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jason -- bsa actually wasn't overpowered but i've traded my copy and am too lazy to find another. i do want to try it again, though. i'll also pick up a messenger and a nemesis. re Skinrender & Nekrataal -- black has enough cipt kill a dude already in shriekmaw and bone shredder and it has...

yes, i've said it before and i'll say it again, the 4c midrange decks in standard right now *were not possible in other standard formats (5cc was control; it had a lot of CIPT lands) *play mono-duals and stack their decks with 4 farseeks and sometimes some other dork acceleration *are still...

jason -- i do think thrun is pretty harmless. given the lack of 'powered' equipment in my cube he might even be not good enough. i can toss him in. abyssal percy didn't get played enough, though i do love the card and think he's amazing and instinctively want to throw him back in. some of the...

the in-store bar! i thought this existed only at card kingdom! i might have to visit belgium. (there's a bar here that serves trappist ales, and cafe mox even had duchesse de bourgogne for a couple weeks!) anyway, i've also noticed how non-cubers undervalue fixing and all the kinds of cards...

next week: trying (16): helm of possession, sakashima’s student, jund hackblade, bant sureblade, esper stormblade, terravore, knight of the reliquary, life from the loam, seismic assault, burgeoning, horn of greed, ral zarek, mox diamond, crucible of worlds, voice of resurgence, sire of...

thanks a million jason, very kind of you! (i'm on my mac laptop and too lazy to fire up my damn pc) a recent problem (probably not worth a thread of its own) i'm having trouble with is this: the mid-range decks are not great. now this is a common enough cube problem as control is often very...

so the initial purpose of this post was to ask everyone what their play-groups looked like and how that jived with their cube design and though i'd like to do that i thought i'd explore the issue a little further. when i started playing mtg again it was with a bunch of old friends, one of whom...

eh they're not that similar. (they're moxen but beyond that) ... legacy lovers know that diamond is far more powerful. (they do go in far different decks, though, and chrome is banned in modern)

i love eric's idea. i suggest goblin bombardment, cartel aristocrat, blood artist, lingering souls, attrition, altar of dementia, mortician beetle, carrion feeder, cabal therapy, awakening zone, diabolic intent, plagued rusalka, helm of possession, lyzolda, the blood witch, golgari guildmage...

too funny! post a sample deck?

next week: trying at least one of the following (or some partially): LOAM PACKAGE mox diamond knight of the reliquary terravore life from the loam crucible of worlds seismic assault borborygmos enraged raven's crime burgeoning horn of greed eternal witness nantuko monastery DGM CARDS mirko...

one of our dudes drafted hardcore ubg control in the mold of that old legacy deck; stronghold was best for just recurring bloodline keeper over and over again. my own card-quality engine of spitting image couldn't keep up and his drownyard eventually killed me. i was very happy to lose that...

erm mox deck sorry it's late

wow, that doesn't look like a loam deck at all! i'll work on fleshing out a theme for it, maybe in conjunction with introducing the utility land draft next week. here's some ideas for card choices, what do you think? (i can further refine it tomorrow) mox diamond knight of the reliquary...

quick impressions: 'strongly singleton' - seems trivial, devote your cube time to more important design stuff. same comment applies to the persnickety efforts at taxonomy in the spreadsheet, the obsessive keeping of match win records etc. the fact is that a well-balanced cube is never the same...

volrath's stronghold was a huge hit

haha, i worry about that from time to time, but the control decks do have some sweet tools at their disposal. what i'm saying is that oust is great in those decks too, and most other things being equal i just like the powerful and flexible and weird card over the timeshifted strafe. (re. balance...

maybe i just think oust is extremely powerful? in cube it's a little better than path and it does almost the same thing as swords, though sorcery speed and cip effects (as eric mentions) do make it worse. the lifegain isn't particularly relevant imo, the aggro decks would rather have 'em gain 3...

electrolyze is far better than all those cards, i like it a fair amount.

right, i agree that mana rocks should be worse than, say, sakura-tribe elder or cultivate. i've had difficulty hitting the right power level, though. i.e. at 2 signets are a little much, coldsteel / sphere aren't quite enough, chalice always taps for 1 like you said; 3 is even more problematic...