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Junktroller is a mana too expensive, I feel. At {3} it would be a nice roadblock, at {4} it's too late for defensive duties, and probably too late to negate the first reanimation spell.

I think you already run a bunch of good alternatives to the Signets. PS As an aside, it's a good idea to put the link to your current cube project in your signature, so people can always access you cube without having to scroll to the top of this thread! :) Anyway, colorless mana rocks...

I did a draft, and these are the things I noticed at a glance: There is a huge gap in power level between things like Wurmcoil Engine and Blisterpod. With so many certified bombs, it's hard to see why anyone would play these marginal cards. I mean, I had already picked up the Engine, Grave...

I figured you weren't on Eldrazi while watching the coverage, because otherwise I would have seen you. Six Eldrazi and two Affinity in the t8, at least the bannings made the format more diverse!

Yeah, that surprised me! And Sorin has been looking for her and Ugin all over the place, right?

sigh makes some good points here! I'ld like to add that fast mana is hard on aggro as well. One of my first list featured Coalition Relic and Worn Powerstone, which consistently would enable midrange and control decks to power out six drops on turn four, completely shutting down the opposing...

Yeah, I like that wording! Haven't cubed with Kalitas yet, but it's in my update, so I'm sure I'll find out!

I guess I could reword it to: Imprint -- Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile it. Sacrifice Ghostbind: Put a card exiled with Ghostbind onto the battlefield under your control. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. Changes the card a bit, but would feel...

Well, discard outlets still work, and it can't exile cards that are already in the bin, it only exiles creatures that have actually hit the battlefield.

I can confirm that this is not an oversight.

I thought about pretty much all the mentioned cards, but in the end I decided to stick to a low curve. Dictate is really strong though, so maybe I should run that. Five mana though! Also, I think you'ld play all of the WW+ drops in a two color deck, with much less than 12 sources, so I think...

Because I want aggro decks to be able to fix on turn 1 to cast their one drops. I aim for that, realizing that I will never get at the numbers he mentions. Aspiring perfect as possible mana bases given that I'm maintaining a playable cube that wants to consist of more than mana fixing is where...

Oh, I'm not saying you should follow that article to the t, but it remains a very good indication on where you want to end up. And I think 90% is actually a very good number. 66% is not nearly enough. At that figure you would lose 34% of your matches to mana screw, and then some of your matches...

There aren't that many colorless cards, but if you're gunning for them you should be able to get a few. You'ld probably really like to hit that {c} on turn 4 for most of the cards, 5 at the latest. Borrowing, again, from Karsten's excellent article, that means you want 7 {c} sources in your 40...

Yeah, I think my cube slowly drifted away from the Khans towards the pairs being more important. I originally envisioned this cube as one where nearly everyone would end up in three colors, but that's not how the drafts turned out. Most drafters stuck to two colors. With the introduction of...

Should be a 2/2 Zombie and enter the battlefield tapped. .... Just to troll your players :D

:( Drafted an awesome monowhite deck, but I took to long (@work), so I can't save it anymore. Edit: Oh. It gave an error during saving, three times! It still saved the deck though, so you now got three mono white decks in your decks section. Sorry :)

The weird thing on this card is probably that it's not a saboteur. Ninjutsu looks a bit strange without a "whenever this deals combat damage to an opponent" ability. This card does let you suicide into a difficult boardstate, sacrificing all blocked creatures that would die, so the ninjutus is...

Because you can sac your whole board to make it a 10/10 before dealing damage? ;)

Ral Zarek now edges it out for 2nd place over here in Europe. It's still 3rd though o_O Tokens get printed according to the rarity of the card they go with though, so this is pretty much a mythic token of a very expensive card that sees a lot of play (well, less since Birthing Pod has been...