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for context, i draft someone else’s arena peasant cube and i often go for the waker of waves reanimator control deck. as long as i’ve got early floater type creatures i will usually maindeck this in that archetype

it’s fine if you want more redundancy for the waker of waves style reanimator decks in low power. will easily wheel to the player in that deck as it’s tough to justify otherwise.

some basic thoughts from the draft and games… -fixing felt about right in terms of supporting 3 color decks. players noted they could easily grok what the new land cycles did. was nice to see that my desired distribution of decks came through in the draft - most people on 3 colors, with a couple...

draft is done! decklist photos and records here, will try to cobble some thoughts together later. very tired. decks drafted: Jund Jund (plus Kaito) 2-1 (me) Bant Lands 1-2 Jeskai Spells 2-1 5c Ferrous 1-2 (also had one guy show up late and jump in with a sealed pool: sultai value 0-2, not...

paper cube: Notes: My group specifically requested initiative and it looks cool at least as an occasional thing, so more than willing to try out most of the init cards as they’re clearly crazy strong in 1v1. Archivist seems very easy to trigger with triple fetches at 384 and i love hatebears...

red tidings is sick yeah. i’m testing Dragon Turtle for vintage, and another good one i noticed is that black 2/1 deathtouch that draws when it dies

those adventure cards hit REAL GOOD for lower power right?

draft day tomorrow! we’ve got 6 drafters and a 7th showing up later who will use the remaining cards in the cube as a sealed pool to jump into the games. can’t wait!

i was JUST talking to some folks who run weekly artisan cube drafts on arena and we’ve pretty come to the same conclusion: it’s an Escape to the Wilds sidegrade

it is so sad

having a job and family do be like that sometimes

i am probably the worst possible person on these forums to answer this question… but i can at least dump a few resources on you that may be helpful. 1. i’m sure you’ve already heard about whoever this fella Caleb Gannon is. i saw a couple of decklists from his MTGO synergy cube and scoffed...

yoooooo no one ever told me that sam black also has a podcast! and it’s SO GOOD! “drafting archetypes” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drafting-archetypes-62-black-white-in-mtgneo/id1545775544?i=1000551791038

hermit is way better than dragon IMO

these dragons are way cool! generally speaking if i chop generic mana off to fix the dev, they’re all eminently cubable designs for high power levels. and for my peasant arena cube they’ll probably almost all go in as-is. just good value

i like all 3 of these cards! delve is probably correct on magus as a time gating mechanism, that’s smart. i don’t think i go deep enough on artifacts for welders yet but i will keep these two red cards in my head in case i go that route

i hope this too, i would be mega excited for a big boy Brazen Borrower with UU adventure, 2UU dragon

it’s a pretty high value card if you can afford to spend all that mana yeah. would be good in anything rarity restricted as long as value-based red is a deck

https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/select/elvish-visionary-vs-elderfang-disciple-the-nature-of-card-advantage/ wanted to share this old but good sam black article for discussion. was very relevant to NEO draft and also has a lot of lessons for cube architects!

sounds like it needs tested