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When I say Reanimate, I mean with life loss, but I do think discard + reanimate in one card is too easy and doesn't feel like playing reanimator anyway.

I'd like to replace my BUG slot with something that boosts reanimator, since that's BUG's natural identity in my cube. I was thinking maybe a missing piece wildcard like: Reanimator Charm BGU Instant Choose one -- [Reanimate]; [Eladamri's Call]; Draw 2, discard 1. But that's kind of boring...

Sideboard tech in Brain Freeze storm against shuffle Eldrazi.

I don't understand. The red, black, and white ones give you a 1-2 mana effect (Forked Bolt, Night's Whisper, Raise the Alarm) for 4-5 mana. The green and blue ones could do something if they end up fitting well in an energy package, but we haven't seen anything else energy-related in blue.

Drafting safra's contest cube, I first picked Chandra FC, tool Kolaghan's Command early, and went into a black/red control build with a few eldrazi. Fairly straightforward, the early removal should often be enough to get to the late-game bombs. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/600440[/url]"] Ones 1...

It's only Demonic Tutor if you're always tutoring for the same card, and even then less than half the time. If you draw the Smuggler after you draw the card you revealed for it (or if you have both by the time you would otherwise cast it), it's a vanilla 2/2 for 4.

The intro deck planeswalkers both need to plus three times to ult, and their pluses don't affect the board. I could see running the crappy Chandra with the intention of going minus, plus, minus, but even then I'd probably rather have any decent 6 drop creature. I see the Nissa mostly being a 6...

I think mono-red is entirely viable in your cube, but if it hasn't been performing, there is room to improve its creature pool. Mogg War Marshal, Kruin Striker, Chandra's Phoenix, and Avalanche Riders are on the weaker side. Hanweir Garrison and Grim Lavamancer are fantastic, and there are some...

Yeah, not bad. The spells-matter decks may have a hard time skipping turn 5 and not dying, and Docent of Perfection probably does the same job better.

Voltaic Brawler is playable on its own, and Harnessed Lightning is almost there. Energy is starting to come together nicely. I don't really know how vehicles will play out, but I'm definitely going to run some. I'm not sure a vanilla 5/5 is a good enough payoff for crew 3, but it will make...

Drafting GiftsForgiven's project. I started out drafting reanimator, but CubeTutor crashed. Tried again and I first picked Goblin Guide. I picked up a bit of green and build towards a R/G aggro deck, but ended up with exactly enough red cards to go monored and not have to worry about the...

Is this the "Format defining crap removal" thread? Black already has so much better removal, including several better toughness-based options. I'd go as far down as Tomb Hex before I played Essence Extraction. I could sort of see it if it had the flexibility of going face, but that's not a thing...

My prediction: Panharmonicon seems like it could be GRBS and format warping, creating insane combos in modern and making standard boring, but is actually unplayable jank like Strionic Resonator before it.

Valley Dasher So far, I'm excited about Skysovereign and more interesting uses of energy. Fabricate is continuing the trend of really dumb mechanics with +1/+1 counters.

New stuff in Sharzad, checking it out! I first picked Forgotten Huntress because it seems awesome and drafted a R/G aggro deck. I'm not sure if I have quite enough CoCo targets to run it, and I would have liked a few more 1 drops. I also would have liked to see more mountain fetches for the...

Dies to Wrath of God, basically unplayable.

I was actually getting cut out of green, and red was open, so that could have gone better. This archetype feels like it really needs more fetches to work at 540, and the cube could probably use more fetchables too. I didn't even see a looter, so this deck is going to be bad. Loam is probably not...

If you draft and draw the right two card combo, you can consistently get value (as long as you don't get blown out by removal)? Seriously, even if you draw your combo you can lose 10+ mana of tempo to a single Path. The solution to that general case, by the way, is G(n) = (6+4n)*3^(n-1).

I don't see how you're getting this. Precursor will only trigger once for casting this, even if it targets a golem multiple times. So that's two copies of the Precursor and two copies of each of two vanilla golems. That leaves you with the original card, two copies of Precursor, and six vanilla...

Has anyone worked on adding conspiracy and draft-matters support to xMage? How big a project would that be?