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^all of that <8 player drafts in general would be a nice feature

It seems awesome. I like that it makes lifegain randomly meaningful.

or: 4 Through the Breach 4 Possibility Storm 4 Emrakul 1 Memnite 4 Serum Visions 4 Remand 2 Condescend 4 Lightning Bolt 2 Gigadrowse 1 Into the Roil 1 Repeal 2 Electrolyze 1 Slaughter Pact 1 Pact of Negation 4 Tolaria West 4 Zoetic Cavern 3 Dreadship Reef 4 Scalding Tarn 1 Watery Grave 3...

Firestorming a Boros Reckoner is fun Fire Covenanting a Boros Reckoner is also fun (h/t Carsten Kotter)

meh, Blood Moon is a minor annoyance for U/X Tron in my experience. btw, if you want something that's surely terrible but awesomely fun: 4 Explore 4 Farseek 4 Heartbeat of Spring 1 Garruk Wildspeaker 3 Sphinx's Revelation 4 Cryptic Command 3 Supreme Verdict 4 Remand 2 Path to Exile 3...

Looking at all of those lists makes me want to play UW Tron again.

Firestorm trades card advantage for brutal efficiency. I find I often have excess lands, removal spells (which otherwise I'd have to use on those creatures anyway), or cards I can't cast yet that I'm happy to cash in for damage.

Library manipulation and high CMC cards with stuff like Mindshrieker/Erratic Explosion/Riddle of Lightning/Djinn of Wishes is a nice little subtheme.

well yeah, but got him (them, rather) in already

I've realized that for whatever reason I don't really like planeswalkers (or at least generic planeswalkers) but I do like cards that act like planeswalkers e.g. Primeval Bounty, Obelisk of Alara, Trading Post. Can anyone think of more examples of these?

meh, I like Wildspeaker and Relentless both more, and I would probably take Survival, Fastbond, Sylvan Library, Treespeaker, Loam, Thragtusk, Natural Order and a few more cards over it. Greater Good is a really nice one. I like Stormbind particularly if you have a reasonably well supported GY...

The B/W Avatars deck would be a lot better if he cut half of the Avatars.

If you like landfall guys and Geists, why not something like: 4 Goblin Guide 4 Steppe Lynx 4 Plated Geopede 3-4 Zektar Shrine Expedition 3-4 Geist of Saint Traft 4 Lightning Bolt 2-3 Shard Volley 2-3 Lightning Helix 4 Path to Exile 4 Boros Charm

...yet o_O

This. 4-drops are such a trap in design. 'But Dungeon Geists is a good card!'. Yes, but...

('today' meaning it's edited today for publication tomorrow, presumably)

Cedric Phillips ‏@CedricAPhillips47m Jim Davis's article today is about Grid Drafting, a different take on Cube drafting. I am in love with it and want to do it right now. Collapse Reply Retweet Favorite More 7:40 PM - 13 Aug 13 · Details

I don't bother classifying and just play cards if I want to.

Not saying it shouldn't, just that it's hard to have a high enough density of it to make Twin a risky proposition unless you flood your Cube with cheap removal to the extent that there's too much.

Twin is interesting in Constructed because every deck has access to a lot of cheap removal, which means that timing and knowing how to play around various cards is important. In Cube that isn't really the case, so I could see it being too oppressive. The go-to card with Dark Depths nowadays is...