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I could even see a future where basic lands are officially printed with that rule or something similar. Drawing lands when you don't need them feels like a special sort of screw. Maybe cycle-into-exile.

Profane Command is sad to be excluded from the generic black control value party

I'm an unapologetic proxy maker. Sand off everything but the border (and hologram for rares, if you care) on the front of the card, print HQ images on Windows's wallet size, glue printer paper onto blanked card. So far the only drawback is double sided proxies are noticeably thicker and...

I like the Human

There's a fine line with the double-faced cards. There are ones like Duskwatch Recruiter/Krallenhorde Howler; Lots of text, daunting for new players, but eventually you can make sense of it, shorthand it, and compartmentalize it like you do with most cards. Some amount of internal logic helps I...

In 2013 it was Bow of Nylea. In 2015 Kytheon, Hero of Akros. Who will be the next inductee to the "what does that card do again?" wing of the Cube Design Hall of Shame?

This is my current suite: At one point I was trying to do an artifact creature tokens theme with Chief of the Foundry and Steel Overseer as lords. But the token generators are all over the place in terms of power and without them there is no tribe. As for the list in the OP, the one that...

Briarhorn is the best

Clique and Snapcaster would both be solid picks, but I think I'm swayed by the idea of taking Mentor and getting a complimentary card on the wheel. Snap, Clique, Goyf and Library will likely get drafted, leaving us either a dual land we want or our choice of Kytheon or Raise the Alarm. Too bad...

Is Cryptbreaker a good candidate for doubling up on?

Probably not? The cost seems prohibitive. Sure it's a sweet play when you pull it off, but imagine you keep the mana open and they don't activate your trap card - your options are spend 4 mana on a EOT 3/1 or do nothing with it and fall a turn behind. I guess it's not complete trash if you...

I'm experimenting with Goldnight Castigator , seems like it could be fun. A janky one I really like is Fumiko the lowblood.

Reading that card is a roller-coaster ride of emotions. Zombie - good. Double strike - cool. 3 cmc Exhume ETB trigger? Very cool. And then the {R} clause makes me :oops:

Never did like Wall of Omens as a cube card, too good and too boring and the poster child of the 'I care about the ETB trigger, not the creature' category of cards.

My take on Bellower is he's weaker than he looks. Not having Trample or a nasty monstrosity ability or attack trigger is a big mark against him; for six mana and {G}{G} it was too easy to chump block. Genesis Hydra is another one where I liked the design but it ended up being too below...

That's the bottom line: compares really unfavorably with Snakeform. Most drafters will avoid aura-based removal, correctly. I'm going to give Imprisoned a try since song of the dryads has been a modest success, but let's not go crazy here.

Rune-scarred Demon can be good in UB control

This has been bugging me lately too, specifically with my one and only devotion card, Keranos, God of Storms. Overall I think the design of the Theros gods is clever and pleasing, but in practice in my environment Keranos is an over-designed pain in the ass. He's an indestructible enchantment...