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I also want to add that being a 3-0 deck is a relatively low standard in terms of consistency. If I took some of these decks and said you have to run smoothly for five or ten rounds, with real money on the line, I would expect to see some very strong opinions from players regarding balance, as...

To be perfectly blunt, cube in general is not a suitable competitive medium, nor is that the focus of most designers. With no prize structure in place, balance isn't really important, and there is no real motivation to even approach the format competitively. You can't just be adding cards...

I would rather have it be a low powered card thread, than just peasant. There are tons of old rares that basically function at contemporary uncommon power level. But to answer your question, yes.

Part of this too is that its ok to stumble on mana as long as your deck is doing powerful enough things to make up for the lost time. That was part of the reason why I was talking about goblin bushwhackers and other burst damage sources (as well as the general concept of turn 2 aggro) in my...

Also, since this discussion will inevitably bring us back to exile effects for the processors: flickerwisp Such a great card.

Time to make it a priority to get those painlands, instead of drafting 2 on average (the downfall of my original painland experiment) you now need at least four, which means something I haven't completly thought out yet.

If goblin freerunner ever reads this page, he will break down crying :/

Thats what makes it so great though, instead of having goofy cards like wastes, that only support colorless decks, you get both your colorless and colored fixing in one package, so the colored decks aren't being hurt. But you create resource competition in the mana base depending on what...

Goblin heelcutter makes that look really bad.

Any cool archetype ideas? I need a voice of sanity before I try to make it all pingers and life gain again.

So, with the new colorless mana sign, any thoughts on breaking out the idea of a painland mana base again? You could couple them with the scion/spawn, while pushing the colorless mana cards to the top of the power curve. This would be an original format, obviously.

That was actually japhan and I, here and here.

I honestly didn't know barrier existed. Right now I would be inclined to stick with blessing, because theres nothing broken that needs fixing. Its possible that temp protection effects, priced at two mana without the draw of any extra interactions, would be substantially worse picks; and...

Lets lay out the white combat trick package first: emerge unscathed apostle's blessing feat of resistance guided strike moment of heroism rally the peasants shelter triclopean sight battle mastery Criteria for inclusions were: 1. Provides disruption, supporting protect the queen...

A lot of flash creatures make some sacrifice in stats to make up for the fact that they have flash. Bounding krasis, that wolfir card, deceiver exarch: not that impressive. Teferi is a lot of awkward mana, etc. Its even worse if you have an etb heavy format, since those cards generally don't...

I think its better to think in terms of providing impactful instant speed spells, to reward people for keeping mana open, than overloading on flash creatures. A lot of ripetide formats are so fast, that keeping mana open to cast below the curve spells seems like a poor strategy. You're just...

Since you are running wind zendikon, and have fertile ground/utopa sprawl with heliod's pilgrim, have you considered freed from the real? I don't actually think mulldrifter is that powerful. You can't really chain them in cube like you can in constructed formats. We ran maw of the obzedat...

nettle sentinel The deck is also capable of producing huge amounts of mana, with priest of titania, and can afford to just equip pass it down a line of elves, wreaking havoc. Edit: In cube there are a lot of cards it combos with too: death touch creatures, hypnotic specter, ninjas. You can...

My vote would be for viridian longbow, based on the pauper metric. Bola sees 0 play, while longbow is a weapon of mass destruction in certain decks.

They're great, and I would run them all. There are few mechanics more fun than ninjutsu, and I suspect your new players will have a lot of fun with them. The ninjas tend to be tempo negative on their own, so they want a certain Density of evasive 2-3 CC ETB creatures to generate value with. In...