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What a great card for W/x decks. 3/3 first strike is nice defense on the ground, relevant creature type, and it's a great play on the draw allowing you to clear out lands off the top of your deck. For aggressive decks it can clear out dead draws off the top of your deck while for grindier decks...

That card is an excellent design. Relevant creature typing, good body for cost, strong but fair ability, and in the worst case scenario you just cycle it away in the late game for something more impactful.

Holy shit, this is the perfect BW Humans card. 3/3 on curve, pumps the board, serves as incidental graveyard hate when necessary, AND it has a weird removal mode. Pumping up Champion of the Parish by two, sacking Bloodsoaked Champion and another piece of fodder to shoot down big boys, and giving...

I really don't like this set so far. Mutate cards feel really messy.

Gales Night Flame = Thorns Dawn All are similar in power level aside from Dawn, but it comes down to need. Gales is an amazing curve-topper for U/x decks at 5 with a huge flying body, Brainstorm ETB and a good death effect, and it can recycle itself later in the game. Black has a lack of great...

If I had to choose one of them, I'd choose Courser since like Onder mentioned it's a form of pseudo card advantage letting you potentially go one deeper every turn. The Dryad might be the best version of that multiple land drop effect we've had on a creature as far as body + cmc is concerned...

Mesmeric Orb is excellent. It creates a weird milling subgame, fuels entire archetypes, and it allows you to apply pressure on an axis that is not usually available. I don't remember who it was that first ran it here, but after they gave a glowing review I decided to try it out in my cube around...

The idea of Skaab Ruinator is usually better than the average case scenario. The idea is an undercosted beater who will get there by applying evasive pressure, but the reality is usually that it gets removed early or it gets chumped by 1/1 forever. The cost of exiling 3 creature cards is pretty...

The big issue with Walkers and ETBs are the power creep and how things have shifted over the past decade. Walker designs used to be more limited and specific, but nowadays the trend for the pushed walker of a given set is to dial it up on most axes and make it generically powerful. That's how...

It's similar to mass land destruction in Commander where if you're going to play it, you'd better have a way to close out the game shortly thereafter because it'll be miserable for all parties otherwise. If you can't flip the advantage in your favor after resolving, it'll be a bad inclusion in...

Seems okay to me, but wouldn't be my first choice for inclusion if I'm looking for aggressive 1 drops. The firebreathing creates a weird bottleneck where you can't really utilize it early to grow other guys and punish your opponent until T3 at best which is a little slow for me. I wouldn't...

Yeah, you could call a judge, but that seems like an unnecessary hoop to jump through each time. Especially if it's each card in your deck, seems like a ton of work. Maybe if it's checking only for things currently on the battlefield? That would make a little more sense to me. Having to verify...

For the first batch containing commander cards it's kind of disappointing to me as an avid EDH player, but seems about right power level wise. The only thing that throws me off is that Whiptongue Frog because that card already exists and is in completely different colors than the pre-con it's...

Reclamation is more versatile but more mana intensive, Cemetery is a cleaner design though weaker in a vacuum due to timing and restrictions. Depends on your playgroup, but if you're looking for the more powerful option I'd go with Reclamation. Cemetery is much simpler to play with on autopilot.

The appeal of cube, to me, has always been the pursuit of creating a "perfect" draft environment for play. I'm probably never going to reach that point, but the journey has been interesting enough to keep me tuned in to each release of new cards to tinker around with over the last 6 years. It's...

Are you just looking for a looting effect or a curve-topper once you've exhausted resources? Rix Maadi Reveler will consistently be a looting bear with a kicker mode of occasionally refilling your hand. The other two are late game plays to generate some card advantage when you're running low...

Pack Rat is not discard support, it warps games around itself if left unanswered. You just play out your copy and ride it to victory if your opponent can't interact in a meaningful way with removal or a board wipe. It just completely dumbs down any decision making in a match. Higher powered...

It's usually just going to be a vanilla 3/1 for 2. It's good on occasion in the later game when both players are topdecking, but in the average case scenario it's just an early beater. It's just fine as a card, not too impressive.

Power level dependent. Too slow for higher powered cubes that want efficiency and a lower curve, but if grindy 6+ mana cards can be deployed on the regular in your environment then it should be fine. Orzhov usually isn't doing anything all that interesting with gold slots so have at it.

Nah, he's saying Yawgmoth is the best of all those options in ideal circumstances, which I agree with. Yawgmoth is never really bad even without extensive support, he's just a very efficient package at his base. The 4 toughness body allows it to survive a lot of damage based removal, he's at the...