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The new board wipe seems pretty strong to me. I feel like the comparison to magister of worth is more accurate than phyrexian rebirth. I tried magister for a while and it definitely turned around more games than I felt was appropriate. Phyrexian rebirth might be larger on average, but at least...

Depends on your criteria. I don't think wizards wizards would ever print something like that because it would be deemed unintuitive. You could switch it to "whenever ~ enters the battlefield or dies, you may tap target creature." Outside of a few interactions (ie, blood artist), its...

So, I've jointly made a custom cube with some friends. For the most part, it was a natural continuation of a modified cube we already had. We just decided it would be cleaner to start from scratch. I'm not sure if there's a good source of information for designing a custom cube from the ground...

I was going to type out a long response, but basically this^ Another angle is that this card slots in somewhere between value engine and finisher for a control deck that contains burn + other spells, but doesn't cost as much as a traditional finisher. Admittedly, he isn't as immediately scary...

I completely agree that getting a consensus on what is fun from a large pool of players is effectively impossible. However, one of the advantages of cube is that your player pool is tiny in comparison to what wizards has to design for. Or maybe this is a perspective thing,; I only have 3 other...

For direct management, I have my entire cube in magic set editor, which makes it easy to sort/filter through it. However, my cube is almost completely custom cards, so this was a natural starting point. If you have a normal cube, moving it all into set editor could be a very time consuming...

My gut reaction is take the first card and give it the activation cost of the second card.

I feel like part of the problem is that it didn't do enough to differentiate itself from morph. The block already had normal morph and manifest in the first set, then suddenly there's a new morph mechanic that is identical besides adding counters. It doesn't have much wow factor which I think...

I feel like this contest needed more context to help with choosing the card. What kind of cube environment would the card be going into? Prioritize creativity/cohesiveness/balance? How much support do we assume? (for instance, there was a constellation card in the first round of voting). Do we...

Is ______ updated? NOPE Card list pdf: 3/27/2016 Sample sealed pools: 3/27/2016 - list and pools similar but not identical. Sorry fam. When design by committee, rapid iteration, and questionable amounts of testing collide... What is this? Backstory Sample Pools/Card Images/Magic Set...

I like it. I've also been playing around with living weapon as a way to give aggro of any color access to some generically sized creatures and equipment later in the game. But I like yours a bit more since the equipment end is more interesting.

Seems legit, but unfortunately, I only have a digital copy of my cube that I play on cockatrice and manage in set editor (its almost all custom cards that I've made with my roommates) and going back and doing this for 400 cards is a little more than I'm up for.

On a completely unrelated note, is it possible to sort by converted mana cost in magic set editor? I looked through the column options and all I found was the "CC" option which isn't what I'm looking for. Under the statistics tab, there's a way to graph by cmc, so the program definitely keeps...

So I ended up templating it like this: I make cards jointly with my roommates, and they liked the whole catch fire thing, so I tried to keep it in the rules text (sort of like cipher and "encoded"). The original goal was for a mechanic that was exclusively red, so the specificness of...

I was trying to come up with a flexible mechanic for red that can lead to explosive turns. How does this feel? (playing a bit fast and loose with the rules text...)

So best case scenario is definitely killing your opponents best creature and then getting it shortly afterwards. Which requires you to already have a way to deal with it. Worst case is something janky like where you try to kill their best creature and they doomblade one of your bad creatures in...

I have an almost entirely custom cube, so choosing a card for this contest was kinda hard. Some of the cards I've made that I think are interesting might be tied too much to strategies specific to my cube. Anyhow, here's my submission: Human themes, lifegain, sacrifice for value, and generally...

I run: B, 2/1, ~ can't block, 1B: Return ~ from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only if you control another black creature. And it has been pretty fair. Sometimes I think it should only come back at sorcery speed, but so far, that hasn't been super relevant because...

I completely missed this card going through the spoilers. I never thought red would get a card like this before getting a no downside hasty 2/1 for 1R.

I see a lot of concern for the 6 damage mode, but I've been playing this card: in my cube forever with no regrets. Having a large burn spell floating around in the format creates some interesting mind games (and yeah, its a reshuffling instant with an exile clause on kill, but I haven't found...