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That sounds more like Ruric Thar, the Unbowed. Scuttling Doom Engine's death trigger does win the game sometimes, but hey, games need to end. A 6-drop dealing 6 damage without advancing board state more is reasonable. Many answers deal with it circumventing the damage - counterspells, bounce...

Well... Magic has a ton of combos. I'm not sure what 2nd-3rd tier means, but surely not Twin... I run the following Twin package: Splinter Twin Pestermite Zealous Conscripts Combat Celebrant I like It this way because the deck isn't very consistent - no redundancy for Splinter Twin, and all...

Can it really be GRBS at 8 mana though? You need either a very slow environment, or a way to cheat it into play, or else it's just a ramp payoff far from GRBS. I've never tested it though.

I don't think Elementals payoffs are especially snowbally. Risen Reef is, but it's one card, fairly fragile, and 3cc is not that fast. The critical mass depends on other payoffs and on the power level of your cube. In my slow and low power cube, considering there are no other Elementals...

Yeah, Narset feels like it's punishing me for playing Magic. Ugh. Between Kasmina and Mu Yanling, it depends on your power level, really. Mu Yanling is much better.

Since I typed these for another thread, leaving these here from the last draft: Ones 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Cloudfin Raptor 1 Shapers' Sanctuary Twos 1 Chart a Course 1 Counterspell 1 Curse of Chains 1 Into the Roil 1 Looter il-Kor 1 Mystic Archaeologist 1 Ongoing Investigation 1 Telling Time...

Update 4.7.6 In: Bomat Courier Winding Way Courier is one rare good artifact creature. Colors other than blue are in need of card advantage mechanisms, and red needs to have its artifacts theme reinforced. I'm concerned it may signal red graveyard falsely, but it looks more like a...

I'm looking at your changes, pretty excited to see how the swaps will go! I may end up following you in with the ones that work out. Some comments: Be careful with creature lands, especially the ally ones (Celestial Colonnade et al). They are very powerful in this format since there isn't a...

Thanks for the kind words! Looking at http://www.cubetutor.com/price/4494, you can shave off a _lot_ of the cost at little expense to the design. Comments about the expensive cards and how important I feel they are: Replace: Shocklands ($6-$19 each) and Checklands ($4-$14 each) with...

I never played triple ROE or triple INN! Both were during a long break and I had neither money nor an LGS around to draft anyways at the time. Killing a Goldfish had some cool write-ups about drafting environments, they are very opinionated but entertaining. The Kill reviews: Innistrad block...

Well, 23/39 cards in black strongly suggest sacrifice, so you definitely went too deep. You can probably cut 12-14 black sacrifice cards (which is a a third of the black section!) and still have a decent sacrifice deck, combined with another color. For a two-player cube, though, I would not...

My approach is having a slow and low-powered enough environment that a deck does not need to be focused in 2/1s for 1 to be faster than other decks. Leaning on 1-3 drops helps blending aggro with midrange, and allows it to be either synergy-based or aggro-control, which makes them more...

Mindshrieker is more like good stuff than a payoff for the top-of-library deck, like Conundrum Sphinx. Djinn of Wishes is a fine card, but it's hard to label it as payoff, as sticking a 5-drop for long enough to activate its 4 mana ability is a fairly high bar. I searched and couldn't find...

Trying to be a bit more constructive, my problem with threats like Thundermaw Hellkite is they are only reasonable in an environment where either: Doom Blades are plentiful, but plentiful Doom Blades invalidate a lot of creatures. Even then, removal checks as pretty uninteresting. Unfair decks...

Isn't that just a worse Merfolk Looter that is passable in UB Control/Madness? I want to like the card, but it's super narrow.

It was sold in a Holiday Gift Box, goes for like $1 these days. You'll find cards that gain life easily. Cards that are interesting to spend that life worth using in a control deck are trickier. Roughly strongest to weakest (I haven't played most of those): Phyrexian Processor Phyrexian...

How about: Light Up the Stage

I like: thraben inspector Lone missionary Attended knight Others that look good: Hanged executioner Wall of resurgence

I'm interested, but I read a couple of times and I can't wrap my head around waterfall draft. Can you pick any one card in the table? You start with a center row of 6 cards, but I didn't get how you add a row or how many times there are.

Yep, artifacts is a triangle archetype in WUR. The idea is that Toolcraft Exemplar will usually be a 3/2 and that Metalcraft is achievable in long games or in good draws. I think there does need to be a bit more artifact density in WR (perhaps 2-3 cards), thanks for finding this out! One point...