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You have drafted my cube a lot so I could only lend you a hand. 1) First, it's clear this is a sketch. You have more payoffs and synergy enablers than cards that serve different roles. You'll probably have to work on the bread and butter of the cube over everything else. 2) You have too many...

This is fantastic! And it is extremely useful, you can see similar cubes and see what others are doing. I'm not surprised my cube is near Sigh, Trainmaster and Onder. I wonder how far away Inscho would have been before he changed his cube radically, he has been my main source of inspiration. I...

What about building a Commander cube except your "commander" has its own victory condition? Also you just reminded me I need to turn my Netrunner collection into a cube.

I wrote a big post but I lost it. Anyways, before I could fully work on improving Jeskai I had to make some small changes. I was using Cube Cobra to make a list of potential changes and additions so I had to put those in before changing Jeskai: In Bident of Thassa Prized Amalgam Steel Hellkite...

I'm looking for 2 and 4 drop creatures that are worth blinking or getting back to your hand with Kor Skyfisher and other similar cards.

Thanks Nanonox! Still, I feel the issue is mostly on the targets more than the enablers. Also, while I like The Mirari Conjecture, I don't think it's worth blinking. I would focus on self-mill and drafting as many cheap spells as I could instead if I were to build around it. I think the saga...

Ok, enough with the boring theorical discussions. Let's look at actual cards. Let's start with Jeskai. The spells theme is fantastic and I like it a lot: Monastery Mentor Dreadhorde Arcanist Snapcaster Mage There's a payoff I'm not too sold on: Thing in the Ice On one hand, it's a...

Yes, I would. It's a very powerful card and it can always get some random flashback card.

Entomb's main use is Reanimation, I don't think Life from the Loam and recursive creatures are enough to justify the slot otherwise. Gamble can be used to search for anything. Sure, sometimes you lose a card and a mana but it's a very powerful card. Still, I like it for artifact reanimation...

I've been thinking about this topic while on the train and made some advances. I started going over colour pairs and seeing what archetypes I was supporting (or failing to support) in them. And it gave me a very clear idea of which archetypes I should support on what parts of the cube. By...

So I've been checking my colours and it seems my archetype design is a bit of a disaster. For example, my blue section is trying to cover five or six archetypes: UWR Spells UBR Artifacts UBR Reanimator/Discard UG Self-Mill UW Blink UB Tempo? Control? That's fine. I can even see the overlap...

Ok, several guys at the club want to play Cube so I need to print proxies for all my changes soon. Here's what I want to do: First, I want to fill the empty slots I have. At this point: 4 Red 2 Black 1 White 1 Green 1 Blue 1 Dimir 1 Gruul 1 Selesnya Second, I want to refocus two...

Zuran Orb was busted in the sense it made you very hard to kill. Still, I don't think it would be an issue now. I just want more WR non-creature decks based around Cataclysm, Land Tax and Devastating Dreams.

Great post Dom! I'm thinking of revisiting my approach to blink in my cube. It used to be focused on more explicit payoffs like Gilded Drake and I now want to make it subtler. I would love for it to interact more clearly with enchantments as well, though that might be too expensive to really pay...

Terror of the Peaks is brutal, I cut it from my cube because it was dominating and I run bullshit like Forbid and Mother of Runes.

I don't think it's unplayable. It's a fair Zuran Orb. However, limiting it just to white majes it pretty parastitic compared to the Orb.

Zuran Orb was busted in the first revisions of my cube. I'm afraid it's still megabusted now but it might enable more Land Tax-based decks and other funky synergies. What do you think? Zuran Orb

I liked that control deck a lot, seems fun and very versatile. It inspired me to give my cube a second look as far as green/red control goes!

I don't recommend it. I have disliked the card both in draft and the ocassional constructed deck it made it in. A 1/1 deathtouch is less useful than it appears. You have this dream of the opponent attacking and you killing a creature but that's rare. More likely is a stall or a small mana...

Something that has come up from time to time is complexity and elegance in card selection. You, as a designer, know all about your cube. You can name all the cards, all the archetypes, everything. But our players don't. For example, I think self-mill, discard synergies, Laboratory Manic combos...