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I would definitely branch out themes into other colors. I used to have the typical pair archetypes in my cube as well, and it just brought so many problems, it is really beyond me why wizards uses it for every set. Maybe because it is easy to draft, I dunno. But you end up with a lot of nongold...

Yes, but as soon as you have the Grid installed, they won't get any tokens ever!

That card is very sweet with it. I wonder how much support that needs though, before it becomes a good card on it's own. You probably want as many nonartifact spells that create artifact tokens as possible? I'm intrigued. I've also found this one as a probably pretty good artifact payoff that...

Genesis Chamber is anyone here cubing that card? It is one that really speaks to me. the reason is probably, that I like cards, that can be (ab)used in different ways and shells. I also like Myr, they're so cool. So, of course you could just try to cast significantly more creature spells than...

Yeah, when I said you run some cards I would be scared of, I meant mostly those modern era midrange dudes. 4/4 fliers for 4 with multiple upsides just don't mesh well with many of the old school creatures I love to cube with. Yeah, couldn't agree more. One the most dynamic and interesting...

I already run the Familiar and Faerie Seer. I think I'll do this. Give the Siren a chance. 7 is a lot bit it also gets +1/+1 and flying and leaves a 1/1 behind.

I love Pteramander. It's a flying man for the U/x tempo decks, especially great as a ninjutsu enabler, yet it is also a card that is desireable in a U/x control deck. Now, I want stick with singleton, but still would like some blue evasive 1-drops that could appeal to control decks. Choose up...

Yeah, that's a sick common. Even with not other ways to put counters on it, it is essentially a Den Protector that just gets permanents - but still, that was a heavily played rare. Edit: Oh my freaking god it's adapt 2, so it's even better ...

So far this set is about a lot of cards that come really close to being a good fit for my cube. If Marionette Apprentice or Warren Soultrader where slightly smaller than 2-mana 2/3 or 3-mana 3/3 they would be better fits for my environment. If Triton Wavebreaker was red or even better white, I...

Vengevine is actually already in the CCC for a few years. It has yet to do anything scary. It makes surprisingly few decks though, since I track everything (for 18 month now) it was only once in a deck and went 2-1. I suspect it's just bad luck why it doesn't get played more often. Things like...

Okay, thanks for relieving my consciousness, but ... do you tell the people so you don't have "an advantage" or do you do it secretly (like a true criminal!) so people draft naturally?

To you that have cubes bigger than the amount of cards that actually get drafted ... have you ever seeded some cards into the draft pool? I don't mean in specific packs, but lets say you know that your players will only see 288 cards (a six person draft with four packs of 12), and there are...

You know what, I'll get a copy of Genesis and try it. If it doesn't work, I can still throw in Grizzly Fate or Beast Attack as I have copies of those in my collection. But I've thought about Genesis more often than the people who wrote the bible. I will report back. In my CCC thread. In a few...

Could you say anything to maybe reduce my concerns? Where is the sweet spot where it is neither unbeatable nor too slow?

Love your thoughtful analysis here. The reason why I shy away from Genesis is that some people say, it would always either be too slow or feel unbeatable. That being said, I know that some people run and love it, isn't that true @Onderzeeboot ?

Roar of the Wurm is probably in my top 10 favorite magic cards of all time. It's just perfect. A simple design with a lot of depth. I mean, an aggressive madness deck, a grindy dredge deck and a mono green ramp deck all want to have it, yet they all maximize it in a different way.

Hmm, yeah, so 7 mana is a lot for the flashback if you just mill it over. But with threshold it already provides you with a selfmill payoff on the front if you draw it. It also has the advantage to be better in token strategies as it goes wider. And it creates a token I already cube. Beast...

I want a green card that has a solid base line and is, most importantly, sweet value to mill it over. I want to push golgari and simic selfmill decks. Beast Attack Grizzly Fate Masked Admirers Which one would you chose and why? Edit: Updated the cotestants.

There is definitely a downside to it. When you look back there is a post in this thread from about a year ago where japahn points out, that my less enfranchised friend had his artifact deck not working out well because it couldn't decide between being a deck that wants Bomat Courier and one that...

Thank you for your feedback! I love food tokens, Foreboding Fruit, The Underworld Cookbook and Gilded Goose have all been in there at some point. Gumdrop Poisoner is tempting, but the thing is that lifegain is really mostly a white theme. Black and green offer some incidental lifegain, but I...