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He was doing pretty good there until he went into that creepy rachel dolezal-esque tirade at the start of part II.

I agree they are two different decks. Fwiw I always imagined you as more of a rock type player: using interactions like profane command and arena to create value: than a straight value midrange guy. I don't think we are actually disagreeing, which is why I didnt quote your actual post.

Guys, guys, lets all calm down here. You can design G/B however you want, but you have to be attentive to the realities of your play group. If you've been getting a disproportionate % of your meta jamming value decks, you should be being cautious about what you are running. I think everyone...

I reset the drafter, since I've been doing nothing but forcing aggro, I think all the bots were just forcing it with me, which is why I was having such a hard time. I'm trying x20 bounce, x10 temples, x10 shocks, x5 zenidkar manlands, x2 academt ruins, evolving wilds/expanse, and foundry of...

Yeah, I think all of those cards are pretty commonly played and so are those deck types. Those are pretty stock G/B/x midrange/control archetypes. Though usually the aggro decks running sweepers ommit green, at least in cube over here. Our green sections never really facilitated aggro very well...

That looks pretty good. I really like the bow works as a piece of tech in this sort of enviornment: much more eloquent than the old way of using krosan restoration and memory's journey, though those cards were neat as anti-graveyard and TOL manipulation tech. Its also nice as an anti-flyer...

I was actually debating if I shouldn't copy safra's howling mine tech for that reason: it would work in the tithe deck too. I think turbo mill is too narrow at this power level, so maybe slower controlling type builds?

I think the problem with BG/x isn't that its not good, its when the decks start to feel like different flavors of the same <x> value deck, which is more or less the final resting place for a catagory of decks often built around general goodness and ubiquitous answers. I don't think its even...

So, I've been toying around with an update, which is still really rough I think. The realization that I could balance out removal and synergistic board states with temp. protection effects was something of a breakthrough, so I feel I can run a pretty powered removal suite. I'm kind of taking...

I love ninja of the deep hours, but I don't think he has quite the right support to make it in most cubes. A big part of his value is on the buyback, so he ideally wants a low CC evasive creature with an impactful ETB. That way it minimizes the tempo loss of replaying the creature. The one...

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Fun fact, the card arts for a bunch of the Lorwyn elementals were swapped to better match the card function. Here is how they would have been aligned had the original pieces not been swapped about:

No, the raw numbers are fine.

I think to get an actual answer to his question we would need the removal as-fan (go over the cube and count up the removal spells); the reason being that if he is not drafting the entire cube, he could end up with removal light, sweeper light, or spot removal light drafts. Those bomby cards...

Art fight. I think skinrender wins this one easy, though boneshredder has a lovely old school lovecraftian feel to it.

Yes, that is a great example. Eidolon of countless battles is a nice junction point for the tokens based horizontal aggro strategy and the vertical growth strategy best represented by silveblade paladin. I like how you can use brave the elements or mother of runes to push in a leathal hit with...

So I wanted to get some higher power examples, and of course, the easiest way to do that was to just draft Safra's cube: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/361951[/url]"] Ones 1 Bloodsoaked Champion 1 Emerge Unscathed 1 Figure of Destiny 1 Firedrinker Satyr 1 Icatian Javelineers 1 Molten Vortex 1...

Actually, since we play with damage on the stack, I think that means the damage would still happen in our playgroup. You would just blink in response to the damage trigger. Maybe this is an example of why they got rid of damage on the stack. :D

Yeah, its still blocked. Its just nice saving a threat like that, and having a 3/3 doublestrike dude around for the next turn. The only ability that goes through in that situaton is trample, I think.

Do you have your actual removal count? I can do an as-fan calc. for you to figure out how your cube is doing on removal density if you do.