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  1. japahn

    Card/Deck Boros spells aggro

    My white removal suite at the moment is mostly not enchantments (6 instants/sorceries, 3 artifacts/enchantments), but it does make things awkward in any cube that supports enchantments as an archetype. Giant Killer Path to Exile Fateful Absence You Hear Something on Watch Divine Gambit Angelic...
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    Card/Deck Boros spells aggro

    White's pretty thin on spells matters payoffs. Monastery Mentor is too much for my power level. I'm trying out Leonin Lightscribe and Seeker of the Way, but that's... kind of it? I'm considering: Soulfire Grandmaster I've run Myth Realized and Ojutai's Exemplars, and I don't like their...
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    Sets (VOW) Crimson Vow

    But there's no card that removes a card from the absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever-zone. @Zoss's hunch seems plausible, but it doesn't feel like the right set for it. Removing parts of the text would make more sense in Kamigawa Cyberpunk Neon Lights or whatever it's called.
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Oversimplification: the best answers for Grave Titan are Wrath of God, Mana Leak and Lava Spike. 6 mana haymakers section the meta into Control, Aggro-Control and Aggro, which is positive in that it adds some clarity to how it all works, but in practice Esper control becomes the deck everyone...
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Thanks for the information! I don't think Faithless Looting is too strong under most circumstances. Lower power cubes tend to be slower and more value-oriented, and the card disadvantage counterbalances Looting in these environments, so it's to a good extent scaled to power level. What's more...
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    Sets (MH2) Modern Horizons 2 Previews

    Faithless Salvaging This slipped under the radar for me, but I'm seeing this in action in historic and it looks serviceable. One thing I hadn't noticed is how it turns into card draw when you are hellbent. Works nicely with madness too, since you can play Circular Logic as Dismiss for 1UR and...
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    General Personal Cube Staples, AKA Chicken Soup for the Cube Curator's Soul

    Blinding Mage is nice for the typing, too. On topic, I don't make lots of different cubes, so I don't have staples. But here are some cards that I'll always consider for inclusion: Chart a Course Dark Confidant Firebolt
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    General Riptide Drafting League

    Either is fine!
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    General Riptide Drafting League

    There's a good block of 3 hours where 4 people are available on Saturday October 23, at 7pm (UTC). 12 pm (Pacific Daylight Time) 2 pm (Central Daylight Time) 3 pm (Eastern Daylight Time) 21:00 (Central European Daylight Time) 5 am +1 (Oct 24, Sun) (Australian Eastern Standard Time) 6 am +1 (Oct...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Has anyone played this? Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia Looks like a synergy piece to me, not particularly strong, but it would be nice to have a token producer that can't snowball or stall.
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    General CBS

    Just look at the level of effort put into this cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/blog/ancienttimes/0 I have come across it a number of times, and always thought it was a really cool one, but I had never seen the blog.
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    General Balduvian Trading Post. Aka: the Dual Dueling Cubes

    Artifacts feel really bad to play as Wastes, so I'm thinking of the following options: Evolving Wilds Grand Coliseum Evolving Wilds would really be just a tapped basic of your choice. Grand Coliseum could ETB untapped and I doubt that would break anything.
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    General Balduvian Trading Post. Aka: the Dual Dueling Cubes

    I think you can actually just take this rule and play it in most cubes with minimal changes: - Exile instead of discard so reanimation isn't too absurd. - Rampant Growths make a land instead of searching. I did some goldfishing and it really opens up the decision tree to the point that it feels...
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    General Riptide Drafting League

    I wanted to continue the Riptide Draft League, this time with better scheduling. If you're interested in drafting [a random cube among people present], please add your availability for next week: https://www.when2meet.com/?13282005-gyrvh If there's 4+ people interested on a timeslot until this...
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    General "Looking for a card"-Thread

    Ecstatic Awakener Not a two card combo, but you can get back another 1-drop you sacrifice to Awakener, then use your 4/4 until it dies, get back the Awakener, get back the 1-drop to flip it again, and so on.
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    General Trainmaster Mirror Project: Saving Old Cubes from Cubetutor

    Hypercube seems to be missing cards, I think it's the ELD creatures with Adventure that might be named differently in CT vs CC.
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    General Fight Club

    Territorial Kavu is extremely wordy and the design is all over the place, but mechanically it does seem like the best option. I'd say try it if you can stomach it. Do you really need an RG discard outlet though? Wouldn't a R or G discard outlet be more flexible, since the theme is in other...
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    General Balduvian Trading Post. Aka: the Dual Dueling Cubes

    I love this and would be happy to test it out! One thing I noticed as I was testing in Cube cobra: the gold cards seem to be much better than the monocolored ones considering the versatility of dual // gold spell. The first way I'd try to break the format is by drafting 5c good-stuff. The deck...
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I imagine in your environment some decks would want a lot of them (5-7?), given double Life From the Loam. Cycling lands are weird. Aggro wants them because flooding is bad, but also really doesn't want them because tapped lands are really bad. They might want 0-2. Control might want lots, but...
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    General Self-Recursive Threats

    Andy has been saying that in Lucky Paper Radio a number of times, but it really doesn't resonate with me and I wonder if I'm missing something. When my opponent "gets" me with specific graveyard hate, my reaction is "yep, kudos for identifying you needed this card and finding a window to use it...
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