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Is there anything people playing your cube can do while the staring contest happens?

You only got one right - Spiritdancer's a Wizard, Virtuoso is a Rogue, and Fencer is a Druid. No, I don't know either.

Tetzimoc has the funniest bad combo, though: Generous Patron "You get a prey counter! And you get a prey counter! Everyone gets a prey counter!"

So, it's been a while, and I'm not full-up on mental energy so I'm not going to go into a ton of detail, but I felt like I should clarify why I think that creatures getting better has had negative effects. In my mind, the problem comes from two interrelated problems — the overall clock has sped...

Spreading Seas also messes with their colors. To be clear, I am not part of the contingent that thinks that Spreading Seas or Lithoform Blight are inappropriate in a bounceland format. Sure, it feels kinda bad when your bounceland gets Seas'd, but it also feels kinda bad when villain makes you...

From experience, stuff like Cleansing Wildfire on a bounceland feels strong but not back-breaking, unlike the sheer brutality of undoing two whole land drops. If I was going to make a land denial strategy in a bounceland format, I'd look for these kinds of cards: Vedalken Plotter Contamination...

On the topic of big spells, I built a casual deck around these guys when Strixhaven came out: Living Lore Torrent Sculptor It used expensive spells with cheap cycling costs (like Boon of the Wish-Giver or Treacherous Terrain) alongside stuff like Magma Opus in order to make those guys into big...

Warped Devotion

The thing is that Bombardiers isn't busted in the context of Commander, because you have three times the number of opponents and everyone has double the normal life total. Games are also way slower in general unless you're looking at CEDH.

From when I've played with it, it just straight up vomits tokens onto the battlefield if you have any support for any of those tokens. If you don't, it's just a naff creature. I'm not sure that it's a good card for Cube.

If tokens are just bodies in your cube and you don't care about the types, you can just sharpie out the types and run one 1/1 white creature token.

Dang it, WotC, why do you keep printing mechanics that are stupidly interesting, especially for my silly 2-3-7 projects (which I'll get back to at some point, I swear)? Plot's probably one of my favorite mechanics that I've seen in a hot minute.

The trick there is to focus on stuff where it's incredibly obvious whether or not the boost applies. Compare Silverfur Partisan to Rotlung Reanimator - it's almost always going to be really obvious whether or not a creature is a Wolf/Werewolf, but, like... here's the art and name of four White...

Sounds like you need more ramp, then, and/or cards to help stall out until you can slam BIG ELDRAZI. I dunno, put Eye of Ugin in the BLB or something.

I mean, if your core design goal is "make the OG Eldrazi fun and cool", and you've got "good" cards that outclass them... those "good" cards are bad in this context and you should scrap them. Or you could just admit to yourself that you do not, in fact, love Eldrazi, and change the name of your...

Silverfur Partisan?

The paradox of Magic: creatures getting better has made the game worse unless you happen to really like midrange.

I've wondered for a while how much "Domain tops out at 6" really matters. None of the Domain effects stand out to me as broken with X=6 instead of X=5 except for maybe Tribal Flames?

Nah, you can just give it "{T}: Add {c}". I think you're mixing up rule 305.6 (which grants the basic land types the ability to tap for the appropriate color) and rule 305.7 (which defines what happens when a land gains a basic land type, which includes the loss of other abilities). Or maybe...

Bloomburrow is going to be nothing but Redwall references, just you wait.