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Cubing, and cube design, are theoretical exercises. Playing magic only pollutes the cube designer’s mind, and tarnishes the perfection of the immaculate, and immaculately unplayed, cube.

Never played with Tesya before, but just want to give a shout out to Peter LaCara for actually making posts about cube!

This is a great idea, and sorely needed. My wife is not a magic player, and when I tried to teach her, I threw together what I thought were relatively simple decks, but I included like 20 different keywords, and while she got the hang of it, it was a poor introduction. She has not been very...

I do like the idea of the untamed creatures attacking each turn, although there will be many board states where players would not be incentivized to tame their creatures, so their power/toughness to cmc might need to be reined in (no pun intended). Another (maybe too off-the-wall) option: At...

Tame seems like a good mechanic. Flavorwise, I feel like the power of the creatures tapped to tame should exceed the tamed creature's power, but that does decrease the power level. I like the idea of the wedge getting power-boosting instant and sorceries that can be used to "cheat" into earlier...

Projects like this are very ambitious, and great fun! I wish you luck and will follow your progress and will try to chime in if I think I have something remotely useful to say. One essential tenant of many riptide cubes is to include versatile cards that slot into multiple archetypes. Here...

I'm always in the market for playable blue cards that return lands to your hand. For those of us with heavy lands themes, blue's niche is returning lands to hand to generate repeated landfall triggers, or discard to Molten Vortex or Flame Jab, etc. The problem is that most of the cards that do...

Mina and Denn seem like a good fit. The extra land per turn plays into the big mana theme, and the ability to return a land to your hand (with upside!) fuels Borborygmos, and whatever other land shenanigans you want to get up to.

That could be, and it might be OP. It's the kind of card that's hard to evaluate without testing, and I wonder if anyone has any experience with it. It's likely very environment-dependent. In a combo-heavy environment like yours, I think there's a pretty good chance this is easy to abuse and not...

One thing I worry about is that all of my current split cards are aftermath. I know if I put this in, someone's going to try to cast the 2nd half from their graveyard.

I'm curious: do you have the cube mostly fleshed out, and are just revealing it to us piece by piece? I'm wondering whether you are in fact designing your removal section first, then tailoring your creatures to it. If so, that's really interesting, as I imagine most cube design processes are the...

I didn't think much of this card when it was spoiled, but now I'm thinking it might be perfect for my Selesnya section, which cares about lands and going wide: Flower // Flourish I really find these GRN split cards particularly ugly though. Have to decide if it's worth it!

I agree that this inequality makes the "hexproof from" cards still unsuitable for (my) cube. I think it's also true that those cards were much less frustrating in retail draft than regular hexproof creatures. There were very few mono-colored decks in Dominaria limited (as is the case with most...

One of the most satisfying things in cube design is when you are able to make a few small changes that disproportionately add to the cube's depth. Sometimes in ways you don't realize until later. By tweaking a few cards to help ensure Gruul Aggro Madness was well supported, I just realized I...

The Amonkhet "cycling matters" cards are so great for cube because they added the or discard clause to the "whenever you cycle" language. The cycling deck came together pretty well in that draft format, but by including regular discard in the fray you end up with cards that are great fun in...

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Seems like a good find! I'm going to find room for this in my list--I'll let you know if I get any good testing in with it. Outside of dedicated lands decks, I do think it will be a good tool for control decks against aggro. Potentially in a fun way too, as makes decision-making a little more...

Uh, yeah. Don’t get me wrong, I love it when I crack a card in a booster I wanted for my cube, but I wouldn’t go into booster cracking with any expectations. NB: the two cards you mentioned you mentioned you were hoping to crack are each listed on TCGplayer for ten cents. I wouldn’t turn to...

Velrun, can you expound on this one?: Land Tax I've been thinking about adding it, to expand my lands theme into white. Do you find it broken, unfun to play against, or both?

You can play around with this pretty easily using this formula to determine the number of cards that will be seen per player during a draft: ((n/2)*(n+x))*y Where: n= # of players drafting x= # of cards in each pack, and y = # of packs per player So for instance, a 3 packs of 15 for 8...