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Thanks for the kind words guys.

I would need to up my shuffle density considerably to use him. Even if I had wizard synergy. 1/1 bodies are just so marginal, unless your cube is made up of all x/1 attackers that don't come back to life repeatedly, don't have evasion and don't have first strike.

Mana Bloom is probably getting a trial run, Hero of Leina Tower is probably the victim. Synergy can only go so far, being garbage unfortunately counts for something. I want to add one or two disruptive cards to black, likely Blackmail and/or Choking Sands. Small Pox may get another run. If...

Hurricane Not color intense, kills the crap out of fliers AND gives reach. I really like the card.

All lands are drafted separately.

Journey into Nyx Underworld Coinsmith Unlike the predecessor, Journey into Nyx was extremely well received. Gridfillers could rejoice as White/Green got a planeswalker. The singleton crew was given expressed written permission to run two Cities of Brass. Plenty of gems were scattered through...

Born of the Gods Ephara, God of the Polis Chris Taylor eloquently declared that “BNG is essentially a set built to troll magic players”, which is somewhat true. Even someone as optimistic and open to trying stuff as myself has to admit there were slim pickings. I still have Hero of Leina...

I’ve been slacking on my “articles” on the best cards in each set, which is a shame because I am officially declare the Theros block in the top three in Magic history. I love the mechanics, I love the design, I hate that so many cool cards are underpushed (but not dismayed!) and my current cube...

Compulsive Research => Attunement

You mean your getting the feeling that your cube is just a handful a preconstructed archetypes with only a few cards shifting that don't really change things too much? I think we've all been there at some point. I wholeheartedly recommend starting from the bottom. When you try to "swap" or...

Small changes made. Running Shimmering Wings as written for now, we'll see how good constellation is. If its really good, I could put Cage of Hands into white (but seriously, probably not). Right now black's kit is getting overloaded, I've got to mull over how to focus it down.

While an excellent answer (not being sarcastic, why is that card blue?), it doesn't really help support blue devotion. I think I've hit the point where I've accepted that blue devotion just isn't going to happen and have channeled it all init B/G/W. (edit: Do I even read this shit before I...

Unfortunately, Mimic Vat (and artifacts in general) doesn't work for me. Too much of my design space is devoted to enchantments, the artifacts I'm running are basically just "glue" for various things. I'm going in on the Sygg suggestion. I like devotion too, but is Phenax really an...

I like the nitpicky comments. Since when are a worse version of Maelstrom Pulse, a slightly better flame slash or Captain's Call 4 mana effects? The larger point that all of those cards cost more then the effect they produce, seems to be lost. (Note for nitpickers: I realize that Captain's...

I played Keranos in a friend's cube. My friend's cube is ultra slow, so not surprisingly he was really good. I even turned him into a creature thanks to N. M. Dracogenius and Ral Zarek (I also had Staff of Nin on the table, so yeah, we're talking that level of slow). I still have serious doubts...

Go for the Throat

What makes you want to go into B/U? Usually, the only time people in my cube go into B/U is when they are making a control deck, nabbing counters, finishers and removal. They also usually go into a third color (any of them), keep the curve a little high and value through. B/U heroic has gotten...

Cards with power level concerns: Fate Foretold (can't realistically be recosted, could add something dumb to it though) Archetype of Courage (also boring) Evangel of Heliod (white devotion prob doesn't need this for "support", should it just be big Elspeth, Angel of Serenity or something?)...

More random notes Geistflame Ordeal of Erebus Attunement (Almost definite) Font of (the blue one) Mana Bloom (but probably not) Overrun One with Nature Zegana vs. Simic Sky Swallower Green 6 Drop (prob Ramaging Baloths) Increasing Savagery Quasali Pridemage (sp?) Travel Preparations W/W/W/W/W...

I made my initial update. I've now moved past the "I want to play everything" phase and am now in the "this whole thing sucks, wtf?" stage where I repeatedly shift out 1-3 cards like it matters until I actually play the thing.