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Tagged four times! Crow StormMiscalculation We have 81 lands right now, so I'll remove the cycle of creature lands and one cycle of shocklands. @inscho @Onderzeeboot @Nanonox @dbs

Fair enough. I guess time will tell on how the drafts and games go in-person. It will be a ton of fun for sure! I keep drafting the list. Will be posting the decks here using snipping tool since cubeocbra can't save them: hidden cards: prof's letter, skyla. Running 3-3-2 Blaziken, 2-2...

I just drafted a Magnezone/Raichu deck to see if I could break the format. My main conclusion is that this drafting style had me ready to play a 60-card deck, and I think this would also tend to balance decks a bit more by making it more difficult to leverage the same deck plan every game, and...

After taking a look through pkmncards.com, I think the clear winners for grass stage ones are Yanmega and Ninjask/Shedinja: Yanmega Prime: https://pkmncards.com/name/yanmega/#images-9 was quite good in competitive play in its time, and I'd be more worried about it being overpowered than weak...

Pichu and Regice may not be the strongest basics you're running, but I'd say they're not the weakest either. Free retreat on a basic is really nice, almost worth a slot in of itself, so even if it's hard to break symmetry on Playground, I think Pichu (at least one copy) is worth keeping around...

I would definitely support breaking singleton on Claydol since the other one you're running is pretty weak. The secondary Ninetales you're running is strong/interesting enough that I think you could go either way on breaking singleton on the one that draws cards. I like that stage 2s are the...

Yeah, prices can be weird. Older cards are unplayable in any sanctioned format, so their prices are driven by collectors (typically older enfranchised players that played competitively decades ago and have nostalgia for the powerful cards of the age) and people playing original formats such as...

Looks sweet! I actually have a mutant Pokemon cube (any basic evolves into any stage 1, any stage 1 evolves into any stage 2) that I spent ludicrous amounts of money (mostly by trading for cards) building three years ago. Now I've sold almost all my other cards of value, but haven't touched the...

Funny story, I read Nemesis of Reason as mill 7, but even then I was worried about it, and it would still probably be the strongest baneslayer that has ever been in the cube. I was justifying it by reasoning that a non-mill deck would need it to swing three times to win, and obv it dies to...

I'll try to find room for Ooze, definitely seems like a card that needs to be tested to fully evaluate. I still think Cruel Ultimatum is a few levels above Path but 5c payoffs are something I'm always looking to try. You may be right about that ramp package. I think my literal train of thought...

I like Demonic Pact, I just have pretty few ways to bounce it back to hand compared to your list, so I've never tried it. Definitely a cool card though. I think my power level is getting fairly close to yours, although it's probably a case of the strong cards in my environment being the average...

Yeah, that was a bit unclear but japahn hit it on the head I think. I think the kind of card I'm most looking for would be the single-card archetypes like Thassa's, but anything that sends an existing theme going in a new way is great. In the example of Thassa's Oracle you take the self-mill...

So I'm definitely including Foundation Breaker and Kaleidoscope. I can see a case for Legion Vanguard, Master of Death, Ornithopter of Paradise, Mine Collapse, Cabal Initiate, and Nested Shambler, but I only have time to talk about a few other maybes: Vaguely interesting, although my cube...

To be completely honest, I've never seen it really justify itself in gameplay, despite starting out with an even lower power level than I run now. Back then, it just looked completely silly next to Tinker and Welder (which were admittedly way too strong for that list), and now, I think it still...

So, I haven't updated this cube blog in two years, but I've actually been working on it and drafting it a decent amount since. While in hiding, I spied on Alfonzo and Inscho a lot and tried to strike out from the very Penny Pincher-based design I was running after I increased my power level a...

I've been running it for a long time and it's pretty fun in RG, where it seems to be best in midrange-y Berserker decks that run Goreclaw, terror of qal sisma, heart-piercer manticore, hashep oasis, vines of vastwood, etc. Those decks are mana-hungry in my cube and really benefit from the...

Burning-Fist MInotaur Similarly gets in damage by discarding cards and way, way better. You might already be running it and Bloodrage Brawler but either sounds better to me. Compare it to Stampede Driver. Both that and Firefright are 1/1s that have to tap themselves and two lands to do...

Sarcomancy There's this guy from 1997 off the top of my head. That leaves 6 more years of magic to explain though. ;)

The warhound is a cool find, but I think unless your cube has themes that would benefit from it, the flexibility of Rimrock's buff being instant speed and one mana (especially if you run Prowess or Heroic) gives it more play. I also think Rimrock's power level stacks up fairly well, because you...

Well that's a Baneslayer if there ever was one