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Day: 016 Set: Alara Reborn (ARB) Release Date: April 30, 2009 Cards: 145 Leads: Aaron Forsythe (Design), Matt Place (Development) All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: CubeCobra Link As a note, I will be traveling the next few days, so I will not be making "almost daily" updates here. Saved by the...

Torgal, A Fine Hound is kind of like a worse Biophagus, but Biophagus is one of the premiere 2mv dorks. Humans make up about 30% of my creatures, though they represent a little less of green. A totally solid, cute design that's pretty powerful, but definitely a tier 2 design at best.

Hellllll yeah. Anything with the text "return all lands from your graveyard to the battlefield" has got me interested. Compares well to Vorinclex, which is one of my favorite super-complicated cards that I struggle justifying in my Cube. This does a very similar thing, but only attacks once...

I think it gets solved a little using the less good art. Anyways, I do like it. I've been looking for an excuse to play Whitemane Lion again, and making it Legendary may be enough to do that? That said, Sunpearl Kirin is probably still preferable here, even if I think the upside of drawing a...

Day: 015 Set: Mirrodin Besieged (MBS) Release Date: February 4, 2011 Cards: 155 Leads: Mark Gottlieb (Design), Erik Lauer (Development) All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: CubeCobra Link This was an important block for me, as it's the era when I really first got into limited. I remember losing hard...

I am more willing than most to put cards in my Cube that, either in their text box or artwork, aesthetically offend me. This one crosses the line, though. Seriously. Generating +1/+1 counters and trinket artifacts almost every turn in a proper midrange deck? Why would I not want this?? I just...

My Cube is 720 cards!! But more importantly, this is a lot, yes, but it's part of my effort to cut some of the power outliers in my list. I'm sure these will have shorter shelf lives than most inclusions, but I'm using this set as a refresh of sorts.

Yeah. Honestly, I hate the aesthetics of the games too, and it's not really what I want in Magic. But I can't deny the novelty of the designs!!

I love it. I ran Dueling Rapier for a while, and it was pretty good! I considered Hidden Footblade seriously, because in addition to doing the same thing on enter as Coral Sword, as a haste enabler, it promises for splashier later turns. But I think I'd prefer Coral Sword to the Footblade all...

Day: 014 Set: Fallout (PIP) Release Date: March 8, 2024 Cards: 154 New Leads: Annie Sardelis (Design) All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: CubeCobra Link Another Commander set! RNG seems to love Commander as much as the median Magic player. I love this set. Literally so many designs that I think make...

I like the art (and the alt art for this one is incredible too) butI still like Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance more, and that's currently waiting to come back into my Cube. Three mana for a single token feels way too safe, even if I get the land afterwards.

Quina, Qu Gourmet Redundancy for recent staple, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, a supremely underrated card. There are so many incidental and repeatable token generators these days that hit the board in time to get value off Quina its first turn, whether for the trinkets like Ivora, Insatiable...

Day: 013 Set: Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) Release Date: June 10, 2022 Cards: 344 New Leads: Glenn Jones (Design) & Corey Bowen (Development) All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: CubeCobra Link Man. Initiative is really not an ideal mechanic. This set would've been really cool if...

absolutely my runner-up for the set, I'm so grateful for Stridehangar Automaton for making me really feel good about running him again, he's been in and out too often

Triple Triad Definitely for multiplayer considerations only, but this seems like a lot of fun. Quistis Trepe SlowCaster Mage much? Is it worth paying an additional {1} and losing flash to double the graveyards you have access to? No. But I did like Slickshot Lockpicker and was considering it...

Day: 012 Set: Magic 2011 (M11) Release Date: July 16, 2010 Cards: 249 (105 new) Leads: Aaron Forsythe (Design) & Erik Lauer (Development) All New Cards, Sorted by ELO: CubeCobra Link The Titan Set. The first set I did well in a competitive event (just shy of 16th place in a 250-person PPTQ if...

This thread made me look back on my MTGS days, and wow, I really went out of my way to frame my Cube as "not as hardcore as everyone else's" because I remember getting called stupid for talking about anything that wasn't powermax. I still have plenty in common with the design sensibilities of...

\ We're up to 22 different art choices for Lightning Bolt now. There are a lot of good ones, but I think I have a new second favorite. I've really like the Peach Momoko one, but it's $800, and the Strixhaven Mystical Archive by Ezoi is great as well, but there's no English-language version...

I really like this card, and back then, I was trying to see if I could support centaurs in any way haha The GG cost for getting it back, timed to when the land going into the graveyard, was too big of an ask. Nowdays though? Honestly, it's worth a second look.

I feel like this will go over well here. Think Twice for the careful thinker!! Will you Consider this card even if it costs an extra mana? Curate lets you scry one more but is missing the flashback, and that has seen some interest from curators of Cubes. I have Dreams that this card will be...