubecobra.com/user/view/63f7e92b577e6608ab7d9cad

Intro Hi, my name is Oleg. I play Magic on and off for 20+ years. Hobbyist game designer for 20+ years, 2D artist in gamedev for 10+ years. I largely switched from constructed to draft around 2016 and sold off my cards in 2021 in favour of other boardgames and cube only. When cube host left for...

Thank you! This perspective is very valuable to me. This makes me believe it's not a good fit for a general-purpose cube. I love my "noncreatures matter" themes, and there are already way too many cards I want to fit in. I hope other mechanics do the work for my graveyard synergies then.

Hey, inscho! I'm working on my second cube, and your Graveyard Combo Cube writeups were one of my references for it. You could call it a "lower-powered synergy cube". I usually work with throwing a huge pile together, and cutting down until I have something reasonable. It's down to 1000 cards...

Since I'm struggling with the same questions, I wanted to chime in. I'm trying to give each color multiple vectors instead of a singular vision. But most things have been said already. For my next cube I'm planning on cheap protective instants, flash creatures, hatebears, disenchants, maybe some...