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  1. Brad

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Cool. I'll go check my cube for numbers and number words. That stuff all sounds nutty.
  2. Brad

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    Likely depends on that cube. I'd be worried that a deck prepared to take advantage of it would get very far ahead very quickly. It's probably more universally useful, but less interesting, to run a double ramper at 3G.
  3. Brad

    General Show me your Simic decks

    Simic tends to be an issue, I think. Ramp Flash +1/+1 Edric I can give card examples, but didn't want to assume power levels. I also don't run Simic, so I could be way off here.
  4. Brad

    General Zendikar Rising - Magic Panel

    I'd expect it on the basics, but you're right about the expeditions being out of place unless you have a theme cube. The duals ideally won't have it.
  5. Brad

    General Zendikar Rising - Magic Panel

    Smart of you to mention swamps this time ;) I'm not much of a lore guy, but that's basically what I'd expect for the hedrons. A thing of the past that will likely always be there.
  6. Brad

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    I've always liked More or Less, but I've been unsure of its impact. Wish it maybe cost 2 and cantripped. A lot of the Very Cryptics are great. I'll be sure to work one into a Jumpstart, if I go through with that idea.
  7. Brad

    General Zendikar Rising - Magic Panel

    I feel personally attacked that your fake card doesn't produce primarily black mana.
  8. Brad

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    thassa's intervention sublime epiphany sinister sabotage gifts ungiven chart a course sage's dousing wizard's retort winged words rite of replication
  9. Brad

    General Zendikar Rising - Magic Panel

    Pretty sure it's going to be 2 WB 2 GB 1 UB and 1 BR dual for my cube.
  10. Brad

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Would it not be better just browse 2-10 trusted lists? I've got a ton of cards I could post, but I have no idea what you're looking for.
  11. Brad

    The Jumpstart Cube

    Maybe do 25 card lists designed to be cut? ;) I'd say to use the utility lands if it adds something significant, but definitely don't force anything. Even basics are pretty good.
  12. Brad

    The Jumpstart Cube

    Don't force yourself into double utility lands. Another colored source will often be better.
  13. Brad

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    Not that I'm trying to say the card is great, I think it's very low powered, but you seem to have misread the card pretty badly in your assessment. You've also severely overestimated the strength of the cards surrounding this in an environment suited to it if that scenario adds up to "winning...
  14. Brad

    General Jumpstarting your cube drafts

    I'm hesitant to hand people whatever packs they want, but I've previously expressed my boredom with monocolor themes. We do need to find a better way. Part of the fun of designing a cube is the amount of creativity a single card like Gifts Ungiven or Doomsday can open up to a drafter. Then you...
  15. Brad

    Sets [2XM] Double Masters Spoilers- The Set That Makes Me Cry Tears Of Salt

    I'm likely to run the new version but would never make my players suffer through reading the old one.
  16. Brad

    Sets [2XM] Double Masters Spoilers- The Set That Makes Me Cry Tears Of Salt

    Were you guys not already spending $25 to run this well-worded beauty?
  17. Brad

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    I don't have this cube actually built, but I think you need to be pretty low powered. You have to be in an environment where just the buff is going to be reasonable to play and the 1/1 is a real incentive for the equipment deck. The environment I have it in is full of bears and most of the...
  18. Brad

    General Jumpstarting your cube drafts

    Had the same thought when I had the idea, Chris. That list looks a lot better. Coatl is an obvious add with blue. I'm all for every color having access to card advantage or hand fixing mechanics, but "draw a card" isn't a way that green tends to do it very efficiently, so I dislike the mono...
  19. Brad

    Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

    akrasan squire benevolent bodyguard lieutenant kirtar goldnight commander strength of arms akroma's vengeance ancestral blade pacifism From my Onslaught low power cube, so you only get a few creature types.
  20. Brad

    General CBS

    Spirits seems like it probably works. A lot of well-costed flyers in the deck. Cards that stand on their own without tribal payoff. I don't see why it couldn't work. Just be sure to avoid using the really narrow payoffs, or maybe allow only one. If you have a flyer's deck present, they'll mesh...
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