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Over here, we have a bunch of white human shells revolving around champion of the parish, angelic overseer, gather the townsfolk, and (now being tested) mentor of the meek. Those decks tend to be very good at transitioning from an aggressive role to a more midrange or controlling role depending...

I don't think anyone is really advocating for that, I'm certaintly not. I just don't like poisonous aggro decks and don't encourage them. I want my early aggressive creatures as a means to avoid earlier iterations of my cube that were dominated by horrible games of dragon magic.

One thing that you could try that worked for me pretty well is to run some Timmy or Johnny cards that tie in with the aggro cards you want people to use. For example, in my cube I run angelic overseer, which is the type of exciting midrange bomb that sucks in those more casual players. It also...

Yeah, ROE had U/W levelers, which is another good example of a format running interesting cards could exert early pressure, and which than scaled as the game progressed into the mid game.

It’s also possible that your aggro section--while perhaps on paper appearing powerful and dynamic-- is not that dynamic to your players. A lot of cube players aren’t competitive spikes and are more interested in exploring the design space of the cube or just doing something cool. To those guys...

I'm starting to turn around on the hexproof guys, as long as they are within reason. Angelic Overseer is a great puzzle for both players, and fleecemane lion results in a lot of interesting mana decisions as well. Removal does sometimes needs a check, and the hexproof guys, in general, are a...

This is more-or-less what I did. I got rid of the roshambo approach and focused on supporting credible early pressure that could maintain relevance into the mid-game. That way the format still has a sense of urgency in developing early board presence, but you don't have the super narrow hyper...

angelic overseer Without doubt the best "human" in our human decks over here.

Yeah, just not at your power level, unfortunatly, and not without using the graveyard as design space. :(

Its sounds a little bit like ROE? Tasteful dragon(storm) magic? I can get behind that. A few thoughts though: It would be helpful to know if this was a cube that was looking to put a lot of pressure on the board early, or a more relaxed one where people were sitting back and building up...

Thats good to know that someone else still plays with damage on the stack.

Yeah, even in my environment, by the time reaver generally is ready to attack, it’s attacking into a developed board state, and its turn 5 selective disruption is a bit weak. If it was one less mana, it could be a powerful card over here on the play, due to the way our curves work out, but as...

Oddly enough the flavor text on hypnotic specter describes perfectly my experiences with winter orb.

Yeah, I always forget that reaver exists for some reason... Anyways, reaver's problem is the same as that of most of the cards I listed: it’s too low power and high cost for that environment. It’s kind of an awkward topic, because I’m not even sure how viable blue tempo--even in a support...

prison term Showed up in draft today. Two thumbs way up, really amazing card.

Traditionally, at least over here, when blue and black show up in an aggressive deck, it’s usually because black wants to borrow some of blue's bounce to push some affect through, or because it wants some soft counters. A U/B tempo package to tie together aggresive black zombies might look...

They're ok games. It’s probably the best prison card in the sense that it’s only a temporary and partial lockout, so you get the prison card thrill while leaving behind only a partially bad aftertaste. It’s probably a question of how desirable that effect is v. how much your players will be...

Disclaimer: not saying any of this should be done, or that it is even reasonable for your cube due to power level--I'm just brainstorming. I think another approach would be to look at the existing black zombie pool and see what cards are there that naturally benefit from blue effects, and then...

Honestly, I think you can just forgo the skaab ruinator experiment. It is a bad card unless you can get at least six creatures into your yard on a semi-timely basis; and your cube is probably too quick for the card. Dom's clone suggestion sounds like a fun and creative way to tie U/B together...

Also, this guy Sedraxis Alchemist Who is basically a gold card, and which I have been going back and forth about for a long time.