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I've always considered Spreading Seas. It seems like a good card and blue is one of my mana denial colors. I'm not sure why I never pulled the trigger.

My cube has the full cycle, with the missing 5 sharpie onto guildgates.

Vault of the Archangel carries hard. I had a pretty poorly constructed deck that seemed destined for 0-3ville that picked up huge wins off of the life swing from it and ended 2-1 for basically no good reason.

Black/White puts together a few decks in my cube. B/W Heroic (usually B/W/U Heroic): You get all kinds of removal and evasion along with some disruption and push in with a powerful aura. B/W Control: All of the best removal + Resistant threats (usually token makers) = A winning deck B/W...

I hear you on that. I find that I learn more from recognizing what I don't agree with and figuring out how to successfully diverge from them as I do from finding things to emulate. Multiquoting for ease. Pretty poorly, unfortunately. Violent Eruption, Blast from the Past and Obsessive Search...

I haven't pulled the trigger on cutting geddon yet. While it seems completely out of place as a white card and its power level is suspect, it still seems to serve an important function in my cube that I'm not sure I want to lose. Red and blue are my mana denial colors, so it doesn't make...

So I drafted yesterday and the finals consisted of a White/Blue auras deck with Ephara back-up plan vs. Red/Green Ion Storm with Goblin Bombardment support, which resulted in some of the wackiest and thought provoking Magic games I've ever played. I can now officially say that this cube is a...

That's part of the beauty of the card: not only does it do a laundry list of other stuff, also including destroying opposing auras and turning off opposing tricks ( give there mulldrifter pro-blue so it can't be vensered), if those situations don't come up, the card is still really useful for...

My 5 for flickering Ward would be: Syndic of Tithes Kor Spirit Dancer Fabled Hero Livewire Lash Agent of the Fates

This is a cool idea, though there is obviously a difference of opinion on what constitutes "fairly low power level" and "a focus on synergy". Including Hidden Strings was a baller choice, I love that card. If someone were to want me to do one of these, I'd probably go with Flickering Ward.

My friend runs him in his "retail limited on roids" cube and even without any synergy other then "Jam in as many creatures as possible" he was decent enough for a deck slot. I've considered running him. With topdeck manipulation I can't imagine him not being awesome. The flexibility of...

Awesome! I had the 2 mana dude as white, but I think he's actually better as a red dude. Like I said in another post, I think the 3 mana dude needs a buff to be playable. Even with a really strong combination of stats, giving them 2 turns of chump blocking probably needs even better upside...

Well, basically what this seems to amount to is "decks with blue use a lot of other colors' cards better". Is that the desired effect? The card is certainly interesting enough to play and compares favorably to the alternatives. Their is little downside to other then deciding if this is what...

I did some math and got 36% when both players had a fairly normal and identical curve.

Well, is a one mana premium on Unsummon, which qualifies as reasonable filler, worth sometimes being a 2 mana discount on griptide, which is pretty bad? I mean, if we are looking at raw power, Unexpectedly Absent gets a significantly more flexible effect then a clashed Whirlpool Whelm at WW. I...

Capsize If you are worrying about out-durdling, capsize is the #1 threat.

Smokestack has been to me a reasonably powered 4 mana card in my cube. If I ran lots of zombies and multiple gravecrawlers I might feel differently.

Art too strong, cube OP. Seriously, though, themed cubes like this are wonderful from a historical perspective, but the gameplay is generally erratic. These sets are ones that I drafted a lot, though, and they play pretty well, particularly once you cut out the circles of protection, so I...

They still come into play with double the loyalty, which still means instant ults for a lot of them, but probably not worth building around a 6 mana enchantment in modern.

Triple Masques was a horrid format and rebels were absolutely miserable. Being able to sink mana for progressive huge amounts of card advantage was just plain more powerful then what anyone else could do in that format and some of the cards they could search for were just stupid. Nothing else...