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Well, I find the conditional ones like Academic rector or defense of the heart also quite palatable. When a player works so hard for it, then it is fair. The portal is hugely expensive, but also repeatable. The following is also quite fair: citanul flute

Izzit? If you are tutoring for an answer than I am a tad confused. I am used that the tutor is used to find your bomb… The problem is that the tutor scales with your power level. When 2 mana added (or spread over 2 turns) is painful then it is the right power level. Any other and it is as strong...

It is already possible right? Sleeper enchantments, enchantment creatures, pacifism variants, oblivion rings, pariah, enchantresses, tutors, return, Opalescence variants. Just do not have mass enchantment destroy and you have an archetype. You could then add other enchantments into white, e.g...

Thank you for this great piece. Most of the times a designer starts with an idea, builds a cube, iteratively improves the cube, sometimes gets a new idea and adjusts the cube. Your evolution parallel is spot on! There are some drawbacks to evolution/this type of cube curating: one is left with...

Well, do not run it anyhow. Strong tutors make games boring. They always find the strongest answer. WotC fucks up many times, but they are right to ban strong/repeatable tutors. It is boring and scales, i.e., they are the strongest cards. The real question is: at what mana cost is a(n...

It is not broken at all. That each part triggers only once makes it balanced, maybe a tad weak. It is a a card which does not do anything on its own. The treasure bit is nice to have, but the draw is what makes it strong. Having to discard 2 cards before it triggers makes it a lot of work (but...

Yes and no. In a superman/pillow fortress I rather have the keg. In black red I rather have the bomb.

That’s what I have been saying all along. Cater to the playgroup! Thank you for also pointing out the other side.

Yuuuuup. It is fun, kills also manlands. The joy is that you can tick it up, but not down. Your four drop is a number of turns safe

Often the knowledge of fixing power comes through playing with it. So hook them with the basic land box and then switch over to having the fixing in the cube. Most of the times lands do not beat you to death…

Today I tried the following variant on C. Ravnic and I had a small discussion on the old days and Ravnic suggested weak creatures but maybe stronger draw/scry cards paradigm to let the game have a slower pace but to prevent non-games. Since my main cube is urza block (sadly no scry) I came up...

This has been simultaneously the worst and best advice I have seen in a long time. Every playgroup has their own desires and own restrictions. This advice immediately assumes that your group has similar desires and restrictions than the other one. However, a well curated cube is hard to achieve...

It depends on your goals and on whether you want to support 2 colour decks with a splash or more. I loved the play of the old preconstructed decks with a tad of customisation. So, I provided max 4 painlands but not more than 2 of a pair and 2 vistas. The cube was crappy and got scrapped, but the...

I would use both! Each one allows red to go into a different direction.

I can confirm that having (almost) no lands in the draft is fairer and more fun. It is rare for non-entrenched players to grasp the strength of fixing. Similarly, for players who do not know your cube. Having fixing in your draft makes the stronger players even stronger. This is completely...

Well, 16 years of creature creep does that…

I agree with everything you said. However the gold example you showed is flawed. Bloodthral priest or a madness wurm do not differ much. A gold card should be a card which (I only play pre8 so forgive my weird examples) 1) is much stronger than normally, spiritmonger 2) cement the powers of the...

Yes I meant add flying to it. The 3/2 flying trample accidental lifegain is weird. Green has some lifegain, but blue not. I would like to have a ability on it that feels blue Green and that signals the colour pair/or is interesting. This one does not do that for me.

Yes, try it. It is strong but there is a surprising tension. Do I dare to cast it with only one artifact in play?

Well, this can make cards really strong… I do love the idea though, but I also love gold cards. The problem of gold cards is correctly pointed out by Ravnic. That said, back to the example above. Why not use mystic snake with flying tacked on?