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Just in case you've missed it: Pawn of Ulamog You trade a decent body for a lesser casting cost and the Pawn triggers off itself. I like your choices for breaking singleton, especially Faithless Looting #2 and This is a nice way to buff madness. However, looking at your list, it feels you...

I’m hopefully going to draft at the end of August, so this is a pretty big motivation to think about cube! Green cheat package Oath of Druids Monster Manual Cheating fatties is a Grixis thing right now, but I think that there is now a Green package for my cube to diversify the archetype. I...

Has anyone given this card any thought? Zellix, Sanity Flayer It's both a enabler and payoff for self-mill at a reasonable spot in the curve. It reminds me of Sidisi, Brood Tyrant as a self-contained engine. The card seems more suited to grindy decks where you probably want to hold it back and...

That's a great suggestion I had forgotten about, thanks! If some poor shmuck is open, you get to double dip on triggers and can recur it. For the first time, I kind of glimpsed over a set. The combination of product fatigue, mechanics not for me (initiative, backgrounds and die rolling) and...

I had forgotten about the card, but it's the kind of suggestions I was looking for, thanks. You pretty much nailed it: unnecessary aggro from others and too weak to trade. If only it had 2 power! I'm going to add a third sacrifice any type of permanent card with God-Eternal Bontu I've had him...

From my experience with multiplayer games (which naturally tend towards big games) you need something like this for bigger games. Mist-Syndicate Naga It snowballs once it hits and threatens to continue much more reliably than other threats. The downside is that it can run away with the game if...

I think so? It's heavily slanted towards more controlling decks that want the 1/4 body (which is huge), so you have to be willing to dedicate a slot to those decks. What puts it over the top for me is that a bunch of discard matters payoffs have been printed recently to really incentivize you...

That is indeed a great looking deck. I think Grist might be a tad too good stuff for your cube. It would probably take over the game or at least warp it enough that it would eclipse what other decks were doing. It's a shame because it's interaction that has synergy with your themes: self-mill +...

I've been trying to get a bit more artifact overlap in Black and Green and I've had a breakthrough! Ones 1 Mishra's Bauble 1 Chromatic Star 1 Abundant Harvest 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald 1 Stonecoil Serpent 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Elvish Reclaimer 1 Gilded Goose 1 Ignoble Hierarch Twos 1...

priest of forgotten gods? I like it because it’s cheap, free sacrifice and needs some build around, but the payoff is nice! It rewards you differently than most aristocrat cards which helps diversify play patterns.

I've been looking at the cube and being less shy about breaking singleton, I'd like to try: Stonecoil Serpent -> Walking Ballista Ballista is a mana sink in hand and on board, avoids random "protection of" and is additional removal for colors that need it the most (Blue and Green). The nice...

Random thoughts, take what you like, ignore the rest: Love your SNC swaps, huge addition to the cube IMO. I like the spells matter cards coming back in as they are only 3 slots for a whole new take on tokens. Mentor and Saheeli are also open-ended meaning you can mix and match themes pretty...

I guess I am looking for a more open-ended artifact payoff in the vein of Urza's Saga and Nettlecyst. One that could fit equally well in the Green and Rakdos decks I posted above. How far above the power band would this be? Tolarian Academy I have Tangle Wire as a tempo play more than a stax...

I am trying some more cuts. I'd like to get down to the 400 range. I might be supporting too many archetypes to get there though. The first round of cuts were rather effortless, but these hurt more. One area to improve upon is UB discard. I've put Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer in, but it has been...

So I was immediately able to draft this pile: Ones 1 Grim Lavamancer 1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Aether Spellbomb 1 Currency Converter 1 The Underworld Cookbook 1 Experimental Synthesizer 1 Consider 1 Fastbond Twos 1 Containment Construct 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy 1 Thassa's Oracle 1 Underworld...

A few comments that help make synergy cubes a success IMO: 1. Have the synergy pieces be the most powerful cards if possible. If you can entice your drafters to pick your build arounds because they stand out of a pack that is perfect. This might mean omitting a few favourites that are too...

I like returning to a cube project after a break as it helps take a step back. One thing that immediately stuck out to me was the inclusion of too many specific archetype plants. I want my themes to meld and overlap, but if I give an archetype too many tools, the need to branch out fades. So I...

I’ve been getting some BRx decks with a lot of overlapping themes jammed together (which is exactly what I want), but sadly the decks are rarely about artifacts if it is not reanimator (thanks to Welder/Daretti). So I'd like to remedy that by introducing these: Out -> In Mire Triton ->...

This a really cool concept and I love to see the alters. Some comments/questions: 1. I was looking at Level 2 and 3 and only saw lands. I imagine you are updating this as time allows? 2. Speaking of lands, I saw Urza's Saga and Ancient Tomb on level 3. From my experience in my own cube, They...

This is the exact reason I've created this thread. Solitude is a card I am dying to include, but that then opens the floodgate of free spells. However, I like the criteria kModz and blacksmithy suggest: This is an interesting axis to play along and one I think I will enjoy. Thanks for the...