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Most of the times ramp has the previously mentioned problem of a lot of setup cards with a few payoff cards. Too many/few of one of the two and you whiff. Which differs from the dig/draw combos. Creature ramp mitigates this problem but introduces other problems. Maybe tacking cycling or...

Kayla and Baird are good in the early game and not that good in the late game. While trenches is not that good in the early game and downright bonkers late game. So what do you need?

The funny thing is that even eschewing aggro cards, there will always be an aggro deck in a matchup. Even if it is a control deck. If the opponent is a slower control deck, you are the aggro player. So the question becomes: what is the clock you want to represent at different mana curves? For a...

Oh, mister Pratchett. Mostly (almost all) great books, some stinkers, but even those were more fun to read than most other books. Similarly to some movie stars like mister Cage or mister Reeves. The highs are really high. The lows are quite low, but fun nonetheless. Sidenote, the game discworld...

Spiketail drakeling voidmage prodigy Thing with counterspells is that you have to keep your mana up and they do not provide a clock.

Simply, because some people like a change of scenery. A regular cube with 360 card, 8 players and 3 boosters of 15, leads to all cards in the pool. Contrary, in a draft one knows all the possible cards that could be in the draft ( even with mystery boosters if no customs are there) but not which...

It makes an aggro deck want a wrath. The beauty is that it is both protection from your opponent’s destruction and makes your wrath one sided. Do note that the protection part is like a counterspell, you need to keep the mana open. That could be a steep price

Interlude end of turn opponents turn. Your turn wrath or even better obliterate. Win. So not opponents wrath. Yours.

Maybe use jokers/vouchers like: Blue fetch, change for any fetch that fetches blue and one other type? Similarly with the dual? This solves the problem with the duals only being good in just a subset of decks.

That’s why fyndhorn vs llanowar elves is a slightly better example. However, 2 of the same makes Eradicate et all better. Magic is a beautiful game where often weird cases will bite you. If you can make a cube where both inspectorish creatures really matter, and you can pull it off to be...

Singleton is a weird concept. There are way too many cards that do exactly the same (except the name of course). So if that is fine, then non-singleton should be too from a robustness point. I.e., changing something small should not affect the outcome. Also note that most singleton formats break...

Burning of xinye One is fine, it becomes more of a wrath instead of a cornerstone.

Nice reanimation, but I raise you one: Diabolic servitude For the grindy matchups

My cube has a fair amount of etbs/dies. It is just that you lose a creature and get tapped one’s back. So returning regular creatures is often quite an opening to be attacked. This was also the problem of the precon tombstone. However, if you return cards like Karmic guide Peregrine drake Dark...

So the if a card was warped is just to avoid stacking triggers to punish an opponent from warping or would it not be put on the stack if no card left and no warpers?