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Yeah. That's fair. I didn't do a good job making my point. X is a bad card but it's also IMO an unavoidable side effect to pushing the boundaries of the game. If you want to push the envelop you have to accept that you will wind up with some number of X type cards. You can't keep this sort...

I mean, it's an UN set. If X is the only truly ridiculous card, Wizard's probably undercooked the UN aspect of the set right? I know Unstable was intended to be more playable than previous unsets - and reports make it sound like it is - but it's still about silly things (including super...

I feel like there are a hundred different ways to approach it honestly. In my mind, the key component is making it so that your draft picks matter. If any 4 drop will work in your deck, that to me is the very definition of "good stuff". On the other side of this, if this 4 drop only works in Bu...

In green? Creature removal is bad (almost nonexistent). If you power level is high enough to where a 3/3 elephant token doesn't swing games, then the best option out there by far IMO is Beast Within. At lower power levels though, this card's drawback is too high. So YMMV depending on where...

Personal fav of mine. Death Cloud

Guttersnipe is good. And I'd really like to believe Storm Entity can work but I'm skeptical.

I tried it. Problem at the time - there wasn't enough +1/+1 counter support. I still think it's a bit loose for this to really be great, but I could be wrong. I remember mentioning how great this would be as a Gruul card and then someone made a beautiful custom and I wanted to print a...

That's fair. I don't have extensive play with it to be fair. I really like the design though.

Yup. Noxious Revival is very good. Especially in Izzet Spells matters list. Phyrexian mana as it turns out is sort of like fast mana - sort of degenerate. Staple a good effect on it - particularly costed so that you can side skirt the color pie, and you've got a pretty useful card. I...

Winter Orb is a card I happen to think is pretty well designed - denial strategies are sort of unfun but they add an interesting dimension to Magic too. I feel like a lot of cubes aren't doing enough with that mechanic. Winter Orb is a bit of a sledgehammer for that strategy though, but it...

I concur on Eternal Dragon. Each color has a card or two like this I think. For Green, it's Genesis (IMO at least). If Genesis sucks in my list, the first thing I want to do is depower the cube. Not that every list wants to run these cards. More that if you were to run them and those card...

I'll be surprised if this set is fun for regular people to draft. It looks like a complicated mess to me and I like tend to favor crunchy shit. But it's an unset and I feel like it's for a specific audience (and that audience will likely be happy). All that said, this set is almost...

Not defending Pack Rat... well, maybe a little. I don't think it's broken in cube. Removal is light years better in cube - which is one reason the card was busted in RTR limited (removal there was terribad). Second, cube is much higher power and also faster. Pack Rat is damn slow and while it...

I'd cut one of your three BB cards. That cost on a two drop is a big negative in draft. Then for the second cut any of the cards others have mentioned would be fine.

For some reason, it feels painfully inappropriate to like posts in this thread. "So and so died... (ahadabans and 5 others like this)" But I think it's good that people are posting and remembering him.

Wow. This is awful news. Thank you for letting us know Chris. Always so hard to convey in words how something like this effects us. My heart goes out to his family and those in the community who were close to him. EDIT: I just looked back in my inbox and found an exchange I had with Lucre...

Sun Titan has a much higher base power level. The trigger is easy to get value off of. Yosei, the morning star can create a really degenerate lock if you can sac/recur it each turn (like with Feldon of the Third Path or something like that). The floor on yosei I feel is lower. If you can't abuse...

Man, this set has A LOT going on. This is a set for the hard core crowd for sure.

I find book keeping necessary to prevent analysis paralysis. I agree most of it is unnecessary design constraints with no purpose other than OCD placation. But I simply can't design a cube unless I set a bunch of artificial limiters. I may remove some of them over time, but to start without...

Well, I think it's a token mechanic more than a win-more mechanic. You want lots of dudes so you can trigger it easily. Needing to commit 3 cards to the table (assuming single body threats) and swing with all of them makes it actually pretty fair mechanically, hard to trigger consistently, and...