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I too voted for you. As a firm believer that democracy is a responsibility as well as a right, I carried out my due diligence and perused your cube description on Cube Cobra. Imagine my surprise to read that you had compared your cube to the Talyllyn Railway in Gwynedd, my favourite narrow...

Thank you for taking the time to run this competition, Onderzeeboot, and well done to all the participants. I agree that empowered is a worthy winner, and am surprised to find that it exists on only two cards. Although Gruul colours are represented by these examples, it is white that is the...

Mrs Dumpty asked me why I started laughing. I tried to explain but she is not a magic player, so now she thinks I am even sillier than usual.

Why stick to creatures? cloudstone CurioTatyova, Benthic Druidfastbond gives infinite mana and card draw. This sort of nonsense probably needs a cube like Caleb Ganon's Powered Synergy Cube.

GU could be Mutant. The type is found in all colours of ONS creature, but I tend to think of mutants as Simic. GW could be cats? There isn’t much creature type overlap in ONS between G and W. Druids sometimes occur in white, but not in ONS. What about taking a race/class approach?

I was trying to find my Revised dual lands but it turns out they’ve all got kids and mortgages.

Your enthusiasm for Saddle is palpable, but none of the Mount creatures are a good fit for my cube. When they finally print the type line Creature — Dragon Mount… that I will find hard to resist.

Thanks for the heads up. It looks interesting and I may give it a try. Is the ‘stale’ worry that there are only 290 cards, that it is artifact focused to the exclusion of other themes, or something else? Also, if you were to do something like this, how would it differ from Cube? Would you...

Funny how this discussion of blocks comes up during spoiler season for OTJ, which I still read as Odyssey-Judgment-Torment. I feel there is a tension between story and gameplay when comparing the old block structure with modern single set approch. The former should lend itself to classic three...

The demon and angel demonstrate some of the common problems with AI art. At first glance they look pretty cool, but closer inspection reveals a plethora of problems. The demon’s wings seem oddly small; one hand has four digits, the other has six. The angel has only one leg, a strange shaped...

I notice the lands are out of WUBRG order. Are the Swamps selfishly hiding behind the Islands for their own safety?

The memory issue is easily solved; many board games use a first player marker. If I ran enough of these I think it would be worthwhile.

Energy can at least interact with things like Proliferate and Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider. Slivers just interact with other slivers.

You could try listening on 1.5x or even 2x speed and have MaRo sound even more manic than usual, but I will indulge you. Both episodes are taking a "mind map" type approach to designing a draft environment. LPR suggest designing a cube by picking a card you want to play (in this case Trade...

Thanks for all those suggestions. Quite a lot of those are already in my cube, so I’ll give it a go as a payoff/alternate win con for Sultai graveyard.

It's a shame that Wastes isn't a land type. "Land - Plains Wastes" would be very elegant.

I listen to too many Magic podcasts, but was struck by the similarities between a recent episode of Lucky Paper Radio about emergent cube design and the most recent Mark Rosewater episode about designing synergies into retail sets. Both adopted a branching approach, that would then seek to...

Thassa's Oracle This was discussed on this thread a few years ago (see below), but I wondered if anyone is having success with Thassa's Oracle as an alternative win condition in their cube currently? I'd want to play it "fairly" with cards that are otherwise useful, rather than as a narrow...

I get where you're coming from for most of these, but Cathedral Acolyte seems as if it could be generic Magic. Clothing, name, types, glowing stuff could be all sorts of places. Aren't there cathedrals on Ravnica and Innistrad?

Fair point. I was thinking about synergy with my own deck but antisynergy with my opponent’s deck could be just as effective.