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In most cases, I think the goblin would be better. I'd run that for sure.

I'm sad for guys playing cubes now that are too fast for Lark/Guide shenanigans. That type of thing is what drew me to cube in the first place. I'd hate to get away from that with all this new speed and efficiency available to us.

OK, I'm going to defend Armageddon (in the blue/black thread no less - vintage Riptide move right there). I love armageddon style effects. I run four of them (Armageddon, Cataclysm, Catastrophe, and Desolation Angel). I like what they do to the game because they really reward building a...

I don't even think Upheaval is all the great because you need a ton of mana. Powered cubes can abuse it way easier than unpowered. The only thing I've ever seen anyone do with Upheaval is make the game go another 45 minutes. Agreed on Pychatog. It's a sacred cow and I finally cut it only...

I agree on the curses. I had to pull them though because they have a bad effect on free-for-all multi-player in that they encourage ganging up on the guy cursed. Not fun.

Zendikar's Roil looks like a fun card with landfall. Hmmm... might have to get a copy of that. Speaking of which, Sword of the Animist was good today in my landfall test deck. I had that and Adventuring Gear strapped to a blade splicer token. Just nasty. Sword finally got removed, but it had...

Man, I think we've gone too far with the card link renaming thing. That was a really hard post to read. I'm starting to do this a lot too, and now I'm going to dial that back a bit.

Speaking of angels... is anyone still running the original? That was such a devastating card back in the day and nostalgia almost demands I run her. But boy does she look bogus next to Baneslayer (not that I run that card).

I card I keep trying to get guys to draft is Duskmantle Seer. No matter what I do though, he just won't become a thing. It's certainly powerful enough, but UB tempo just doesn't ever happen and you need too much top of library manipulation to reliably run that in a control deck without it...

I've been experimenting with a self-mill dredge mechanic that is working pretty well. It might not translate to higher power environments though. Essentially, it's a control shell with things like Stinkweed Imp, Hedron Crab, Dakra Mystic, Darkblast, lots of card draw (Frantic Search rocks here...

The best threads on this site are ones that derail. And that post from Grillo is stellar. I say let it ride. :) Touching upon something Grillo mentioned... I come at these conversations from a slightly outdated meta (my cube is 2005 more than it is 2015), so sometimes my contributions are...

Reusing bloodbraid sounds like fun. And I dig the tie in with vengevine. How did it play?

Good point Skrap. And I probably have too many removal spells in my multi-colored section. So there's definitely a balance there between generic play-me-in-all-decks cards and archetype enablers that are more narrow.

The more overlap the better. Totally agree. And to some extent, just providing very flexible cards with a lot of general synergy can cause a lot of interesting archetypes to develop organically. That to me is the best part about Cube. The power level is so high that you can win with...

Blood artist is so damn vicious. It looks like this stupid useless thing and then you play against it and it just wrecks you if you can't kill it early. In the sacrifice deck, you have lost the game before you realize you have lost the game. I can't count how many times I've seen that...

I think this is a logical approach. But one thing I wanted to move more towards was loosening my grip on what I want guys playing. For example, I could really push tempo in UG by just including tempo cards that are good in that archetype. And guys would probably draft it and you'd see a bunch of...

My favorite of late is Mardu sacrifice. Key cards are Falkenrath Aristocrat, Outpost Siege, with various token makers and the life sucking combo machine himself. Add aggressive dudes to taste and this deck can play it straight or combo you off later in the game. Very fun deck. The most...

I tried the lizard and had a similar experience. Not sure I will actually end up running him though. Lorescale Coatl fits my +1/+1 counter theme better, so I'm leaning towards that right now over the cowabunga lizard. I do like that the lizard is pseudo removal though in a color pair that...

Detention Sphere is a card I SHOULD run for exactly the reasons stated but I just hate everything about it. It's O-Ring with like twice as much text that really only kills tokens better in cube. I can't get behind that card no matter how hard I try.

Simic Charm is more narrow than some of the other charms, so I don't run it. Already discussed, but I run Coiling Oracle instead because every UG deck will run it. Also discussed, but I like to run a lot of generic cards in the multi-colored sections. And that's because I am not a fan of...