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I will say I've seen a lot of Cubes try to support a Death's Shadow package and have rarely seen it be functional let alone worth committing to in the draft (vs the more generic alternatives). At this point I think it needs to be a small Cube (maybe Twobert size) or some 'draft 1, get X more'...

^here's me and my budde Kai Lived a lifelong dream making T8 of the Pro Tour, am I a ~professional Magic player~ now?! Worlds is in <2 months (ahhh!) so the Cube posting is still on hiatus but I'll be (so) back soon!

Speaking of (The/Thee) Black Swordsman, I remembered this from Gavin Verhey's recent Unknown Event cards...

I went 8-8 at the PT, losing the last round to not requalify and with a lot of regrets about my preparation and play. Luckily I Top 8ed the Toronto RC with Green Devotion to get another shot at it!

CubeCon voting is open and I'm up in one of today's rounds if you feel like you can vote for me! for thread showing off some decks/archetypes, I quote the Twitter poll where the voting happens there too

Voting is open (today only)! It will be an uphill battle but would love your support if you can offer it Poll link and lots of examples of sweet decks here:

Mission Statement (aka the genius of Kamigawa Block Pauper Tiny Leaders Cube?!) What if Tiny Leaders was the answer this whole time? For those who don't remember this brief craze, Tiny Leaders was Commander without its main flaws - a 1v1 format where players started with 25 life (or 20 in the...

(This is my submission for CubeCon 2023 and is up for voting on Monday May 22nd - I've created this thread as a reference point for people who saw the Cube and want to learn more but it's also a good motivation for me to actually get this down on paper! I hope and expect this list to evolve...

This is fine by itself sometimes and if you can go off with a small storm with this early you get a massive burst of mana in the future A very flexible smoother if you want that Look at this Chris Taylor homage

After 2004 Deed existed in Extended formats with Mirrodin which meant the entire Affinity deck, artifact lands, Chrome Mox, and Isochron Scepter with Orim's Chant so blowing up more than creatures was very relevant. After that initial investment parking it there as an instant-speed sweeper made...

CubeCon submission, will make thread once PT stuff is over

I put together a Kamigawa/Ravnica/Time Spiral Cube to capture the era where I started playing and one of my favourite eras of design (you ever wonder if those two things are linked? probably not), worth revisiting when I have some time

Let's say you were drafting a Brawl Cube (think competitive 1v1 Commander/Tiny Leaders/whatever) - what legends would you be most excited to open and try to run as your Commander (ignoring colour identity or any other restrictions)?

If your Cube is an Urza block Cube where the creatures all follow the design conventions of the time (slow and/or bad) then of course you won't get the most mileage out of Opposition, but I think it says a lot that it has been excellent in every Limited format (my one Dominaria Remastered draft...

I wrote what may be the most detailed deck guide of all time about the coolest deck in Modern

it's Incubate 3 X times, not Incubate X 3 times (yes, it's needlessly confusing) - if you cast it for 0 you get nothing extra

Love this so much, I didn't see anything that wowed me in the Commander decks so far but this by itself is everything I wanted

Also shoutout to the first and best 'DFCs': Erayo, Soratami Ascendant

Hard to say without playing a single game with the cards yet but I'm excited for Battles - they seem like they unlock the good parts of planeswalkers (incentives to play more creatures and care more about how those creatures engage in combat) while avoiding the bad parts and they give you a cool...

Sam Black is one of the top Magic theorists who always has something worth thinking about even if you reject the conclusions. In a recent episode of his Limited podcast Drafting Archetypes he gave some general thoughts on Cube after his experience at CubeCon - I recommend watching/listening...