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Also, it's not like I can mouseover the cards in a photo to show the whole picture ;)

I know! I run two Bonesplitters, a Madcap Skills, and several other power-enhancers, and still he disappoints. I couldn't figure out why, so I just had to assume he wasn't as good at the table as he looked on paper.

I was thinking the same thing! There's also sacrifice effects like Goblin Bombardment. Activate, sacrifice, the ability on the stack will try to do as much as possible. Bonus points if you have a sacrifice outlet and a mimic vat of course ;)

Man, the reverse would have been golden (heh heh) in my multicolor cube. Oddly enough I don't want my drafters to feel punished for playing more than one color... (in other words, why is this appearing in a multicolor block?)

I think Ajani Vengeant is worse than Braids. It tends to screw people over much more by locking them out of a color.

Yeah, I went through that phase. Then I started playing the cube with the Pox package, and nobody was ever picking Pox itself, though Smokestack and Braids were well-loved. So, I went and did the only sensible thing, remove Pox.

Or try other threes for a change. These two are still waiting for their place in the sun: feldon of the third path Dualcaster mage

Weird. The 1 power always backfires. There's always a wall in the way. Maybe my spells are just too expensive?

That worked for you? I am about to cut Prophetic Flamespeaker from my cube for never doing anything. Somehow it's always a let-down.

Oh, you want to run a mono-blue aggro decks. Yeah, that's not going to happen soon is it? :) I combine Raptor and the excellent 3+ cc drops with the aggro drops of another color if I want to draft a "blue" aggro deck. Blue-based tempo decks are pretty good, despite the lack of aggressive blue...

Cloudfin Raptor is the real deal though, I cut Delver of Secrets completely and now play two Raptors in my cube. I do wonder what your definition of "cheap good creature" is though if you lament the fact that blue never gets good cheap creatures. Snapcaster Mage and Vendilion Clique are pretty...

I solved my problem by going the other way around with my cube guilds. Now I don't have to play Boros and I can play Gruul instead. I like Xenagos a lot more than Ajani Vengeant :D

This is probably vastly less annoying than the above variant, and still playable.

Funny that you mention those cards. I love Smokestack (and Braids) to death. It's not that I don't like resource denial strategies, but, like CML put it, that Ajani can worsen both color screw and mana screw.

I support both artifact and enchantment subthemes, so there's a lot of noninstants and nonsorcery noncreature spells in my cube, yes. Of course, if it triggers Young Pyromancer, it triggers prowess, but there's a lot of cards that trigger prowess but not Pyromancer in my cube. And the...

So... after whiffing a while on ideas why my cube didn't play out exactly as I hoped it would, I figured out Bant just wasn't that exciting. I am going to try Naya after all, since I realized there's a few nice and cubeable hidden Naya cards. Wild Nacatl and Thornscape Battlemage are both plenty...

Thanks CML, that's well put!

Ok, I'm fiddling with my cube again, and while I love Young Pyromancer, I'm currently annoyed that he doesn't play nice with the other prowess cards. So, is this change too dangerous or is this perfectly acceptable to jam into my cube twice? I'm also looking to include familiars as an...

Ajani Vengeant Every time my opponent plays this in a cube draft I groan. Will my cube be more fun if I add this card? (i.e., given that I support Boros, should I cube this card?) I can't think objectively around this card, and I really dislike that ultimate. Guess I've been on the receiving...

Only cool cards :). Stormscape Apprentice is awesome!