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I would just go skeletal vampire, but you should probably not do that for power level reasons. If you want a reanimation target, you'll want something killable, but with an etb. Reanimation is not fun when you jump through hoops to reanimate something that just dies to removal, or the threat...

Void winnower surprises me too: seems a bit pricy for your enviornment. You're showing timely hoardmate both being cut as well as being added? Not a huge fan of harness by force. Its a mana sink yes, but the instant speed untappers are so much more interesting, as they can be used to abuse...

Yeah, that mirrors my experiences with mesmeric fiend, which is why I cut him for augur of skulls. Augur is a great card, though I have no idea how high up the power ladder it can climb. The other thing I like about this, is that it gets us talking about breathing some soul into midrange...

Mire's toll is unplayable. Ironically, the lower power you go the easier it is to accomidate discard packages, because of all of the black value ETB creatures that have discard a card stapled to them. You also get persecute, nightmare void, the specters, and okiba-gang shinobi. You even have...

I've been toying around with that idea somewhat here, though I haven't been really satisfied with the results so far. The big incentive for bouncelands is the ability to abuse the untap, so that was the starting point I took. Frantic search and snap are your best untap effects in blue. You...

Let me rephrase that a little bit, I was just going through how I would cut the section down to better accommodate a 360 cube (something I wasn't clear on). I know you had been asking about reducing the overall size, and was curious how it might looks if you were to go to that extreme. The take...

You could make it singleton if budget wasn't a concern. The format would feel very different however. I'm already running some more expensive cards, like ink-eyes, niv-mizet, savra, and grand arbiter. Other than that, you could do things like run six chromatic stars. There were some more cards...

Go turnabout and never look back. Proceed to 0-3 the draft. No regrets.

I could be persuaded. I would have to hear more accounts from people that have ran it though. I just think in general that their are only a few puzzle pieces for higher power discard to play with.

How about just breaking singleton alot on thoughtseize and inquisition. Something like x3 thoughtseize, x3 inquisition; x2 thoughtseize, x2 inquisition, x2 therapy; or x6 thoughtseize. Treat it like blacks version of mana elves or brainstorms, and just acknowledge that only only a small number...

Right now, if you cut all of the singleton breaking (not counting lands) you would be 24 cards smaller. That would put you at 416. Not saying that you should cut all of the singletons, but remember that the smaller the cube the less important it is to have multiples to up density when you do...

I've taken this approach before, and found it problematic. The advantage of the guild theme/subtheme approach is that it makes you think critically about your themes. When I would try the other approach, I would find myself in situations where certain color combinations just weren't being...

Yeah thats a lot to manage. It might be a good idea to lay out the color pairs and match them with a theme and sub theme. Right now it just looks overehelming.

Needle specter is a black heroic card. At worst, he is essentially the same pressure as hippie, at best you can toss a cloak on him and really threaten some discard. Its just a card that is good on its own but becomes better with synergy, while hippie is just very good on its own. Yeah heroic...

Ok, I am declaring this cube finished. Might we take the design/construction out of the title? I won't go anymore singleton with it unless nearly identical cards are printed of where I have broken singleton, or weird stuff like fair blood artist, which will be going in. It feels very...

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I know, I'm telling you why he didn't think they were worth addressing, so you can be less amazed or disappointed at his analysis. He did the same thing in his modern article, where he correctly diagnosed a major problem with a format, which people that like modern naturally had a problem...

Its really unlikely that Paulo is missing many connections, as he probably has been playing with proxied copies of the cards for some time. He probably just arrived to the same conclusion that I eventually did: the payoff for a lot of these mechanics is so marginal as not be worth discussing...

The reason that I'm leery about allies in cube, is that they are worded in such a way as to make a player think of them as a tribal mechanic. That puts you in a position where you have to awkardly announce to the group "hey, I know this here card looks like we have 'allied tribal' now, but its...

I'm just adding cutthroat as a more balanced replacement for blood artist. Negative nancy time. The only thing I would add is that I don't like allies in cube because they are the red herring tribe unless you run a huge density of them, which dosen't currently exist.