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Of the option listed, I'd cut Champion of Wits and Sicarian Infiltrator. Champion is a little fiddly with the Eternalize in paper Magic, Infiltrator has a lot of text and is mostly mediocre. I think the other 3 are much cleaner designs all around and Investigator is probably the best with...

Which is why it's important to figure out how to differentiate different flavors of Aggro in a cube environment. We didn't have the tools to do so prior to 2014, but since then we've had printings of many cards for B/x and W/x Aggro that have allowed for it to flourish and catch up with (in my...

These are kind of neat as supplements to the archetype, but I think as far as gold slots go General Kudro of Drannith is the best signpost available. Anthem on a body + weird grave hate and sometimes removal option open a lot of lines for aggressive W/B Human shells, especially if there is any...

I don't think it's dangerous or really that powerful, just that the gameplay experience is miserable if your opponent curves out and feels like locking you out of mana from that point on.

Only with army in a can type creatures and if the environment doesn't have a combo-tilt towards it. The more fair the cube, the more miserable the experience. Opposition into a Hermit is awful to play against.

Mutation for me. Simpler line of text wins out despite inferior art.

I tried out Scrounger for like two years and it was definitely solid, but sometimes you just wouldn't have the necessary fodder if you were a deck with recursive bodies. If it's to close out a game sure, but I'd be hesitant trading in a Bloodghast or Gravecrawler most of the time. I think if...

Razorlash Transmogrant Just wanted to take a moment to highlight one of my favorite designs from last year. I underestimated this card as part of my pool during BRO prerelease but man was it essential towards being undefeated in three rounds. A 3/1 is always welcome in aggressive decks, it's...

That's nice to have available as an option. It's rare, but every now and then one of my drafters will go mad scientist with drafting just to get that 8th card and that always leads to Companion clarification (some of them haven't paid attention to Constructed in years). I'll have to see this and...

Now this is a clean design that I like. More ways to recur creatures is appreciated in Pod decks and this slots in neatly at the 5 slot which is a little barren with relevant ETBs to keep churning value. Can reset a Kitchen Finks for Pod chains, can give a beater ala Thrun, the Last Troll a...

I usually tend to cycle through a handful of land inclusions for the WUBRG selections and break cycles so I'll keep these in mind for future iterations, especially Sanctuary as I've had a lot of fun with that one in my Aminatou EDH deck. I ran many of the Innistrad lands for years, but most of...

Yeah, I haven't played much Limited in the last year so I didn't realize that it was reprinted with better Jaya art compared to the previous 2 printings. But I think I'm going to go with this one from a recent SLD: I'm finding myself more partial to the full art cards nowadays (they look...

I have Pyromancer in the flex slot for red, I'm debating whether or not to make a swap to another 2 drop or just replace it with something like a Lightning Strike variant as I don't really run any at the moment.

Dismissive Pyromancer or Bloodthirsty Adversary These two cards fulfill different roles, but I'm wondering which of these has been working out better for those who have run them. Pyromancer is a neat way to churn through a stall and gives you a way to pitch cards into the grave if that's...

What are your Ranger targets nowadays? I ran it for years but dropped it at some point because it was mostly middling to mediocre the majority of the time. Probably different now with more options to tutor up, but even then I think there are other ways to generate advantages in W/x decks (not...

I'm mostly asking to get an idea of what your players are grabbing with the more open-ended tutors. What are common lines for play? I like the idea of tutors for consistency and picking up specific cards to make an archetype function, but I also prefer to limit them for the most part as the...

I honestly straight up forgot Foretell because I haven't played with any of those cards in nearly two years. That said, Foretell is simple enough for the player casting the card to keep track of and for the opponent it's basically no different than a card exiled facedown ala Gonti, Lord of...

Anything that requires additional tracking on the field with new objects or is a hassle to implement in paper. I don't think introducing these mechanics is good for paper Magic because it's just another logistical hassle. I don't mind new types of cards like Vehicles in recent years or cards...

That's fair. I just never liked them from the jump and always found them to be clunky in implementation. Wishes being more open-ended never really bothered me (to be fair, it's also before my time), but tying in this mechanic to lesson cards as the only target(s) made it far less appealing to...

Which tutor effects are you guys playing nowadays? I've had the following for a few years now: Stoneforge Mystic Mystical Tutor Gifts Ungiven Tinker Entomb Goblin Engineer Primeval Titan Birthing Pod And I've recently re-added these two to give G/x deck a little more to work with: Fauna...