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Bloodgift Demon is EDH gold, not as great in Cube because dies to removal is very real. You can't afford to wait a whole turn for a payoff once you're that late into most matches, you're looking for a way to finish. I'd definitely go with Nixilis in that matchup, he does a ton of work and your...

I was worried when it was first spoiled and I'm more convinced with each deck I see that Mystic Confluence is just busted to shit. You can bounce their board, Mana Leak + bounce and reset like two turns of work, or just try the one of everything special. Worst case scenario is Jace's Ingenuity...

I've got: Gravecrawler Gravecrawler Carrion Feeder Carrion Feeder Lifebane Zombie Skinrender Sidisi, Undead Vizier Scourge of Nel Toth Curse of Shallow Graves You really don't need a ton of support to make it work, Carrion Feeder + Gravecrawler just gets there pretty often in certain matchups.

Lightning Berserker is the only one I would (and do) cube. It's one of the few one-drops that is live as a top-deck late in the game, Dash is a great mechanic to apply pressure without committing to the board, and there are interactions to maximize the recasting of it via Dash (Champion of the...

"Breaking Singleton" by everyone

The advantage here is that if you bounce it away, they have to wait two turns to re-cast it. That could be relevant in certain situations like if they only have that creature as a threat, a single card is stonewalling your aggro from pushing through damage, or if they have that AND draw into a...

Reflector Mage is awesome, I'll definitely give that a go. New Linvala is pretty boring to me, don't think I'll be giving it a run. Beautiful art but it's just a catch-up card. I really wish it were a 5 drop so that I could Bring to Light for it though, that would have been so much fun.

Yeah, players new to the game are so used to just playing out whatever they have prior to combat and ending the turn right afterwards that they miss a lot of the possible plays/bluffs that could be made. I remember it being a level-up moment when I realized how useful the 2nd main was (also when...

Sweet, might finally get around to giving MTGO a try this weekend.

I mean, it really depends on your deck whether you care for the extra selection you get from scrying off Read the Bones. In attrition-y matchups, you just want raw card advantage, selection isn't as important. Read the Bones is really good if a format is slow and you can afford to take that 3rd...

wtwlf's cube was a nice starting point when I started off just to look over cube staples and I do occasionally look at his list after new releases, but that power-max mentality is no fun to me. It's always just looking for the new powerful card to swap in, interactivity be damned. If you're into...

Triggered.

He has a couple of different Gifts packages depending upon the matchups. The typical play is just go for Unburial Rites + something huge like Norn or Iona to soft-lock certain decks (like Affinity or Storm), but there were a few value packages that came through. It really rewards knowing what...

For Modern I'm really digging the Bringing Gifts deck that LSV played like two weeks ago. I'm building most of the list (proxying missing fetches) over break and gonna give it a run after New Years. Looked like a ton of fun on stream...

Added Gifts to my cube like a week ago, will let y'all know how it turns out once we run a draft when school starts up again.

Snapcaster Goblin anyone?

It's not consistently getting the upper hand, but a goodstuff deck will run over a synergy deck if it's engine isn't assembled in time. That's true in most formats though, not really a cube only issue. It's hard to keep my drafters disciplined into sticking with a given archetype/strategy unless...

I personally love Wasteland after adding three to my cube a couple of months back. It's a great card for punishing greedy manabases, leads to interesting decisions, and brings a great disruptive element to the game. I played for a long time without Wastelands in my cube, but quickly realized...

Yeah it's so much easier to work through Cubetutor, especially when we can just view Visual Spoiler.