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Which one and why? Call of the HerdRoar of the Wurm

I've and cut and I'm now very happy with my cube. I really think 90% of my card choices are great and, above all, I'm very happy with how decks turn out and how archetypes don't seem heavily locked and have a lot of wiggle room. I've cut mostly two kinds of cards: 1) Narrow cards that were...

Hypnotic Spectre is not game ruining garbage at all! It's a very nice card whcih I'm actually very fond on in a "modern" environment. Keep in mind that by the time he attacks the opponent will have played some lands and will be able to answer him. And if he doesn't, well, he'll suffer but he'll...

What do you guys think of this? Aggressive Mining It's a very intriguing card! But I'm not sure of what kind of decks want it, what it needs to shine or how much support it needs.

You are not the only one, I've seen others express the same sentiment. Personally, and while my card evaluation skills may be rusty, I don't see this set doing much for modern. Many of the cards included are cool, but they seem way to cute, too costly and too fair to do anything in a format...

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Your cube seems solid Silsaw, there's not much I would cut. Two suggestions: God-Eternal Oketra Everytime I face Oketra on Magic Arena, my enjoyment of the game drops like a rock. It's one of those cards that you either answer immediately or lose except it comes keeps coming back. For...

Making some more cuts for polish. OUT Mnemonic WallZealous ConscriptsFireblastLooter Il-Kor Zealous Conscripts has a two card combo with Kiki-Jikki, Mirror Breaker which is not supported and hence I would rather remove it. It's also a red five-drop, which is a busy section and I like...

It's a cost because complexity on its own doesn't make a game strategically deeper or more fun. After all, there's more decision making in Go and Chess, which are very simple games than in the average Fantasy Flight game, despite the latter being significantly more complex. In other words...

I've been looking for White and Red lands to fill cycles so I've been thinking about the following. What do you guys think? Kjeldoran OutpostKor HavenGreat Furnace So far I'm tempted to just not complete the cycle but I might change my mind.

It's a real thing in Magic in general. When I look at the cards on my cube, newer cards have much more text than older cards do. For good reasons, mind, but the difference is there. For me this is important because the people I'm going to be playing at my local boardgame club and I know my...

No longer good enough for cube.

Keep in mind that flickering Parallax Wave the right way results in a one-sided Wrath of God! But I think flickering enchantments can be interesting. What do you have in mind?

I saw Verdant Force and thought "it would be cool to make a cube where this card is good". I checked cards around a bit and decided Mirage-Mercadian Masques would be a cool time period to represent but man, the creatures just suck. It's not that they are low-power, it's that they are awful...

One of the hardest parts of building a cube is that we build them for other people. And those people may have a different perspective or see things differently from you. Cards we like or archetypes that seem obvious to us may not be for others or not seem fun to them at all. So here's an...

I heavily prefer new borders because they are cleaner and more space is given to the text box and illustration. The thick borders of older MTG cards made sense given the printing process of its day, but their size now sticks out to me when compared to the newer border or games with no borders...

While I've heard this before, it seems it's one of Aesop's fables "The old man and his sons" which would predate both the United States and the Iroquois. Llanowar Tribe looks fun, though. 3 Mana is a lot. Is Elves played in Modern? I remember we used to have aggrocombo elves back in the day.

Yeah these are also good reasons. Trinket text and old wordings also impact the play experience for those who don't play Magic as much or who aren't as knowledgeable about it. It's more text to read, more things to keep in mind and a larger barrier of entry. I'm actually a bit thorn between...

But then we are all in agreement, aren't we? I do think you can make a "discard matters" archetype. But that archetype won't have any actual madness cards on it. It can be a bit like Modern Affinity, that has no Affinity cards but it's a misomer. I'm just saying that cards like Circular Logic...

I can't be the only one who doesn't like certain cards because they are ugly. For example, there are many reasons to run Chromatic Star over Chromatic Sphere. But I don't because the former is ugly: Chromatic Star Gurmag Angler would normally be a clear win for my cube. It ties in with...