Recent content by PyreDream

Sagas.

A Library of Alexandria cube where each player gets a copy of the titular card. Wheels.dec is similar and sounded fun for me until I realized it doesn't use Nekusar or Underworld Dreams to punish the opponent but Hullbreacher, Orcish Bowmasters, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Leovold, Emissary of...

I'm surprised how many cards from M13 were included in my pauper cube. I've only recently started to shuffle them out, which speaks to their longevity. Attended Knight First strike helps keep this relevant in the face of things like Inspired Inventor, but I think almost all of white's 3 mana...

Rhystic Cave is either a better Rishadan Port or a better City of Brass

I was going to say that only three cards care about having seven cards in hand - Ebony Owl Netsuke, Ivory Crane Netsuke, and Scroll of Origins and they exist only because they're such clear callbacks to older cards that just happen to play well with the actual theme (Black Vise, Ivory Tower, and...

Withdraw is the Dark Souls of This Town Ain't Big Enough.

You may be interested in the Exile Cube I started as a side project. The numbers are a bit of a mess right now and the power band is kind of all over the place, but it should contain a lot of similar ideas. I tinkered with it over the last couple years and set it aside recently to integrate the...

No explore though.

In a fun coincidence, I've been putting together a surveil cube recently. Just to see if it was doable. The Surveillance Cube

Lawmage's Binding.

I think too slow on both fronts. If you have landfall or a way to exploit lands as a raw resource a la Knight of the Reliquary or Elvish Reclaimer it gains some value.

I think cube designers learn this over time. I'm trying to capture the essence of Lorwyn in a similar remix cube, without replicating the exact draft environment. Champion a creature --> Bargain spells --> token-makers --> token payoffs. Retrace spells--> land recursion --> self-mill -->...

This sounds like something worth exploring, maybe expanding on Modern Horizons' treatment of Gruul and shifting Loamy mechanics into this guild. Off the top of my head, I immediately thought of something like Rakdos' Unleash mechanic. Uproot (You may sacrifice a land as this enters the...

I like Grizzly Fate best since both halves are realistically castable, but it's not great unless you have threshold. I like Beast Attack a lot for the surprise factor on the front half, and two back-to-back 4/4s over turns from one card is solid pressure. It can be a feel-bad if the opponent...

The two-set paradigm would also be fine. The formula of setup + punchline is an easy one to grok and does mostly the same job as the three-set paradigm, minus forcing designers to add a bunch of chaff to make their quota (and those sets do have a lot of chaff). In Kaldheim, for example, I find...