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Also worth mentioning on Hunting Pack, it's an instant so you can (and in many cases probably should be) casting this EOT on your opponent's turn. And if they were active, this will storm off for a potentially game winning army that has pseudo-haste.

So the next evolution of this experiment is likely something less restrictive that still keeps the heart of the list. I'm thinking a way to do it might be how I've done iterative testing with my modern list. For that list, I'm putting all the cards into deck lists basically and balancing by...

Who might that be and where does he explicitly disagree with me? Genuinely would like to hear his opinion. But is the context of his opinion based on Vintage cube? Because again, apples and oranges here. That UB deck had two really sweet targets for reanimator and his play to try and brain...

I don't think we are going to agree on this, and that's cool. For me, it boils down to trying to create overlap of archetypes with cards that really suck at being overlap cards. There is nothing you can say to convince me that a good reanimator deck wants Brain Freeze. Because it...

If you are supporting storm, you'll get no arguments from me on running Brain Freeze. I'm not convinced it's that easy to get enough mana quickly enough, but that's very dependent on speed of the cube and prevalence of aggro among other factors. Regardless, I'm not sure comparing freeze to scour...

I just think people are really digging deep if they are planning to use brain freeze as some kind of janky entomb or delve enabler is all. Outside storm or a seriously pushed mill theme, that card is straight up unplayable.

Only downside to Brain Freeze is false advertising if you don't actually support storm. Might want to print reminder text on a custom version that says "Storm NOT supported. Use only for self-mill!!!"

I'd genuinely feel bad if you were not in on this joke, so I'm going to spoil it. There is no such place. It's a fictitious forum where the posters are so out in left field, it makes Riptide look conservative. This is one of those inside jokes like Stormblood Berserker "pitches to force".

What about starting with a basic 360 peasant list and adding 180 reasonably low powered rares to it? So take what is cool about peasant and improve upon the weaknesses with rares that aren't good enough for regular rare lists but which truly would shine in a lower powered list. I'm stuck on...

It depends a lot on the composition of your deck. I watched the matches posted above and that is sort of how one or two of them played out (regrowth type cards obviously help to reuse some of your key cards). Storm is so dependent on massive mana generation and draw spells though. Taking it...

I want to reply on the subject of red for storm. I somewhat disagree... not so much in that red isn't the greatest support for a full combo win (I agree UB is a better base), but that you can't build a more aggressive "value" version of the deck and still do well. Empty the Warrens isn't bad...

Community project would be really sweet. 540 is huge though. It works against some of the more narrow build arounds. I feel like that size is really asking for a good stuff cube unfortunately. So if we did do this, it would have to have broadly sweeping synergies I'm thinking. Where's...

My retro cube only has 140 creatures, so I don't think you need to hit 160. How creature centric do you want the cube? That's really all you need to determine. Should it be possible for people to make decks with no creatures or just a couple creatures? So spell based win conditions as a...

Squadron pick? :D Add in Crystal Shard, and you can continually recast that too. Neato. #Durdle

Fair enough. Cytoplast is not great without ways to protect it and ways to get more than one dude from it. If you want other options, there's Threads of Disloyalty Capped in power by the CMC clause. Probably better in tempo type decks that want to steal a 2 mana attacker or get rid of wall...

What about Cytoplast Manipulator? It's slower and more fragile than Sower, and it has some overlap with +1/+1 counters.

This isn't new ground, but I really like the cycling guys and how they interact with Karmic Guide. Cycle them early for cards/fixing and then get them back later. They also work really well with Spider Spawning / Living Death and seem like a nice identity/overlap for Abzan colors. Krosan...

Well, there is a great deal of graveyard synergy in GB. So sacrifice as a mechanic to fuel other things GB wants to do from the yard seems pretty plausible. Not sure I like Varolz all that much or if I even have an ideal GB aristocrats build in mind, but I wouldn't outright dismiss it. Has...

Well, it's ultimately going to kill the game if they do nothing. Prices for cards can't continue to go up the way they have been and there still be people left playing. My entire group only still plays because I built a cube. I sold my Tarmagorf for $100 and somehow it's now worth twice that...

I'm with Fulcrum on this. Self mill is actually really cool though if you can make it worthwhile. Graveyard as a resource is a great mechanic to build around. But milling an opponent is on/off. Either it straight up wins or it does nothing. So a bit lame. Storm is more gray area for me...