Recent content by PyreDream

If going the second-spell-matters route, I quite like Clarion Spirit, and Homestead Courage helps you do the thing alongside Honor. Something I learned from supporting second-spells in the Adventure Cube is that the self-bounce creatures (most critically, the cheap flash ones like Sunpearl...

Currently on a little Adventure Cube adventure. It's got some light trinket artifact support, so I'm trying to shore up the 5 drops in black with a pick from the three below. Cirith Ungol Patrol Moonstone Eulogist Old Flitterfang I'm leaning towards one of the flyers for evasion but just...

For prowess/gobbos I would probably want Goblin Surprise and You See a Pair of Goblins before Goblinslide. In a low CMC deck of cantrips I could see Goblinslide doing work though.

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 -->...