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Sadly, Heap's ability to make treasure actually costs {3} — you need to tap Heap and another Gate, and then pay {1} on top of that. As a result, the Haymaker sequence isn't actually possible (unlike the "committed" line, which I didn't see — good shout!). As for punishing the Plaza line... Kavu...

Not enough to deal with that much trinket text. :p EDIT: Actually, this raises an interesting question — how many land drops do you need to be able to make before a landfall card is "worth it"? Like, is cube all-star Tireless Tracker worth running if you're getting at most two clues out of it...

Hey everyone! I have noticed a pretty annoying little glitch with the WYSIWYG editor. If you start a line in bold or italics, then hitting the bold/italics button or shortcut again doesn't work properly. For example, this is what happens if I type the following into the editor...

I'm alright with 4c decks being a thing, honestly. That said, blacksmithy, how the heck are you building around 4C Omnath in a cube where you only have 5 lands total? Are you that in love with the idea of a 4/4 visionary for {R}{G}{W}{U} that will give you 4 life if you sequence properly? :p...

True... but you can do all of those things anyways, right? To put it another way: Can you describe any archetypes that are enabled by the presence of the Worship Emblem? For the sake of comparison, the Capitalism Cube is full of cards that are only worth including because of the emblem —...

It feels super obvious to me in retrospect, but one tweak that tightens up the mana considerably is to swap Gateway Plaza for Transguild Promenade (because we want our taxland to be on theme). Then you'd still have a gold land for splashing, but Plaza of Harmony would still be limited to the...

Yeah, I'd save that slot for other cool cards. :p Too bad you aren't looking for a five drop, otherwise I'd suggest... Spelltithe Enforcer I know it's not super powerful, but who doesn't love an Elephant Wizard?

My apologies if this seems particularly ramble-y. I got this in my head and posted it instead of sleeping, so it's probably full of phrasing that only makes sense to me. :p

OK, so a while back I had this idea for a gate focused format, which boils down to "start with Basilisk Gate + Heap Gate on the battlefield and one of the OG gates in your hand". And that was fine and all for a brainstorm, but it felt WAY too gold for my tastes — due to how flexible your mana...

Yeah, but there's "learn the power of removal" and then there's "hope that villain didn't draft too many creatures for the amount of removal I managed to snag". Unless the Worship Format is Duplicate Sealed, "did I pack enough removal?" is not something you really have control over within the...

I've thought about that a bunch, honestly... and it seems really tricky to pull off in a satisfying way? If you have the emblems in the main draft, they're basically going to all be first picks due to being free cards. They'd probably have drafting patterns like the big, game-changing...

Snom? I am confuzzled and possibly uncultured — what is snom?

So, having had time to sleep... Phyrexian Unlife!Format: Effectively the same as just starting with 30 life. There are some quirks (like how you can run some creatures with Infect without having an explicit "infect deck"), but most of the weirdness basically requires one player to be losing...

Mown made a cube with a strong Snow theme as part of the 360/100 contest.

I mean, if you're building the Transcendence Cube, you're going to make everyone start at 0 life, and you aren't going to be running Invigorate. Also, legitimate question: do you feel like burn spells are "oops I win" as well? Because I know that there are quite a few people on this forum that...

I'm not sure that it'd be too interesting? If you don't change any other rules, it's effectively just +10 starting life for everyone. More importantly, though, the way that it achieves that limits how much the cardpool can interact with the changed rules — and, unfortunately, the obvious...

These are going to be a bit stronger than the existing Learn/Lesson cards, but shouldn't be too much stronger.

The reason I've never vibed with Emergent Sequence, even in decks/formats designed to maximize it, is that there's a big difference between creature-based ramp and land-based ramp. Rampant Growth is land-based ramp — once it puts that land onto the battlefield, it has done its job. It's very...

And my custom cards formats are all "what if everyone got a Cadaverous Bloom emblem?" All customs are OK, Erik. :p

I concur with getting rid of Emergent Sequence — it's one of those cards that I've tried to love but just can't get into.