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Is there a point at which you don't want the format to be more skill testing? Does too skill testing exist? If it does, I think I either haven't reached it or didn't notice it awhile back. :rolleyes:

I actually tend towards high depth cards even if it means more complexity. DoJ over WoG, Searing Spear over an essay on dealing damage, sure. But I want Lion over Watchwolf and Ichor Slick over a vanilla kill spell. I want games with large decision trees and all sorts of interactions and don't...

Wastes is like fine, I cut Haunting awhile back because it was just terrible. The dedicated token decks couldn't make it worth casting.

Sure, Upheaval and Psychatog is a 2 card 9 mana combo. Overpowered? You have to get to 9 mana. :p Upheaval is dead vs aggro anyway. My group hasn't minded long reset games too much. We're generally up all night anyway.

Psychatog is absolutely fantastic in my cube. In UB control, you usually try to untap with it, kill their creatures and swing for lethal, which has happened to me a couple of times. Tog is just fun to play with, you can burn it to reduce its resources, it presents interesting decisions in...

What about Jeskai Ascendancy at {1}{W}{U}? Would that not be an amazing cube card? I feel like all it needs is to stop randomly having a third color.

I would argue that Jeskai Ascendancy is the payoff card. All you have to do is throw together a spells matter deck, with a hint of either ramp or tokens or even weenies/counterburn. Ascendancy generates so much value in any UWR deck, its practically goodstuff in the right environment. Instants...

I've been told I have a ton of fixing in my cube which does enable a lot of 3 color decks and 4 colors with splashes. That's probably a prerequisite for this kind of shenanigan. The going off turn with Ascendancy is always sweet as hell when the deck comes together though. Jeskai Ascendancy...

Jeskai Ascendancy is by far the most fun build around card I've ever cubed.

If Magic got replaced with a simpler electronic game, I would hold onto my cubes, and spend more heavily on Fantasy Flight games. I'm never moving away from physical card games. I love playing with other people in person and shuffling up physical cards far too much. I'm never going to bother...

Magus of the Bazaar Lower power level alternative that can at least theoretically block, carry swords and utilize creature types rather than be a missed land drop. Also, holy shit the art and flavor text on this one.

I had to cut Cruise for being the Zodiac Killer too powerful and wanting to cut down on straight draw. DTT is still fun though and while its in the top 1/5 of blue cards, its still worth it for how fun it is to build and play around. Its a fine way for blue control to solidify its end game...

Balance itself in a cube with very little and only modern legal artifact ramp. When you can't build around it the artifact way, it becomes extremely difficult to break the symmetry, to the point where it actually feels like a fun card with a lot of play to it. Its not even good when its a...

GB graveyard aggro is definitely big enough for its own thread. I'd be happier with an MCD thread.

Dark Petition So I've tried Demonic Tutor before and got turned off by a tutor that's a high pick for basically any deck rather than being something to push combo decks. Other tutors really haven't felt worth running and I'm really not sure how much I want this kind of effect. Not sure what...

I tried to make Dawn a thing, card was so hard to make work. Even in a 4 color deck, I don't think we ever managed to get back more than 2 cards, unless casting the card meant conceding to the lethal on board. The upper limit of 5 is a fairy tale. Seasons Past is promising because I feel like I...

Yeah, they really pushed the chicken (across the road).

WotC printed and distributed six copies of it. I hear its on flimsier material than a normal card, they're more like proxies. "Real" is a strong word :p . A silent auction for one of them happened last year.

Yes, Robot Chicken. Bear with me. It works with sac outlets, turns instants into combat tricks, sweet with spells matters, supports anything that likes having a lot of artifacts, is a fair removal engine and at 4 mana is just slow enough not peck aggro decks into the dirt. If I ever obtained one...

I would love to put Molten Vortex back in but with Loam being the only real engine to power it and me not breaking singleton, it was too difficult to really make it work. want some Assault variant that's just more pushed, or at least more real land recursion engines. Guardian is interesting...