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Does this mean I should rename my cube? Maybe I'll call it "Tetras." :D

This is too real.

Agreed. I'd also point out that Empath is both pretty narrow (my guess is most cubes have around 10 cards it can target). Here's one I'm wrestling with: Pyre Hound vs. Spellgorger Weird Pros for the Hound: Bigger Butt is very relevant. Trample means it can't just be held at bay by chump...

Erik Twice and sigh, you are both right, of course. But what's so intriguing is that it produces colored mana, which can help lead to the kind of shenanigans genericco laid out. I was envisioning it working in conjunction with cards like cloud key to start chaining together free one- and...

I'm thankful for this (astute) analysis, because I was just about to start testing Rhonas's Monument. I may still test it, but this is a useful way to think about it. I was eyeing it because (and this applies to all the monuments), I've been exploring ways to infuse the spell-velocity that...

Love it! Thanks for the draft. It’s funny because drafting a salvaging station trinkets deck from Grillo’s cube on cubetutor was a seminal cube design moment for me. I was like, you can have decks like this?!

I hope you’re trying to make Font of Agonies work.

Drafted Highball. P1p1’ed Kitchen Finks thinking about shenanigans but kept getting fed a steady diet of high-value GW cards. Ended up with a few ramp pieces but had to scramble a bit to find payoffs. My guess is this is a deck that would go 2-1 or 1-2, depending on how successful it is at...

Totally disgusting with Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive. I’ve been waiting for the mono-colored ninjas to start getting spoiled. I actually used to run Spawnwrithe and ultimately found it very annoying, so this will be a no for me as well.

Deadeye Tracker?

Yeah, all three seem significantly below your cube’s power level. By turn 6, when you start getting landfall triggers with these, 1/1’s, 3/3 haste lands, and 5-mana 2/5’s are unlikely to be advancing your game plan (the same issue exists for Zendikar’s Roil, TBH).

Get. In. My. Cube!

I think this is probably (definitely) true, but I still personally like Salvagers more because I find it a little more interesting. Salvagers gets to be part of some fun durdly engines, like in WB recursive artifact decks with Syndicate Trafficker and/or Marionette Master. Definitely a durdly...

Definitely some great cards to choose from! I will say that what I’m finding appealing about amass particularly is that I think there’s a possibility there may be a cogent theme here that can be sprinkled into a cube without too much commitment in terms of card slots, and that’s tightrope I’m...

I’m interested in exploring whether some of the new Amass cards from War of the Spark can help me introduce a neat little subtheme into Blue-Black, a color for which I’ve struggled to find a cohesive secondary identity. The Amass “lords” in War of the Spark remind me of the splicers, which I...

Hmm, my initial thought is this is an awkward pairing. Red/Black likes to steal and sacrifice because red’s steal effects are temporary. Blue’s steal effects are usually permanent, and, at a higher cmc, you’re almost always going to get better value just keeeping the creature than getting a...

One thing to keep in mind is that running all of Genesis Chamber, Oketra's Monument, and Shrine of Loyal Legions, along with the rest of your token makers means you should be prepared for a lot of clogged up boards. Tokens are such fun design space, but they can become exhausting in paper magic...

I've also had success promoting primarily 2-color (but sometimes 3-color) decks, primarily by eliminating lands and artifacts that provide immediate five-color fixing (e.g., no vivid lands, no prophetic prisms, etc.) Not running fetch lands helps as well.

Intruder Alarm would do pretty degenerate things with: Prime Speaker Vannifar

I think you're right! I've run Slaughter since day one and it's never been a problem. Definitely worth a high pick, but not game-warping. 2BB plus 4 life is not an insignificant cost; plus there are creatures it can't hit. In most cases, it ends up being about on par with Sever the Bloodline...