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So am I. I took him out a long time ago. It was cute throwing basilisk collar on him and all, but without help he is really underwhelming. There are just too many other red one drops I would rather run.

I've been studying your list CML. I like it. You have interesting choices in there and I'm stealing a couple for my next update actually.

I know the feeling. I dumped three Vendilion Cliques when they were $20. That's $120 bucks I lost out on right there.

That's the essence of what I'm after. The only reason I'm trying to throw some rigidity in there is because I need some kind of rule set to build a cube around (talking me personally). If I can literally do anything (any mana curve, as many of any card as I want, any card from history, etc)...

That's a good point. I think there is a lot of that type of thinking around this forum which is why I come here. I sort of miss the days when I didn't know anything about Magic because I experimented more. Most of the time I made crap decks, but sometimes I would stumble onto something really...

I just looked it up on StarCity. $200?? What the hell?

Amen brother. This is the single most annoying aspect of Magic for me. I don't want match-ups determining the victor. Our group has done a good job of making that happen simply because we all tend towards midrangy type decks. But it comes up sometimes. Someone will build a really strong...

I like ponder as well, and it compliments brainstorm as it gives a shuffle effect. I wouldn't get rid of it even if I ran 4 brainstorms. Deep analysis is great in reanimator, so I like having one around.

Yeah, I know. I'm just trying to shake things up a bit. I don't expect all the colors to play the same. They still have a unique identity, I would just not be forcing things as much. Right now, my mana curves in each color almost force you to play a certain style. Red is somewhere in the...

So, this is something that I started thinking about after deciding I was going to break singleton. When you look at most cubes, I think you find that more aggressive colors have lower curves. Red for example, usually runs more 1 and 2 drops than any other color (and so it has a lower overall...

I'm not running ANY walkers (or Wurmcoil), though I do run bolt. :) Looking forward to trying out Edge. I'm thinking of putting 4 copies in the utility draft.

That's a cool idea. But can you imagine playing that card against a token deck? Or someone running Purphoros, God of the Forge? I don't think they'd be playable even at those power levels, but I don't know for sure.

I agree with your assessment. White has really scary removal and against some decks, it's borderline broken. I don't have a good solution though because if you take it away you cripple the color.

Meaning there are better flanking guys depending on how your cube looks? Or those guys are good in some cubes? If the former, which ones (I'm genuinely interested - I have always liked flanking). If the latter, how much do you have to lower the power of your cube to make these guys good...

The only remotely cubable flanking guys are probably Knight of the Holy Nimbus and Suq'Ata Lancer. And really, those guys pretty much suck too. So yeah. I like flanking as a mechanic though. I just wish it worked on defense too.

I totally hear you on the proxy thing. It is all about the aesthetics for me. It has nothing to do with them being "fake". They just look like crap and don't feel right. I'm extreme about look and feel. In fact, I've kicked Cloudgoat Ranger out of my cube on multiple occasions because...

Now, if you gave it Lure it would be sweet anti-True-Name Nemesis tech. Not that anyone here is running that pile of GRBS in their cubes.

Lot's of things. But that is sort of the beauty of designing a cube. It's never where I want it to be no matter what I do to it. It's a project that I can't finish, but that is at least half of the appeal for me. With that said, I want to make some changes to improve a few things. In...

My cube is more than a smidge removed from the Power Max philosophy. I don't even run Titans. Thanks for the confirmation. I was worried that Edge wasn't good enough, but I didn't want to use Wasteland because I think that card is a little too good for what I'm after.

Thanks Jason. I didn't even consider the brainstorm/bob interaction. That's the kind of synergy I love uncovering in cube. It's what I want my cube to actually be about. I do think that brainstorm is better in your cube because of the fetches. I think you need shuffle effects to really...