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Top end options for green are super limited with the design constraints. Elf deck in particular feels like it's ramping into nothing. I added Silvos and I'm adding Regal Force. That's a cheeky add, but it's especially potent in Elf decks since you generally have several dudes when that comes...

8 mana is very achievable with some of the cards I listed. Dark Ritual plus 6 lands is 8. Crypt Ghast T4, untap with 4 swamps gets you 8. Lake of the Dead on T5 with 4 lands and 2 swamps gets you 8. Two of those plays only requires a total of 2 swamps to get the BBBB you need too. So if...

8 mana is a lot. And so is BBBB. So do you also have Dark Ritual, Crypt Ghast, Lake of the Dead, Cabal Coffers? You'd want mono black to be really desirable I'd guess. Best reasons to run it IMO are Geralf's Messenger, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and Death Cloud.

Hunting Pack seems surprisingly good in this cube. Being an instant means it can be this EOT potentially game ending play with a number of UGx decks, even ones that aren't really trying to be storm per se. If your opponent plays two spells let's say, you get 12 power instant speed for 7 mana...

Thanks for the link. Recursive threats in black is how my modern list tends to function (that with a lot of Stax support). Either goes heavy black for Gary and Messenger (very nasty) or red for sacrifice (maybe one of the best decks in the list). Works very well and I'm happy with it. Not...

Tried forcing a zombie deck and an elf deck. Both were bad. The zombie deck gold fished poorly and must have dealt 10+ damage to itself. And that brought me back to several articles and discussions on the forums about black aggro and how its life payment essentially made it worse than all...

Excited to hear how it goes. Thanks for posting your list, it inspired me to work on a similar project. Cheers.

So I've mentioned this a couple times in various cube talk threads, but it bears repeating. The cube forum on MTGS gets a lot of flack from the other cube communities, and I would argue some of that is certainly justified. That said, you can find a wealth of information if you wade past the...

Absolutely. But if you trend a bit more midrange or have a source of CA (where mana is your bottleneck not cards), you can keep chaining spells turn after turn. On T4, you can a 4 drop and a 2 drop. Or a 3 drop and two 2 drops. And with 5 mana.. you get the idea. Is it worth the temp loss early...

The diamonds are brown border yes, but they come into play tapped. Seemed super slow to me (though I could be wrong). At least with medallions you can drop them and with enough mana get value immediately. I also really like how that value snowballs if you chain spells. Might be illogical (bad...

I threw the medallions in largely because I had next to no brown border options. Turns out they might be a reasonable incentive for mono color decks? Maybe not in modern cubes where splashes are simply too plentiful and rewarding though. So how many targets does a deck need for these to be...

Boros Goblins. So much synergy in goblin decks. I had to wheel Goblin Matron in pack 3 and it never came back (AI hate draft?) Magical Christmas Land... T1: Lackey T2: Swing drop Warchief T3: Seething Song, Skirk Prospector, sac lackey for R, any one or two drop goblin (both cost R), Empty...

Exile is definitely more a control card, but I didn't have anything else. Not sure I'm feeling a rebel theme. So how about swapping Kira for Tradewind Rider or Ophidian?

So I drafted a straight up white deck (pretty close to the nut deck). With both swords. AI is dumb and let the second one wheel. I think just one sword is better. The deck is better with Black Vise too (I updated it to be vise vs sword of feast of famine)...

So my resolve is weakening a bit on one specific area: equipment. Let me try and explain. I'm attracted to the goblin deck because of everything you can do with it. The potential of the deck is very enticing. Lackey early gets you stupid board presence faster than any deck is capable of doing...

Yes, the sligh deck. Fun match to watch. Thanks for posting. The creatures really aren't all that awful. Pup is a 2 power 1 drop, which is par for the course even today. The "drawback" of dealing damage to you is simply not relevant in a deck like this. Mogg Fanatic maybe a little weak...

You gotta love the consistency of a constructed deck. 4 copies of everything makes a world of difference. While a fast win like that is possible in cube with a god draw, it's just a lot harder to orchestrate with the singleton nature even at 40 card decks. Stating the obvious of course, but...

I could see cutting Miraculous Recovery. Being instant makes it a very powerful effect but it costs 5 too. So what should I add in it's place? Another aggro dude? As far as storm support, I don't know man. What else is there that isn't just terrible? Grinning Ignus? I feel like the well...

So considering the following: IN << OUT Soltari Monk << White Knight - Swapping on prot dude for another so I'm not upping that count. Monk is clearly the better aggro dude. Oona's Prowler << Black Knight - Might as well get rid of the other one while I'm at it. Soldier of the Pantheon <<...

I think you are correct. I'm secretly a big reanimator fan. I really like cheating fat things into play. Recurring Nightmare was my problem child in my original cube, but that all started with the ETB/persist/undying revolution. It just got too easy to turn it into a super value engine and...