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Fair enough. I'll put it on my watch list. I might even try and break it in the next draft to see if it really does need the ax. I'm not in love with the card but honestly, there are a shortage of good blue 5 CC cards. Next on my list to add would probably be something like Morphling (and I...

Galepowder's power IMO is his flexibility. He's what I want when I want it. If I need to 86 a blocker or kill a token, he does that for me. If he needs to enable some ETB shenanigans, he can do that. He even gets my control magic'd creatures back. He's just really cool. And 3/3 flying for...

Maybe it looks better in person?

So is Control Magic though. The only thing Treachery has is the untap effect, which is great if you have a counterspell and can protect your play or drop another 5 drop (which is obviously a really big tempo swing). But I don't find this to be an automatic situation in cube. If you are...

Wow. I'm impressed that someone is more reserved than I am when it comes to power cards. I'm totally checking out your cube Changling Bob. I'm always flip-flopping on bonfire. it's a super swingy randomly mega-powerful card that can really suck, but by the same token is seems to capture red's...

You are probably right about Opposition and I'm just being stubborn about it. I really like the effect and I don't want to get rid of it, hence my resistance. Any suggestions on a replacement? If you have a really great blue 4 drop that I'm not running which can get my mind off the coolness...

LOL Touche. Seriously though, are you in agreement with Anotak on these three cards?

I think I'm sticking with just city. The art on Mana Confluence sucks IMO and I don't really need or want two of those types of fixers.

CML brought up Opposition in another thread. I think I'm in denial about that card. I know it's good and oppressive, but I feel like the UU in it's cost makes it much harder to break. Granted, I haven't cubed with it long and no one has locked anybody with it yet. As I said to CML though...

Yeah. Shocks and fetches seem a lot better than pains to me. And I think with all the self inflicting damage with all the dual land choices, you really can't get carried away with your mana base here (no ABU duals after all). But maybe I'm not appreciating the dynamic change with a utility...

OK. Proposed changes: OUT >>> IN Seal of Cleansing >> Temporal Isolation Cloudshift >> Swift Justice Electrolyze >> Gelectrode Tidehollow Sculler >> Gerrard's Verdict

Thanks FSR. Mercurial Chemister was a card I flirted with a couple times, but it looks so slow and fragile (even for my cube - it might be slower than most, but I run a lot of removal). I love Niv-Mizzet (both versions), but I also really like the spells matter deck and so Electrolyze and...

Yeah. I haven't put lands in there yet. But I think it's going to be the following: 20 shocks 10 fetches 5 man lands Horizon Canopy Shelldock Island Volrath's Stronghold Mutavault Mishra's Factory City of Brass Then the utility draft will have probably 60-70 other lands (minimal fixing and...

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Hello all. I finally got my cube uploaded to CubeTutor. It includes a large number of changes (probably 20-30 cards) and is untested in it's current state (and will likely remain so for several months). Here it is: http://cubetutor.com/cubeblog/11190 I added my unique design parameters in...

I had a similar experience but with a lot of the older classics. I'd never played with balance or tangle wire before (among many others). Didn't take me long to see how busted they were (balance has since left the cube but tangle wire is still around for now). As far as walkers, I only played...

Is it too much fixing? I'm only running a single cycle (pain lands). What are most people running in their utility draft? I'll cut the pains if that makes sense.

I agree that the mechanic is very clever. Again, how Wizard's integrated walkers into the game really couldn't have been done any better. But by the same token, I think the mechanic itself is exceptionally hard to balance (and that ties in with the design issues you cited). Balancing cards was...

Very good summary Diakonov and I agree with your assessment. I've beat this horse pretty dead so saying anymore is just going to be a broken record I think. But I do want to reiterate again that although I personally dislike walkers I do think Wizard's has done an admirable job evolving the...

I already run Galepowder and I'm a fan personally. But yeah this new dude is very similar now that you point it out. Do I want both of them? Or is just one enough? I don't know.