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I can't tell you how many 3-drops and even 2-drops I've cloned in recent months...being able to play tit-for-tat with your opponent's threat on turn 2 or 3 is really cool, and since yours flies, you're still ahead even if you spent the same amount of mana. I'm really interested!! A 1/1 flyer for...

two bobs in a flying trenchcoat I love it. Even just the flexibility of one or two fliers at a mana difference with huge upside is so exciting.

I've been stress drafting my Cube quite a lot the last few weeks on Cube Cobra, and even with the terrible AI that predictably leaves cards printed in 2024 until the end of the pack regardless of context, I've not once wanted a Young Pyromancer, nor drafted one. I've had plenty of decks that...

Byway Barterer I've always liked Anje's Ravager and this seems like one that fits more decks. A 3/3 menace for 3 is not the worst - I'm running Veronica, Dissident Scribe right now! - and I like being able to draw two cards when I'm hellbent from any 4-drop I rip off the top. That said, the...

Lifecreed Duo I like that this exists. It's a good tool I'll keep in mind for some of my lower-power environments. Dewdrop Cure Is this the Proclamation of Rebirth I've been waiting for??? I've gotten back a pair of 2-drops from Lively Dirge more than once, and it doesn't feel terrible with...

Vintage Cubes have really started making the "Draw 7" deck a lot more of a thing with the higher density of both wheel effects and punishers printed recently. You draft around Hullbreacher, Orcish Bowmasters, Leovold, Emissary of Trest, and Narset, Parter of Veils and then as many wheels as you...

Locus!! Cave!!

I've finished the 180 card version of NO GUTSY NO GLORY, available now for your playing pleasure. This was a super fun contest that I spent more time than I should have on. I do have to say, 180 card Cubes are much tricker to sculpt than 360 card lists! Very much a situation where less is...

Neat cards so far! Don't really like this aesthetic being in Magic, but it is what it is. Love the Shelter style of effect, but it's rarely Cube-worthy for a list at my power-level. This works though! Great combat trick, reasonable body even as a baseline, and I love giving conditional...

My favorite way to playtest a Cube on my own is just to draft it a bunch on CubeCobra. However, this has the problem of BOTS! CubeCobra does not love new cards, and their ELO is very low. This is even more pronounced on Mister Gutsy, my egg of choice for NO GUTSY NO GLORY. I put together a very...

I ran these two in the first version of my Cube....wouldn't hate running them again.

@Onderzeeboot, you may be on to something with this guy. Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos If I'm reading it right, Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos is a 6/6 trample minimum, but for 4 mana? Your opponent gets it every turn, but can't really do anything with it except put a +1/+1 counter on it. I thought it...

In fairness, Spartan Veteran and Headsplitter are part of the intro decks, which are some of the best introductory decks I've ever seen WotC produce in 30+ years. The new cards are extremely flavorful, evocative, simple, and guide you in interesting ways in how to build around them and play them...

I actually do like Beyond "meat" and would eat it more frequently were it more affordable. I just thought it was funny WotC used this since calling something the "Beyond" version is likened to the "fake" version from time to time. I like this a lot! I (probably) won't be running it but I do...

Staff of Eden, Vault's Key Reanimates any legendary permanent, neat! Six mana is a lot, but on an artifact...I'm tempted here. I like how the tap ability encourages you to consider your opponent's graveyard and how very...blinkable its is. With the high volume of Legends in the typical cube...

The first (and likely last) product to be released in 7-card "Beyond Boosters" (a worse approximation for a real booster than Beyond meat is for hamburger made from beef), Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed gets roughly 100 cards in an environment not intended either for draft or Commander precons, and...

In my Cube, these are the cards that I say "oh, we're doing it today" if I open them: Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful Loyal Retainers Bennie Bracks, Zoologist Karakas Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel Snapcaster Mage Rona, Herald of Invasion Emry, Lurker of the Loch Sublime Epiphany Simulacrum Synthesizer...

I had a shortlist of: City of Brass Black Vise Zenith Chronicler Nazgûl Troll of Khazad-dûm Power Conduit Mister Gutsy I spent a long time playing with a Death’s Shadow-core City of Brass list, but ended up on the underrated and delightful Mister Gutsy. I've been having so much fun with...

from Mark Rosewater's latest article, he shared an early MH3 design and I'm going to think about it for a long time, I think:

Yes, this is why I haven't run them in a decade. It made any green ramp outside of explicitly Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary / ten-elves-and-a-Craterhoof Behemoth seem quaint by comparison. Talismans or Signets also indicate to drafters that colors don't matter. The hard part of fixing is done for...