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dbs, it strikes me that you have not just a great cube, but a really great group who are super in tune with the nuances of your cube and can identify and draft these distinct combo-oriented strategies you've baked in there. I'm wondering if you can share a little bit about what leads to this...

That's a solid deck, and your draft summary is very useful. It's nice to know that even when your original plan didn't fully materialize, you were still able to end up with something synergistic, and not just a pile of cards. The black/red artifact deck is possible, I think, but it doesn't...

These are great! Art is great; much less swingy than typical conspiracies and yet... maybe still too good? Essentially they ensure that your engine is assembled before the game even starts. Would be interesting to see some conspiracies with drawbacks stapled to them, e.g., "You may start the...

Drafted Silas's Aggro-Friendly Cube. Went in blind. P1P1'ed Braids, Cabal Minion and tried to build around it with a bunch of cheap recursive creatures and repeatable token generators. Ended up with Smokestack as well so I think we're really doing it...

Yeah, I kept trying to come up with combos with arcbound ravager that would win in one turn before realizing that they all worked just as well if you replaced Simic Ascendency with fling.

Drafted Onder's: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/1056089[/url]"] Ones 1 Bomat Courier 1 Dauntless Bodyguard 1 Firewild Borderpost 1 Pacification Array 1 Rancor 1 Thraben Inspector Twos 1 Collision // Colossus 1 Dromoka's Command 1 Goblin Cratermaker 1 Incendiary Flow 1 Porcelain Legionnaire...

FWIW I am always annoyed that the Promise of Bunrei spirits don't have flying. I imagine it predates the 1/1 flying spirit as a staple token, so I can't blame the card, but you definitely run the risk of drafters giving an imperfect reading and assuming the spirits fly (I know it took me at...

If you're willing to spend another gold slot: Hidden Stockpile This card is so key to the Orzhov/Mardu sacrifice decks in my cube that it is the last cut I'd ever make to my Orzhov section. It ensures you always have sacrifice fodder for the creatures that want fodder, but also acts as a...

Personally I prefer Think Twice to the other two, but I don't think you can really go wrong with any of them. As Onderzeeboot mentions, Insight has nice discard synergies. Similarly Deep Analysis synergizes with self-mill. My preference for Think Twice comes from a general preference for...

This article (quote here is from the CBS thread, where there was much rejoicing) inspired me to do a little P/T analysis for my cube. As an aside, I am thinking of launching a 2.0 cube blog because the entire design principle of my cube is light years away from what is talked about in the OP...

What are your favorite {G} aristocrats cards? Gold cards that include {G} welcome!

Hmmmmm good point!

I've been meaning to update my cube blog about this forever, but my cube has been overhauled recently to be based on a quartet of four-color broad archetypes, as follow: {W}{U}{B}{R} - Artifacts {U}{B} {R}{G} - Discard (essentially madness/cycling) {B}{G}{W}{U} - Graveyard {G}{W}{U}{R} - Lands...

Drafted Sharzad. First picked Zur, then saw a second pick Kestia, the Cultivator and I knew all was lost. Drafted this beautiful beautiful boondoggle. Your cube is higher powered than I'm used to, so I'm guessing I would get trounced while having more fun than anyone else at the table :)...

Clan Guildmage This seems really strong. The best of this cycle so far imo. A great signpost card if there is an aggressive Gruul deck in your cube.

Most cubes probably don't have the density of life pay costs to make this worth a slot, but it's always neat when they explore this sort of thing. The first thing that comes to mind is that this makes for a very strong, but probably not unfair, removal engine with: Slaughter

Don't know about cube, but this will be a delightful addition to my most beloved jank: Battlefield ThaumaturgeGridlockIcy BlastGlimpse the Sun God

I find Green's role in that archetype is very different than Red's. Red holds most of the archetype "payoffs", but green has two of the best enablers in Wild Mongrel and Noose Constrictor. Green is also great at mitigating the impact of discarding cards that aren't themselves madness payoffs...

Brawn Call of the Herd

Drafted Ravnic’s Casual Cube. First picked Crystal Shard, then two more artifacts, then Jhoira. Had a lot of fun drafting this. Might be a little light on win conditions, but I think it has the tools to hold up the game and draw to the win cons it does have. Probably very good at decking itself...