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The one thing holding me back from making the swap to Bala Ged Recovery is the complexity creep. My drafters aren't current with the new sets and MDFC are a lot to take in. That being said I think it is greatly superior to Regrowth except for the fact I have an old black-bordered one :p

What works for me is having an idea of what I am supporting in my cube. If it isn't a good stuff card and doesn't fit the themes, it is less likely to stick. In my mind there are 2 big ways to be doing this: 1. Chose some broad themes and scatter them inside the cube in the colors that can...

Hey Erik, I was wondering your reasoning for including Frantic Search (to a lesser extent Snap). I've always liked these cards and am looking for an excuse to reinclude them.

Kytheon, Hero of Akros Student of Warfare I am not sure if I should be playing both of these or just one. I like that they can both be mana sinks (more or less for Kytheon). I really dislike the heavy white commitment that Student asks for, but scaling one drop is strong. Kytheon rewards...

Eric, this isn't the first time I see you belittling yourself and you need to stop! You have a great cube that I (and I'm sure others) look toward for inspiration. Plus every time you draft my cube, you build a great deck and leave thoughtful comments. Give yourself some credit :)

You know what, I was looking around the internet and cannot find anything on the strategy. What I remember though is picking up as many 1 drop and 2 drops in Boros or Selesnya and jamming a bunch of combat tricks and removal to push damage through (Thrive was a card I remember picking up in the...

I enjoyed playing this too. I'll echo the more bounceland sentiment and as I pointed out in Cubecobra, maybe giving the option of Signet or Bounceland could be cool. That untap deck is really cool. What I am missing is the hyper aggressive 1 drop 14 land deck from that block. Not sure it is...

I'm not sure if I made my point clear. There are plenty of spells that other decks can use, not debating that. The combat tricks to trigger heroic? Much less so. The adventures are probably your best bet overall as they can also be played as creatures. Which was one goal when posting this...

I see the appeal of Heroic as an archetype, especially with removal being kept in check to allow them to shine. What I don't see is the cross appeal to different archetypes. It's just that the enablers are narrow since they need to target creatures. Compare with Baubles that just work...

You are totally right that there are different flavors to this spells aggro deck. I intentionally didn't mention the heroic stuff as the payoffs and certain enablers are quite different. The enablers needing to target your own creatures means less cross-pollinisation potential (this might be...

Regrowth I have this in my cube that has a decent GY theme. I am not sure why I am including it though. I mean it is never bad, but I like it less than Grapple with the Past for example (which also plays as a set up card). Why do you play (or not) Regrowth?

Not sure where to post this, if someone has better ideas, I can copy/paste and delete this topic. I wanted to share a deck/strategy that I have been working on: Boros spells aggro. Granted, this doesn't sound particularly groundbreaking, but let me elaborate. Context: Due to the nature of my...

How about a GW wrath-proof deck running wraths? Dauntless Bodyguard Selfless Savior Selfless Spirit Seasoned Hallowblade Voice of Resurgence Kitchen Finks Luminous Broodmoth Centaur Vinecrasher Reveillark Whisperwood Elemental Most of these actually sacrifice themselves to stay on theme.

After posting the above Mardu frame for an aggressive spell GY deck, I realized that maybe I should be adding Clarion Spirit It's at a nice place in the curve, it isn't picky about card types to trigger it and the tokens have evasion. A 2 mana card that makes tokens is not common in my cube...

Not sure how underrated they are, but there are a ton of great artifact cards that I don't see as often as I think they should Vault Skirge Treasure Map Mazemind Tome Chromatic Star Same points you made about Gingerbrute minus the haste for Vault Skirge. The 2 drawing artifacts are really...

No I just listed my green ones since that was one of the colors japahn was interested in. I'll get around to black eventually. But seeing my wording, it was definitely badly phrased.

Here are all the ones I have in my cube or that I am considering. I am pretty liberal in my definition of mana sink: Treetop Village Gilded Goose Scavenging Ooze Duskwatch Recruiter Incubation Druid Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse Wildborn Preserver WolfWillow Haven Rhonas the Indomitable...

Also I've decided to keep Chandra, Acolyte of Flame around as she is a good bridge between a bunch of red archetypes. She can support tokens, sacrifice, spells and/or GY decks. Keeping her around has gotten me thinking about spells matter in my cube in general, and I am not sure if I should...

I decided to add an artifact aggro package again as I was missing it. Giving all the colors tools to have aggressive decks available is worthwhile IMO and it opens a lot of decks for relatively few slots. Plus the Cranial Plating old border frame...No other choice. Essentially cut some...

I'm pumped to have Yawgmoth. I was hoping we could get Urza as well, but too bad. However for tomorrow I am crossing my fingers for both Feldon of the Third Path and Faithless Looting. I think both cards would look incredible and Looting needs the little tombstone!