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Here's a package that's been somewhat emergent in Old Border Kitchen Table: goofy GR turbo ramp channel fireball combo type shit On top of the usual suite of dorks and rampant growths, you can throw in some of these more explosive mana cards: channelTinder Wallmana flaredwarven ruinsgaea's...

Something else cool you can do with enchantments in old border is a GW aggro auras package. I ripped this idea from the Original Old Border Cube and have been tinkering with it. Pretty fun if your cube is board-focused. Start with some classic good auras: RancorArmadillo CloakElephant Guide...

My old border cube is going to be one of the featured cubes at CubeCon 2025 wahoo thank you to all the weirdos here for helping to get me into this goofy format.

also go to bed train what the hell

sazh's chocobo this card is epic end transmission

buddy you just gave me the biggest layup of all time juggernaut

scion of darkness Probably the coolest old border cycling big dude besides maybe Eternal Dragon. I like that the card doesn't just pay you off by letting you reamimate your own stuff so it has a lot of game-to-game variance on how much the trigger matters, while still being solid as just a big...

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I wasn't fast enough to talk about Mirrodin Besieged but here is a post about Accorder Paladin anyway: Accorder Paladin Wow it's Accorder Paladin! He's your best friend! This guy was the first in a long line of one of my favorite card genres: 2-mana 3/1s with some upside. And what a goddamn...

welding sparks

dunno what you're talking about, set is full of bangers :p

skeletonized :p

Mitotic Slime One of my favorite cards from when I was in high school. Perfect example of flavor absolutely hard carrying a clunky text box. So evocative and still plays well in cubes that are low power and care about the board.

it also helps that talking about cube on reddit sucks lmao

Yeah I do not think Vinecrasher is particularly strong and won't hang in most cubes, but in Fair Nuff where there is a shitload of support for like every axis of the card and 30 copies of Ash Barrens and a very modest power level, it gets the job done.

it's hilarious that people keep saying like "oh but this place ain't active like it was" like i'm sure shit was popping on here in like 2014 but y'all this is a traditional web forum that still gets daily posts in 2025. that's an amazing thing to have.

Centaur Vinecrasher Here's a cool weird one that I don't think I've seen anywhere besides Fair Nuff lol. My playgroup loves this card. Gets people into the lands deck in a really weird sideways type of way, and it is always funny when someone discards an Ash Barrens or whatever and you get to...

Also probably worth noting that the dominant MTG cube discussion forum when Riptide was founded was MTG Salvation, and you can probably trace a lot of the seeds of these ideas back to a desire to NOT design cubes like Salvation did lol.

I don't think that there is a strict definition of what it means for a cube to be "riptide-style" and I think it means different things to different people, but here are some things that I associate it with: -Eschewing a strict focus on power for a focus on synergies and the interactions between...

are you two gonna kiss or what