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And from C20:

Yeah, for a set where I don't care much for the flavor or the primary mechanics, IKO has a surprising amount of good options for my cube. Here's what I'm looking at:

I've never run a tri-color card in my cube but this thing is so on-brand I think it might be worth the exception.

Haven’t loved what I’ve seen today (Timmy, I am not), but Drannith Stinger suggests there may be a reasonable cycling-matters archetype, likely in GR? So that intrigues me.

I've never been a huge fan of Phyrexian Ghoul compared to some of the other free sacrifice outlets black has to offer. I've never played with Stronghold Assassin, but it strikes me as a little slow. If you are trying to support a more grindy sacrifice strategy I would try the assassin over the...

Shadowspear Going to try to include this one with the next update. 1 CMC is the sweet spot for equipment, as it means it can be fetched by Trinket Mage, recurred by Auriok Salvagers, etc. And while overall its a more powerful card than Loxodon Warhammer, I also like that +1 power makes the...

A good rule of thumb might be that if your cube is slow enough to run rise from the tides, it can probably accommodate this card as well. And you know how we all feel about rise from the tides.

The problems with heroic run pretty deep. It's an A+B archetype where both the A and the B are cards most cubes would not otherwise run. As has been mentioned, few of the heroes are strong enough to run without explicit heroic support, but most cubes don't naturally run more than one or two...

Loam is A+ fun, and scales beautifully with the power level of the cube.

Been doing some sample drafts and think it (still talking about Arcbound Ravager) will be pretty sweet in my cube. Here's a sample draft that I really like the looks of: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/1240782[/url]"] Ones 1 Barbed Sextant 1 Pacification Array 1 Silver-Inlaid Dagger 1 Thraben...

The reduced price tag has put my eye on: Arcbound Ravager Who's run this in a cube with large trinket and cheap artifact recursion packages?

Sometimes I worry that WOTC will print the perfect Gruul Aggro Madness card, and then ravnic will just serenely disappear into the ether, their purpose on this earth fulfilled...

While +1 mana for flying makes the bird more valuable in a vacuum, I actually think that most cubes that are running that kind of artifact recursion shenanigans that these cards thrive in would rather run the retriever. Those decks really want their artifacts to be as cheap as possible.

I may be misunderstanding the question, but my answer would be that either are viable, and it depends on how aggro matches up with the rest of your cube, and how you want aggro to match up with the rest of your cube. If you are not finding 1-drop-centric aggro oppressive, I would be really...

Thanks for the draft, and for the kind words! A revamped cube blog is way overdue here, as my cube has evolved a lot from anything that’s written about on here, and I’m pretty happy with where it is right now. Phase 0.5 of this cube was a silly and fun mess of existing limited archetypes that...

I either read this discussion very wrong or very right, but I'm going to add Balance to my cube right now.

Are you ... my wallet? Of course! Thanks for reminding me of the big dino in the big city.

Fires is really fun in standard, but I think it could be a dud in some cube environments. It really thrives with planeswalkers and mana sinks, so if you have a lot of those I'd give it a whirl. I glanced over my own cube after playing with this in standard and quickly determined it wouldn't...

Azusa, Lost but Seeking vs. Oracle of Mul Daya I'm interested in the extra land effect, but I haven't played with either of these. For those who have, how would you describe the effect of these on a cube environment that cares about landfall, and how would you analyze the differences between...

Mystic Speculation ancestral knowledge Edit: I ran both of these for awhile to support a miracles package but they never got played. Still like them in theory. Posting this has made me realize that Ancestral Knowledge would be TONS of fun with Experimental Frenzy in play.