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I love the idea of morph, but it's slow and clunky most of the time. Blinking a morphed Exalted Angel is still boss though, especially in response to a kill spell or after your opponent declares attackers (though they are walking into that one and sort of deserve what's coming). I haven't...

It certainly isn't very hard to break her. Plus it has great stats for something with so much degenerate potential. It's my best 4 drop creature in white for sure (and probably still would be as a 3/3). My 2 cents... it feels less annoying to me than something like Hero of Bladehold (I pick...

I've run quite a few configurations with blink enablers. It's one of my favorite archetypes. Flickerwisp is very good, but its WW. I cut it fairly recently in my purge of 1CC cards. If I were to bring any blink enablers back though, it would likely be this one because it has so many uses...

Thanks for all the replies everyone. No walkers for me, so Venser, the Sojourner is out. It's a cool card though and if I did run walkers, it would probably be on my short list. Wall of Denial I ran before and it just slows the game down too much. I wasn't a fan. Lyev Skyknight is cool (I...

Sky Hussar I've shot this thing down before. Throwing that disclaimer out there. But with all the Ux tempo/devotion creature based decks available now, I'm wondering if this guy can be a solid role-player in a lower powered environment. I do not love any of what Azorius has to offer. Supreme...

That mulligan ability is going to just suck 9 times out of 10. If you drew too many lands, exiling them all is just going to mana screw you. And if you drew a bunch of business with no lands, you'll get flooded with what's left. This only works out for you if you have 2-3 lands and just the...

Grillo posted a really good article on this subject. Worth a read for those who haven't already. My 2 cents is I'd rather aim too high than too low (but mainly because I hate feeling like I couldn't win and that is a common feeling when you never draw any answers). In my experience, having...

That's fine. You win. Flame Javelin is not the worst 4 mana burn spell ever printed. It's still garbage.

Only because all removal is good in limited regardless of how bad it is. Doesn't change the fact that this spell is pretty horrible. You could have printed it at 2R and it sill wouldn't be great. Is there a 4 mana burn spell that has ever been printed which does less than this thing...

I'm not even sure they are on that team. That sorcery burn for 3 with scry costs 2 more mana than volcanic hammer. Scry 1 isn't even worth a mana, let alone two mana. I'm all for lower powered removal and I'll be the first to say lightning bolt is stupid, but 3 extra mana and a nerf to sorcery...

I love the keywording of prowess and menace. Great stuff. With that said, all cards spoiled so far look a half step low in power level (and if they look lower powered for my cube, I can only image what the more power-max minded are thinking). So I'm not overly optimistic this set is going...

I've calculated mine before and it was just under 3. Probably right in line with Eric's number actually. I run a fairly high amount of removal because I think it's critical with all the degeneracy in cube. I also count tempo removal as half a removal when I do the calculation because I...

Does no one run Seal of Removal anymore (leave it to me to bring up the old school variant)? It has less synergy with young p and guttersnipe, but being able to play it early and having it sit there threatening often has more impact on the board than a ninja unsummon out of nowhere. I've...

Think Twice is better than it looks. I think it's really underrated. In the early game, it's cycle for 1U. Nothing wrong with that. Because it's an instant, you only cast it if you have free mana at the end of your opponent's turn. And later in the game it draws you another card. What more do...

Collected Company would be a sweet play in your cube following a Congregation at Dawn. I'll take combos for $1000 Alex. Plays nice with any kind of top of library manipulation. Any of the 1 mana tutors, Sylvan Library, top, etc. Now to play devil's advocate. Best case scenario, it's 4 mana...

The only thing I'll say on the black creature clause is that the most abusable effects are attached to bodies (and by abusable I mean most easily reused). And the best of those all have the clause. Nekrataal, Bone shredder, and Shriekmaw. So I think it's relevant from the standpoint of...

I haven't tried soulflayer so might be wrong, but he looks like a bag-o-conflic to me. I don't want to exile my Akroma to this guy in reanimator. Might as well have Akroma. In an aggressive deck, he probably won't have a lot of keywords (though maybe he will - could be underestimating how...

Another vote for Silverblade Paladin. He's great. He himself is just a 2/2 double strike. Not overly exciting (though double strike plays very nice with white's anthems). What makes him awesome is granting double strike to other dudes. You can sometimes get blown out similar to Wolfir...

My latest build has a ton of +1/+1 support and it will be drafted in a way that is hyper focused. So I can't see it not working or picking it early and being like "WTF, where is the +1/+1 counter cards to make this thing useful??" We'll see. A lot of this stuff is riding a fine line between...

All I can do is keep piling on theory craft which is pretty useless. So I'm going to refrain. FWIW, I'm trying Hardened Scales and if it's too narrow I will happily report back in case anyone is on the fence about trying it. I feel like it's a card that has to be tested honestly. I see...