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With all of the recent discussion about colorless p1p1 cards, it seemed like a decent idea to resuscitate this thread. I'd like to encourage that in addition to explaining why we would pick a certain card, that we also talk about how we feel about taking it, and what we think of the options in...

Another thing to consider (forgive me if this is mentioned already) is that depending on the design of your cube, some archetypes might not be draftable without seeing the full/near-full cube pool. Storm is perhaps the easiest example to articulate this....it's a deck that traditionally...

It's largely a question of what you determine to be the ideal style of drafting. To oversimplify my experience: 360 seen amongst 8 players produces greater draft tension than: 360 seen amongst 4 players 360 seen amongst 4 players produces greater deck quality than: 360 seen amongst 8 players...

I can safely say that Metamorph is never dull in my cube nor is it always the "correct" p1p1 choice. It, more than most cards, is sensitive to your cube environment.

I wasn't really addressing the color pie debate, because it's not relevant to me. I was only addressing how I view it as a p1p1 candidate. Impersonator doesn't have the same artifact interactions as Metamorph which is valuable to me. I really like Impersonator fwiw. I've thought about running...

I preface this by saying my cube is higher powered than others here, but I've never had any issues with Metamorph. It is occasionally worthy of a first pick, but is often times overshadowed by flashier options. This card acts a lot like Tireless Tracker for me. It's generic in that it serves a...

I don't have any issues running Lightning Bolt per se, but my creature P/T:CMC is centered around burn's efficiency being 1cmc=2pts of burn, 2cmc=3pts of burn, etc....or having some other condition to meet. for now, I'll just switch: Boros Charm > Lightning Helix Baby steps :D

It's so difficult to find room for a card like Deliverance, but I'll definitely look into it. I can say that I've had zero regrets including Renewed Faith and Forsake the Worldly, which are comparable. Good to know about Linvala....I've been rotating between Yosei, the Morning Star and Angel...

Sorry for the succession of posts, but I'm shifting some stuff around. OUT>IN Windfall > Commit // Memory Going to test out C2M for now, and something had to give. I think there's an easy argument to be made for cutting Pulse of the Grid instead. Deadbridge Goliath > Ripjaw Raptor Deadbridge...

Promote...not promise. Doomsday is probably the closest to a promise you could get. The deck is stuffed to the gills with card filtering, dredge, and cycling. You hypothetically burn through most of your deck, selectively exile your graveyard via delve/tog, and cast Time Spiral shuffling the...

I really like the utility of Dissenter's Deliverance and Watchers of the Dead in your simic deck. Occupies a great spot in the curve, and both have reasonable backup plans (grizzly bear & cantrip). Has Linvala, the Preserver made an appearance in 1v1 yet? What are your thoughts on her?

Yesterday I inserted the artifact combo package into my cube and ran a few test drafts. I'm going to shelve the idea as it involves a significant restructuring of the cube including the removal of Storm...which ushers in a windfall of other changes when I really start looking at it....For now...

That makes sense, apologies if I seemed dismissive. Tutoring for a situationally good card with Mystical, then flashing it back with Torrential has been a tidy and attractive incentive for control here. So I value that a lot as it's been difficult to entice people to draft control. Looking at...

I think Mystical Tutor is completely fair, and I wouldn't personally care for a lower powered version. You also play Torrential Gearhulk, so Personal Tutor strikes me a unnecessarily unsynergystic.

Haven't tested Timetwister, but I'm not beyond it. I'm currently running Windfall and Wheel of Fortune. Time Spiral is always on my shortlist of cards to potentially bring back. I love that card.

Occultist is a thematically solid bro. Not great by any stretch of the imagination, but one of the better hardcast madness creatures available. I’d be running sin prodder if I wasn’t concerned about theme.

Currently my Azorius Control decks look more like this at the moment: Zeroes 1 Force of Will 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Mox Diamond 1 Zuran Orb Ones 1 Enlightened Tutor 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Land Tax Twos 1 Hangarback Walker 1 Wall of Omens 1 Blessed Alliance 1 Remand 1 Scroll Rack Threes 1...

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and drafts. I'm feeling better about my cube than I have in a long time, tbh. I've identified a few things that really helped me get out of the rut I was in with my cube: 1) Increasing graveyard interaction: For the reason Grillo just stated, but also just...

Nailed those drafts, Dom. Happy to see someone draft such fleshed out versions of archetypes outside myself :D Not that I’m surprised because your cubes have inspired some decision making in my own, but I think sensibilities are somewhat akin to one another in general. Any comments you have...

Reshape is definitely a reasonable alternative....it just doesn't have the bin splashy artifact option like Transmute Artifact does.