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Yeah, at this point I think I'm going to avoid spoilers until the actual spoiler season comes along.

I think the second set of cards feels more likely Phyrexian has never been used as a type before, and if this was a Snow set I think they would have included that in the initial set of spoilers. It's not impossible, it'd just be weird if they were real. On the other hand... Arni's templating...

Thanks to everyone for humoring me :p. I have a little under a third of the list up on CC - I'm planning to make a cube blog when I'm close to a full list. Some things that are shaking out in my more-or-less random "grab any cards that look cool": 1) 7-drops are going to be out-of-context...

If you built around it, I think that could be a win condition for a control deck in a sufficiently low-powered cube? Bounce three creatures, drop 6 power on the board, etc.

Pashalik Mons is way less aggressive. Compare these two curves: T2: Dragon Fodder T3: Pashilik Mons, swing for 2 OR Goblin Chieftain, swing for 6. T4: Goblin Trashmaster, swing for 7 (with Pashilik Mons) OR Goblin Trashmaster, swing for 13 (with Goblin Chieftain) In one of those scenarios...

I'd probably go with Filigree Familiar and Pilgrim's Eye. The Familiar is the most interesting card out of the four, and of the other 3 I think Pilgrim's Eye is the best gap-filler.

I did some initial investigations into my options for kickers, and man. This is going to have to be a low-power cube, and even then a lot of the cards aren't really worth it. The real questions, however... 1) Should I include X spells with a base CMC of 2 or 3? I was initially thinking 'no'...

I don't know. If I had to guess, I think it's because you can get most staple effects at 2 and 3, and 7 is a big beefy number that's good for ramp payoffs/reanimator/etc. Plus, 2 and 3 are high enough that you actually have some flexibility in terms of their design and function, while being...

You're welcome to it! An actually dumb idea that just came to me: there's an old format called 237 Magic that I stumbled on a while ago. Long story short: the only CMCs that you can run in a deck are 2, 3, and 7. Which made me wonder how a 237 Cube would work. My first thought is that it's...

If you have enough artifacts in your Cube, I'd go with Goblin Trashmaster. EDIT: I'm an idiot who needs to learn how to read, apparently. Pay attention to the people with actually decent ideas.

This makes me think of an alternate timeline where, instead of getting a Garruk card (or whatever), we got a Saga that was about Garruk hunting Lilliana, or Jace losing and regaining his memory, or whatever. I think I like that timeline better than this one.

In terms of White enablers, is there any reason that you skipped Quest for the Holy Relic?

Hot take: Sagas are basically what Planeswalkers should have been.

Well then. That's a win condition if I ever saw one.

Have you considered running... Thopter Engineer or Flamewright?

Thanks, both of you - that made some stuff click. I was still thinking of them mostly in terms of building casual constructed decks (which has historically been the vast majority of my play experience). I guess I was so blinded by how cool of an engine Incandescent Soulstoke + Thunderkin...

I'm glad to see that my dumb idea of "just run all of the Sagas, and build your cube around them" might actually go somewhere decent :p. Looking at the Sagas we've gotten, I'm not sure that they could be an archetype by themselves. Like, let's look at the Green ones for a second: Song of...

I'm kinda curious about why you think Lorwyn is a bad take on tribal. I think that it's actually pretty decent, at least once you take the rest of the block into account. I wasn't really playing at the time, but I remember that the tribes played in distinctive ways and that Morningtide started...

One of the things about tribal is that, due to lazy design, a lot of tribal themes end up feeling same-y in practice. They tend to focus on getting out a bunch of dudes, playing lords to make those dudes big and scary, and then hitting you in the face with them. Or they make one of their...

Looking over the spoilers for Kaldheim, I had a potentially very stupid idea: A tribal/morph cube where every single face-down creatures gets Changeling.