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Cool, WoTC should have just taken over management the format once they started creating products for it officially. Would have saved a lot of headache for everyone and we wouldn't have these dumbass half measures and solutions that they've tried to implement over the past few years which have...

Cool video by Caleb Gannon on his approach to drafting Vintage Cube. I've been watching a lot of his stuff recently just to get a glimpse of that environment and there are some cool ideas he dives into here that seem like a nice benchmark when evaluating design for higher power levels like this...

Super Shredder is nuts. Menace is such an underrated keyword in general and being able to grow this to a 3/3 or 4/4 consistently is going to lead to it dealing a lot of damage early and often. Sunset Saboteur has been a house in certain aggressive decks and this just seems like an even stronger...

I'm likely skipping out on adds to my cube with the next two UB sets (too far gone for me art and flavor-wise), but ECL is already pretty exciting with the new designs. I'm saving a slot for Formidable Speaker; it's everything I've wanted as a creature tutor and can set up some awesome lines...

Just stomps all over an Aggro deck; no way you get past a 5/5 Vigilance body + a removal spell + Ghostly Prison for two turns. By then the other side will have stabilized hard after a few draws. It's probably fine to play in higher power levels, but it's going to create an arms race.

That new Figure of Destiny variant looks sweet, I'm all in for more playable mana sink options in G/W decks. Bitterblossom on a body feels good also, but did they have to make yet another unique token? Looking forward to this set, less enthused about all the surrounding UB releases until then.

I only know one player among my Magic friends who ended up attending this prerelease. I'm just picking up a few singles and calling it a day, just not my set at all.

Boros has been fine for me, but aside from Winota, Joiner of Forces there are very few gold cards that have interested me over the years. It's always been a rotating door of some Lightning Helix variant and some new thing to try out in the 3rd slot. It's not necessarily difficult to design for...

Infinite card glitch, Magic players HATE this simple trick.

I've been using my duplicate voucher system for the last 5 years now and it's worked pretty well. As long as players are aware of any draft enhancements prior to the actual draft (so that they aren't confused when looking through a pack), it's pretty simple to understand. I think you could...

Multiversal Passage This is the only card I'll be including and it's replacing Triomes as the squadron pick with tri-color cards in my cube. This does a better job of allowing those decks to play the third color without just going full greed like you can with triomes. Should be a pretty good...

Mana dorks are still very powerful in accelerating you to the 3 and 4 drops that are very much above rate nowadays, but it's tougher to keep them around to reach the big ramp payoffs. As such I don't really think super ramp into gigantic bodies at 7+ is all that viable in higher powered...

I'm pretty much checked out of spoiler season if it's this hectic a release schedule. Way too much at once. I'll give the set a once-over before prerelease, but I think this and Avatar will have very few inclusions for my cube unless the card is flavor/art agnostic (ex. Multiversal Passage).

I'd say it really depends on your design goals. I like the comfort of defined archetypes so I have the rough shell of these classics like U/W Control or R/G Midrange or Rx Aggro in my cube, but the real fun is in the details with your card inclusions and synergies you choose to emphasize. I want...

Scout for Survivors Anyone get to try out this yet? I haven't made a slot for it yet in my cube, but I've got a draft this weekend and debating whether or not to include it. I've seen it be pretty gross in some Limited games, but haven't heard anything yet for cube. The ceiling is nutty as...