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There's no one list right now, just a bunch of half-finished CubeTutor sketches. I want to get something more definitive though and I know I'll never be fully satisfied with a first draft, so I may as well finish one and put it here

Ixalan/Rivals review: Legion's Landing: A great 1-drop that pushes the incidental go-wide theme along with Kytheon and Windbrisk Heights, neat synergy with Kor Skyfisher/Flickerwisp and random stuff like Cloudstone Curio. The low-curve white decks are more mana-hungry than you'd think as there...

There's an amazing TO here who runs the biggest and best events in the UK and this weekend was one of an ongoing series, featuring both Legacy and Modern. I met Aston (the real one this time!) and also did well for the first time in a while. Went 7-4 (weird tournament format - Swiss + 'extra'...

I think people are overestimating how easy it is to trigger Ascend in the average game unless your Cube is full of cards that leave random bodies lying around. Kytheon is much better most of the time but is also horribly complicated so that's a better reason to swap it out IMO

I was already doing everything I could to make Splendid Reclamation work and here's one that's much easier to dig for, works with sac outlets, and is a great blocker to have in my clunky ramp deck

Sakura-Tribe Elder it's cool how often I can post my favourite card and it's apropos

Izzet GuildmageNivix Guildmage My instinct is that these abilities cost too much to do anything with, but I can imagine some fun stuff with Izzet Guildmage + Ancestral Vision/Firestorm or similar. Has anyone tried these?

One idea I've been kicking around is using the enchantments that convert one card type or resource to another (Trail of Evidence, Ulvenwald Mysteries) as the main CA engines in an environment. Cool things happen if you have enough ways to exploit (e.g. literal Exploit) a random Clue or 1/1. A...

Hard to go wrong with Nissa, Vastwood Seer

'Retail Limited but designed to be even more slow' is the exact kind of format that X would dominate in. In a faster Cube environment (and one where decks have more cleanly defined roles, so cards aren't generically good the way they are in Limited - paying 5 mana to steal an aggro deck's 1-drop...

False Prophet Hasn't been mentioned since I brought it up >2.5 years ago and idk why, it looks great on paper? Having a permanent reset stapled to a creature gives decks that can use it a great line of defence

I'm going deep in the paint on Cube design again and I'll document that process here, but in the meantime I'll post a series of random observations. == Configuring Fixing Ahadabans had a post a while ago about using variety in manabases to add diversity to gameplay and send signals to...

Don't get me wrong, the BW sac-aggro and artifacts decks are great, it would just be nice to have some choice.

To get this going again: I drafted these from sigh's Cube a while back, all look sweet While I work on overhauling my current Cube, someone draft this iteration for science

Has anyone found deep themes in WB that aren't variants of 'make/sac a bunch of creatures'? Whenever I try to assign archetypes to colour pairs, WB ends up there by default because I can't think of anything else.

How about Geier Reach Sanitarium or similar?

I like: Doomfall

Mixing old/new borders in particular is really jarring for me

Kami wins out for me because of nostalgia and I genuinely think they look cool (though this Ravnica Island is beautiful IMO): For full-art I like the Unhinged lands but instead of bankrupting myself I have these (original Zendikar because I like my borders thicc): I love the old border...

I strongly endorse Gate to the Afterlife + GPG as a two-for-one; it adds a subgame that any colour combo can achieve and is rewarding but not obnoxious or overpowered.