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My cube is semi-retro, so I don't play many of the more powerful finishers. Kokusho is actually a measuring stick for me - it's one of the more powerful six drops in my cube. For more modern power level cubes, I agree the Kamigawa dragons are getting long in the tooth.

Great post. Man do I hate protection. I've actually considered removing every single protection creature from my cube and pretending the mechanic doesn't exist. But I can't bring myself to get rid of the soltari brothers or the original swords. So at present, I have very little in the way...

Massacre Wurm has been important because of his sweeper effect (it keeps some of the token themes in check), so I really don't want to drop him. My other two 6+ mana black cards are Death Cloud (which I think is awesome sauce) and Kokusho, the Evening Star (who I also really like). So this is...

We've been doing 4 packs of 11, which has worked better than 3 packs of 15 as far as deck quality. I don't like drafts dragging on forever. I mean, I enjoy them, but the other guys get burned out on the draft itself quickly. They just want to play, so I'm cautious about adding elements to it...

LMAO. That's an awesome card right there. I'd play that just because.

I'm drooling over it theoretically. I've never played it. But I really want to, and I might try and find something to swap for it. Maybe Massacre Wurm?

Thanks for the links. This tidbit from cube design remodeling part one (which I ended up in) especially resonates with me: "We weakened the context-independent power-level of your average card, so you're forced to look for synergies to recoup that power discrepancy. " I have always been...

Thanks Jason. I will put it under serious consideration. I'm generally not one for convention, but I've struggled with breaking the singleton rule. And not because I think cube should be singleton, but because I have 400 card slots and there seems to be something very wrong about using...

Fair enough. I'm tempted to do the double fetch thing. I'd have to proxy them though because I don't have a play set and I'm not dropping $600 on a set unless I can scrounge up enough via trades (which would be more work than I feel like putting into this at the moment). How many people are...

Wow. Is it because you are doubled up on fetches? Because it doesn't seem that easy to abuse this guy outside GW (which never happens in my cube). Maybe I'm missing something though.

How is that triple Lynx thing working BTW? Because I'm about to drop this guy from my cube for just being a total disappointment a lot of times. Does having more than one really help all that much? I get that he is sweet with fetches and such, but when you miss a land drop he's completely...

On paper, Champion shouldn't be good. But as many have said, it requires almost no effort at all to support him in cube. There are a lot of humans that are in most cubes, and plenty more fringe guys you can include if you really want to make him awesome. I love this card and I can't imagine...

Yup. Agreed. I don't mind a few boring cards here and there for those that like to draft pure value dudes. But Baneslayer annoys me because of it's so retardedly under priced (and especially because of the lifelink and what that can do to games). I just added Archangel of Thune though and I...

I personally hate planeswalkers. I don't run any. If I did though, I don't think I'd run this one because it doesn't really do enough (which is odd since most planeswalkers do too much for what they cost). Sorin's Vengeance on the other hand? I've been wanting to add that to my cube for...

As my cube is slower than most, Wurmcoil and the Titans were just really oppressive. Even Baneslayer is out right now because the life gain swing can be insurmountable. I made the decision a long time ago while I was testing early versions of my cube to really restrict some of the finisher...

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I hear what you are saying on this, but I don't like forcing aggro where it has crap support. Like green aggro. Rancor is awesome. Experiment One is good. What other 1 drops are there that aren't rubbish? (hi Wild Dogs and Jungle Lion you both really suck). And what would the incentive be...

Me too. But I find those high five moments come when it involves some type of synergistic play instead of some really powerful card that is a broken play all by itself. Like the other day, my buddy was running some green ramp deck and he was playing a WW deck with stoneforge and some broken...

I suppose it doesn't take a huge amount of skill to position the card to get the miracle effect, but it does require skill to maximize how often that happens in your deck by picking cards like top, brainstorm, etc (while still keeping your deck from being a combo durdly mess). There's a balance...

I'm not sure, but I'd say it really depends on how the "fuck you" manifests. Some things rub people the wrong way. Other things (at least in my group) are somewhat celebrated. The difference at least with my group is whether the "fuck you" moment was crafted or it was lucksacked and/or the...