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Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse is a great cube card, she just needs to be in an environment with lots of cantrips and ways for one to re-fill their hand. With Erik's cube being more on the durdly end of mid-to-high power environments, it's no wonder she would be less than ideal there. Since you're...

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Elspeth is significantly worse in multiplayer than in two-player, as it is significantly harder for her to completely hose the opposing board presence without other stabilizers. I don't think she will be a problem here, but I would recommend... ...Doing this. Add Planeswalker removal will help...

Speaking of E-Commerce, I saw this proxy being advertised on one of the banner ads that appears across the bottom of the RTL webpage, and I was actually kind of interested in getting it. What do you think of...

What is a Trophy Point and how do I get one?

I don't actually see a downside to this, other than it kind of decreases blue's piece of the color pie by giving every color good free cantrips. That said, 1-mana cantrips tend to only be worth playing in blue (unless they add to some sort of other combo), so perhaps this is not a concern. I...

This card is neat but it's too fragile for me to want to use it as a reanimation target and it can benefit the opponent when it dies. It seems like a staple for Cubes modeled after Grillo's Penny-Pincher 2.0 list, though.

Does The War really qualify as a food lord? He makes a bunch of foods, yes, but he doesn't actually care about food specifically (unless he's turning them into elk or exchanging them for something, but he could do that with any type of token). Either way, is this a card I should be...

Retriever Phoenix strikes me as weak in singleton formats. To fully utilize the card, a player needs a fair number of other learn cards in the deck, which isn't necessarily achievable in a Cube draft. Otherwise, the floor of a 2/2 Flying Haste for 4 that draws a card doesn't seem particularly...

I don't feel these are comparable other than being Green Baneslayers with useful abilities. Ant Queen is better in token-based or defense-oriented strategies where hiding behind an army of ants is a reasonable course of action. Meanwhile, the Bogbeast looks to be better in decks that are focused...

Here is the Testing and Includes thread for Commander 2021.

This is a testing/includes thread. Post pictures or a text list using /c with what cards you plan to include and what cards you plan to test. Including: Testing: In the early years of Commander sets, WOTC used to be really good about designing cards that had appeal to formats other...

Digging Through Time Part 5&3/4 I'm still a liar as I did not have a chance to finish the Cube before Strixhaven came out. So... here we are again with the mechanics! As a reminder, I'm looking for these three things from each mechanic: -Power Level. The mechanic has to do something impactful...

I'm not a huge fan of either of these. Centaur Vinecrasher seems more like a midrange card than an aggro card. Deathgorge Scavenger can be reasonable, but it is a bit weak in the sense that it dies to a lot of different things with little recourse. I would suggest taking a look at some of the...

The reason why I am so willing to advocate for this mechanic is not because learn acts like a wish effect, but because it always draws action. If you have a card that lets you learn, you get a spell added to your hand, no questions ask. Granted, the spell isn't always great, but it's still a...

They're basically releasing the sets digitally for the Paper prerelease. There's not a reason for them to wait another week to let people play the set online when people are already enjoying the set in paper. WOTC used to have to wait to launch sets online until a couple of weeks after they...

Man I was so excited for that Dark Confidant variant until I realized it drew both players a card.

Both are real estate, but they're for different perspective viewpoints. Someone drafting has no reason to care how much space was available in a Cube spreadsheet. They only care about the cards in front of them. For a drafter, the only thing that matters is making a playable deck out of the...

I think Quandrix Apprentice is the best of all of the small UG dorks. In fact, I think it's only outclassed by the Broken UG cards such as Oko, Thief of Crowns and Uro. A lot of the other playable UG creatures in mid-power environments are all-in build arounds like Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, or...

You're making several assumptions here that are simply not correct. 1. The biggest incorrect assumption here is that the Lesson cards and Learn cards don't support specific decks as whatever other random card didn't end up making the cut. You're entire argument here seems to revolve around the...