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I was wondering how a format with minimal permanent spot removal for creatures would play and realized this might work well in an enchantment themed cube. Enchantment-based spot removal is normally pretty permanent but much less so if enchantment removal is out in force. The idea is that if...

What about some weird drawback that plays up the colorless aspect like "When abandoned fen enters the battlefield, tap all swamps you control and all black mana in your mana pool becomes colorless, Scry 1." Probably too bizarre and wordy but eh.

Is the loop a bit random or am I missing something? It definitely seems strong regardless. I guess first you use elixir to replenish your library. Then you use Ancestral knowledge to exile stuff you don't want from your library and stack the top 10 of your deck. Then at some point (which you'll...

More sweet blue enchantments to squeeze into the ETB theme. I particularly dig Ancestral Knowledge. It's sort of a weak tutor, but it also can exile enough cards from your deck to result in legitimate deck thinning or as part of a self-mill strategy. Ancestral KnowledgeGhostly WingsPhantom...

As someone whose research is basically evolutionary biology, fuck Richard Dawkins. The blind watchmaker is a terrible analogy and the genes are everything view of evolution is too narrow. And yeah... he's an asshole.

I didn't realize it meant that, but frankly, I liked it when I thought it was referring to a cooking technique. Just gotta change the art to an American Thanksgiving turkey or something.

And another tag should be Leverages Perceived Pressure.

This is the greatest name I have seen for a combo.

And they say creatures are too good nowadays and they don't make really good spells anymore. :p

YEEEEESSSSSSSSS. I have been suggesting this. Someone else do the work though. :D Ok, but more seriously, the most interesting thing it lets you do is curve CC into DDX much more reliably. Or C into DD as stated. And it's actually not obvious how to take advantage of this in an interesting way...

In a weird way, I think making green the control color links together the artifact and enchantment themes via being hated on by the same thing. I think this might be a good cube to try out the green removal auras in. Plays well with an enchantress theme (as far as things that control wants...

At least as far as drafting the sets went, I didn't like Dragons much, and the pack of Fate always felt jank compared to Khans. I'd probably stick to one of the choices you've already got it down to. I'd go with origins if you already have all the commons and uncommons in khans. There are some...

Speaking of non-blue card advantage; an interesting card. Pursuit of Knowledge Of course, it's even grosser with blue, where if you brainstorm off an empty hand with pursuit of knowledge on board and use its replacement effect, you've drawn 7 for 5 mana. :p

Worth it.

I can't figure out if that's as good as I think it is, or if I'm overrating some rather situational abilities. Probably can make at least a tier 2 deck in constructed though.

Is gather the pack's spell mastery going to matter often enough for it to be better than commune with the gods? I feel like gather is better if slightly trickier to make better (need enough sorceries and instants but also enough creatures), but if you've got an enchantment theme going on...

I've been thinking about if there are any other interesting experiments to try with mana fixing lands and what effect they would have. So far, I haven't thought of anything that I think is as interesting as how the bouncelands affect a cube like the penny pincher or even as interesting as...

Reminds me of something MaRo said how about in Scars of Mirrodin block, go for the throat is way weaker than it would have been in almost any other draft format and shatter is way better. So although sometimes old cards just fill holes in a nice way, it's even better if they interact with the...

Yeah, but your players hill climb by reacting to each other. Then they eventually they probably hit some sort of dead end, but maybe not. Maybe their strategies sort of wander around randomly because people are frankly terrible at implementing mixed strategies; even moreso when they aren't...

Although formally speaking, there is a static Nash equilibrium for any game, and I don't see how magic gets around it; in practice, there's not a snowball's chance in hell of players actually finding it. Human players are probably better thought of formally from an evolutionary game theory point...