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https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/smooth The Smooth Twin Cube is the second paper cube I’ve built. The Elegant Cube was assembled in 2010. Building a new paper cube is a big event in my hobby life. It is a response to an even bigger event. My wife and I are expecting a baby (very very...

I haven't played with Crab, but the ability on Waker is really strong and as a 7-drop I would be underwhelmed to get just a 5/7 with ward - it doesn't help much with stabilizing when under pressure, and the counterspell mode might not be something you can hold up while underpressure either...

That was fast! Congrats Sigh!

This 2-drop has never been reprinted. It is not allowed in peasant cubes. However, in peasant cubes, you can run the strictly better version of this creature. In pauper cubes, you can run the strictly worse version. If printed in Ikoria, it would have been more vulnerable to Ferropede.

Oh right!

calciderm Essence warden Groundbreaker Rathi trapper Reckless wurm Serra sphinx Shivan wumpus Sinew sliver Do these count?

Congrats Ravnic! It is indeed Staunch Defenders! It is a functional reprint of Spiritual Guardian

Hold the Line was intended, yeah. Oh man, I'm sorry I am causing so much doubt! After you figured Train's card I doubted I could produce any difficult set of hints. Bet you're dying to know what it is. New hint: the key to getting this card was either winning or playing fair.

No, but good try. To be clear, the quotes by two characters are in different versions of the flavor text, not on the same printed card.

Sorry, I think I missed your edit before posting. It was an edit, right? Not Wind Drake, but good guess. Yeah, the text was reused much more often. Good guess, there aren't as many versions of this card though. Ok, I will give a bit more information. This card was definitely not anything...

Does it help if I mention that: This card's rules text (replacing the card name) has been used in its entirety in more than ten other cards, exactly half of them added to other text (as of today) and the other half without any modifications (besides the card name)?

This card has been included in Standard decklists at the highest level tournament, and as a result numerous casual players own it, but I couldn't for the life of me remember ever reading it before I found it today clicking Random Card in Scryfall. Nowadays, it would be hard to defend even a...

I ran Sunblast Angel for a while, and it was a mixed bag. Sometimes it felt even underpowered (in stalled boards you don't even want to cast it) but when it worked, it was pretty absurd. I would guess it would not be too strong in Ravnic's cube, since you don't really slam alpha strikes in each...

Does this mean that on turns 1 and 2 you have to announce when you play a creature with evasion, like "play Aven Envoy, it has flying, pass"? But on turns 3+ you just say "play Aven Envoy, pass"?

I wonder if this is good, even: Diabolic Edicts 1B Instant Target player sacrifices two creatures. Also situational, but the success case probably makes it worth to accept the fail cases. I don't think they'd print that though, it might be format warping and shift the meta to armies of tokens.

Edicts got a lot worse over time with tokens and ETB effects getting more and more playable. They were an important counter to "threats that counter removal" when Magic was more about matching removal with threats, but nowadays they are too situational to be good.

What a communist way of thinking. Let the invisible hand of the market select the most competitive archetypes and cull out the inefficient ones!

Basking Rootwalla Is it mad to support Madness? Rising power levels have made the environment unbearable for this little guy. Save the Basking Rootwalla from extinction! Wrote an article about the Madness archetype in collaboration with @ravnic , just got published! It had been almost ready...

Probably a portuguese Mox Diamond, but depending on how much the non-japanese foreign language penalty is, a Zendikar Expedition Polluted Delta. Used to be a foil Coldsnap Dark Depths but seems that that fell in price. The Mox used to be in my cube but... it wasn't very good :S And when I moved...

At the speed of your cube, I think this is pretty powerful actually. 2/2s are much more relevant than 1/1 lifelinkers. Opponent also never knows what they are attacking into, since you can flip a bigger creature or manifest EOT. It's kind of a game speed polarized card, just like Dawn of Hope...