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Oh, he's not going anywhere. This is one of the biggest advantages of being at 720 cards. He's never been a top pick but he almost always gets played (even when he shouldn't) and he holds his own with a reasonable floor. I can't complain, that's for sure! Haven't had a draft since he arrived...

Definitely just missed Skyclave Shade, Phoenix of Ash, and Master of Death I had specifically thought about them but they missed the post, they both definitely need to be listed here. The God-Eternals are recursive but not from the graveyard, which means that they can only be recurred if...

I started my cube off in 2012, and Dark Ascension was the new hotness. Having been influenced by Cube content on Channel Fireball that may be familiar to a few of you, Gravecrawler was one of a handful of cards I broke singleton for, as it emphasized a combination of themes that I was eager for...

I'm likely going to be taking it out of my cube after a decade here, though it kills me to lose yet another card from my favorite "block". Creatures are just too good these days, even in lower-powered or rarity-restricted lists. Glaciers are slow, if you didn't know. I used to love it in my...

Honestly, having played against Tracker in draft and seeing it in action in standard, I'm really impressed with it from a power-level perspective, and it prompts fun draft and deck-building decisions that are pretty reasonable to meet. Gonna start looking for a cut for it myself...just how many...

I've had to make so many concessions to my own best practices for cube design these last two years, like "using the version of the card with reminder text" had to get thrown out the window for the unbelievably gorgeous storybook frames on cards with Adventure in Eldraine, and now with the...

As much as I liked the style of the D&D booster fun cards, it's the same issue where it's too hard to tell what colors cards are at a glance. I'm glad they're experimenting with different styles like this, as both are neat, but I will safely avoid them in my cube and hope that future sets have...

I've been enjoying the heck out of these forums because it's got the most thoughtful, collaborative, and vigorous conversations in the Magic community. I had browsed for a few years before actually hopping in, but I'm glad I did, and my opinion of Riptide has only grown. Real happy to be here.

They frequently get mixed into the deck, they require a surprising amount of extra thinking by both players to understand the board state at any time (especially with multiple token types, which is common), they're easy to mistake for your hand or the person next to you's hand, and they make a...

Like I said, when you make it easier than not to get the proper tokens for your draft deck, people will actually try! And it makes it a much better play experience. Dom's right that sideboard cards face-down in the same sleeve is actually the worst thing humanly possible, literally use a...

Nah, no one's said anything or had an issue, I just hadn't taken a step backwards to properly assess the insane number of tokens we end up with at a cube of my size without a design restriction around minimizing unique tokens. Using other items for tokens is fine (and still happens plenty with...

I'm trying to use color-coded sleeves to make it super obvious what tokens go to what cards, I've found as long as I actually do it right (i.e. black sleeves instead of purple for zombie tokens, people are pedantic I guess) it's made things easier. I think the beads are a good solution though...

I'm trying to get my tokens in color-appropriate sleeves and keep them with the basic lands, so that when people are doing deck construction, they actually pick out the tokens they may need in advance instead of waiting until they're mid-draft and start using d20s because they can't immediately...

Based on an extra week of drafting since my last update, as well as a cube draft this weekend (and the conversations about inclusions that come therein), going to me making the following updates: Katilda, Dawnhart PrimeGood-Fortune Unicorn Katilda, Dawnhart Prime in for Good-Fortune Unicorn I...

Back in ~2008 you could find cases of 12 pre-constructed decks from Ravnica on eBay for like, $30-40 USD? So my friends and I bought a few cases and brought them to Scout camp and sold them to kids who got spending money from their parents for the camp shop and such for $10 each, making around...

I started with Coldsnap. After picking out cards I liked from my friends' boxes, they gave me 5 boosters, one from each of the most recent sets. I opened up a pack of Dissension first, and got a Rumbling Slum. Made a green/red deck that was primarily Kamigawa snakes led by a playset of Sosuke...

I was very happy with getting Waker and Godzilla (Titanoth Rex) pretty much back-to-back as "fair" reanimator payoffs, it's been good. Agreed with @blacksmithy that Curator of Mysteries is probably a more flexible and interesting card, but it doesn't direct your drafters in a specific direction...

Apparently Disturb and Decayed won't be returning for Crimson Vow? Mechanically, I like Disturb quite a lot and was eager to see a pushed card with the mechanic in the next set. With Decayed, I'm actually excited to think that we may be getting normal 2/2 zombies again in an Innistrad set. Very...

I haven't updated my CubeCobra with MID yet, but as of last count, I'm cubing with 34 DFC in a 720 list, with the majority being the MDFC of the last year, particularly because I run the 10-card (20-card??) cycle of Pathways as my 7th duel land for each color combo. If you want to get a quick...

They thought they could block my 4/4 with it and be OK, but it's not quite protection. It was a pre-release so I let them take it back. You can stop removal pointed at it for sure! Again, it's not necessary complex itself, but it has so many elements to it that it's not surprising that folks...