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I'd play Blast from the Past over Murder every day. It's a three-for-one, usually, really helping red controlling decks to get the advantage. Also, Bone Shredder has a lower ceiling than Murder, but it adds blink, sacrifice and recursion synergies, that would make me want it over murder in many...

The classic green removal: bigger creatures.

Not even as sideboard tech against fliers?

Firespout Is this card ever cast by green decks without red?

Personally, I think WotC is already muddying the color pie a bit too much. Mostly to please commander players' desire to have card draw and ramp in all colors, and have them be great at the long game. Sure, I do appreciate some of the innovations, like red's impulse draw or a third color being...

The question is also, imo: Should every color get cantrips like this? In many ways it feels like a color pie break to me. Usually greens card draw is tied to creatures or it gets those cantrips, where you can get a creature or land, sometimes enchantment, from the top X cards of your library...

Mishra's Factory Treetop Village Gargole Castle Quicksand Cabal Pit Barbarian Ring The manlands are really cool with loam as recursive creatues. Gargoyle Castle is also quite decent in a lower power cube. Can't say much on Quicksand yet, but I imagine it could help the lands.deck against...

At least you upgraded that land I guess :D

You can minimize that by having very good ramp enablers and very tame top end cards, so that you can pull that synergy off earlier without dying.

The fact that stronger gruul cards exist doesn't mean that Worldsoul's Rage isn't a great cube card, right? I mean, we're not at mtgsalvation here. The card is an elegant design with a decent floor and and a highly synergistic ceiling. It's also one of the somewhat rare cases these days where a...

It's a very cool design. If I had three or four gruul slots, I would consider it.

I've been tracking draft data from my cube for ten drafts (I know, it's still a very small sample size) and mono decks are making up ~16% of the decks drafted. Three color decks are ~17% with the remaining 67% being straight two colors. If we take a look at how successful they are, here is how...

I totally forgot those exist. They're so cool. How much land recursion do you need to make them good?

Thanks man, but it’s not that hard

Final Flourish

Reading your change logs and draft reports really gives me some inspiring thoughts for my own main cube. Kessig Cage Breakers and Blossoming Tortoise are exactly the kind of cards that speak to me. Also, one question: Didn't your jund deck want some more beef in the 4- and 5-drop slots? And...

No, not at all. I didn't even see a deck with more than three colors since I went for the 18 Vistas a year ago – including splashes. I think they work out like that, because they aren't rainbow fixing, they are a basic land of your choice. You can't go Baleful Strix into Flickerwisp even with...

Do it. It's awesome.

Most importantly, I would also check your power band. It looks to be too wide. What I mean by that, in this case specifically, is that you have good stuff cards that just outclass your synergy cards. Why would I bother make something like Storyteller Pixie or Ancestral Mask work, if I could get...