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Ok, I understand where you're coming from, it was just too extreme of a negation of MTGS, and lost its ability to be constructive. I can understand your reaction than.

The thing though is the entire tirade would probably be more persuasive if your response to FSR had been somewhat different. I have to look at what people do, not what they say. When you distort a post in a way that reflects an ideological bias, its weird to than deny the existance of that...

Most powered cubes are essentially midrangy formats with a red hyper-aggro component tacked on (usually at the cost of warping the red section), to create the illusion of Roshambo "balance." Draft formats naturally trend towards midrange, with even the power max formats being more comfortable...

Yes, thats a perfect encapsulation of the floor. Geist is also a bad card because of how poor the floor is, regardless of how conceivably powerful the ceiling is, or how interesting it interacts with other cards. The card should be reasonable on its own merits, but become better with synergy...

What are your expectations from the card?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the ramp is the most interesting part of these cards, as it represents a color bleed we've not seen before. Testing is fine, but with something so weird and unique, their can be perspectives to the cards and the way they layer with existing cards that are...

Well, the floor is where the focus should be, not the ceiling. If we're talking about ceilings on cards we can always come up with some narrow combination that makes them worthwhile. Generally you want cube cards to be flexible, suggest a deck, but be able to slot reasonably into multiple...

Both the ceiling and the floor on its triggered/activated abilities seem meh to bad. The mana ramp strikes me as the biggest material draw, but slots in awkwardly into the type of cube deck that most wants to be attacking with multiple bodies, making it somewhat narrow. Very weird card. I do...

Also wanted to comment on the lands decks: naya's identity is rooted in managing mana flood and color screw. Cards like loam or mana vortex are unimportant in themselves, and have to first fit into an existing structure premised on deck thinning to improve draws, and converting an excess of mana...

Hey, we're the featured cube on cubetutor right now, which is nice to see! But here are a few decks: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/786773[/url]"] Ones 1 Codex Shredder 1 Elixir of Immortality 1 Faithless Looting 1 Kessig Prowler 1 Lightning Axe 1 Molten Vortex 1 Vines of Vastwood Twos 1...

Sure, but lets not forget that your aggro decks are well designed, so they can exist compartmentalized in two colors, as they should be able to. For example, many cube formats don't really have B/W aggro, they have B/W aggro on paper, and than everyone just drafts mardu because its 1000x...

Fwiw those decks do well with a more fetchland based mana base to ensure the creatures are getting the land buffs. Those three color aggro decks were kind of the default, I thought. The aggro drafter would kind of pivot around into a wedge or shard looking for one drops, reach, etc. That was...

Its more that the LD is something of an unknown entity, so its hard to comment on. That doesn't mean that they are necessarily good or bad, it just makes it the part of the list most capable of back-firing. Looking over most of the rest of it, I can say with some confidence that the format...

This looks great. The 0-2 player still having a good time is the best feedback. I suggest running something similar to this for about 6ish months, keeping track of what guild/wedge/shards are over performing or under performing, and making sure that as people grow into the format, that they...

I would probably hold-off on these further swaps until you get some reps in with the current cube. Right now you have a reasonable pool of well-vetted cards--excepting the land destruction cards--that are reasonably close to a similar power band. As it is, about 85% of the format should just...

This looks fine--very safe. Can't imagine you having an actively bad time running this list. Most of the cards and the configuration have been pretty heavily vetted by multiple players over a span of years. Since you're running bouncelands, you really need to cut everything that can interact...

Those are some really exciting ideas to unpack, and I will have to take a few days to really mull over them, along with some more drafts. Karmic guide in particular really jumps out at me. I know we had a discussion months ago about a R/W reanimator deck, and it was founded on some cool...

Doing some drafts, this looks like a good selection of cards to work with. Thought: really want to explore the idea of shifting reanimation into purely an artifact-centric place. Big artifacts tend to be somewhat more tame targets, and this intersects the blue artifact tutors in a UR package...

Steamflogger boss...when you're really reaching for reasons to be mad at WOTC.

I would say none of the formats here are low power enough for most of those cards, except maybe laz's gy cube. The mana expendenture is too much. Though, like salmo said, bouncer is a real card. I run drake haven in a slowe low power format, which you can check out in the sig link. There are...