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I should not have traded away my Thousand-Year Storm for a Knight of Autumn. It made sense at the time, but people keep giving me reasons why I should be running the storm :p.

Yeah, I don't know... I've run both of those cards in the past and haven't been super impressed by either. I think Bident is super fun, but I found it to be a somewhat clunky card to cast sometimes. I don't think I'm going to try Favorable Winds, either.

Favorable Winds How do we feel about Favorable Winds. This really feels like a card that can give blue-based tempo (and god forbid aggro) strategies some teeth. It plays nicely with value flyers like Siren Stormtamer, Nightveil Sprite, and Warkite Marauder, Thopter token producers like Whirler...

Happy Birthday! Your cube is really great <3! Best wishes!

Faith of the Devoted How much worse is Faith of the Devoted compared to Drake Haven? Faith is clearly not as good, but both play the same role in "discard matters" decks. Faith also has the distinct advantage of being playable in B/R lists, which means it can be used as a means to help aggro...

You should ask Jason about putting this on the front page.

The other thing worth remembering is that getting too specific with your archetypes can lead to a format with tons of different cards that just don't jive together. I've been doing most of my design experiments under the premise that every card must either enable a specific archetype (i.e. Drake...

I like that ratio a lot.

There is no shame in losing to a control finisher. They are literally designed to be played in control. (Also, I forgot to mention Approach of the Second Sun.) My current list doesn't really reflect what I have on CT, but I have a couple of U/B cycle decks. These are more Midrange/tempo...

I've definitely been considering giving this a try. It plays well with both Graveyard strategies and +1/+1 counter strategies, all without feeling super oppressive. It can't kill itself in conjunction with Hardened Scales, too.

You have two options: -Reduce the number of control cards in your cube (or reduce the power level of control cards). -Give control decks more interesting gameplans/mirror breakers. For example, you could add a big boy like Nezahal, Primal Tide or Pearl Lake Ancient, both of which are control...

I get that, but these seem more "fine in a lackluster way" than "fine in a solid way" like last year's decks. I think they could have done better.

So... WOTC just released the new challenger deck decklists today they're ok I guess, and they had a couple of surprise inclusions from a reprint perspective, but I was more surprised by what was left out. The mono-white deck was missing Venerated Loxodon and was too short on legion's landing...

As long as it doesn't immediately die when it comes in to play, I think this is serviceable in your list. I don't think your removal is efficient enough to make this a bad rate for a creature, and I think your size to cmc ratio looks approximately correct to support this.

So a Sleight of Hand effect instead of a straight draw effect?

I like Thraben Inspector and even Revitalize (in some decks) when looking at that type of card.

It seems super slow.

You're all forgetting the best way to get rid of pact.

White Filtering should just look like Crack the Case without the "sacrifice clues to draw" clause. Needs to be playable, and usable in decks with synergies with it, but it doesn't need to be Preordain.

My lack of culture is showing...