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  1. FlowerSunRain

    FlowerSunRain's Cube

    Also, new cube errata: Clerics are Shamans and vice versa. Retracted as of 2/1/14, cleric is not an interesting tribe, thinking if Rage Forger is viable and if not, if a different errata is viable or if it should just get cut.
  2. FlowerSunRain

    FlowerSunRain's Cube

    When I read your post and saw that card, I knew what had to be done. I'm also running Crytoplast Root-Kin and Rage Forger and thinking about re-adding give // take.
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    FlowerSunRain's Cube

    I have finished my tentative update, mixing in some +1/+1 support. After doing this, and being disappointed with my aggro one drops, I'm thinking about my first maincube multiple: Rakdos Cackler! He's good for beating face, goes in two colors (and basically every aggro deck ever) and gives...
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    Sets BNG Spoilers

    Is a two turn delay on Liliana's Specter worth the potential for multiple triggers? I really doubt it. Also note that putting the top card of the library into the graveyard probably is more beneficial to the opponent then harmful.
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    Sets BNG Spoilers

    Harm's Way Divine Deflection Honorable Passage Carom Shining Shoal Candles' Glow (except life gain) Refraction Trap
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    Sets BNG Spoilers

    The only new playable? (Not that its great)
  7. FlowerSunRain

    GBS

    Like I said, Yahoo finance.
  8. FlowerSunRain

    GBS

    Try Yahoo finance if you really want to hate the world.
  9. FlowerSunRain

    Jonas 360 Cube

    Well, Violent Eruption and Blast from the Past can go into all kinds of decks and aren't poisonous in the least. Fiery Temper kinda sucks if you don't discard it. I mean, its still removal, but its often 3 mana to kill a 1 or 2 drop which is pretty lackluster. Reckless Wurm is in the same...
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    General The size of one's cube

    A sentiment very similar to this is why I moved all the land out of the main draft. The small number of specific 2 color fixing meant that the variance on these vital cards was much too high and it was upsetting to be in a color pair and see 0-1 lands in those colors.
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    Jonas 360 Cube

    On madness: Fiery Temper is way better then it looks. If you are just chucking it, you get a bolt. If you are chucking it FOR VALUE its basically a cantripping bolt. Blast from the Past is also amazing if you can put up with the weight of the card. Violent Eruption is not bad at all. Add...
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    Sets BNG Spoilers

    And when you look at a card for cube drafting, you need two separate lenses for that! Cube design and cube play! I'm glad I don't play any other formats.
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    General The size of one's cube

    I guess I should add (as someone who runs a 500 card cube) that while having more cards doesn't add any design space it is a nice "shorthand" way of swapping cards each draft. Manually picking and swapping is better design, but it is time consuming. The downside is that you get poor...
  14. FlowerSunRain

    General Jitte and assorted GRBS, P1P1, etc.

    Well, a lot of the ramp threats in cube are removal resilient. If Primeval Titan fetches a manland and a wolf run (or if you ramp into Grave Titan or Simic Sky Swallower instead) the outcome might be very different.
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    General The size of one's cube

    Adding more cards does provide more design space, but as you can increase the number of cards in your cube, the amount of design space that each card can add gets smaller while the negative effects of dilution get larger. The larger the effect of dilution, the more redundancy you need to...
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    General The size of one's cube

    Functionally and ideally for regular drafting there are two cube sizes: perfect size, where the you draft every single card (usually 360, but that can vary) and oversized. The advantage of a perfect sized cube is pretty clear: the draft pool is always the same, so you can balance around it in a...
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    Sets BNG Spoilers

    This is not Madcap Skills and is probably completely dependent on chaining off a Burning-Tree Emissary to be any good, but I'll be damned if it doesn't make me a little excited.
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    Sets Grey Merchant of Asphodel is the Best Card in Theros

    What does "without much devotion" mean? If you mean without other cards that say the word "devotion" on them, without a doubt. If you mean, without other permanents with black mana symbols in their casting cost, then no. If you mean without making a conscious effort to increase the number...
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    Sets Grey Merchant of Asphodel is the Best Card in Theros

    Well, I am an American, but grew up on a street called "Greystone" and when you write your address like 5000 times it sort of gets ingrained in your head.
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    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    I think at this point Quirion Dryad would be fine if they added the word "green" to the card or even if it just said "spell". Cubes just don't play a huge density of free spells to make it a problem (and even in that case, alternate storm wincon for those who care).
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