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If the question is comparing 2-drops, the Hydra doesn't really even qualify. I also think the Harpooner is kind of an absurd amount of text, so if the players aren't already familiar with it I would consider giving it a cut.

I uh... play my custom pack wars format on the reg!

I'm more concerned about Jump Start requiring an extra discard than the distribution of the mana.

+ Shriekmaw

It's a bit tangential, but I once wrote an article on set cubes that may have some relevance: https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-set-cubes/

Wait, what's the CMC on split cards again? The cascade into split card was always a weird mechanic... just thinking about Erratic Cyclops interactions.

If you were looking for something to invert....

Of all the cards I've seen, this is the ugliest.

Psssh, no reprinted mechanics is my prediction.

Lightning Belfry

This is nutso, I'm pretty sure I got it for around 20 cents when RTR was released. Or just kept a copy from a draft and didn't think anything of it, other than being a borderline cube card.

Unleash was barely even a mechanic. I think in practice I've put the counter on the card 90%+ of the time. Maybe that's a cube bias though. Only this one ever gets put on blocking duty:

I like that the graveyard mechanics interact with each other in a smooth way. Should encourage drafting certain three-color pairs. Whenever I drafted RTR things felt really disconnected.

pays 0 life, Morbid on demand

What about... Xantcha Sacrifice a permanent: Regenerate target creature Starting & Max Hand Size: +1 Starting Life: +3

This never would have occurred to me. Thanks!

I'm not sure how effective it will be, but when we've been playing, we've used a houserule for Cube Pack Wars that fetchlands don't deal damage to use. Since you can't do that in MTGO (or change the starting life total), I've put in a higher density of incidental lifegain than I normally would...

Is this all that necessary? Can't you just not run land destruction in your stack? Or where do you land on that?

I was wondering if you guys had thoughts on designing single card stacks. For the purposes of this discussion, I mean a format where players are randomly given cards (through some mechanism) from a stack of cards. More specifically, for my purposes I mean designing a pile to do cube pack wars...

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