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Praetor's Grasp has been a favorite in our five color control decks because you can just play your opponent's best card. It's grabbed Akroma, Doom Blade, Hypersonic Dragon, and Traumatize, just in recent memory. Then of course in a singleton format it's just better than Cranial Extraction if...

Yeah, you ever play Dragon Fodder? It's like that, only it gives you value when it dies. lol my cube feels lower power than MMA sometimes! That's probably because my only MMA draft I got stomped by a sword though

Sounds awesome with Eldrazi spawn tokens. You still get blown up by Wrath but that's the same as if you played something like It That Betrays, and it's much better against Doom Blade. From what I saw of the card it's very well developed; it feels mythic and has a big impact but it doesn't let...

Upheaval is a pretty unique way to get value out of having a ton of mana. On the other hand, it's not fun to play out the rest of that game in which you have things, probably resource denial, and your opponent does not have things. I think if big mana was weak in my cube I would try adding it...

So a dear family member sponsored me to play in the M14 prerelease and I had a pretty solid pool. Went 3-1, though I believe I was slightly unlucky and could have gone 4-0 in another universe. Testing out this totally sweet deck tag: Ones 1 Festering Newt Twos 1 Goblin Shortcutter 2 Child of...

Wow, that is by far the best automatic decklist presentation I have ever seen on a forum! I think the mouseover tooltip of each card slice should be the full card image for maximum comprehensibility.

If your cube contains cards like Sigarda and Geist of Saint Traft you might not play Kalonian Hydra in your deck for dying to Doom Blade. I think if people are excited about it, that's because of its synergy with other cards that use +1/+1 counters. If that was a major theme of my green section...

If you can't get excited about winning a game because you cast Choice of Damnations, I think we may have some difficulty understanding one another. ;) I think Seacoast Drake would be playable in my cube; it's like a Fog Bank that doesn't work against midrange in exchange for being harder to...

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Who knew that the foil was worth 60 times more than the card it was printed on?

I think Cogitate could be fine, though strong, in a cube environment. Paying 2 mana for no card advantage tends to be too slow for a lot of cubes. You only want to cast Faithless Looting when you're dissatisfied enough with your hand to go for a pseudo-mulligan, and I think Cogitate will be...

Mindsparker: Punishing people for playing their spells at all doesn't make for fun magic so I don't think it's a cube card. It'll be barely playable in standard as it's a way for aggressive decks that can't play voice to fight Azorius Charm, Sphinx's Revelation, and Supreme Verdict. As a 3 power...

Thanks for the extra detail! Okay, that's a great reason to store the cube specific card id in the decklist. But you could maybe also store the card name, so that if the card id into the cube can't be found (or if it doesn't match the stored name? Not sure if ids are reused), you can still...

I managed to not notice Skeletal Vampire in that sealed pool :oops: I blame trying to actually type my answer within 20 minutes. I have a hard time forming opinions about NWO because it's so inherently not-for-me. A lot of what I like about MMA is only possible outside of NWO; stuff like...

Sure, I mean, my cube stopped caring about symmetry ages ago. That doesn't mean it's not a consideration for other people though.

If people are familiar with it then there's no problem. If they have to turn it around and squint to read it, it's up to you if that information is good for the draft environment. Also the card itself is hella sweet. It's probably playable even if you can only play three modes.

Clearly female, read the flavor text. I play her in a casual big red deck to power out giant fireballs and she does good work. She's very close to one-sided mana flare in the right deck, and when she doesn't live up to that at least she battles reasonably well. It's hard to find a red 4 drop...

Yeah, that's the explanation that occurred to me as well, it's just that I have no idea why it would be stored that way to begin with. The efficiency savings seems very minor, and only the barest thought would bring up the problem, which is that people change their cubes. To implement it this...

The white top end is just too good to ignore, right? And then I think all the other colors have some reasonable filler and get-there ability: Blue has pestermites, suspends - individually good but not a huge volume of cards Black has stinkweed imp, drag down, we could maybe be esper with the...

Coiling Lavamancer UR Creature - Snake Wizard 1/1 Flash When Coiling Lavamancer comes into play, reveal the top card of your library. If it’s an instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost 2 or less, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Otherwise, put that card into your...