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Some intriguing new two-drops (which is a criteria that I'm excited about): Traitorous Diplomacy - {1}{R} Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay {2} or sacrifice an enchantment or creature. Traitorous Diplomacy deals 5 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this...

My understanding (which I might've gotten from someone on here) is that the original intent behind un-sets was they'd be the last set of packs in the draft. By that point, you've drafted 30 cards so you're only looking for a handful of playable cards in the un-packs. However, people ended up...

When you get down to it, Gloomlake Verge and Blazemire Verge are really just cleaner/more flexible versions of Tainted Isle and Tainted Peak... EDIT: Yes, they can't tap for {c}, but that's a Brad problem.

Oh look, it's this set's cancel-with-an-upside. In all seriousness, I like it. New leylines! I like how they're both solid buildarounds. The rare duals for the set ({W}{W/U} / {U}{U/B} / {B}{B/R} / {R}{R/G} / {G}{G/W})! I'm... not sure how I feel about them? I'm a sucker for cards that...

Control decks might like them against aggro, I guess? (Their real home: the You Compleat Me cube.)

This thing is a pretty amazing blink/tiny reanimator payoff. Yeah, sure, I'll Recommission this into a 5/4 double striker, that sounds fair. "Untapped duals at common" wasn't on my checklist for the set...

Survival's interesting, especially if you have an alternate way of tapping creatures. I wonder if they're going to put it on any mana dorks? I'm really not sure about Manifest Dread and Cloak/Disguise being in the same standard, though. It feels like that might be confusing in paper. EDIT...

I think it says something that "Yu-Gi-Oh, but only cards printed up to 2005" and "Yu-Gi-Oh, but only cards printed up to 2010" are the two most popular unofficial formats. Come to think of it, I have seen more people bring up Pre-Modern lately... (Personally, if I had to make a "time capsule"...

Rasmus gets it. It basically pushed Pauper Ponza to Tier 1, unless things have shifted around a bit in the last month or so (turns out getting COVID messes with you - who knew?)

Mirror Mockery What a weird blue removal spell/combo piece.

I mean, there's also Writhing Chrysalis The decision to make this thing a common was an interesting one, to say the least.

I mean, there's always the classic: Fierce Empath The main value is that it fetches your emerge creature in the first place! :p There's also these things: Filigree Familiar Solemn Simulacrum If you're willing to be a bit more flexible about where the value comes from, there's also cute...

Drake Stone is probably one of the deepest cuts they could've possibly gone for.

I mean, the optimal choice is to only reveal one of the Chimeras so you aren't randomizing across a stupidly large number of creatures. Considering that a normal draft pool gives you anywhere from 5* to 21 extra cards to play with, I don't think that that's going to be a problem. * Desert cubes...

Flickering Mulldrifter is damn fun, so I think it'd work. Do you think scamming an Aethersnipe or Shriekmaw would be too strong for your format?

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I'm most likely to leave the "contest version" of this cube alone - both because it's a nice time capsule of what I've tried and because I tend to find it easier/more fun to build new cubes rather than make incremental changes to existing ones. As for my plans for a "new" version of this...

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green Cube List v0.1 What Is This? Back in June 2024, @ellogeyen ran the 30+ Eggs In One Basket contest on these very boards. After waffling for a while on what to do for it (a process that was not helped by the fact that I had been in a major cubing slump for months), I...

The mana shenanigans (and duals in the BLB) are mostly a side effect of Land Grant only being able to grab Forests. Realistically, the "mana shenanigans" are just a result of treating green as a secondary color for every deck - I don't think you could have a Land Grant focused cube where green...

Imagine pulling this from a pack in Future Sight: Underworld Breach No reminder text, no nothing. It would take 14 years before anyone knew what "escape" did.