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Finally the Treasure Island cube we've all been waiting for!

I really need to start a new cube blog. Essentially I'm in the middle of a transformation from a penny-pincheresque environment into something more in line with what inscho or @dbs are doing. But the transformation is happening in fits and starts, card-by-card, and I'm still trying to figure...

lol, looks like I'm drifting toward @inscho with my last update. My equidistance between Inscho's cube and @Alfonzo Bonzo's perfectly encapsulates the tensions I'm working through around the two directions I want my cube to be going.

this is essentially the mission statement for my cube!

I like this one. One issue my madness section has is that the discard enablers keep getting better and more interesting, but there are few actual cards with "madness" written on them that hit that right power level. This set, while undeniably a boon to madness decks in cube, has sort of...

Yes, I will loop my Doomed Traveler and Thraben Inspector in my Doom Foretold deck, thank you.

Yeah, I'd guess its insane in zoo.

Paging @ravnic

We cannot resist the elegance of: "If a player would discard this card from his or her hand, that player discards it, but may remove it from the game instead of putting it into his or her graveyard," and "Whenever this card is removed from the game this way, until he or she passes next, he or...

Asma... etc. is a bit too wacky for me, but the cookbook is interesting on its own. Good discard enabler that is trinket mage fetchable that also can make some salvaging station/auriok salvagers engines.

That card occupies the no-no-iest cube space in that it can feel oppressive on the other side of the battlefield but is also not actually a very good card to pick in the draft.

I looooove this one.

Pretty interesting. Very nice madness payoff, but anemic anywhere else. Will have to think about this one!

At the same time, the same author chose to name his main character Drizzt, for what that's worth.

I also think the fact that he uses an axe and is named Battlehammer was at least a little tongue-in-cheek

Hold up, I have to step in and defend my boo, Ikoria. The issues with the cycling deck were overstated. Yes, there were a couple of weeks at the very beginning of the format when people could get hooked up with ridiculous cycling decks, but by the time the format was even middle-aged those...

I read all those books a looooong time ago, but I'm pretty sure this is true to the character. Battlehammer just sort of happened to be his last name.

That was esperciously egregious.

I'm a pretty heavy duty arena drafter these days, but my wildcards are spread out over my nine accounts (yes, nine!). I took advantage of the free draft tokens they were giving out during Ikoria, and now I rotate through accounts to make sure I'm always drafting with a full set of quests and...

I'm hoping for multi-kicker as a mechanic to evoke the flavor of casting the same spell at higher levels. E.g., magic missile could be a shock with multi-kicker {3} ,and you may copy the spell and may choose new targets for each time it was kicked. edit: or could magic missile only hit a...