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Bake Into a Pie Removal is one of the most influential factors for the feel of a limited format. Strong removal like Swords to Plowshares and Doom Blade represent a tempo swing and card advantage match against threats that don’t have built-in mechanisms to mitigate removal, such as Grave...

Thanks everyone! https://desolatelighthouse.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/bake-into-a-pie-one-card-a-day/ I can copy this into a thread since people found it interesting.

Great writeup, that's a cool theme that I don't think we've given much attention to :) Relic Seeker is pretty nice in my cube, I recommend it! Some of the best equipment bearers in my cube tend to also be heroic, so I have a voltron theme that's a bit of both. Fabled Hero Dawnbringer...

I haven't played more than one draft of it, but didn't Zendikar Rising have a much better implementation of tribal limited? There were Warriors, Rogues, Wizards, and Clerics, and the party mechanic tied them all together acting as glue/buffer/pivot?

I run these: The Birth of Meletis Testing, but this idea is to improve white's smoothing. It should be good for control, slower builds of the artifact archetype, and maybe lifegain. Time of Ice This is pretty strong. It's good in any blue tempo deck, and a payoff-enabler in the tappers deck...

In my cube, artifacts is a triangle WUR archetype and looks like this at the moment: Payoffs: Toolcraft Exemplar Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp Thirst for Knowledge Thopter Spy Network Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge Galvanic Blast Whipflare Saheeli, Sublime Artificer Steel Overseer Cranial Plating...

What are you talking about? This is the best Goblin lord! Changeling, changelings! My cube wants good changelings so badly.

Yeah Onder, I was excited at first because generic tribal payoffs is always something I'm happy to see, but then I looked at my list and... if you stick to a single tribe, this doesn't actually do much. OTOH, I do think we shortcut too early and oversimplified Pyre of Heroes, because you don't...

Cool cube and thanks for the shoutout! Went it to do my typical stuff which is "draft good stuff and see what that takes me" and the resulting deck is a UR Midrange with an equipment theme: https://cubecobra.com/cube/deck/5fda4d6c16da4f1030968056 Had the same thought, but regarding a...

Doesn't this suffer from the decks that want the effect not being able to get hellbent, and the decks that can get hellbent not wanting to have an ETB tapped land?

I mean, we know there are better 3 drops. This is the Low Power Spotlight thread :) Question is at where in the power band Alpine Guide is, whether it's fun, has synergies, etc. I really like the fixing with Blood Crypt and Raugrin Triome, it's an easy interaction to pull off as you don't...

Does Kefnet's Monument stand on its own though? I don't think the combo with Pestermite is anywhere good enough to be worth running the Monument just for the combo. It's totally besides the point, but it would be really funny to go T3 Monument, T4 Pestermite EOT, haha that's cute, T5 Splinter Twin.

That's good to hear. I've just had a game where I had to kill Anger and it was a constant threat from the graveyard. I think Anger gets better with better removal, as the haste matters more and games are longer.

I don't like play patterns that reward you for doing the same thing over and over, ignoring your hand, and just waiting to see if your opponent can deal with it. This has Pack Rat feelings, though as a two-card combo it will be far less consistent. It is somewhat difficult to disrupt too...

You know, I decided to do both in Arcane Sanctum, although I don't really assign roles to my color combinations I can write about what kind of esper decks might exist. That's a constant tension in my list. I want at the same time showcase the history of Magic and how mechanics years apart...

How's Woe Strider? I like the scrying with entrails part of it (it's so flavorful (wait that's not what I meant)). It's so much text though, and seemed a tad strong for my cube.

12! Burning Prophet Magma Jet + 10 temples... I probably should have more than that, smoothing is good. Suggestions?

Yeah, fair enough. I'm just curious myself if I stop at A, B, F, R, or go all the way to Z. There's Arcane Sanctum coming up and not sure to write for the rest of trilands. I might replace Territorial Hammerskull with it. One thing I'm finding is that maybe I don't really want to have to...

Inspired by the wishes a random redditor, I decided to give them exactly what they wished for: I'll write about my card selections in depth. Every single one of them. I'm going through my (core) cube, alphabetically, and will write about why I included each card, and why I'll probably remove it...

Some examples: Angel's Herald Balthor the Defiled Barbarian Outcast Battle Frenzy