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Yeah but I want players to flashback No One Left Behind and Secure the Wastes, or rebuy it with Unearth and Ephemerate. It's not like I don't tempt my players to railroad their drafts by adding extra colors, I have several converge and domain cards, but three-color cards are way too prescriptive...

In terms of being a build around I would say the red one does the job the best, as long as it lets you repeatedly hit expensive dragons, which omens make a bit easier to alleviate in deckbuilding, letting you theoretically cast nothing but it over and over. Overall I like the grixis ones. The...

Is that something you want players to maximize?

After some deliberation, not having read/listened to anyone else, I have landed on: Alpha: Cube, to some extent, exists in the first place because people want to play with the power nine. While I'm not one for Vintage cubes, it is the face of the format, and Alpha is probably the most defining...

Elsha is for the guy who wants to play a couple pump spells and make like 5-10 prowess weenies on turn 4 by attacking the guy without blockers in a multiplayer game, it's a pseudo-Monastery Mentor in the command zone. If you think a 5 mana 3/3 that cantrips is much cooler than it then at that...

You can give players more breathing room to recover their games. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Luminarch Aspirant and random planeswalkers are going to singlehandedly punish you much harder for stumbling than almost anything in my list.

There's some quirks in the cube, one of them is basically all the removal being pacifism variants. Largely because it leaves things in play so you can't recur them, which is why Tar Pit Warrior is in there. It also makes cards like Imaginary Pet and Pangosaur more interesting, plus it just feels...

what are the design goals for your cube and how do your custom cards help you achieve them in ways regular cards don't

I wouldn't exactly call a cowardly goblin an oxymoron.

Unless you play Train's cube. I thought that was what you were pointing out?

Well, you are forced to play a 35 card deck if you use Yorion, the rules only say you need a 15 card minimum. Having a different maximum depending on whether you have a companion or not is however a custom rule.

Carrion Cruiser Chitin Gravestalker Dredger's Insight Molt Tender Gravestalker is the only one I'm relatively confident in, could see some of the others making it in.

I kind of want to change the cube to have more copies of Feldon's Cane as the only recursion method so there isn't any actual looping and you instead have an explicit limit of resources, but I don't hate what I ended up with. I might do that at some point as a personal project though.

I feel like I'm being powercreeped. also, theme giga sux A couple cards I'm kind of interested in: Carrion Cruiser Marshal's Pathcruiser Vehicles are kind of funny blink targets. I try to stay away from brainless value targets for my blink spells and instead make the etb effects more...

I don't know how my illiterate ass just glossed over the word "other" and Basri being mentioned in the first part of the sentence. I wouldn't rule out some sort of mechanic dealing with stun counters, I just expect it to be pretty far from an updated version of exert. My assumption would be...

Basri Ket is also from Amonkhet and already has a Ætherdrift entry on the wiki so I'm going to assume it's him. The templating of "activate an exhaust ability" excludes it from being a modernized exert, it has to be something along the lines of boast or outlast. It's a very limited set of...

Most egregious, they have a black border and not a white one.

Relevant ones in my list without the listed keywords: Leyline Binding Necrogoyf Gorex, the Tombshell No One Left Behind Hearth Elemental Bedlam Reveler Thrasta, Tempest's Roar Hollow One Scion of Draco Plus some emerge, delve, suspend and such. Also relevant although you can't cast them for...

Welcome to Purgatory. I'll probably make some more tweaks, and I should probably write a primer for this mess, but I don't expect the rough shape of it to change, whatever that is.

I don't dislike the actual mechanic, just how it's impossible to tell that a saga has the mechanic unless you specifically read the saga reminder text for some reason. It needs way better visual cues.