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Finally, something which actually makes me happy!! I really love the ascetic of this set so far. The last time art previews for a set made me feel the way these Throne of Eldraine arts do was Khans of Tarkir, which ended up being one of the best magic sets of all time (not even just in my...

I disagree. A lot of cubes have some overlap, even though they're not necessarily doing the same thing. Stuff like Lightning Bolt, Flickerwisp, Llanowar Elves variants, Cancel variants, the Fetch, Shock and/or dual lands, Hero's Downfall excessive amounts of cube play. Even if we're looking at...

Most cubes don't run those cards from C17 and 18 though. Every card is going to be able to find a home in some sort of cube somewhere, but that doesn't mean that the set as a whole was necessarily good for the format. I run Heirloom Blade and Bloodforged Battle-axe from C17, but they're not...

Maybe there will be some actually useful cards for cube in this set. Last time that happened out of commander was like 2016...

Trains are the coolest... Great minds think alike, I suppose!

Thanks Safra! That means a lot coming from you!!

Welcome to Daylight! Daylight is the first major Highball cube update since it's completion, coinciding with the release of Modern Horizons. It also includes 2 M20 cards, since M20 was not an exciting or deep enough set to warrant it's own distinct update. History of the Locomotive The word...

No. All of these have too low of a power level to be good in your cube. I guess Guttersnipe might be good in U/R? It seems like a fairly narrow card over all.

I worded that poorly. What I meant to say was closer to the "Moxen can be of the appropriate power level, considering other cards in the environment" line. Obviously something that gives you 3 mana on turn one is never going to be as weak as Charging Badger.

I totally agree. "Hexproof from" should have been on more cards. There is a lot of design space there left being untapped.

This does illustrate an interesting point. Any card can theoretically be low-powered provided that the cards surrounding it are equally low powered.

I see no reason not to call a mono-color archetype a mono-color.

But black very rarely wants to be chump-blocking, bounce spells generally aren't good enough to warrant playing, most white removal is either expensive, conditional, or temporary, and red having to use two burn spells still puts you up a card. Colossus only blanks black's 1-for-1 removal...

Although I usually think protection is an inelegant and horrid ability, I think Chameleon Colossus is one of the only cards that makes good use of it. This simple ability prevents colossus from dying to most Terror effects. Since it's too big to die to most burn spells, blue doesn't have hard...

No, the best changing is Chameleon Colossus. Of all the cube cards I haven't been able to squeeze into highball, this is probably the one I'm saddest about. I guess if you're trying to explicitly support a specific tribal subtheme in a cube, then something like Changeling Outcast could be...

I wrote my own little piece about fatties in The Train Station. Please give it a read!

Fat Bois and How to Use Them The Role of Fatties in Cubes Recently, there has been a thread here on Riptidelab.com discussing "fatties," or large creatures. This thread has sparked a conversation about fatties and how to use them in cube. However, the original thread (and many of the...

It's because you're attaching the images instead of using the built-in image from source button (the little picture of the tree between the button for adding video and the button for adding links). Unfortunately, if you are on a mobile device, you cannot add pictures normally, and thus have to...

I thought you had said "Immature" when I first read this and my immediate thought was: "What's wrong with using 19th Century Women's Underwear to illustrate a point about Magic: The Gathering design?" I'm glad you said premature :p

Thanks, Chris!