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Been meaning to post about the Baron deck identity in cube, and I've had a few illustrative drafts on cube tutor, so might as well dive in. The original Baron articles focused on U/x control decks running triple gaea's blessing alongside looting or sifting cards. In cube, there is a wealth of...

How would you compare GPG to sandwurm convergence as a finisher? Gate to the afterlife is kind of a surprisingly interesting card. I was looking through gatherer for colorless draw/discard effects to help support green based baron decks, and there is hardly anything. Outside of this classic...

At its most base level, Izzet's identity is counter-burn, and every other theme is a sub-theme nested beneath that. For the artifacts sub-theme, I was wondering about this: god-pharaoh's gift High enough CC to be a great tinker target/reanimation target, but not broken in the way it closes...

Its also worth noting that you can run a lot of prowess threats in UR, rather than cards that care purely about instants/sorceries (bloodwater entity >>> enigma drake). Much like how prowess can be heroic that dosen't suck, it can also make your spells matter decks less draft rng. Prowess lets...

Hey thanks. The baron deck concept comes from magic pro Adrian Sullivan. He has a great article about the archetype here. It seems much easier in cube to make it G/x based, like the R/G loam deck I posted earlier, since most of those effects are green centered. I don't really have any...

URW works very well as an artifact wedge. Thats what I've found works best in terms of identity. You have to commit to the WR artifact aggro deck in boros, but if you do, there is more than enough artifact matters cards in blue. Because the WR base is an aggressive deck, the tools the UR deck...

My 2nd place aggro deck: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/834034[/url]"] Ones 1 Apostle's Blessing 1 Chromatic Sphere 1 Chromatic Star 1 Figure of Destiny 1 Grim Lavamancer 1 Lightning Axe 1 Spikeshot Elder 1 Student of Warfare 1 Thraben Inspector 1 Toolcraft Exemplar 1 Trusty Machete Twos 1 Glint...

This might be a good format to make pocket decks for, to see what the game texture is like. Its really difficult for me to do a more standard cube commentary, because of how alien things are (which is exciting). I kind of imagine a sort of limited-esque games from these formats, but I would like...

This guys format provides a pretty good blueprint. Basically, what he does is make it so that either color fixing dosen't come from the mana base (mana rocks,land cycling), or you don't care about fixing (artifacts/morphs). The natural drafting pattern is to focus on 1-2 color decks, so to...

Love it. Been eagerly waiting for you to post.

Remembered some things that I shouldn't have forgotten. Added this fellow back in Oona's Prowler Which I hadn't originally included, because he's basically black delver, and thought him maybe too strong. Kind of like how the 2 drops were able to replace a lot of the bad 1 drops with...

Its not multi-kicker. Multi-kicker is more of an awkward way to do ETB effects, while this creates clones of the actual creature, which multi-kicker does not do. Swarm is a creature specific version of replicate. If we're going to say WOTC wouldn't allow this to exist, we have to explain how...

The other problem with it is that she gives haste, so you have to be fairly picky about the counter cards you select. It has to be a creature that either ETBs with a counter pre-combat, or pre-combat ETB recieves a counter from another source. It also shouldn't be a threat with haste already...

Unfortunatly, it looks like the only mechanics that work well with it in the colors is actual unleash, which is too bad because global haste is such a powerful effect. Edit: also devour/fabricate/explore

I really like these decks. The color combinations I usually look for are RG, BW, and UG, are those tend to be the combinations that don't flow together organically, and require at least some design, and I see them present here. That R/G deck looks excellent. I really like Borborygmos Enraged...

That looks interesting. How would the counters theme look in RB though?

Just wanted to make a few notes about white aggro. I think the heroic mechanic as a whole was a failure in cube, but the proper way to set it up in cube is with prowess. Tempo proc effects triggering prowess at instant speed on aggro threats is very real way to construct an aggro deck...

I feel like a big component of white aggro's identity is prowess or spell triggers ran in conjunction with instant speed protection effects or aggro friendly removal, the other portion being artifacts. I've been very happy with shelter, feat, and apostle's blessing. Blessing shouldn't really...

Before I go to bed, tonights winner was this turn 2 aggro deck. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/829758[/url]"] Ones 1 Apostle's Blessing 1 Thraben Inspector 1 Toolcraft Exemplar Twos 1 Adorned Pouncer 1 Ainok Bond-Kin 1 Feat of Resistance 1 Glory-Bound Initiate 1 Momentary Blink 1 Porcelain...

Smallpox specifically? I could see that, as it opens up a play sequence that just rngs the opponent out of the game turn 2. Edict style LD effects though are fine in general. You can always aim them away from the bounce, and decks with those types of mana bases naturally break symmetry on...