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Great questions! If you remember back to ravinca block formats, there was always efficient removal and ETBs, but the philosophy behind those ETBs was totally different than what we started to get with Lorwyn standard and beyond. The changes with energy and revolt were the best mechanism I...

I like how clean that list is: I hadn't actually anticipated a deck like this, so its nice to see that brewing space exists. When I built the format I tried to follow the example of tsp/plc where a scattering of valid but unusually placed cards could kind of pull at the seams of what was...

Cube tutor says $230, so still in the budget category--that riptide min/max cube is priced at $3,533 lol... Right now, cube tutor has the original penny cube priced at $194 Most expensive cards ($8-9 category): Greater Gargadon Mirari's Wake Genesis Mid-tier expensive cards ($3-5...

Inventors' Fair Welcome to what is the updated and redesigned Penny cube. While I did not intend this, Kaladesh is an amazing block that brought some revolutionary mechanical changes to the game, which could only be properly implemented with a total makeover. This may not represent the type...

This is good--this is how powerful the effect of cantriping is: even fairly low powered cantriping effects can be reasoned as possible main cube additions. Though I generally like the scry lands better for main cube use. They do a better job at addressing three types of negative variance...

Well sure, if that context doesn't exist, than the conditions to run the card don't exist, and it shouldn't be run; I was focused more on the context of where it would make sense to consider running it.

In the context I described? The net result should be about even across cards, all other things being equal. You certainly won't be losing more games. The act of having TOL and draw manipulation versus not having TOL or draw manipulation is that strong--serum visions is several titanic levels...

I don't know if I would so much say its playability is dependent on the power level of the format so much as format architecture (same goes for whispers of the muse). If we are both running high powered midrange decks whose attrition war grinds us down into a stalemate that will be broken by...

Grace is a good card, but should be understood as being more of a late game draw engine for grindy midrange contests. At 3 mana, its too slow for early game smoothing (like think twice or whispers), but one of the ways you lose those matchups is falling behind on top decks. Grace helps turn...

Nice write up. You might not be running the explicit counter lords at this power level, but its probably worth teasing out the de facto counter lords. winding constrictor metallic mimic rishkar, peema renegade Reyhan, last of the abzan Thats sufficient density at 360 for a tribal theme...

Ok, that makes a lot of sense. Coming from the frame of think twice being in a cube primarily as an instant speed, control oriented draw smoother, the first thing that popped into my head was: whispers of the muse Felt really good to image tag that card.

Honestly, at his power level my instinct is that he would just not run any of the energy cards. There are maybe a couple that would be playable independently, but its kind of ineloquent signaling (and expecting players to remember) a separate resource mechanic that in actuality only exists on...

The mythics they printed I like quite a bit, but its frustrating how weak the other cards are. Good catch on wildest dreams! I think I will want to leave at least one recollect/regrowth effect in, just because they don't exile. Recollect->krosan restoration is an infinte loop for people that...

Some more random thoughts on the atl. metric we were talking about. So no surprise, I've been thinking about grave pulses as TOL manipulators in green: Vessel of nascency scout the borders sudden reclamation grapple with the past These seem like solid midrange cards to me, because they...

Can you be a little bit more specific as to what you are looking for? These are all really weird cards, and I would only be serious about any of them in a truly limited format just because of the bad optics (though see beyond is probably fine). Please don't run brainstorm as its just a clunky...

So here is another relationship I've stumbled upon. Lets say we take these cards again: Faithless looting cathartic reunion tormenting voice And put them in our slower format with curves pushed upward, where we are expecting them to be occupying the same niche as the blue sifters. A player...

For the first time I have the problem of having to select enchantment/artifact removal spells. Disenchant would be good in this format. Help! I figure dispeller's capsule seal of cleansing Are shoe-ins because of that revolter card, but not sure what else to run. Atog might be a...

Anyone else having a fun time brewing this set and the last one? The cards are absolutely insane. If you drop a little bit in power level most of the proliferate cards come online, which makes energy very real. Fabricate gives you an artifact and counter density that wasn't really achievable...

I've been toying around with a second list that more fully embraces these concepts, just to see where it can go, and the effects are pretty far reaching. Whats neat is that once we take away the high power blue cantrips, and go down the reactive reprogram route, a lot of other cards suddenly...

So our last conversation was pretty cool, and I have some follow-up thoughts, as sullivan's first article hit some interesting notes on TSP-RAV standard vs. efficient cantrips.. Namely it had never occurred to me that TSP-RAV standard was defined by sifting effects rather than efficient...