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Would folks mind if I started trying to organize things? I may not be able to join in on a chatcast (I do most of this while malingering at work), but am happy to try and impose some order on these discussions. I feel quite strongly about budget cubing, having now built three of them, and find...

I rotate in the low-percentage 3-color cards. Recently, The Mimeoplasm has actually been played in a few decks. Reanimator decks are either UB or GB, so BUG is a pretty natural fit. Maelstrom Wanderer has also been pretty popular.

Sorry for overposting here, but... I've made a cubetutor list with 270ish cards (based on my old MTGO budget cube) that can be bought right now on tcgplayer for $119 shipped. It's a hot mess, of course, but it gives you an idea of what can and cannot be done on this budget...

Oh, it's a steaming pile all right, a poorly written and plotted excuse to fling as many 80s nerd references around as possible. Ooh, let's reverse-engineer a solipsistic world in which everyone is obsessed with the exact things I used to be obsessed with! However, if you are exactly as old...

Yeah, 1Q84 had such promise, and it just trickled away over hundreds of pages. Start with Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/4619 I finally uploaded and updated it. I now realize, however, that you are looking to only playtest a "real" paper cube on MTGO, so this is largely inappropriate. Ah, well. I am still interested in helping create this, of course. [EDIT] I just ran my...

I am in. Frankly, I started cubing on a strict budget, and miss the days of poring over the $0.25 rares for hidden gems. As a starting point, I have a $50 360 MODO cube that I lend out freely. I'm happy to share it with folks here to get the ball rolling. I had to buy some new cards ever since...

Just be glad the word wasn't "heuristic".

So, reading reports from here and elsewhere, it's clear that Aetherling is a monster. But is it fun? I like my control finishers to be a bit more fragile, frankly, and don't like one-card win conditions in blue. So, he's great, yes. Is he good for the health of your cube, though? And holy...

I just found a cheap Oath of Druids, and will test it to see how it works out in cube. I am a sucker for low-percentage build around cards in green, apparently, like Doubling Season and Birthing Pod...

She has a very happy home in the cast-off budget cube, thank you very much....

As an exercise, I built a $50 MTGO cube a while ago. I've since updated it a bit, but it's a pretty fun exercise. It's nice not to worry about someone walking away with a "traded" deck. I've also built a cube for my sister-in-law entirely out of cards I've removed from my main cube...

No! Please! Get started on Wake! Sure, the anthem is merely gravy on top of the real reason you're playing the card--the insane amount of mana you crave. But that gravy does tend to go beautifully with the, um... mashed potatoes that is the GW token deck. It's synergistic, not something tacked...

Can someone explain the hatred of anthems to me, please? I run tons of them, and they are pretty key to the token and White Weenie archetypes, and better in multiples.

From another forum post here: The Problem with 4-Drops Something that takes up 90% of my cube design thinking that I realize not many others have much interest or experience with: How to tune a cube for two players that is still draftable with a full table.

My group undervalued Volrath's Stronghold for a long time, until someone paired it with Blistering Firecat... BG Timmy is so much fun to play. It looks pretty odd, without reanimation beyond the Stronghold, though--are you still enjoying the removal of the reanimation archtype from your cube...

Yeah, one of my favorite things about my cube was that it was so budget that I didn't mind breaking it out in public. I don't proxy, but run as many gold-bordered and otherwise cheap substitute cards as I can find. Sadly, a bunch of the cards went up in value after Modern was announced, and...

I am excited for this; however, please please get a better mic or do some sort of audio postproduction to level out the volume. I couldn't hear anything you were saying, Eric! I think you should devote an entire episode to the different ways people sort their gold section. I kid! I kid!

I push GW tokens massively, and Glare kept on going last in my cube, even. I had to cut it even though I love the card...

I push tokens much harder than most, and as a result run far more anthems than most cubers. They are best in multiples--if I cut Glorious Anthem, I'd also cut Honor of the Pure. Currently I run: Glorious Anthem Honor of the Pure Mikaeus the Lunarch Ajani 1.0 Soltari Champion Mirror Entity Gavony...