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Let's go through the creatures by casting cost. One-Drops White one drops on Innistrad are pretty interesting. There's no traditional 2 power for one mana, which is a big obstacle to building strong WX aggro decks. Instead, the one drops seem to fall into two distinct categories: Creatures...

Graveyard Matters in White As a preamble to figuring out the creature section, I think it would help to have an overview of how white interacts with the graveyard. Typically, white is the worst graveyard color in any Innistrad set. Its resurrection effects are overcosted with very little...

The Build Arounds Chronic Flooding Drowned Secrets Ominous Seas Scuttletide Fleeting Memories Ominous Roost Secrets of the Dead Trail of Evidence Chronic Flooding – maybe a little too good at self-mill for a card that's not from Innistrad. It's a free Dream Twist every turn after the first cast...

Bounce Spells and Counterspells Fading Hope Silent Departure Just the Wind Unexplained Disappearance Unsubstantiate Drag Under I don't think we need six different bounce spells. Of these, I like Unexplained Disappearance and Unsubstantiate the least. Though Unexplained Disappearance helps with...

You Drowned - Blue Zombies and Self-Mill Armored Skaab Laboratory Brute Organ Hoarder Shadow Kin Geralf's Mindcrusher Organ Hoarder was the best blue common from Midnight Hunt. I expect it to do great things here. Skaab and Brute are kind of the bread and butter of a self-mill deck. I think...

From the CubeCobra list, I think the cuts in blue could come from among: Skaab Wrangler - I don't see a strong token presence anywhere except red, which will limit Wrangler a lot. Sky Theater Strix - unlike something like Aven Wind Mage, this doesn't feel like a great rate to me even when going...

Thanks. I shouldn't have mentioned Tireless Tracker at all, it's more of a generic goodstuff card than any other payoff. It's not a retail cube, it's more of a prized amalgam of all three Innistrad blocks, with some thematic bits and bobs thrown in from other places. We're shooting for a power...

Blue Humans Covetous Castaway Malevolent Hermit Overwhelmed Archivist Not much to say about these, as they were already featured in the Spirits section. I will say that Malevolent Hermit skews slightly more aggressive than the other two, as an acceptable Piker with disruption up front and a...

Just putting out some tentacly feelers for the Innistrad cube I'm building. Lantern Bearer Lanterns' Lift Wingcrafter Spore Crawler Byway Courier Undecided on how much Human synergy to include. Clue payoffs are currently Briarbridge Patrol, Briarbridge Tracker/Tireless Tracker, Confront the...

Starting with Spirits so I can gush about Disturb. Covetous Castaway Malevolent Hermit Benevolent Geist Overwhelmed Archivist With the amount of cuts I need to make, it's really nice to have cards that can multitask and be a little bit of everything to everyone. These three from MID in...

I haven't quite decided how to organize the blue section for analysis in these posts. For creatures, I initially wanted to divide it by casting cost, then thought it might be too narrow and considered discussing the cards by tribe, then realized some of the non-tribal critters would fall through...

Bring on the Heisei/Showa-era sentai shows. Morph, megazord vehicles, transforming robots, robots that combine into bigger robots, Delver of Secrets that transforms into Kamen Rider, and mutate/monstrous for the monster of the week.

Hello again. I initially planned to write several posts in the lead up to Midnight Hunt/Crimson Vow, but life happened. I actually prefer it this way now, with the entire set(s) revealed and at my fingertips to parse. Thanks, Rasmus, this question actually lead me to think about some things...

I dunno, she's left-handed in the first pic and right-handed in the second. Looks more like Sakashima to me.

Some last minute additions to consider before diving into blue proper: Spectral Sailor The little spirit that could? This helps play up some of blue's flash-ier playstyle, nibbles away at the opponent's life total early on, and provides a mana sink in the late game. Loses value due to the...

I appreciate that Orchard Strider's main purpose here is to be another land drop for Tireless Tracker :D The fact that Gruul metalcraft is possible makes moving the artifact lands to basics a bit dangerous, imho. Consider the interactions with stuff like Breya's Apprentice, Cranial Plating or...

Thanks Rasmus and Rowan. Needs more tokens Adrix and Nev, Twincasters The sweet intersectionality of cycling and moar tokens Orchard Strider @Wuliev @GalacticTraveler12 (your two picks were on my shortlist, hoping you can read my mind again)

Fierce Witchstalker Gimme food, gimme fries, gimme salad on the side @Hemlock @Sheltem I appreciate that this is the kind of cube where one can curve Lonis, Cryptozoologist into Academy Manufactor into Fierce Witchstalker.

Syndicate Trafficker seems like it would fit in well with black's thing here. @sigh @japahn

Thank you for the tag. This is a bit low-priority, but the gridfiller in me wants it done. Shattergang Brothers Shattergang Brothers completes the shard/wedge megacycle. (Yes, there are two Abzan cards and no Bant card, but shh. I'm not that much of a gridfiller :D ) @shamizy @someone who...