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COOL AGGRO FINDS Alpha MyrBronze Sable There's tons of colorless 2/X for two (AKA one) if we want to support either artifact aggro or just have our one drops be universally playable. Both aspects can be very beneficial. SomnomancerGroundling PouncerMedicine RunnerNightsky Mimic Similarly...

HAND SMOOTHING Blue usually gets all the fun here. White will still suck, but I'd rather have one color lacking than only have one color that can do it. I maybe double, triple, or quadruple run these. Not sure. Board the Weatherlight This is just OK because it can't grab spell or land without...

WHAT IS IT? A cube where all cards cost 1 mana less, as if you had a Helm of Awakening emblem out. I'll probably also make it so that land drops enter untapped so that the mana bases can unlock some new cards as well. I think a lot of WOTC's designs are held back due to the potential of a...

Ha, that's one of my favorite UG themes, although I'd likely never run it. The power level difference between Vizier or Voyaging Satyr vs the kind of crucial Utopia Sprawl and Wild Growth alone is too significant for me. So I'd have a hard time making it work at the level I like to be at, even...

Na, 7-8 in the whole thing. I don't know what people actually use, but that's how many I thought of. Then 2-4 in the deck would be what I'd expect. I actually do like uber-ramp, but based a little higher in the curve. I don't think it's particularly good, but everyone loves casting some...

Like I said... It's a daunting card pool to figure out lol. I'll boot up the thread sometime this week and we'll see if we can work through it. Your Kor Skyfisher image is broken.

Ahh, didn't see this. You've gone just a step further than I'm planning. Hymn is still really feel-bad and a sturdier elf is very explosive. Alpha Myr as colorless Lions would be kind of bottom-line aggro, because I'm not a fan of how these guys often do nothing past turn 3-4, but colorless...

I don't own this currently, but I'm certain he's a big deal in the black cube and I don't blame them.

I never really go over there either because it's too much to keep track of. I don't even have my own thread there because my own cube is too much to keep track of. I'll just quote you to pull you into the thread lol. I'm definitely interested in exploring the idea pretty deeply so that I can...

Agree with Onder here. Your argument is basically that the most powerful green decks include 1cmc ramp. Which is true. And you'll need it if that's the power your format is at, but you also make it so that your green decks are disadvantaged if they didn't happen to draft the... what, like 7-8...

Yes, we've spoken about it before. Do you want updates for where I'm heading with it? Should I start a thread as a project? I'm really proud of what I've done with the black cube, seeing as it was a fairly original (Torment, I guess) idea that I believe I've executed well, but I can't help but...

I nearly went into a discussion about how Tinker and DT can be fair, yet deceiving. If your player is experienced with what Tinker typically does, they're going to slam it first pick and probably end up a little disappointed when they get a Gilded Lotus instead of a Blightsteel or whatever the...

I think Tinker is only ok because that's the nature of tutors. You could run Demonic Tutor as well and it wouldn't be an issue if you're a low power, non combo cube. What are you going to get? Is that card still good at +2 cmc? Probably not, really. You could probably make most cards fair, but...

I think Beanstalk Big Idiot is probably really nice in any format where 3cmc ramp is good. Having a ramp-into-it threat as flashback on ramp is pretty significant. As an aside, I really dislike how quickly 1 cmc dorks jump you to 3 and 2 mana rocks jump you to 4, but then 2cmc dorks and 3cmc...

K, so, I'm an idiot who's never happy and I'm looking into making a Helm of Awakening emblem cube where everything is a mana cheaper so that I can have nice filtering cards like one mana Seek the Wilds and Tormenting Voice, etc. I'd also let land drops come in untapped, probably, to ease things...

Good that it's in every color. After seeing the first ones spoiled so early and not having seen black ones yet, I was losing hope. But, ya, 21 divded up isn't that compelling unless you're in quite a low powered spot. And RRRRRRR isn't accessible for... Anyone, really. Any deck paying RRRRRRR...

Hybrids are consistently a hot debate topic, I'll give them that. So, which color section should we put these in??? I'm kidding. Don't reply to that. The dragon clearly goes in the blue section. Are they trying to get me to make a red cube? It's just decent, assuming you're in a color slanted...

Missed these earlier. My Dark Betrayal couldn't hit that 4/3 black eldrazi and I lost that game over it. Cratermaker is a lot better than the alternatives because it trades 1:1 on cards. The other ones can effectively ETB +1 with tempo. It's too brutal unless you're slinging around a lot of...

I'm not saying they should be pushed, but to give them a memorable casting cost and put them as a full ten card cycle at uncommon, they shouldn't be below curve. It's unfortunate because the AABB cycle was actually right in the ballpark of what I'd like to see from an interestingly costed uncommon.

I think it's extremely disingenuous to act like these nearly cost (4). You can't really play a third color in your deck if you run these, particularly in limited when you don't run 20 duals, which is what they're apparently designed for. Surely AABB is harder. It's got the same constraints but...