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I just realized that while most of these cards don't really need a whole lot of extra info for context, a few might be a little unclear. Mother of Runes: The most memorable match I remember is from like 4-5 years back when my cube also ran Sarkhan Vol and there was a matchup that featured Mom +...

Sometimes it's individual cards, sometimes it ends up being a sequence of plays/cards. For me I remember early on after implementing BW Human Aggro in my cube that I was able to draft a pretty sweet deck and showcase the potential. I was on the play and curved out with T1 Champion of the Parish...

Absolutely. A lot of my criteria for inclusion at this point like 7 years into working on my cube is the expansion of existing archetypes and cards that help branch themes. A lot of times these do end up being the more powerful cards in a set where they're willing to push a little more with...

I'd go as far as saying that this is the best cube set we've had from a normal Standard release since Eldraine. Horizons sets are the most fruitful when it comes to cube inclusions with how much they're willing to push and experiment with one-off designs, but this set is real solid as a whole...

Yeah, that's kind of where I ended up with this card. In comparison to other two drops we've gotten in this set like Jadar and the black Adversary, this just isn't nearly as exciting for me unless I was looking for a big beater for cheap. I'm likely to include it with the Innistrad cube that I'm...

Excellent, I'm all for more incidental graveyard hate on playable bodies. Turning into an evasive beater after going wide makes this super appealing to me for my B/W Human Aggro. Turning on pseudo protection that can mostly be used aggressively is very appealing to me, I'm glad it can't be used...

I agree with this in most scenarios, but I don't think it's as applicable for this card. It's never really going to be on curve where you cast this, usually something you fire off in the later game once you've stabilized or when both players are grinding it out. I don't think I'd ever want to...

Sweet card and beautiful art. I saw this art featured with one of the story articles and was hoping it wasn't just a set piece, pleased that it's on a highly playable card. A recurrable Regrowth effect in the self-milling BG/Sultai builds is going to be a great addition. This set is the best.

Was a fan of Goblin Dark Dwellers when I ran it for a brief stint, but it was definitely a little clunky and didn't really have a great home to slot into for my environment. This one having the modal flipside of being a base 2/2 with haste is pretty handy. I like the flexibility of early board...

Sweet card, I'm all for more incidental artifacts tied to playable bodies to help flesh out synergies even further. Human typing to synergize with Champion of the Parish and Thalia's Lieutenant, generates some card advantage with Clues, and has decent stats for its cost as a 4/3 Vigilance. Plays...

For me the first thing I thought of when I saw it was playing it in something like RB Aggro with Gravecrawler and growing Champion of the Perished either on curve by 1 or by 3 power off the trigger later in game. I like that it's not actual kicker which can lead to some cool corner case...

I'd say as long as there aren't too many cheap 2/3s in the format to where you're consistently clogging the board ala Bant Coco Standard, you're mostly going to be fine. I think I would have been more against this in the past, but I've come around to thinking that having these type of statlines...

I agree in general for Constructed and most Limited formats since you can always trade up against a 3/2, but for cube specifically and the role I see for this card I'd much rather have a 2/3 than a 3/2.

This card is excellent. I'm all for more defensive 2/3 creatures and I've long believed that Deathtouch is an underrated keyword in cube. Defensive body for decks against Aggro, fits right into the two drop slot in Gravecrawler Aggro decks that was empty until this set (man this and Jadar is...

I really don't know if they understand this fundamentally. For years Maro has been pretty annoying whenever met with Kamigawa questions and refusing to acknowledge how shit the mechanics were for the set and how that might have influenced how parts of the playerbase felt. Legendary subtheme...

There aren't enough generically useful enchantments to be worth deploying the package except in lower powered environments. Artifacts were in this same boat until around 2019 when they printed a lot more cards that synergized with artifacts like Urza, Lord High Artificer, Goblin Engineer and...

Interested in the slate of the new sets coming out, especially The Brothers War. I was hoping we'd revisit some of the MTG past someday and this looks super promising. I'm a bit wary of Kamigawa reboot but hoping that they do a good job. Streets of Caperna looks like it'll be pretty cool, new...

Honestly, I've ignored pretty much all of these since printing because they just look so ugly to me. I'm sure there are some good designs here and there but man as soon as I see that placeholder sticker I just gloss right over it. We already have so many Magic cards being printed every year that...

The only "customs" I've used are my duplicate voucher in my cube. I'm just not a fan of using customs to fill in holes, it's just not my thing. I feel like most players would be mostly indifferent unless there was something really off about the individual cards.

Burn, Mill and Lab Man just seem like fair alternative win-cons if the drafter can assemble them. As long as they aren't parasitic with cards that only enable that particular archetype, I think you're fine. As long as there aren't specialized cards just for that single deck or strategy, but you...