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Bias driven liking spree, and thank you for the shout out. To make a long story short...I had no immediate idea how to kick it up to 540, which is why I didn't post. I've never designed a cube for 540, and have no instinct for what densities are appropriate. If this were 360 I would make a...

The one that you pay 2 colorless to recycle cards (aren't I a lot of help lol...) I don't think they make the power cut, and I am using bow to fit that role, but I do have a bunch of splicers...

Ok, to help clarify, take for example, this card: Splendid Reclamation In a normal value generation role, this card is not very exciting. Its ok, but not great. However, when you combine it with aggressive self mill, it can suddenly put 10+ lands onto the battle field in a turn, like a...

Saffi, reveillark, and karmic guide can all pair up in various ways to create an infinite reanimation loop: just not sure what to point it at. Brain freeze is a self mill card for reanimation, that happens to morph into a storm win con. Its one of the ways that storm and reanimator can be...

So, now comes the hard part for anyone thats game. At this point I feel that there is a reasonable value generation layer that is intermarried with either/or graveyard growth, and the bouncelands. This is the fair "value" portion of the cube. So now the question becomes, how to develop the...

Different cubes, different pros and cons.

Wasn't sure where to post there, but here is LSV, yet again, in the vintage cube breaking down an archetype that we often have trouble designing around here: storm. The games are great as well, but the draft itself is very helpful. He identities that storm as an archetype should be rooted...

Thats probably not a sustainable or advisable business model for those FLGS. I suspect there is a healthy amount of exaggeration here.

The article wasn't claiming that there are only two ways to design a cube, he was just pointing out the existence of the two prevailing designs that he encounters. There is no false dichotomy here: just the acknowledgement of a dichotomy.

Also, to get completely divergent, the article's idea of a midrange cube seems rooted in post TS block development, where a proliferation of ETB creatures and planeswalkers promotes a play style revolving around cards commonly priced at the 4-6cc spot (aka everything you hate about magic)...

A lot of the lab maniac decks are great examples of this. Basically, you are drafting a perfectly reasonable control deck, and it just happens to have this goofy but awesome way to win in it.

Maybe the term I wanted was more "redundancy" than "consistency." A lot of the midrange cubes revolve around having a lot of redundant pieces, to an extent thats probably not strictly necessary. Even when not breaking singleton, they run lots of suspiciously similar looking cards that are...

Whoa! Slow down, lots to respond too! :p Kept Reveillark in, took out sun titan (which is sad). Added the three land searches you suggested (as well as karametra), as well as land tax and sylvan library (before there was brainstorm-fetch there was land tax sylvan :cool: ). I've not really...

Combos are synergiestic by nature: they are always a critical mass of spells. Value focused creature cubes can include small micro-combos that feel organic Titania, Protector of Argoth knight of the reliquary thalia's lancers bruna, the fading light gisela, the broken blade champion...

Persecutor has produced some of the most memorable games I've seen/played. Really like both cards though.

Its better in cube to think of it as a red aggro deck with a tutor for 3cc utility pieces that can be used to interact with the board or combo finish the game. Fwiw I don't like matron, because recruitor is just better in that slot for cube purposes: flexible and drafts elegantly. Matron is...

The power level of the splicers here are actually pretty high, but I think the package is lower power than a x2 master/x2 wing splicer, and all of them are lower power than blade splicer. If I run Haakon, should I go deep on knights? Or just stick with the tarfire/nameless inversion package...

I think I might just toss the magic rule set out the window sometimes and make that conspiracy how the game is played. This is a really interesting chance to finally play the game without the possibility of color/mana screw.

I'm not even really a huge fan of thinking of it as innistrad mechanics: rather converting the bounty of gy tools we just got into something that works within the structure of cube. If that happens to mean an unusually higher % of innistrad cards or mechanics, so be it. Thats an interesting...

One of the problems is that the second you title anything an "innistrad cube" the automatic expectation is burning vengeance and spider spawning. Both of those decks function as shadows of their former selves without tons of support. I like the W/x aura theme, but I think I would need to move...