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  1. Rowan_CB

    General [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica

    Excited about Surveil. Even though I hated almost everything about Ixalan block, Explore was an excellent mechanic, and Surveil seems to be along similar lines. Jump-Start is a clunky keyword, but I'm intrigued by it for cube as it reads to me like a form of flashback that enables madness at...
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    General Other News

    I'm also curious about the mechanics! I've wondered about putting tokens into the same sleeves as their generators, just because I'm always annoyed when my players don't want to take the time to fetch the proper token!
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    General Modular cube?

    Modular cubes are a really fun idea that I imagine are a nightmare to manage in practice. Even taking away the sorting and swapping headache ravnic mentions, I think the hardest thing would be to make sure that the cube is reasonably balanced no matter which configuration of modules you use. I...
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    Lief's Cube

    Looks like a blast! Love that the winner had what could fairly be considered to be a polymorph deck! You don't ever want one of your players to leave frustrated, and it's definitely a good idea to make sure that, if you are signalling an aggro deck in your cube, that deck is viable. That...
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    General Color Pair Draft Archetypes

    I run a land theme in UG too. I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more moonfolk: Soratami CloudskaterOboro BreezecallerMeloku the Clouded MirrorDeprive <---- (not actually a moonfolk) I really like using the interplay between return a land to your hand effects (green has Quirion...
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    General Fight Club

    I'll put in a third vote for batman (which I run). More interesting and, FWIW, more powerful effect.
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    General Single Card Archetypes

    Not to belabor the point, and apologies if this is all getting overly-semantic, but I think part of the problem is that I was unable to present my thoughts very eloquently in the OP. Some of the recent posts are helping to bring what I had in mind into focus. If you take CaptnIrony's post, but...
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    General Fight Club

    Anyone who tells you aesthetics don't matter in cube probably has an ugly cube. I think I will go with Pawn for now. As Inscho noted, I like its spot on the curve better, plus it was always going to win a tie-breaker because Vampire is a more relevant creature type in my cube.
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    General Single Card Archetypes

    I'd definitely say it counts. Honestly it's a bad thread title, because there really isn't such thing as a single card archetype. I think more what I'm getting at is single cards that can enable new decks once they're introduced into a cube, without also having to put in cards specifically to...
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    General Fight Club

    Looking to add some repeatable token generators in black to fuel sacrifice strategies. Pick your poison: Pawn of Ulamog vs. Sifter of Skulls
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    General The Draft Exchange

    Consider it considered!
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    General The Draft Exchange

    Drafted the Magic Crumble Pie Cube: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/971454[/url]"] Ones 1 Bonesplitter 1 Champion of the Parish 1 Champion of the Parish 1 Fatal Push 1 Kytheon, Hero of Akros 1 Mana Tithe 1 Sunlance Twos 1 Adorned Pouncer 1 Countless Gears Renegade 1 Knight of Grace 1 Knight of...
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    General Single Card Archetypes

    This post is inspired by this card: Desecrated Tomb There were lots of posts in the M19 spoiler thread laying out fun things that could be done with this card, and in testing with it a bit, it is even better for my cube (and I suspect many cubes) then I anticipated. It's a complete nothing...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Yeah, I think Intangible Virtue is just a better cube card on every axis, now that I think about it. The tokens drafter feels better putting it in their deck because they can more reasonably expect to benefit from it, and the opponent of that player is likely to get trounced in a way that feels...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Anointed Procession This card is back on my radar as its price starts to come back down to earth. Anyone have experience with it? I'm always on the lookout for splashy payoffs for token decks, but my fear here would be that it's the kind of card that either does nothing for 4 mana or outright...
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    General Color Pair Draft Archetypes

    I think the problem with UG Madness is that the cards that actually have madness are generally pretty weak. The best payoffs in the batches of cards you've provided are cards that are good in your graveyard, and those are easier to enable in a UG self-mill shell.
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    General Color Pair Draft Archetypes

    I really enjoy running a Saboteurs theme in UG. Some for consideration: Edric, Spymaster of Trest Jhessian Infiltrator Tetsuko Umezawa, FugitiveOhran Viper Spawnwrithe Writ of PassageHunter's Insight Mistblade Shinobi Daring SaboteurJhessian Thief Bleeds well into UB as well if you're...
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    RCB's Cube

    Okay, I've made a bunch more changes from my last post, but I won't hammer you over the head with all of them. I will highlight the latest package I added, and take a look at a few decks I've drafted on cubetutor in recent iterations. As I talked about in the "spells matter" thread, I was...
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    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Pristine Skywise Dovescape
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    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    There's also: Rona, Disciple of Gix These cards are real janky but could be fun to try and fit into a UB artifact theme: Puppet Conjurer Etherium Astrolabe The Astrolabe is a bad trading post, but is in option if you want to duplicate trading post's last ability. The conjurer pumps out...
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