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Does standard really translate over to cube though? Man, that just feels like two completely different universes to me.

I think if you try and force a true U aggro deck, this is true. But it's true in much the same way that a run-of-the-mill B aggro deck loses to the Rx/Wx varieties. Efficient creatures really isn't blacks sweet spot any more than it is blue's. Black has discard and removal. Blue has counters...

I missed this one. Dictate of Kruphix That could be really awesome in Ux tempo. Maybe even make a devotion deck possible. I'm really tempted to try it out. Any thoughts (and I apologize if it was already discussed)?

Fair enough. I'm definitely old school about a lot of this.

@anotak All those cards you posted are basically mistakes. They are broken beyond belief and recognized as broken by Wiards. Most (if not all) of those will never see print again even in today's era of high powered cards. I'd also venture to say that our cubes would be better without running...

I think the power creep in the game is a bigger concern with modern magic. My go-to example is Grave Titan (not even the best six drop really). That card (and it's siblings) started a trend of wrecking board states in ways that really no creature before it has ever done (and creatures since...

Where's unstable mutation? That totally deserves to be in there.

I can't argue with you there. I have an unhealthy dislike for planeswalkers that often borders on irrational. I'm not blind to it. I also don't care. They piss me off. With that said, I think this is being understated. What did you kill his Dack with? You used your last turn to tap out...

That is my default. 17 lands. If my curve is low, I'll go 16. If I'm running something really slow with minimal ramp, I may even go 18 (but those usually end up bad decks honestly).

For what it's worth, I believe it is going to be really good even if you don't support heroic. Being able to tap and untap two of any permanent every turn will have a lot of value IMO. It combos with stuff like birthing pod, pain seer (if you run him), all kinds of ramp (this is two free mana...

It's worse. This is a cloudshifted control Magic effect (i.e. you can't get it back) into faithless looting with infinite free rebound cost. For 3 mana. And you guys wonder why I so vehemently hate planeswalkers? I'm not even sure this is the best walker ever printed. That's what really...

Funny you should mention that. I read through almost this dude's entire blog probably six months ago when I got really frustrated with MTGS. He has really interesting ideas. I stole several of them in fact. I tend to steal people's ideas. Going to be honest here, my cube is like a...

You bring up good points. And one of the goals of my next update is to remove all cards that are clear P1P1 and/or format warping. I hadn't considered opposition in that bucket, but I'm wondering if I'd be better served running something else. It's not like I don't have a billion options for...

If Opposition were printed in white or red... really ANY other color than blue, I wouldn't touch it with a 50 foot pole. It would be all kinds of broken. But I feel like at 2UU, this isn't super easy to abuse. Blue has crap for creatures, so you really have to dig into other colors to get dudes...

I could never get sky hussar to work in constructed. Not convinced that is any good in cube.

I think Ux tempo is sweet. And it works in my cube reasonably well (at least the couple times it has come together - my cube is slow, my group durddles, YMMV, blah blah blah). The key for this deck IMO is solid fixing and tempo counter spells plus bounce guys. RemandMan-O'-WarRiftwing...

I had a D30. I could go make coffee and eat a bagal while I waited for it to finish rolling. That thing was a practical joke.

Yeah, but it's too expensive. Break Asunder I would totally play this if it cost 3. It would be amazing as a G/W hybrid.

D6's are so much cooler than D20's. I don't like D20's. In fact, it's my least favorite polyhedral. I'd rank them in the following order from best to worst: 1. D6 (old school classic - can't beat just a plain old cube with dots on it). 2. D12 (looks badass and in every system I've...

Yeah, this set has a lot of cool stuff worth testing. I'm probably only going to end up running less than 5 cards though. But my list is getting pretty solid to where I don't feel the need to make a lot of changes to it unless I'm wanting to tear out and replace an arch type or something. My...