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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...

white cards: 58 blue cards: 67 black cards: 76 red cards: 78 green cards: 82 Nightshade Harvester - dislike punishing players for playing the gimmick you're trying to encourage. Azra Smokeshaper - not seeing enough rebuy value in black. Blight Mound - seems a tad slow at rebuilding a board but...

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Thanks for doing this. I liked the lessons a lot in STX limited and I hope they get revisited. LESSONS Lesson in Humility {3}{G}{W} Sorcery - Lesson Choose target creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Until your next turn, each creature you don't control has base...

Start building an Unearth cube.

I like Cenn's Enlistment at pauper level, though it's slowly inching out as speed increases. It's mostly a midrange/control card, but I also appreciate the ability for aggro decks to convert dead lands past turn four into bodies on the board, and two casts is enough to start tilting the board in...

It's taken me a few games and a few months, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and remove Hullbreaker Horror from the top end. Good golly Miss Molly. Should 7-drops just win the game? Yes, but not in so hideous a fashion. I'm left wondering if the tribal theme in Commander Legends: Baldur's Gate...

Iconic photo, but just for general info, it was totally staged. The camera angle very cunningly hides a completed floor just out of frame. (You can find photos of the same construction workers pretending to nap on the beam.) In a happy conclusion, this rather inane factoid helps me appreciate...

I'll sign on to your cause too. It's my sleeper card of the set. I think it's one of those cards that we'll need to see in action before we understand its effectiveness.

I may be in the minority on this, but I don't recall exalted being too unplayable in Alara limited. The black isolation mechanic from Avacyn Restored was pretty awful though. Since it's 50/50, I think it could be worth at least exploring potential contenders before writing it off. A deep dive on...

That's pretty funny because the No Mercy art depicts Queen Marchesa, who came from the dethrone set. Heck of a way to punish would-be monarchs.

White has traditionally been the prismatic color, able to focus/channel all five colors combined for its purposes. In visual terms: