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That could be interesting. Probably too slow though. T1 Goblin, T2 Mogg War Marshal, T3 this equip is +2/+2 to something though. +1/+1 in the human deck most likely, but potentially scales. If the equip was 1, I'd maybe try it. I want to like it because I really like equipment and I think it...

I also prefer Geralf's for black devotion. If you really want to push that, there's Necropotence too (though that's sort of busted). Quad of a single color is just an outrageous requirement for a draft environment.

I'm happy with the Izzet manland. Prowess would have been garbage given that you already need 5 mana to activate it. Looting would have been too good I feel.

I like the deck list a lot and it's something I would build myself and enjoy. In particular, the fact that it wouldn't play the same each time and I'd have to adjust my play based on what I drew and what I was up against. I'm a fan honestly. With that said, I generally gravitate towards...

Good read Grillo. That deck you just posted is a pretty common blueprint over here. I'd label that "aggressive-midrange" and it's about as "aggro" as people tend to draft. Part of that is just preference, but when we ran more multiplayer if was more out of necessity since hard aggro sucks in...

Someone with better writing skills can do this more justice, but my 2 cents... Manlands can't be countered nor can they be targeted by most (all?) targeted discard spells - so they slide past the two most powerful control mechanics. They also are typically immune to sorcery speed removal of all...

Do you really need more incentive to run walkers/blink though? I'm out of my depth on the walker component as I've never run them in any version of my cube, but I see a lot of posts about culling walkers. So a card that encourages you to play a bunch of them feels like a step in the wrong...

What's the tempo velocity advantage joke?

I was looking at my current list and this is probably competing for me with Lyev Skyknight. Lyev beats better and shuts down a permanent for the same amount of time (though bounce is better tempo than detain, so maybe not totally comparable). Still, I like Man-o'-war and all but it's a card I've...

Morbid is more conditional than raid IMO unless you have a sacrifice build. Not that I don't like morbid, just that I think raid is more newbie friendly. You can't always control when morbid will trigger, but with raid its pretty straightforward.

I'm pretty excited for Jori. It's an Edric, Spymaster of Trest for Izzet. Edric I think is the better card - comes online faster, is potentially more broken since it can trigger multiple times. But edric can blank occasionally depending on the board state and sometimes you risk a bad attack...

Great posts. My 2 cents is that Steppe Lynx is fun specifically (and maybe solely) because you can break him and doing so takes a little effort and is very satisfying. The payoff for Scythe Leopard is so much lower there's just no motivation for me. I can get a 2/1 for 2 in three different...

Reflector Mage is delicious. Definitely running that.

That's probably true as well. Part of this is definitely a personal investment and the baggage that inevitably comes along with that. And I can understand and identify on some level (we all probably can). When I first started researching this format, I spent a great deal of time reading old...

I have traditionally been a fan of handful of narrow cards that are good in control or whatever (Condemn for example) to sort of throw a bone for certain decks, but with each set I feel more and more squeezed for space so narrow cards look less and less good to me when I have several viable...

To elaborate more on the divide, I think it stems from the size of the card pool at rare. Consider what that looked like when cubing started. There were just a few hundred cube worthy cards and the power level dropped like a rock after just a few cards at each CMC. Rare lists looked roughly...

I'm pretty surprised by some of the conversation in that thread (though I probably shouldn't be). Specifically, with those that assert that breaking singleton isn't "cube" it's a "custom draft format" (like they are different or something). Another one that bothers me is the idea that non...

This is very much a personal taste thing and to some extent searching for the perfect meta is like looking for El Dorado. Do you believe in soul mates or do you think there are many well suited matches out there? If you find a well suited companion, do you keep looking for something better...

I'm a sucker for full art promos like that, which is odd because I think the full art expedition lands look awful. Go figure. I wish that said attacking or blocking creature.

India will be the first to really push that technology from what I understand. They have an energy problem that won't easily be solved any other way. The US is complacent about this (really, mankind is complacent). Will it cost a lot of money to build that infrastructure? Absolutely. Is it...