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For some reason I just get stuck on thinking menace is the fear mechanic. Intimidate feels more like menace. Like if you are intimidating I need a buddy to block you.

LFTL + Molten Vortex is very solid. I've seen that come together. It also goes with Crucible of Worlds, and that ties in well with landfall (fetchlands in particular), also solid in R/G at least. So lot's of overlap between archetypes to work with there. Good stuff.

Seasons is potentially better in higher powered lists for the same reason regrowth and tutors tend to be. There will be broken cards you will want to reuse that are considerably better than the average cube card you could draw. That said, seasons does look like a fun card to build a deck around.

Fair enough. It was likely exaggerated a bit and I did not fully vet it obviously.

I didn't see the games, got the story second hand. Guessing fetchland, so double trigger? I guess that still doesn't keep it alive. I have no idea, maybe it had been given first strike or something? I don't think they misread the card. No one pays the ability on Deftblade. He costs W. I...

Harm's Way is just really versatile. And I think it's fine even against big fat targets. This happened just the other day. Opponent plays Razormane Masticore. I'm playing a Jeskai weenie type deck. Razormane is usually doom in that situation as it's really hard to remove with burn and FS...

In my early Magic days, I loved combo win conditions and I went out of my way to build janky constructed decks around them. And I made a lot of bad decks and lost a lot of games but it was quite enjoyable when something did work especially if it was just ridiculous (Myojin of Cleansing Fire +...

UPDATE: 4/20/16 All cube tutor lists have been updated with the current lists post SOI. Lot of changes in the last few months, none of which I've documented in this thread (or anywhere really). Links to the lists are in my original post. While much of the focus of each module has changed...

Harm's way is amazing. So that's my vote. Redirecting damage at instant speed wrecks board states.

I agree with Venny. Fast mana is probably critical for storm to work. Fair mana generation simply can't power it out fast enough. Again though, I'm not an expert. Back to Lion's eye though... that was a key card that this one dude kept coming back to. It only goes in storm. If no one takes it...

I'm a bad storm drafter, so the wrong person to ask. But it likely depends on how deep you go. Empty the Warrens is a playable card without heavy storm support. And it works in prowess decks. So something like that is totally fine IMO. Lion's Eye Diamond? Uh... I'm thinking that is utter trash...

It does, yes. I tried this approach early on but abandoned it primarily because I rarely have more than 4 drafters. So I already had watered down draft experiences and having a large core list does not solve that problem for me. If I consistently did 6-8 mans, I would have stuck with this...

That's the general idea, yeah. Again, going back to how I'm working this (color modules), when you draft "blue" and "white" modules, you are going to see a heavy slant towards those two colors. And some guilds simply won't be represented at all (WG does not exist in the red module for example...

Can confirm.

I fully support this type of cube design and am running something along those lines. I'm going to assume you are drafting with 8 people? If that is the case, you are avoiding pitfall number one (having packages that are underrepresented because not all the cards end up in packs and therefore...

Very happy to share my experiences and thoughts on this. My group does not draft frequently, so I have probably only 6 drafts total with this module format. I've done a ton of testing on my own, but nothing replaces people actually drafting at a table. On the idea of a core list and adding...

My cube is too powerful for fair tinker. It's just not worth building if you can't fetch a bomb. But unfair tinker is too good of a deck for my current list, so I put tinker in the pandora's box module (along with several super bomb artifacts). Tinker is just feast or famine IMO. It's...