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Hard to go wrong with Nissa, Vastwood Seer

'Retail Limited but designed to be even more slow' is the exact kind of format that X would dominate in. In a faster Cube environment (and one where decks have more cleanly defined roles, so cards aren't generically good the way they are in Limited - paying 5 mana to steal an aggro deck's 1-drop...

False Prophet Hasn't been mentioned since I brought it up >2.5 years ago and idk why, it looks great on paper? Having a permanent reset stapled to a creature gives decks that can use it a great line of defence

I'm going deep in the paint on Cube design again and I'll document that process here, but in the meantime I'll post a series of random observations. == Configuring Fixing Ahadabans had a post a while ago about using variety in manabases to add diversity to gameplay and send signals to...

Don't get me wrong, the BW sac-aggro and artifacts decks are great, it would just be nice to have some choice.

To get this going again: I drafted these from sigh's Cube a while back, all look sweet While I work on overhauling my current Cube, someone draft this iteration for science

Has anyone found deep themes in WB that aren't variants of 'make/sac a bunch of creatures'? Whenever I try to assign archetypes to colour pairs, WB ends up there by default because I can't think of anything else.

How about Geier Reach Sanitarium or similar?

I like: Doomfall

Mixing old/new borders in particular is really jarring for me

Kami wins out for me because of nostalgia and I genuinely think they look cool (though this Ravnica Island is beautiful IMO): For full-art I like the Unhinged lands but instead of bankrupting myself I have these (original Zendikar because I like my borders thicc): I love the old border...

I strongly endorse Gate to the Afterlife + GPG as a two-for-one; it adds a subgame that any colour combo can achieve and is rewarding but not obnoxious or overpowered.

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about: Niv-Mizzet, the FiremindThe Locust God My favourite UR mini-theme at the moment is maximizing draw/discard triggers with Chasm Skulker, Drake Haven, TLG, and my pet card Alhammarret's Archive; I hadn't even considered Niv-Mizzet, and I...

Some big updates coming soon; for now I don't want the indignity of being pushed off Page 1 but, much more importantly, I got to Cube with Chris while I was in Toronto! Managed to 4-0 with this: Ones 2 Gravecrawler 1 Kytheon, Hero of Akros 1 Cryptbreaker Twos 1 Tidehollow Sculler 1...

ok but when did it have extort

Lots of you are prison abolitionists but some us want to watch the hope drain away as the villain's few outs end up in any zone but their hand, somehow. Ensnaring Bridge The basic problem with prison cards is they tend to be heavily polarized: either they do nothing and it's not fun, or they...

I don't think Rise is worth it unless you can cast Fall, but the card as a whole is super sweet so make the effort IMO Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver can lead to some really interesting boards but it also kinda busted especially in Cube. In general though I love the 'steal your opponent's cards'...

AFAICT we haven't discussed this yet: It's an awkward colour combination for it, but this card is ridiculous in any proactive deck: you refill your hand every turn while shutting down their reactive cards (e.g. against a blue deck, if they draw a land at the end of their turn they either...

I'm trying a lot of artifact subthemes at the moment so that might be warping my perspective but I've really liked this deck even in Cubes that don't give it explicit support. It's strong and interesting in its own right but also ties together other WR themes: the tokens/go-wide deck loves...

was just a general argument in favour of my dragony boi