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World Queller Could this be playable at lower power level for your stax deck? It’s super slow though, but seems like fun once in play. Unless you go with cards like Aven Mindcensor for a fetchland manabase, but they seem neither reliable nor fun.

When thinking about your UB GY decks, I feel you need to be more specific (this is something I struggled with for a while, but now I understand it better). Here are the GY archetypes I see in UB Reanimator: This is a classic and can be more of a combo (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Exhume,...)...

I'm trying to bolster my spell matter themes in red and would like opinion on: Finale of Promise I say theme, but there are really two distinct ones: GY spells and spell velocity. One is based on casting spells from the GY for value (Mizzix's Mastery, Snapcaster Mage, Chandra, Acolyte of...

Oh man, I completely missed Thorn Mammoth. It seems like a really strong card that plays well with a number of themes and gives green some solid fight options alongside Voracious Hydra, Wicked Wolf (which I think is totally playable even without the food tokens), Vivien, Arkbow Ranger and...

I have a fight resolving around efficiency vs value (and maybe synergy). Preordain vs Scour All Possibilities Keep in mind I already have one Preordain and this is for a second slot. My blue section has a GY self-mill theme going which makes me lean towards the spell with flashback as I...

Greater Good is a very strong card, but not all decks want it. I'm trying to use it as a bridge between sacrifice matters, +1/+1 counters (grow tall) and the graveyard (so mostly Jund and Sultai decks). For example, sacrificing something as silly as a Jadelight Ranger that got a couple of...

I believe so, yes. It's not a high pick to be sure, but it does some good work especially with Emry, Lurker of the Loch and pretty much all the artifact type cards (Welders, Monastery Mentor, Sai, Master Thopterist, Trinket Mage, Marionette Master). Then there is random recursion where you can...

After more thought on the subject here is how I am trying to incorporate the zombie subtheme to my Dimir section: Self-mill Now that is a pretty wide theme, but I've found 2 directions to take that doesn't seem poisonous and forces me to run very few cards I wouldn't otherwise. Creature...

Mindblade Render As a warrior matters card that doesn't really care about warriors. It's a two drop Ophidian, that gets better if you have other warriors. Seems pretty good to me! Also, looking at your list, I disagree that Cryptbreaker and Blacklance Paragon are very tribal. One is a...

Some thoughts: Looking at your Gruul midrange deck, I feel it's missing out on some beefy/high impact 3 drops. Finks and Tracker are great, but that isn't much and looking at your list, the pickings are slim in GR. I'd love to see something hard hitting like Goblin Rabblemaster/Krenko, Tin...

No no I also give them 2. I misunderstood what squadroning meant (but looking back I get why it would imply 4 instead of 2).

I love reading these reports as the decks showcased are always completely absurd. But absurd in a good way, not just a big ETB dude taking over or a turn 1 reanimator, but whole engines that combine with each other. Good job :D

I would probably have more 3's so you can restart some chains if needed. I had one of my players build a sweet pod deck last night where he even got it fairly late in the last pack. He just had a solid curve and it worked out well. I did try using a squadron pick for the Birthing Pod. The...

I was just thinking about that following yesterday's cube night on our end. We had a good time, but 2 decks had access to 1CC ramp and when deployed early the games were not really close. Granted I play multiplayer games where you can't really use a kill spell on a mana dork otherwise you end up...

Birthing PodCollected Company seem out of place. These are tough to build around. So either double up on one (maybe cutting the other), add support in other colors (like Prime Speaker Vannifar) or just cut them. Stronghold Assassin This guy seems pretty weak and slow compared to other...

I was revisiting some fun subthemes for my cube and I realized that I can probably support a mini zombie theme at little cost. I wanted to know what people thought of the following package: Payoffs CryptbreakerGravecrawlerGravecrawlerCemetery ReaperEternal SkylordGisa and Geralf GY zombies...

I would cut one of the sacrifice outlets (Flesh Carver, Yahenni, Undying Partisan and Phyrexian Ghoul) and one of the sacrifice payoffs (Xathrid Necromancer, Midnight Reaper and Liliana, Heretical Healer) since that is quite a bit of overlap. My personal choices would be Xathrid Necromancer...

That is a great point. I was actually looking at the card as a payoff for sacrifice decks, but I overlooked the token managing effect. Thanks!

So I finally got around to logging the decks into cubetutor from our cube draft back in September or something. We were 3 drafters Pat, Nico and myself. We drafted the whole cube with 9 packs of 15 cards. Pick one, burn 2 (so 5 cards per pack). Here is what we drafted: Pat (2 wins)...

Yeah Vizier seems a little out of place for me, but I'm a little too obsessed with maximizing Birthing Pod to be objective :P I'm considering cutting Lotus Cobra because of how easy and effortless it is to get a lot of mana from him in my cube. I really like the card and recommend it if you...