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Back when I played MTG draft was not as popular as it is now. Most players around me played different forms of Constructed but we only indulged in Limited a couple times, most notably for Ravnica's release. And Ravnica was great. In fact, it seems to be one of the best regarded sets of all...

So after checking out other cubes and every single black card with costs 1B or BB I've decided to give up for now and start looking into other colours. I'm a bit of weary of the high number of enchanments but half of them are reanimation spells that are not really that different from sorceries...

It's all fun and fireballs until someone decides to summon a maggot into your brain.

I've been drafting the cube a bit and trying to force black decks to get an idea of what the colour needs and it has proven a bit difficult. The reason is that many of the possible decks rely on colours that are still far from finished and, hence, archetypes don't come out too well. For example...

I like Crater Hellion but it doesn't repalce Wildfire. In fact, it works well with Wildfire because it survives it and wipes the board when it comes down. It's also a good, but not broken, card for Sneak Attack and Reanimator. I really think you need two copies of Wildfire (or Devasting Dreams...

I'm really fond of Wildfire. What I like about the card is that it gives Red the opportunity to play a control role instead of the usual combination of aggression and burn. This adds depth to the cube, and the gameplay as a whole because there are now more options and more directions to take...

I've been trying Phyrexian Reclamation in the same slot as Tortured Existence but I don't quite know what to make of either card. Tortured Existence can provide quite a bit of value by discarding recursive aggro creatures, but it felt a bit redundant and it doesn't seem like Control can do that...

A note: Something I do dislike about Dire Fleet Daredevil (and actually also about Abbot of Keral Keep) is that it's not a "real" two-drops. As in, you need mana to use their abilities so they don't actually allow to curve out or stabillize on the first few turns. Besides being quite fun in...

I'm going to run Skarrgan. It's true that it's one of those creatures that get answered and make you lose the game, but I don't like Thundermaw cleaning up the board. What I like is that it's a large, versatile dragon that is easy to understand. Ok, here's a harder one. Which one and why? And...

Stinkweed Imp is in my cube right now, but it does not feel as essential as the other cards. Like you say, it fills the graveyard and it sometimes work in control but it feels like such a blunt instrument to force a synergy into existing. So far I'm very happy about the reanimation spells...

Oh man, I forgot about the Genju! I did not remember Descendant of Kiyomaro, though, it was such a forgetable set it always made me sad when stores gave its boosters as a prize. Has Dread Presence actually panned out to be good? It's a very nice card.

Those are nices picks Onderzeeboot. I'm tempted to expand Orzhov a bit to include Oath of Kaya, despite the second line of text doing nothing in my cube. Do you have any monocolour suggestions?

So I ran my list is this is what I got so far: NON-CREATURES 0-1 Volrath's StrongholdVampiric TutorDuressInquisition of KozilekDark RitualEntombUnearthExecutioner's Capsule These are all standard picks. 2 Collective BrutalityChainer's EdictNight's WhisperAnimate DeadExhumeOath of...

I used to run it, but I wasn't sure how reliable (or versatile) it was. But yeah it would be a perfect fit, wouldn't it?