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How many manlands does your cube really want? While they are undeniably sweet, they fill a niche role for control or midrange decks in attrition wars, and you probably only actually need a fairly small set of them. I would hazard to guess that any 360-400ish cube would be perfectly comfortable...

It sounds like a tangle of potential issues, which we should probably first tease out: 1. Over density of raw lands for 2-3 drafters 2. Over density of types of specific fixing for 2-3 drafters 3. Underdrafted guilds 4. Format Specific Considerations I also will do 3 person drafts with my...

This looks pretty sweet. There are a few cards that seem a bit disjointed in terms of power level vs. the rest of the cube, and some cards that I am happy to see being run. Your white removal looks a little underpowered compared to what the other colors are offering, but if you wish to upgrade...

Oooooooooo That is lame lol I was trying to figure out why you would threaten to punch someone and than turn around and make jokes about kissing a women.

Thats ok Modin, I'm a native speaker, and I still don't get it lol.

I can't really comment too much on the enchantment themes, but I run an artifact theme. I think I have it pretty well fleshed out for lower power formats. In a word: splicers. One comment I would make, is that I didn't have much success moving the theme into black. The cards you have to work...

Yeah, in general its a pretty slow and clunky spell, that requires a fair amount of setup to really work. In a controlish build, the game should go long enough for you to draw into it, and than you can convert flashback spells to turn your own card advantage mechanisms into a win con...

The problem is that burning vengeance wants a control shell, while gravecrawler can't block. :(

Chris, I really like the idea of that cache runner. Giving it evoke is a neat idea.

It feels perfectly fine: basically, its runnable if you have a high concentration of x/1s and x/2s in your cube, which most of us arrive at incidentaly because we end up pushing early game spell sequencing. It also helps police token strategies. You should still check your list though before...

Let us not forget flametongue kavu and ember swallower

A list of my favorite incidental graveyard tools (power level all over the place): darkblast avalanche riders bone shredder crater hellion deranged hermit briarhorn ghitu slinger karmic guide mogg war marshal stingscourger mulldrifter reveillark shriekmaw eternal dragon twisted abomination...

For something like Chris' deck I think you would want it as a turn 1 play, to disrupt an opponent's curve, before sticking a turn 2 threat. Those kind of clunky fair decks are kind of one spell a turn decks until they hit 4 mana, and having either a turn 1 mana dork or turn 1 hand disruption...

hmmm....there are a few things that I feel should be untangled here. 1. Its important that virtual card advantage, raw card advantage, and library selection not be conflated. 2. There should be an appreciation of the power level of blue's ability to do all of these things holistically versus...

Is that a product of format speed though? EE is a great card, but tremendously awkward if its being played as a wrath that requires a two turn investment. In a low CC format, ratchet bomb seems similar, but not as mana intensive.

Hey, I read some of your comments about the peasent cube. Some changes you could make: 1. Increase the number of mana fixing lands. Because there are only 20 mana fixing lands in the cube, I would either try to stay in one color as long as possible, or prioritize lands in my early picks. You...

I'm glad you posted that mono black deck, as it highlights the issues I've had with mixing can't block black dudes with midrange graveyard value cards. That guy has two mutually excluding game plans in the same deck, but it dosen't look like it until he gets into a game.

As it so happens Alex Ullman recently wrote an intro article to the format. Here is the mtgo goldfish to the decks getting played, which can give you an idea of prices. The really expensive card is daze, which goes for $20ish online, so you will want to avoid delver variants that run it...

There was a guy at modern nexus who ran a video series of bant knightfall with steppe lynx. Lynx seemed pretty bad. :(

Alfonso, this looks excellent.