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I maintain that Balance is fair and... some synonym for balanced I've found Recurring Nightmare to be remarkably tame - it's hard to use in the Vintage/Legacy Cubes on MTGO and in other formats you don't have as much uncastable nonsense to cheat in with it I feel the same way about...

Opposition I benched this card long ago because it ends games very quickly if you have any board presence at all - its true power is only masked to some degree by most Cubes running few blue creatures (so this becomes the best UG card in practice). A recent Twitter thread asked what...

UG's identity crisis is embodied well by its gold cards - it went from the consensus worst guild to this in a year: Hydroid KrasisIce-Fang CoatlOko, Thief of CrownsUro, Titan of Nature's Wrath to say nothing of Shardless Agent, Edric, Mystic Snake, and so on. Many of these cards drag you in...

Playing against Walls may feel hopeless if you're relying on attacking with 2/1s but the idea of Walls is awesome enough that I'd do it anyway

Maelstrom Wanderer As flashy and splashy as it gets

I like Taranika! It's neat hidden support for +1/+1 counters (possibly its function in Chris' Cube now that I think about it?)

I like Taranika! It's neat hidden support for +1/+1 counters (possibly its function in Chris' Cube now that I think about it?)

Basically impossible to use effectively, to the extent that the one deck that's ever played it in Constructed mostly doesn't any more

Just change one to two with Look at Me, I'm R&D!

Split Screen Split Screen I love seeing Wizards explore new design space but it’s even more fun to watch four-dimensional design space being created out of thin air. The Un-sets are a goldmine for exotic Cube cards - especially Unstable, which moved away from the ‘tickle your opponent if...

I really like Unexpectedly Absent - scales responsibly, more flexible than yet another 3-mana sorcery speed Oblivion Ring variant, can put your own stuff back on top to save it from removal

Sensei’s Divining Top Sensei's Divining Top Top is a go-to answer for “what’s the most overrated Cube card?”. A scourge of Extended and Legacy and any format where you automatically have a dozen shuffle effects in your manabase, Top is often seen as a universally strong card that inevitably...

We used a Google Sheet and then played games on Cockatrice. It took most of an afternoon but you can speed it up with a shot clock for picks etc (we didn't really need one as all of us wanted to keep it snappy)

One of the most insightful quotes I heard about retail Limited was that 'every deck is midrange' - the card quality is low enough, and most cards generic enough, that most decks land (possibly uncomfortably) in the midrange zone of whatever classification you use. Most Limited formats have a...

It neuters a wide variety of things (Sakura-Tribe Elder, Ancestral Vision, Oblivion Ring, Pernicious Deed etc to name just a few) but also combos with a lot (keep Uro around, permanently exile everything with Parallax Wave, exile something with Flickerwisp and stop it coming back, stop EOT...