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how could Greater Gargadon not be successful?!

Speculation was mainly good in Constructed because you could double/triple up on whatever flashback spell was important e.g. Roar of the Wurm in grindy matchups in UG Madness, or Lava Dart in the sweet Speculation Storm deck. Cathodion seems like a card that I'd include because it looks cool...

I have black standard UltraPros atm and I'm desperate to upgrade, they just feel so clumsy to shuffle and the texture is all wrong.

- One of the problems with Cube is that the constraints Limited places upon you force out cards like Barren Moor that do a lot of work to make games more interesting but aren't unique or impactful enough to earn a spot in the Cube or consideration in the draft. The Utility Land draft is a nice...

Stories like that are why I love Nameless Inversion, even without Haakon.

I agree that it should be pushed in Black: Nefarious Lich fully endorse Horizon Chimera

I found SoBaM to be lackluster, to the extent that I cut it for not being good enough. One hit doesn't do anything, even two hits isn't good enough most of the time if the milling doesn't kill them, and in any case two hits with a Sword should be enough to wrap up the game (and is, I would...

I mentioned Draining Whelk, that's a great card!

Haven't played with Plate Mail, would like to although costing 4 is a real downer. Lifestaff was a fun and competitive card in my Cube circa 2011, haven't touched it in a long time though. Lens is garbage imo. O-Naginata is more of an archetype-defining card than a generic aggro weapon...

Someone else who loves Coldsnap! The main tension with cheap counterspells is that I don't want to clog up blue with yet more 3+ CMC spells, but it's very easy for blue to become clearly the best colour if there are too many Counterspell-esque cards. I think singleton Cubes actually achieve a...

Oh boy. I was working on a split-card Cube a few years ago, so I dug it out and listed some of the cards below (I was fine with permanent/permanent split cards, as it lets you do some truly bizarre things, but I can understand wanting to stay away for clarity's sake). Some of these were...

Try Vess. 5(/6) is a nice amount of starting loyalty and if you untap with it they have to throw a ton of time/resources into taking her down. Alternatively you can just Vamp + Fog, or Vamp + untap which ends the game on the spot (also -2 for Bonfire/Entreat/Terminus, huehuehue)

If Jace, Memory Adept is the older brother, sure. Otherwise, every U planeswalker has more play to it than Jace B, but it's still a great Cube card. I like Tamiyo a fair bit, but if you're going with 1 in each colour you can't go wrong with the original Lorwyn 'walkers IMO.

If Jace, Memory Adept is the older brother, sure. Otherwise, every U planeswalker has more play to it than Jace B, but it's still a great Cube card. I like Tamiyo a fair bit, but if you're going with 1 in each colour you can't go wrong with the original Lorwyn 'walkers IMO.

Anyone who makes the 2 Explores joke re. Kiora will be first up against the wall if I have anything to say about it.

I was 21 a fortnight ago and now you all have to confront your own mortality

What Jason said. I think there's (mostly unexplored) room for a recursive creatures + Wraths strategy in Cube (Gravecrawler/Bloodghast with Toxic Deluge, Doomed Traveler/Voice of Resurgence with Wrath, etc.) and Act slots very nicely into that.

This seems hilarious with Zombies and with Pods: Putrid Raptor

It's powerful and wonderful also hilarious with devotion cards ('how much is Purphoros to turn on?' '...')

I'm tempted to let drafters have Birthing Pods as 'basic lands' and dive into the paint in this next design. Your Domain deck turning Stratodon into Ulamog? Your Dredge deck converting a 2-mana Tombstalker into Iona? I feel an article coming on...