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In a low power format, moltensteel is a good card. Souleater is much too all in for my tastes in cube.

Your entomb gifts piles are actually interesting though. When people zone in on the "unburial rites" combo it can be hard to get them to think about anything else.

Its speculative how good CM actually is in this format. Thank you for that harsh lesson EMA >.>

My complaints with gifts are: 1. When people value gifts (at least with my mediocre to poor players) the tank period is obnoxious. 2. Gifts as super entomb happens quite a bit, and feels repetitive. Neither card though I think occupies the same niche as mystical teachings.

beh...it does conflict with drafting limited sets; I spend a lot less money on packs than I used too because of cube.

yeah, brass man is actually a surprisingly good card, though I don't consider them occupying the same niche.

I believe the niche they fill is almost completely unique: colorless, lifegain creatures. I say "almost" more as a formality: while their are alternatives, they are all vastly less efficient, being graveyard triggers with no built in sac. outlet, and costing over 3. Gnomes are a card that if...

This was one of my mythics from the sealed pool mana crypt $90 in rl; $5 online :(

I like hunting moa. Its biggest issues is being 3cc, which gets pretty crowded. It seems like a great roleplayer, a synergistic ETB, reasonable body for the cost, and the ability to feed graveyard interactions. At 3cc with an ETB, its a reasonable unearth target, and echo is just a great...

Bottle gnomes are amazing, just much worse in modern era magic, and without damage on the stack. Even in speed bump mode, they are are going to be at least a +6 life gain, and generally more, while brick-walling any smaller creatures. In cube, the ability to travel to the yard on command is...

Teachings is very good in certain environments, but I wouldn't consider it a staple cube card, or one that would likely be successful in your environment. One of the reasons it works so well in the penny cube is the access to bouncelands, which makes obtaining mana superiority for the...

Yes, thats more of what I was looking for. Though maybe it wants to go in a more comby form of the deck? I think I would be ok with that. For double strike, i found that white was one of the only places with actual playable double strike creatures, but was never really happy with the way the...

Yeah, I thought onder was tongue in check talking about boon because he knows I dislike the card, and saw I was talking about enhancers. There isn't any context to that post, so it might have been a misunderstanding on my part, which is fine. While that wasn't the clearest post I've ever...

Guys...I was asking about green and red evasion grantors/enchancers within the context of the berserker deck, not white enchancers for a prowess deck. :p Though I do like prowess decks centralized within U/G, rather than U/R/W. I'm just not sure you can do it at higher power levels.

Also, opinions on this card as a more balanced alternative to marsh flitter sengir autocrat It feels not quite good enough, but I've never actually played with the card. It seems like its purely a fodder and stabilizing source, which is honestly maybe fine for these army in a can cards. I...

That actually sounds pretty reasonable, though I could see running it as the only threaten effect in a list if you did run it: that play pattern can get old very quickly.

The issue with white isn't that it can't provide evasion. shelter apostle's blessing feat of resistance emerge unscathed (With Feat of resistance, in particular, making boon look bad in this deck's context) White's issue is that it struggles with vertical growth empyrial armor...

Two cards I've recently rediscovered volrath's shapeshifter wonder Both of these should probably be ran in every low power blue section, due to how much they open the color up. Wonder is the perfect card to support UG tempo decks, while shapeshifter supplements/replaces body double in...

Dom, can I unpack a little bit your thoughts on Berserk? I notice berserk isn't being run in your current list. I've been looking at a similar deck as a R/G combination. The core pieces being Berserk fatal frenzy reckless charge madcap skills become immense rancor elephant guide...

Its a necessary evil because its not a card you really want to run or are excited to run, but are priced into running because of density concerns: aka its a meh card thats only there to fill the aggressive one drop quota. Being in that spot as a design "seems kind of bad" to me, and I would...