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Some additional ideas, ranging from boring to not supported to pushing overpowered: Death Grasp Karlov of the Ghost Council Magister of Worth Sin Collector Utter End Zealous Persecution Karlov would complete your Orzhov lore theme... Sentry may just be better than the archangel (due to...

I love the gist of your first sentence: "[cardname] isn't as good in this particular environment and that's why it is fun". Below the power-max bands, this is a great target for cube designers. I don't Wildfire to come out on turn 4, like with Budde's Standard deck, annihilating my opponent's...

That's a challenge that I enjoy undertaking! To further this discussion: how does one create a fun, competitive, nuanced Limited environment without using the splashy cards that everyone associates with cubing? Specifically, for our tangent, is there a reward for working toward arcane synergies...

Lashknife Barrier brings me back to IBC when casting Gerrard's Verdicts, Phyrexian Ragers and Necravolvers could get the job done. A cube really needs to be set up for the arcane spells to be relevant. Personally, that meant a decent amount of artifact and enchantment creatures to make...

Deftblade Elite is such a great card, playing shi-tapper while attacking, drudge shi-tkeleton on defense or the shi-tbyss with an aura/equip. Flayer Husk was always great in NMS, and I could see it over performing in formats with X/1s and a modest amount of raw card draw/selection. I imagine it...

I prefer no-music streams so I can just listen to my own music adjusted appropriately to the streamer's audio levels. I guess I wouldn't feel that way if anyone listened to pornogrind and played bad draft formats well...

{c}, {Q}: get excited

These cards seem perfect candidates for a cube that focuses on supporting 5 color pairs (and lets the nonsupported color pairs fall as they may).

Before you get too excited: there is a defunct band with this name already. :oops:

Some hard-to-support low-power strategies look to be gaining tools in Oath. Here's some that I am excited about! Equipment synergies that Might Be Playable (TM): I have been wanting something like toll collector for a while to combine with equipment that is flashy yet overcosted to equip (e.g...

Both of these cards are great, but I prefer Caldera Hellion due to lack of echo, lower CMC and +1/+1 counter synergy. Crater Hellion saw a decent amount of play in Urza's Saga Block and Standard Sneak Attack. It may have also been played in Wildfire after Tempest rotated (or in block, can't...

This fun interaction is courtesy of a gem from Ravnica as well: Congregation at Dawn Enlisted Wurm

Format for RAV-TSP was insane.

You and me both, but I doubt we will see it anytime soon (if at all). The most I hope for are cube-building contests to get some non-WotC cubes up to draft! And I am the opposite with paper: I actively dislike foils, signatures and alters. Well, not the opposite as I don't like foils on MTGO...

Played a long-fought G1 and a less spectacular G2 against safra with two non-blue grindfests! Here is what I played: In hindsight, Utopia Sprawl was a waste of action (should've been Mind Stone just to cycle) and the Vault of the Archangels should have been Kessig Wolf Run. I stayed low on...

Shambling Swarm I remember loving this hunk; might have a place in lists running Gray Merchant of Asphodel. For those of you that haven't been playing forever, here's the answer to "what if Skinrender were terrible?".

I really like the following as a flexible removal spell that keeps the flavor of red's coin-flip cards of yore: Chaos Warp Removal or Show and Tell? :D

Felidar Sovereign (aka land angel) wins the game due to life gain!

I haven't really taken stock of Devoid removal spells, but this *might* not be so bad if some new "colorless" removal could answer it (think Grip of Desolation, I guess). Although, it was always a big-ball-o'-stats in my DGR limited games, and I'm unsure if you want a 10/10 flying lifelinker as...

This assumes that the drafters aren't competing for the scarce resources (particular color pairs in Ridetide cubes), though. What percentage of lands are more-or-less unusable in the average draft? Or maybe not unusable, but facilitating some inane splash like a lightning bolt or brainstorm. The...