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One thing to consider about Mutate is that it actually works really well with Dash, and that you can basically consider Mutate cards to be weird auras. The thing is, I'd only really call one Mutate card "fun": Parcelbeast EDIT: I feel like I have to qualify this a bit. The problem with...

I have an Oathbreaker deck that uses Reincarnation. It's... alright? Really, the best use for it is more reactive than anything else. You keep the three mana up, and then cast it in response to chump blocking something big and scary, or in response to removal.

Selesnya's pretty easy, and I don't think we really need to get into how to make GW Tokens a thing. Ghired's Belligerence That's how you signal that tokens are also in Red. Not only is it some nice potential removal, you can also use to trade up from Elementals/Saprolings to bigger, scarier...

... OK, why isn't that the Boast legendary creature? That seems way more... characterful than Arni Brokenbrow.

I'm not sure that you're going to have much luck there outside of discard outlets. And the thing is that there isn't much to draw you into White for that.

I said it was a terrible idea. :p And honestly, thinking about it more, I was crossing over some things in my mind — the only real problem with Energy is that it only showed up in two sets, and that we're unlikely to see it again (which kinda limits the usable cards). And yeah, it would be a...

So, I just had another terrible idea for an environment. There are a bunch of problems with both Energy and Poison as mechanics... so what would it look like if we smushed them together? The simplest way of doing this would be to just make Energy and Poison the same exact thing - if you get 10...

I'm looking at this as a first draft, mostly. If it turns out that Red needs more 2s and Blue needs more 3s, I'll make that adjustment. As for the lands... I have no idea what I'm doing there. I'll probably give it another look later.

I have to agree that Liv Sivvy, But For Humans would be pretty problematic, except if all of your humans were subpar for some reason (in which case, you have a lopsided environment, and should probably fix that instead of fiddling with ol' Livvy). ... For anyone who's curious, I've set up a...

Afternoon Delight is an untested 360 card, relatively low-powered cube where all of the non-land cards have CMCs of 2, 3, or 7. There is one additional house-rule: all Instants and Sorceries are Arcane (or anything that refers to Arcane instead refers to Instants and Sorceries). This is because...

So, I ran across this old favorite while I was building my gimmick cube: Metropolis Sprite I've found that this little lady does interesting things with pump and +1/+1 counters. The flying really helps in conjunction with that particular ability, since cheap flyers tend to be small.

Come to think of it, I agree with both of these. I'll probably make those swaps. It's in my signature, but here you go. It's a little slow going because it's not like I can crib off of other people's cubes — like, I spent an hour or so yesterday just filling out my monocolored 3-drop...

The whole idea behind manlands is that they have a built-in way to dodge sorcery-speed removal. I actually missed that Stones' effect was permanent — that actually makes it worse.

I'm pretty fond of Dread Statuary. Stalking Stones feels too expensive for what it does, and Cradle of the Accursed is kinda boring.

Happy late Christmas! My work on my dumb gimmick cube stalled over the holidays, but now I want to give it a bit more attention. Does anyone have any ideas for 7-drops? I finally came down on the side of making all Instants and Sorceries count as Arcane spells, which should explain one of the...

I mean, in a white deck it can remove all future land draws from your deck. It's like a monowhite Mana Severance! Except it costs twice as much.

Yeah, you know what? I apologize for earlier. The leaks put me in a bit of a foul mood for a while. And then my FLGS game me four boxes worth of draft chaff for free. So I'm feeling better.

I'm just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if they did that. The thing is that they wouldn't be printing one-offs - they probably requisition test sheets, and it wouldn't be terribly tricky to ask for some "fake" cards. The only really expensive part would be getting the art commissioned, but...

If we're going to bother to have multiple threads for each set, shouldn't we also separate out "official" spoilers and leaks?

So here's the thing - pretty much every set printed over the last couple of years has had some level of leaks. In some cases, those leaks have been stupidly massive. It would make sense that Wizards would start setting up fake leaks. While printing out a new set takes a lot of lead time...