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Part 6 - Filling Out the Tribes In the following posts, I'm just going to drop a bunch of cool creatures here belonging to each tribe, without worrying about curve or anything like that for the moment. I'm not even sure I'm going to add all of these yet, but I'm going to throw them in as a...

I've thought about it some more and decided that being stubborn about +1/+1 lords is dumb. I think it's good to avoid vanilla +1/+1 lords like Supreme Phantom, but Lord of the Accursed and Goblin Chieftain add texture and character to their respective tribes. Actually, would Goblin Trashmaster...

I do an FNM draft like once a month! Actually, I've been playing a LOT since Arena dropped. It's why I'm redesigning my cube from the ground up, because so many of its assumptions were built on theory rather than actual practice. Now, getting 8 people together to draft, you may as well ask...

Aristocrats constructed decks have traditionally been either Mardu or Abzan. White is largely an enabler, producing a metric ton of tokens and creatures that die twice (Doomed Traveler, Hallowed Spiritkeeper, and friends). It does offer Pious Evangel and Cartel Aristocrat as sac outlets as well...

Part 5 - Tribal Payoffs I already talked about spirits in 5a, but I think it would be best if I laid out all the tribal payoffs in one spot, and then fill out the rest of the tribe later. As mentioned before, I'm aiming to stay away from generic +1/+1 lords. I'm looking more at stuff that lets...

Time to come back to this. It's been a couple weeks and things have been busy (I swear Magic Arena has nothing to do with it...). I've been letting some of this marinate for the last couple weeks, and I'm sort of in limbo here because most of the sections that I feel like lack direction are...

Teysa, Orzhov Scion Does she still do what you want in Aristocrats sections? Is she just too clunky these days? Or does Teysa still have what it takes?

After playing with the card, I don't think Thousand-Year Storm is ever going to leave my cube. Turns out you don't need to include a whole bunch of poisonous enablers and payoffs that maybe come together once every 15 drafts. You just need to have a normal blue/red section with some cheap...

I don't know where else to put this, but this alternate universe color pie article is cool as hell: https://medium.com/@MirrorLogician/reslicing-the-color-pie-d70d31bda6a4

Are we *sure* we're not on Balduvian Trading Post?

Part 5a - Spirits Karmic Guide Selfless Spirit Spirit of the Labyrinth Remorseful Cleric Twilight Drover Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit Bygone Bishop Lingering Souls Kira, Great Glass-Spinner Mausoleum Wanderer Spectral Procession Departed Deckhand Hallowed Spiritkeeper Dungeon Geists Niblis of...

Hypothesizzle has the better name, though.

I hadn't considered that people might be excited to draft generic value cards. Like, Huntmaster of the Fells doesn't really point in any particular direction, but I've always liked it anyway. Something to consider.

Hmm. It wouldn't take much to get me off of Wolf Run. What other RG payoffs do you like? I still like Stormbind but I'm worried it doesn't fit the power level.

Yeah. Thinking about it more, white having 45% of the amount of removal red has seems wrong, and now that I'm laying it all out (since the ratios I had were similar to my current cube) it explains some imbalances I had. Also, I've decided that Sarkhan is too similar to Glorybringer, so I've...

Good suggestion, I'll take it under advisement. However, even when cycles are broken with lands, they still do roughly the same thing. Both the bicycle lands and the temples are ETB taplands that have mana smoothing mechanics. I'm not sure I want to bias certain decks too hard through the mana...

Looking at the removal first is enlightening in other ways. For example, there are a million ways to deal with 4 toughness creatures with my current suite. There are very few ways to deal with 5 toughness creatures. That's going to inform which creatures I include. For example, I'm going to run...

Nope. You're watching my design process in real time. This will usually come when I'm lying in bed trying to sleep but I have too many thoughts about how I want to build things, and I need to get them out of my head before my brain will let me sleep. But yes, I am building out the removal...

Watch me put my money where my mouth is.