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I can't tell if its recency bias or my hard on for Ravnica (Return to Ravnica was my first set), but that set representation wise absolutely dwarfs every other set of 2018 in terms of representation in my 360 cube. Counting cards from each set in my cube, I currently have: Rivals of Ixalan: 5...

This assessment seems much closer to my admittedly limited experience with the card. It's actually felt difficult to justify running, even in heavily white decks because the staggered 2/2 bodies have such little board impact and gives your opponent opportunity to remove the creatures or the...

History of Benalia Is the general sentiment that this card is just a boring lump of stats? I've enjoyed tuning my white section to support human and knight tribal, partially to make the final pump of this card feel that much more explosive. Unfortunately the card hasn't had much play yet but I...

Interesting! In the year or so she's been in my cube I can only remember her resolving and sticking as an underwhelming 2/3 lifelinker. I feel like myself and my group mostly looked at her as a janky Nighthawk and it never felt right slotting her into an aggro shell because of the underwhelming...

plaguecrafter midnight reaper ruin raider Also liliana, heretical healer isareth the awakener I've been tinkering with various combinations of black three drops for a while now and can't for the life of me discern which of each set I prefer. Help!

I've been tempted to Phyrexian Tower in my cube for years to support my aristocrats package. Does anyone have any experience running it outside of a utility land draft??

Heroic Reinforcements Has anyone tested with this card? I've been playing standard for the first time on Arena and this card is a house in Boros Weenie. I've been telling myself the old cube adage "just because it's good in standard, doesn't mean it will be good in cube", but I still feel like...

I think that's my favourite thing about it, it works as a redundant wrath for control decks but it really shines in midrange decks in the mirror or vs aggro and influences your deck building. I feel like the card has been really overlooked and I'd happily be running it if I had a bit more space...

Makes me sad to see Ripjaw Raptor on the way out as Deafening Clarion comes in!

Grillo you're as wise as ever, I'll take your advice to heart as I tinker with my list tomorrow. And I'll try to resist correcting my drafters the next time they try to play Goblin Guide in the same deck as Griselbrand (true story!). I love your suggestion for crafting an rw section so that it...

I can really relate to this. Most of my drafters are either die hard edh or modern players with minimal limited experience so I find they mostly gravitate towards cards and archetypes that most resemble their favourite format and play it safe (or if they're drunk or tired draft an incoherent...

Yeah I'd really love to see an elegant way of designing this into a cube. The closest I've seen is Jason Waddell's original cube (https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/jason-waddells-cube.14/) which had a beautiful system for variation but unfortunately is much more tailored to online play. I...

Interesting, I hadn't considered the BFZ duals to be a particularly popular cycle of lands, how do you feel about their power level relative to the AKH cycle duals? But yeah I've found myself struggling to keep my resident 5 colour forcer in check for as long as I've been hosting cube drafts, I...

I've always seen it as incidentally supporting a humans archetype, I figure Pelt Collector would work along a similar line of aggro creatures that grow while adding perhaps some aristocrats cross pollination.

Thanks Onder! I'm a big fan of double Experiment One as well, any thoughts on doubling up on the new Pelt Collector? I think this has been the hardest lesson of cube design to internalize for me, approaching cube as a modular environment that is in flux rather than trying to reach a sweet...

Hey all, I have a confession, I peak at all of your cubes. I love watching each cube evolve and establish its own identity, and I frequently cross reference different lists to discover cool new cube tech. In my voyeuristic endeavors I've noticed a few interesting trends however. For one, the...

I go through this struggle about once a month, especially with The Scarab God. It seems like such a cool card with so many lines a play. Adds incentives to graveyard decks, incentives to run zombies etc. I even brought it up in the Single Card Spotlight (or maybe Fight Club?) thread where a...

I can understand where you're coming from, I was similarly excited for Doom Whisperer and was disappointed to see it being immediately dismissed as GRBS here. But when I stopped to think about it, that's a pretty spot on assessment from a Riptide perspective, Doom Whisperer is bonkers. Rather...

I've always had a degree of insecurity that the core of my cube has been fundamentally taken from my favourite lists online, notably Shamizy's cube from two or so years ago. That said, I've put hundreds of hours tweaking, tinkering, playtesting, and ultimately catering his design from two years...

Speaking of Wotc assuming people understand keywords intuitively, I wish these forums didn't have such a hard on for threads with acronyms for titles! At the moment theres NWO, CBS, GRBS and sometimes it's a pain as an outsider to these forums to figure out what everyone is talking about.