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Hallowed Fountain Prairie Stream Meticulous Archive Flooded Strand Flooded Strand This is my ideal suite once WoTC gets around to finishing that cycle (someday hopefully). Hell, I might even cut out the surveils at that point and just go double shocks because I like the BFZ cycle that much. I...

I'm deepdiving back into the core design of my cube after bumping it up from 420 to 450 after my most recent draft. A lot of re-evaluation of previous format boogeyman that are much more tame nowadays with now much more powerful cards are compared to a decade ago when I first put this all...

@Chris Taylor or anyone else, sell me on what you're running with this guy: Brightglass Gearhulk On my most recent draft a player suggested adding this in and I figured sure why not. Put in an order for a copy yesterday and will (hopefully) see it in action the next draft. I'm running most of...

Light on inclusions this time around, but that's fine with me as I'm just diving back into cube after mostly taking the last 6 months off. A lot to go through in the back-log and try out as I attempt to make cube more a regular thing for my playgroup over the year. This is my first pass through...

I wish that Goblin had some keyword give it some extra play, but it feels very anemic for any R/x Aggro deck. If it was a 2/1 or if it had Menace I could be convinced, but as is it's just whatever when the fling option can't even go to face. Should be cool in Limited though.

Lots of good choices there, of the cards you've highlighted I'm currently running the following: Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd Marionette Apprentice Accursed Marauder Nethergoyf Warren Soultrader Pyrogoyf Ghostfire Slice Flare of Cultivation Birthing Ritual Psychic Frog Yeah, I think I'm out on...

I think it depends on the quality and efficiency of what you're bringing back. Snap is much better with a plethora of low CMC spells to let you really apply a ton of pressure with spell velocity. But if there are a lot of 3+ mana cards to recur then the gap between them is lessened. Even more so...

Prerelease for ONE wasn't terrible, but I had zero interest in playing Limited at all. I just haven't really enjoyed paper drafts in general since they changed up collation with rares to make it all extra swingy.

I've been trying to avoid adding more double-sided cards into my cube over the last few years, I think the only exception I've made is for Fable of the Mirror Breaker, but Cecil is very intriguing on the front side (and also one of my favorite protagonists from the series) so I'll probably give...

Alright, it's been nearly a year since MH3 released. I finally had my first cube draft in a while over the weekend (write-up coming at some point in the next month) and had a number of cards perform pretty well. I'll cover my MH3 performers in depth as I remember things while writing up the...

Would come down to how fast your cube is in general. If it's slower and 7 mana is non-trivial then this might end up being the generic good stuff issue you were trying to avoid as it's just a value engine if it gets to stick. You get way more out of it in a deck with more ways to trigger the...

This seems insane at 7 mana. I don't know how many colorless spells your typical cube deck is running, but even just getting the cast trigger and then +2 gives you a stabilizing draw engine.

Made some swaps on Cobra, fired it up for a draft and saw Ritual P1P2 and here's what I cooked up: Ones 1 Ignoble Hierarch 1 Llanowar Elves 1 Green Sun's Zenith Twos 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 1 Voice of Resurgence 1 Tidehollow Sculler 1 Fateful Absence 1 Regrowth 2 Birthing Ritual Threes 1...

Yeah I feel you on that, I'm mostly not playing anything UB that's too ridiculous art-wise in my cube. Stuff like Mawloc or Wizard's Rockets I can kinda justify, but anything that sticks out too much is a no-go. Same for any really dumb naming conventions for a card.

I agree with the special treatments and some of the more FF specific arts, but the regular art for this one just looks like a normal card to me: