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Well, I finally got around to updating my Cube and making some sweeping changes after EMN was released. Too many changes to list out one by one, but I'll touch upon some of the major updates (with pictures and stuff for the lazy). First of all, I increased the size of the cube from 420 to 450...

I have never lost with nor won against a T3 Ashiok in Cube. Unless you have a way to deal with it in hand, it is one of the most uninteractive cards I've ever played with. 3 mana walkers that jump up to 5 loyalty on deployment are damn near unstoppable that early in the game unless you're...

I don't run either, but I'd much prefer Season's Past usually in some GBx shell. It's just a lot of card advantage if you've been trading one-for-one with removal and/or creatures. It's for the grindy matchups where you're playing at parity into the mid-late game trying to pull away and...

I love Living Death. Leveraging it to break symmetry is a really sweet thing to build around when drafting, makes you incentivize and view looting much differently. Like 80% of the time it's a weird wrath, but the other 20% of the time it's the sweet one-sided board flip to swing you the match...

Hellrider is incredibly powerful and non-interactive if that Red Aggro deck has curved out. It's probably the most powerful card you could have for that given archetype. I actually took it out a while back because along with recursive beaters in black, it was too oppressive. Hero of Oxid Ridge...

I think Selfless Spirit is just fine power-level wise for most cubes, but then again I don't know your specifics. If you have enough interaction, however, a 2/1 that gives your team protection from most wraths should be just fine to run.

Yeah, Kamigawa is such a deep dive into Japanese mythos, it's a shame that most people didn't appreciate it for that but were left more confused than anything. I love the art in the block as well, I've been actively collecting the block the last few months and I'm like 40 cards away across 3...

I'd go with Shadowmage there. More relevant creature types, easier to cast, and straight up drawing a card is just so useful. It's exactly the kind of curve filler I'm looking for in my U/B decks, good roleplayer with the 1/3 body to block tiny dudes as well.

I really really dislike Avacyn, this is from playing against it in both constructed and also in FOUR different sealed events. It is one of the more miserable cards I've ever had to play against. It's a ton of keywords, dumb effects, and unless you have the instant speed interaction to handle it...

I play Bellower, he's a sweet card to tutor up value threes like Tireless Tracker and Knight of the Reliquary. Just remember that it's a nonlegendary clause because I've had some drafters get got by that.

I really really like Ob Nixilis a lot more than I thought I would. He's not extremely exciting but he's just such a black card. Removal + a Phyrexian Arena effect on a card. He just puts in a tremendous amount of work on the field. And I love that Black Control is a thing instead of just having...

I had a friend draft literally just bannedModernCards.dec. He drafted a pod deck that had Bloodbraid Elf, Stoneforge Mystic (with Batterskull), and the Kiki combo ala Resto Angel built in. It was disgusting.

I really like Silumgar's Command, mostly for the destroy Planeswalker text. That's always a useful mode to have on hand. It's always done its job in my list, either bouncing + killing something smaller or shutting down a big play + bouncing a creature. It's great for control decks and not really...

If you have a self-mill theme or a lower powered cube, I think it's worth trying out at least. When I first saw it, I thought it would be garbage like Wight of Precinct Six has been most of the time, but it was a sweet cards alongside the Cryptbreaker and Relentless Dead. I traded off my guys...

Went 3-1, this deck was awesome Ones 1 Cryptbreaker 1 Borrowed Malevolence Twos 1 Graf Rats 1 Relentless Dead 1 Unsubstantiate 1 Cemetery Recruitment 1 Grotesque Mutation 2 Press for Answers Threes 1 Skirsdag Supplicant 1 Liliana's Elite 1 Crow of Dark Tidings 1 Oath of Liliana Fours 1...

As far as Walkers are concerned, I try to play with the ones that seem most interesting and/or most interactive. My cube is pretty high powered but avoids most GRBS, so stuff like Liliana of the Veil and Jace, the Mind Sculptor aren't majorly game-warping. I also like playing with powerful cards...

I don't know about broken, I usually classify those as must answer cards that either warp or outright take over the game. Outpost Siege has always been a pretty fair card imo. It's a 4 mana investment that won't pay off until the next turn at the earliest. If you're being pressured heavily by an...

If I don't see the archetype drafted beyond me forcing it, it's time to cut it. Luckily for me, my playgroup is full of guys who have been playing for years across multiple formats who play Limited like every new set so this isn't really an issue.

It's dependent upon the writer. There are some really decent writers on the staff and others are terrible, it's hit or miss pretty often. I'm not a fan of the current overarching story with the Gatewatch and all that since superhero groups are lame. I love many of the older stories though...

There was also a draft where LSV played two and it was shit. It was never a mainboardable card for me in EMA draft, it's a sweet sideboard card in super grindy matches but that's about it. Aside from that, there are way too many situations where this just ends up stranded in your hand.