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Let's shift gears a bit and I'll write something about my cards recently triaged while on public transit. I'm filling the multicolored sections, let's start from the top, Azorius: Azorius Guildmage Useful when games go long. I like mana sinks, and when mana is plentiful this thing can be...

Uh I think I miscommunicated this time, the intention is not that control will be a midrange deck with wraths. It's a wrath deck which uses midrange and control threats as finishers. The resilience of threats is mostly so that aggro and midrange can fight wraths and aren't completely hosed by...

Wrath of God and Damnation are not blue, so you can definitely play those in non blue decks. I don't think the red wraths are much worse. They are possible build arounds, since you can include high toughness creature that survive them, and doing so is a powerful way to "mask" the fact you have a...

They should "compare" to the blue alternatives. I guess what I'm saying is that if blue ends up being still a better control color than the others, in a vacuum, I'm not going to sacrifica too much of the other goals trying to seek this one. For example, if there's on average 1.5 blue control...

Well, blue will pick up many of those cards, like Wraths, but the important thing is to offer replacements for counterspells and card draw. Blue isn't particularly interested in those because it already has those tools, and it can only run 23 cards. I do run Ajani and could run Garruk. I'm...

Ok, the biggest challenge of this cube is going to be that colors are just not as good as each other at aggro, control and midrange. A more natural arrangement would be something like: {W}{R} Aggro {U}{W/B} Aggro-control {G}{x} Midrange {U}{W/B}{W/R} Control Fortunately, I'm not playing chaos...

Now that I'm getting into the more specific card choices and decisions for this cube list, I created a thread in Cube Blogs: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/whos-the-beatdown-a-macroarchetype-cube.3674/#post-120580

Work in progress list: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/whosthebeatdown No big write-up this time. This is going to be a low-effort blog. I discussed this a bit already in this thread: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/macroarchetype-cube-or-whos-the-beatdown-cube.3670/ I'm building a...

Love Song of Night and Day I like this card for the flavor and history (it's a poem quoted in Mirage cards https://scryfall.com/search?q=flavor%3A%22love+song%22). How interesting is it to play, though? Does it always just make a bird then put a counter on the bird + whatever else you can...

Well, if you look at P/E ratios and valuation of growth companies, Wall Street is not all about short-term profit maximization! The case of Hasbro is weird, because the only part of the company with good growth prospects is WotC, so it makes the upside volatile like a growth stock because the...

We were talking about that on discord. It's like this with an extra tax, so I'd guess pretty decent in tempo but not in slower decks. Disperse

I used the Twin drafting structure in the Elegant Cube and your won't believe what happened next! Click below to find out. https://cubecobra.com/cube/deck/63704170dd90e7312e9a7cb6 https://cubecobra.com/cube/deck/63703faedd90e7312e9a5c70 https://cubecobra.com/cube/deck/63703eacdd90e7312e9a52d1...

Trusty Machete is a good option too, slight worse than Bonesplitter but that's plenty good still. Vulshok Morningstar is quite good. I see those three as in a spectrum of better with evasion versus better without evasion. Loxodon Warhammer was a bomb in my cube and I might bring it back to try...

Did you watch the CubeCon drafts? It should help put into context what he's saying. For example in the old border foil cube, he started by picking 3 value "modern" cards that were just good stuff compared to the power level of the old border time - EWit, Resto and Simulacrum I think? I agree...

That makes sense, the only surprise to me is that The Royal Scions is good. Is it just the +2/+0 uptick? An attackable Jousting Lance seems like a good inclusion in aggro and a reason to play UR Aggro, which is what I want out of them, but is that so good? You may be right, especially about...

I want to run planeswalkers in the Macroarchetype Cube (https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/whosthebeatdown) Got some good suggestions, and over the last week I went through all 277 planeswalkers and actually read them. I picked the ones with the criterias: - Not being wincons by themselves...

These lands were ok with painlands in 2002 standard and I think they are among the worst duals, but I'd still pick and play one in limited in the absence of other fixing. What blacksmith said about them being good because they enter untapped is an advantage, but they are quite bad at low curving...

In my cube 3/3s are reasonably large creatures, so them getting wiped by 3 mana wrath is too much of a blow. I run Sulfurous Blast instead, and would keep the 3 mana wipes at Choking Miasma power level. A key thing is that on the draw you can't go 1 drop, 2 drop, hold up protection with 3 mana...

The biggest problem to solve in this sort of environment is the lack of gameplay agency. The Elegant Cube has been in a space similar to what you're describing and Ifelt that, while the decks were perfectly functional, the individual cards not being very interesting created games that were not...

Karn Liberated How good is Karn? Two upticks not affecting the board lead into a sometimes game winning ultimate. Two downticks is double Vindicate which is great, but seems reasonable for 7 mana. Is he just a control finisher? How good a ramo target is he.