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I've got a 720 unpowered Cube focused on mostly-fair Magic and this set has been wonderful for me. I tend to test 15-25 cards a set for the last few years, and this is going to be the record for me, looks like. Instant Classics for my Cube Ocelot Pride Ajani, Nacatl Pariah Tamiyo, Inquisitive...

Going on my history of playing Tarmogoyf in Cube, it's really hard to get it bigger than 5 power. I agree the card is very strong, but even in a powered list, it's rarely going to be bigger than a 3/4 on curve without having a deck built around it. Dealing 4 power to an opposing creature is...

I think in the average case scenario, Pyrogoyf is going to be about the same as Flametongue Kavu. A Kavu that doesn't kill itself on an empty board and can go to face? Nice. Has potential to be pretty bad when curving out, but I have a lot of GY support in my Cube. Emotionally, I don't want to...

It's probably not good enough for my list, but boy, is it fun to get double Bolts and Doom Blades on your opponent's dudes. A very inspiring build-around, even if I'd rather not have my build-arounds at 4 mana with only 3 toughness. I love the art, I love the Phyrexian flavor, I even love...

Glaring Fleshraker Been thinking a lot about this card lately. It compares reasonably to these cards, which are both pretty reasonable in my environment and have been in and out over the years: Forensic Gadgeteer Sai, Master Thopterist I don't support {c} at the moment. With the announcement...

After a decade of my hemming and hawing about the Mirage fetch cycle, they print these! There's a very good chance I run the whole bunch. What's the point of having a 720 card singleton list if you can't support neat cycles like this? They're very good at supporting 3 color decks and splashes...

So this one is interesting to me. I think it's very easy to say "it gets the 1/1 at baseline for a landfall trigger" and then the rest of the card is simple to grok, it's just going to be that first reading during draft that gets people. That's normally enough to bounce something from my Cube...

I personally think Gatewatch/two-set block era was the worst-designed in Magic's history, and the sales plateau it saw in the wake of expeditions in BFZ kind of validates that. The early 2000s were kind of rough, but at least they went back-and-forth with interesting sets: the Masques block may...

I like it. My main Cube is far too strong for it, but in a midrange-focused environment where removal is closer to 3 mana on average than 2, it's just a massive threat. The kinds of cards that end up in lots of Cubes over-index on the historic trio, so it's really easy to support in my experience.

A 2/1 flyer for 2 that makes a Spawn whenever you draw an extra card? I dunno, this seems extremely good, even if the competition for this exact kind of card has gotten tight at this spot recently.

I currently don't run either of the titans. Kroxa got squeezed out by Rakdos cards I just like better, and Uro is too good, turning both the draft and games into this: Phlage seems really good, and is in an appropriate color pair for this kind of effect in my Cube. I'm not wholly convinced it...

The thing I've always wanted on one of these MDFCS is a land/counterspell combo, and I guess I got what I wanted. The land being able to enter untapped is huge, and the flexibility of the counterspell also being able to bounce permanents helps the Remand-style effect not feel as bad. I...

We'll frequently add 5 new cards to everyone's first booster pack to make sure they're relevant/played with

Big fan of this. Seems like an easy way to get some (proxied) power in my Cube without disrupting the power level. My biggest issue, weirdly enough, is the stupid finality counter that's not spelled out on the card, but I guess I can fix that if I'm proxying it anyways. Again, super easy to...

Taking Humility out of my Cube five years ago was the right decision but one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life. Kudo is truly the King.

This actually is my favorite card of the set so far. It's the first hate bear in Magic that hates on practically anything. You can build your deck around tokens and/or +1/+1 counters, which hey, are pretty common GW themes to begin with! And then their bombs are pretty much meaningless to...

I was super bummed that both my Simulacrum Synthesizer and my copy of it (via the hugely underrated The Mycosynth Gardens) were destroyed just before I was able to cast Sicarian Infiltrator one of those games I mentioned above. Super sweet combo for Cube. Wouldn't really bet on it for Legacy...

Sicarian Infiltrator was a champ! Being able to flash it in as a blocker for 3 mana was great - I'd rather have that as the low-end than a Divination. I played it twice in my artifact deck at 5 mana: once I flashed it in to trade one with an attacking Bob and the other time to draw an answer...

It plays really well in Cubes I've watched online (like LSV's) but tomorrow is the first post-OTJ draft!

I just took it out for Sicarian Infiltrator in my OTJ update :(