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I didn't mean to offend, but recognize that the tone has been a lot more aggressive than usual, and that we went on tangents that started to miss the core of the discussion.

So through the bikeshedding, nitpicking and fields of strawmen, can we agree that having a healthy amount of agency is important, and that there are multiple ways to introduce it? Among them: - Cheap spells - Value generation, card draw - Smoothing, cantrips - Threats that are relevant if not...

Ramp is one of the things that scales to the power level of threats, so low power cubes don't really need to play bad ramp spells. The same ramp spells (well, not Grim Monolith) can work fine because the 5-drops you're ramping into will not win the game that fast.

You know, that's also the reason I don't like classic ramp very much either. It's too dependant on drawing the right mix of ramp and fatties. But when WotC started printing expensive cards that were actually worth printing, I found I didn't like the environment they created either, even when the...

They might finally properly develop that relationship between Frodo and Sam. But yeah, LotR is the most chaste universe I know, it's like people reproduce mostly by sudden materialization. It's even eerie.

I replaced Withdraw with Rushing River because Withdraw was often a huge blowout... Rushing River is really nice, bouncing nonland, noncreature permanents is a big deal for blue in my cube, since it responds things that the blue player didn't have a chance to counter, but not in a way that...

Rollercoaster make more chemical.

Most of them, apart from a few like Enigma Drake that people are raving about (and I like as well). Knight of the Ebon Legion also dodges this issue by having a mana sink. Maybe the mana sink ability on Dragonsguard Elite will also make it work out nicely. These threats make the matchup less...

I'm looking forward to more ward, but I liked shroud in small doses. I liked the designs below, and I appreciate the drawback of not being able to target them yourself together with a Ward [infinite]. They led to more meaningful interaction in many cases, because blocking becomes necessary...

These cards that depend on coming down early add a lot of variance though, since they are bad topdecks. I loaded up on growing threats during a time, but found that too aggro to a make-it-or-break it direction. It might be fine with a ton of cantrips and value generation, but for environments...

So what have people tested and liked so far? I'm really, really down on this set for cube. I haven't found almost any cards I'm interested in. This is the exhaustive list, and that's forcing quite a bit: Frost Trickster Umbral Juke Closing Statement Humiliate Quandrix Campus (and other...

Very last game I played this weekend, my board was this: Bygone Bishop Thassa's Oracle In my hand: Kor Skyfisher Ardenvale Tactician

It's really minor, but is it possible to move the Report link to maybe an icon on the top right of the post? It should declutter the main reading column.

Here is the origin of the Strix Scale: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgcube/comments/c2wyta/the_strix_scale_shorthand_for_cube_power_level/ Edit: Wait, I just pasted a link... Kirb EDIT: Shoved it into code form as it was the only way to stop the whole reddit post from appearing in the forum...

Oh, I remember there was a video now. Guess that's why I was primed to word the question that way :D But it doesn't really answer the question completely - both times in the video it was powered out by Stitcher's Supplier, which was the Modern combo. I wonder how it fare without it, in an...

Not sure if it's actually low power, but I like the classic: Fire // Ice It's a high agency, elegant, and resonant card. Sprite Dragon More like a mid-power card, grows quite fast and fill that role of aggressive beater in the spells archetype. Great for aggro-control. Also elegant, though...

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis How good is this, if graveyard is an archetype but not a major theme of the cube? For context, here are the graveyard cards in the cube:

Yeah, and a more nuanced example is how environment speed drastically affects how good higher CMC cards are. Value engines like Assemble the Legion that are unplayable in faster cubes can be oppressive in other cubes. A lot comes down to whether tempo or card advantage is the most common...

Maybe it helps if you dip a bit into Kamigawa and Time Spiral (which was together with Ravnica in standard)? I imagine ending in white all the time is a Cube Cobra skew because white cards typically have low Elo.

Portent You can mess with and get information about your opponent's draws.