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My black 2cc slots are very clearly split between control and aggro. Pain Seer Dauthi Horror Fretwork Colony Scrapheap Scrounger Blood-Chin Rager Nezumi Cutthroat Oona's Prowler Thrill-Kill Assassin Nezumi Graverobber Blood Artist Ravenous Rats Wall of Souls Reassembling Skeleton Kiku...

https://www.reddit.com/r/lrcast/comments/706y2s/a_modern_cube_primer_or_how_i_got_to_a_1900/ We should shut up and go infinite playing something we hate.

Shifting Shadow is my favorite. Such flavor. Looks like a lot of text but it's very intuitive and funny when Llanowar Elves eat a Primeval Titan. I'm kind of shocked they brought back phasing on Teferi's Protection. The design it great, I just... wasn't expecting that, ever.

This Pro Tour was great to watch. After a long time of midrange-fest in standard, we have a dominant aggro deck. The lack of diversity wasn't even an issue to me - I liked seeing the different sideboard strategies, lines of play and opportunities for bluffing. The lower complexity of the cards...

Also Chief Engineer will allow Arcbound Wanderer to finally be cast as a 6/6.

I like Sword of Dungeons and Dragons. The protection clause is funny and is in a sweet spot where it's not too relevant so no decks will be shut down by it, but one day will get a good laugh out of people when they realize Mother of Runes cannot give it protection. Making a dragon when the...

This makes me optimistic about Unstable: "Unstable is not designed as a set to read once, chuckle at and never play again. It’s us exploring play spaces on the edge of what’s currently allowed." http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/163329591428/contraptions-in-unstable-sounds-like-possibly-the...

I agree on too swingy, but I think it's a cool card. Momentary Blink and other instant speed blink effects become great. Any token generators become really strong. Kind of cool with walls too. I think it'll still be a little too narrow, but on the right cube this could be a gem. Keep in mind...

Good idea. Do you do that in red too for Daretti, Scrap Savant and Goblin Welder? Does black still have regular creature reanimation? What other artifacts do you run as reanimation targets?

Best case, it will only take away half of your opponent's life, right? Which is not useful in a mill deck.

Would you ever maindeck Shahrazad?

I value elegance, and vanilla equipment is simple to understand but fairly deep. Compare Leonin Scimitar, Vulshok Morningstar and Vulshok Battlegear. Empyrial Plate does look interesting, but I haven't played with it yet. I added it hoping to push aggro-control.

Grindy midrange appreciates this because: Lots of mana = doing a lot of things quickly Ramp Draw quality - this makes a real difference in long games, in two occasions the player running it was impressed with this aspect Fixing It was decent in my cube, being the star in some games, but...

So weird and actually kind of a nice change that the common is the best card in the Torment cycle. I went 3-2, sort of disappointing given I had a pool with double Glyph Keeper (that's right, 2 Keepers in 2 AKH boosters). I have to say Supreme Will was very disappointing - it was just a 3 mana...

Wickerbough Elder was first-pickable in the early days of my cube, when it had a high artifact count and a couple were must removes (like Swords). It's very maindeckable and my favorite piece of artifact/enchantment removal. I'm cubing Forsake the Worldly, but no experiences yet with it -...

The Dark is the only expansion that has no representation in my cube. I'm considering adding something just for the sake of completing it. Ashes to Ashes Ball Lightning Blood Moon Elves of Deep Shadow Fellwar Stone Flood Mana Vortex Maze of Ith Preacher

I also disagree that's a 15-land deck, even with 4 bounces. There's Molten Vortex, Cathartic Reunion, Stormbind to get rid of the excess, as well as Mindshrieker, Genesis, Niv-Mizzet, Heaven // Earth, Mold Shambler, Bogardan Hellkite and Sandwurm Convergence that are require hitting 6-8 mana...

Drafted this trying to see the bounceland synergies. There are definitely a lot of bouncelands, but are the payoffs just the expensive cards? I also see Trade Routes (which sort of went against the midrange expensive threat plan, so I cut it), Molten Vortex (which is sweet, though it has the...

I was just celebrating how Amonkhet has shiny new mana sinks, I haven't tried the gods yet. Rhonas will definitely be strong - perhaps too much. At my power level, all seem playable.

So much of your experiences here described resonates with my experiences lowering my power level: http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/why-im-going-low-power.1558/ It's impressive how card and archetype selection opens up when you go down the power pyramid. One effect I am seeing is that...