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Haven't updated this in a while. I'll try to post about each update separately, with the benefit of hindsight, but it will be staggered a bit. Updates 4.9 - 4.9.2 (2020-03-31) Cut shocklands, replaced with vivids + two five-color fixing lands. Lands were wheeling too much, so I'm trying to...

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No :eek: Imagine moving the basics back to the same deck, since they have the same sleeves and come from the same pool. Plus, it's 2020, Gerrymandering is outrageous and politics is sad... :( You'd need an environment in which it can attack at least once or twice. I'd say a rule of thumb...

I'm in for that! I'm in EST (GMT-5). Will PM you my Discord name. Is it cheating to nominate my own cube? :D

Out of those I only have experience with Kulrath Knight, which is really powerful in this deck. If your power level is low enough, it can be generically playable, but in most cubes it'll be narrow. I put it in Occasionals after a long, long time out of the cube. I actually wrote about this card...

Yeah I feel you, all I've done is a couple of 2 person drafts the whole year...

Have people tried the Pathways in cube? How do they play?

Disallow counters the triggered abilities when a morph flips, like Skirk Marauder. Yeah, it can't counter the flip itself.

Many of the cards you mentioned as worrying were chosen because they synergize with morph. This is already an environment in which morphs are good (at 2/2 for 2 they are actually strong), so you don't need to incentivize people to play them by putting in cards that work well with morphs...

Had to read this 3 times before I understood you can return a card from your graveyard, and not just one from the opponent's graveyard.

Izzet Chemister It's fun and flavorful. Gives reach to burn decks, can become a counterspell, card draw, but also requires investment of time, mana, and risk of getting your spells wiped out. The shields down/shields up dynamic works well in that you need to tap to grow, but also to activate.

Interesting! Would be nice to work out a mechanic to control the pace - in some games players are rewarded from playing fast, in other games players are rewarded for using their time. Quests like "get a card for each time X happened" and many other quests would incentivize people to spend early...

The problem with this is that even if you make it playable (I imagine having a bunch of 2-drops that like to be blocked like Porcelain Legionnaire would help a lot), it's a low-agency card. When you're behind it's bad, when you're ahead it removes agency from your opponent. It wants a...

I really like the design and actually ran Providence for a draft or two. Unfortunately, I think it belongs in Unplayable Card Spotlight :(

If someone compiles the Cube Cobra links to the cubes you analyzed in previous posts, I can run the script for all those cubes. Edit: or we can, you know, do the right thing and create a git repo...

Stats for the Elegant Cube (Core) by color: Non-land colorless: average 16.90 [of 31 cards] W: average 16.98 [of 53 cards] U: average 18.59 [of 51 cards] B: average 19.02 [of 55 cards] R: average 20.62 [of 53 cards] G: average 18.75 [of 52 cards] WU: average 11.50 [of 2 cards] WB: average...

Wow, that's really really cool. Thanks for the analyses! Part of it is that I've let complexity grow a bit lately because I felt I was sacrificing some excitement, and part of it because the majority of cards should come from Core, which is about 2 words lower (average) and 1 word lower...

I don't think it's so much that Ravenous Chupacabra is a problem in a vacuum. Flametongue Kavu is divisive, but because it was just 1 in the cube, it felt a bit broken, but happened to you every now and then. Flametongue Kavu What people take more issue with is the shift in design philosophy...

I like the time shuffling and mulliganing at the start to the game to casually chat with my opponent for a couple minutes.

Some ideas for your archetypes: Howling Mine Fluctuator Jinxed Idol Mesmeric Orb Sword of the Animist Well of Lost Dreams Dolmen Gate