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I like Prophet because it reads a lot better. It also has a pretty big butt for blocking if you have any instans.

I made a scryfall search here for all white creatures with cmc<=4 and "when ~ enters the battlefield" for your viewing pleasure :). Might be easier to determine "worth blinking" yourself based on the search result.

Skarrgan, makes you think more!

Thanks for the feedback! As Alfonzo pointed out, I'm running colored artifacts and cards that create artifact tokens. When you wrote the comment there were a total of 56 cards that created artifacts, and I just pumped it up to 60. That's one sixth of the entire cube, so I don't know if it's...

Since it seems Onderzeeboot and Erik Twice have given each other suggestions, would anybody be up for finding 2 cards in my just finished cube rebuild? http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/146326 I'm pretty happy with the result of the list, so I'm interested in hearing what 2 cards I can cut.

mikaeus, the lunarch A little bookkeeping exercise; what is the casting cost for mikaeus? I'm guessing it's mostly cast at like, 5 cmc? Since most people would probably build up some board and then cast it, rather than casting it for 2 cmc.

I do run a lot of incidental artifact token makers, but also a bunch of artifacts, so I might start off with The Antiqiues War and then see how it feels. If people don't end up with that many actual artifacts in their artifacts decks, I might switch over to Spy Network. Thanks yall!

Thopter Spy Network vs The Antiquities War I need help on picking a blue enchantment for my artifact subtheme. I'm also running Whirler Rogue and Sharding Sphinx.

I also don't see how Spellgorger Weird should just be discounted right off. If you have powerful spells to cast, to me it seems like Weird would do some good work. It's just 2 non-creature spells away from being above-curve, is that really so bad?

Aw, well in that case; protection is back, but also completely crazy magic designs? Thinking about Embodiment of Agonies and Glint-Horn Buccaneer

Luckily I believe that the person involved in leading this core set isn't involved in the coming fall set? So maybe we'll only see "protection from color" making a brief return. It really is just such a waste of cards.

To be fair, you and I are probably accurately stated as 1/1 as well :p So the badger will mess us up.

I think both of those effects are super dependent on what can be done with the cards in red and green. Is there enough ramp, defensive creatures and big cmc targets to cheat into play? Is there also other ways to cheat big creatures into play? If both of those questions are answered yes, then I...

I agree with sigh here! I understand the sentiment made by others about high cmc being inaccessible to many decks, but having a 7-drop doesn't mean you're completely on the rails locked in to drafting a specific deck. There are many ways to draft a deck that wants to play an expensive creature...

I mean by the same argument a lot of cards would be poisonous because only a few strategies want them. The problem between Pelakka Wurm and Polukranos isn't the casting cost I don't think, its the power level difference. Polukranos (a mythic card) is in my opinion a very strong card, much more...

Hm, I don't know if there really needs to be a difference. To some extended anything 6+ cmc is always going to require deck building considerations to be playable, since it will take maybe 10+ turns to naturally draw all those lands. Even for 5-6 cmc cards though, they can both fit as midrange...

I kind of agree with 'closed' in the sense of a closed set, but most people would probably recognize what is meant if the word 'mono' was used. In a sense a mono-archetype is already the establihed term for this, I feel?

This was my notion as well! A sphere is a set of points, which doesn't really suggest something "singular". A sphere archetype sounds like something that covers all 5 colors.

Good write-up. I found a lot of these cards to be evaluated differently in my own environment, so as with all these discussions it's crucial to state the reference power level for the discussion, otherwise it's just baseless opinions. Are we talking a wadell-ian higher power cube here?

I agree with Onder, don't underestimate the power of a quality body. In almost any format, a good evasive creature is going to do good work.