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Lingering Souls looks awesome with an old frame!

Grid drafting is 18 grids of 9, if I'm not mistaken. That would put a minimum pool of 162, if no variation in cards between drafts is desired.

In a multiplayer cube, supporting the aggro deck is probably a little higher priority than having a couple more recursive folk, especially if you have good flashback density. Aggro is naturally a little disadvantaged in a multiplayer game, so any help they can get seems good.

These little scenarios indicate to me that Stormtamer is actually a problem here. Without the Tamer the removal is doing a lot more work at reducing the power in the air than with the tamer. Regarding removal, I'm definitely seeing a dearth of effects that can very readily help handle the...

We only go off topic here at RTL, it's no worries. I agree with all of your points regarding Hexdrinker. Breaking a stall is a symptom of the stalling, not a bonus point for the Drinker.

Sorting by 'core' helps a ton. Didn't know how to do that. For reach support I'd strongly recommend Arasta. She is perfect against an aggressive UR deck, and blocks much better with 5 toughness than most reach I see in the list. I also don't see much in the way of high-end reach, like Multani...

Are you also looking into increasing the amount of reach in your cube? The evasiveness interaction is a two way street in that regard. Are the problem evaders at low CMC or high CMC? With the mention of aggro I'm assuming low? Conditional evasion that requires a secondary payment might be an...

Thanks! That site is a whole lot of nothing right now. I'm assuming it's only active once there are lairs actively available to purchase?

How does one buy a secret lair, by the way? Is it like normal through a card shop, or directly through WotC, or what? I've never bought one before.

I added some thoughts. :) Agree fully that lands need to have additional considerations. I figured that the drafting bots looked at color identity and tried to stick to that, but it seems entirely not the case for lands, which is odd. ELO should handle rankings of ETB tapped vs. not, but it...

Red historically gets around fiddly stuff like enchantments and artifacts by simply destroying the opponent. Hard to benefit from your shiny Bident of Thassa with 0 life.

Are you also not running artifacts for the same reason? So just creatures and ways to interact with creatures? No equipment, no mana rocks, etc?

If you have any interaction with the graveyard, this is a very flexible piece of permission: return to nature This beater operates perfectly fine without the ability, but it's awesome that it's there as a nice option: steelbane hydra I agree that severe restriction of enchantments as a whole...

Maybe this is the case, but I'm not so sure. The example of Adorned Pouncer has been easy to discuss due to the casting cost similarity, but Double Strike + Trample + Vigilance is a lot better than plain double strike, especially when pushing damage past tokens or when racing an aggro mirror...

unfortunately I'm not seeing any difference between the Vindicator and Akiri examples, especially since they are custom tailored to make the point, which is fine!. It's just that I could as easily swap the Vindicator to pick 4 so you have the two double strikers, but are now weighing...

Monocolor cards have much more competition in drafting if they aren't very specific in function, which makes just slotting in a monocolor version of a card not nearly as good for a specific multicolor deck as providing the multicolor deck the card directly in it's colors. (See ravnic's post for...

I've long been of the opinion that gold cards dont need to be fantastically "interesting" or above curve compared to monocolored cards. They should show off exactly what you are supposed to be doing with the deck or provide a deck of those colors exactly the sort of tool the deck wants...

I love Order of Midnight :). Such a good pairing of effects.

Vanish peaks with big tokens your opponent controls, because they don't return to the battlefield at all! :) I ran it in my prior iteration. It's pretty meh, but a neat blink enabler with filtering stapled to it. Almost assuredly won't be running it in my new cube.

Hmm interesting one. Probably the Knight of those two? Being forced to attack each turn can be a major downside. Not super high on either one though. Man, after looking at the options, they really shafted red with Bestow. Not even one rare red bestow creature and the ones they did make... are...