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Here's what Kai Budde had to say about it in his Champions of Kamigawa set review. One thing worth considering is that his review is based on your average limited environment (very few rares - so relatively low power). I think this cube is higher powered than Champions limited by a decent...

Thanks for the feedback! I'll be honest, I never drafted Kamigawa limited so some of the cards are being included because a bunch of limited reviewers said they were good (either at the time or in retrospect). Other cards just seemed really interesting so I tossed them in (or they helped me hit...

I love Trading Post. It looks limp but it's got so many uses. All 4 modes do something useful. The first mode is the most abusable - 4 life is a decent amount and discard outlets feed a lot of broken strategies in many cubes. Don't discount the goat tokens. Sometimes you just need a body...

Kaidan After years of working on largely high powered cube lists, I have decided to take a page out of Grillo’s book and attempt a truly low powered cube. This is a pretty daunting task if you approach it without an anchor of some sort. Thankfully, I’ve spent a lot of time recently looking...

I tried testing Prophet in a Bant midrange/control shell. And it's completely crazy if you get to the latter part of the game. But it felt slow and vulnerable against a lot of the efficient decks (my removal is really good too) so I didn't leave it in long enough to really see all the places...

If your format isn't too high powered, I've always been a big fan of snakeform Pretty much always a 2 for 1 in a color combination that usually has trouble finding a lot of removal. Prophet of Kruphix is really powerful but a bit durdly. So YMMV on how well it performs in your cube...

This is a good point actually. And in cube, we can limit the availability of both game winning threats needing specific answers and those narrow answer cards (or how narrow the answer cards are). And finding the balance isn't always easy. Drake Haven is a cheap enchantment, so having it answered...

I think a great deal of this boils down to how much of the game's depth you want in draft/meta solving versus in actually playing the games. I think I prefer as much of the game's depth to be present in the actual game play itself. But I can see the argument for wanting it to be more...

My 2 cents is side boarding is a bandaid for a fundamental game weakness (some cards need narrow answers or the matchup is warped). There's strategy behind side boarding. Not saying there isn't. But from a game mechanics perspective it's just sloppy. That said, we have a ton of options now...

Blue tends to be high. 3.2ish? Blue's one drop section is bad outside spells. In my combo cube, black is hanging on the bottom of the curve with red, but in the Kamigawa/Innistrad project I'm working, it's the highest CMC color. So it all depends. Colorless I find is lower than 3 almost...

Wow, this is an old thread. It's interesting to reread things I wrote years ago. Some things I still agree with, others I've gone completely 180 on. FWIW, I don't think it's worth trying to have each color hit the same CMC average. I did try it and I found it to be too forced. I mean...

Hexproof + regenerate is an extremely powerful combination. Troll Ascetic is a bit small by today's standards, so higher powered cubes you could run it and wind up unhappy with the power level. Lower powered though, this can be oppressive. Particularly if you have a strong equip/aura/pump...

I really want to infuse more innistrad. Kamigawa and Innistrad are the two sets with the sweetest (IMO) flavor. What do you think about the cycle of guild lands (desolate lighthouse, etc) in place of a set of guild gates? Weakens fixing more but I'm OK with that in this cube. Fixing in Kamigawa...

Brain Freeze is a tough sell in this list. Not that it won't work - it probably will. It's just really degenerate. That just makes me want to put all the broken Kamigawa cards back in.

Found a review series for all the Kamigawa sets by Kai Budde that includes limited ratings. Seems like a pretty good resource (to say the least). Made a bunch of tweaks based on that. I also cut most of the obtuse stuff. Still keeping the red and green dragons in there since they are...

I slapped in the splicer package, added the common eldrazi for the big mana BS and shifted a few more cards. Not sure I am making things better or worse. All I know is the 10 drafts I did I was drowning in spirit synergy and it all felt too simple to draft. I thought about swapping a thought...

I took a swing at my own Kamigawa inspired list. It's maybe 80-90% there but could use some tuning. http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/88240 Flip cards are clunky, so I excluded all of them in my list. That's probably not going to please Kamigawa purists. I also injected portions of the...

Necroing this thread. Toan, you still working on this? I started playing sometime near the end of Mirrodin, so I guess Kamigawa was my first full block? I hated it. Loved the theme to death (Medieval Japan is SWEET), but I had played with my friend's older Magic collection and Kamigawa...

That is an interesting card. But the text box is such an eyesore, it's disqualified from serious consideration on that basis alone (for me at least). I've had other cards in my cube that got a similar reaction - so much to read people just didn't bother. Cards like that tend to go undrafted...

UPDATE: Few more small tweaks to the list. OUT >> IN Solitari Monk >> Seeker of the Way Innocent Blood >> Go For The Throat Turnabout >> Mystical Teachings Seeker is playable in more than aggro (at least as filler). Priest is enough soltari for WW I think. Monk clearly stellar in the Bx...