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re. fixing: I agree that one of the worst feelings in Cube is when you draft a Cube with too many gold cards and poor manafixing and end up with a kaleidoscopic mess with a basic-heavy manabase, but it doesn't have to be that way. The Cube I'm working on atm is gold-/fixing-heavy and the best...

I think you're right about Descendant. Typically the Lotus decks play like control decks for the first few turns so they should have more cards in hand. The problem isn't that, it's that the multicolour control decks that Descendant would be good in are terrible in this first iteration. If I can...

I think it's fine having all threads here for now. The worry with subforums is they end up with very few posts in them and it just looks awkward.

Yeah, Hawk comes with a posse. Descendant and Renewed Faith are both for the Gilded Lotus control decks which really want to have something good to play on the same turn off Lotus, and Descendant is a Human while the cycling on Renewed Faith works with the Miracle subtheme. Agree that Scepter...

I'll do a proper writeup and introduction for this in a week or so when finals are over, but I want to put this here for now to get people's first impressions. I want the finished product to be smaller but this is full of ideas I'm considering. Current project (as of Feb 2014)...

It's also really nice with Unfulfilled Desires.

For fun Domain cards there's Voices from the Void?

What has two thumbs and is good against Lingering Souls?

I see your Arc Trail, and raise you a Magus of the Tabernacle.

Of that list, I like: Thragtusk, Wurmcoil Engine, Faith's Fetters, Gideon Jura, Wurmcoil Engine, Lone Missionary, Obstinate Baloth, Lightning Helix, Carven Caryatid, Maze of Ith, Timely Reinforcements (it requires setup and intersects nicely with a lot of themes I'm pushing) I don't like: all...

They're not better against themselves, they're better against decks without them. Being able to double Edict/double discard/whatever combination you like in the same turn with a pair of Lilianas, and taking away one of the few reliable ways of killing Geist (Phantasmal Image) makes each of them...

Sure, but aggro also has Swords/Wargear, Skullclamp, planeswalkers (namely Elspeth/Koth), protection guys, more effective mana disruption/counterspells/discard, and so on.

I've never really understood why aggro decks are supposed to need the help. Back when my cube was designed for power maximization, aggro was the best performing deck type (excluding some things like reanimator which were fairly rare). Aggro's trumps - cards like Sulfuric Vortex, Ankh of Mishra...

This change makes Modern significantly worse: Liliana and Geist were two of the most obnoxious cards in the format as it is, and they just got a lot better.

Garfield on luck in games:

Other fun equipment: Sigil of Distinction, Basilisk Collar, Mask of Riddles/Memory, Runechanter's Pike, Bonehoard

This thread is for ideas you want to discuss but which don't really have a place yet, and to collate these ideas in one place so that discussion doesn't have to span multiple threads; once an idea becomes more fleshed out and worthy of its own thread, it can graduate from here. To start, fun...

It looks like the Core Sets are continuing to be excellent stand-alone sets. We've only had about 1/3 of the previews (including lands) and there's already a few cards to discuss. Liliana's Reaver Creature - Zombie Deathtouch Whenever Liliana's Reaver deals combat damage to a player, that...

Don't know how I forgot about Guttersnipe. Love Welder as well, though it's only really feasible in powered lists. I see Grapeshot as a more interesting Arc Lightning/Flames of the Firebrand with a much higher ceiling. Kris Mage is another good Madness enabler. Have you cast Blast of Genius...

How much trouble do you have forming sufficiently deep assessments of new cards given your constant rotation of them (which I like in general, it just carries some obvious problems)?