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Alright, another quick update since I've already wrangled up 10 people interested in my next cube session in about a month. It's wild how much easier it is to get people to commit if you can provide space (thanks Alesmith Brewing!) and some free food. I'm very inspired and motivated to really...

At this point, I'm looking mostly for archetypal bleed cards to branch different strategies and ways to patch up holes with perceived weaknesses. Warden of the Inner Sky interests me as a way to give an aggressive W/x deck a different way to attack that can also synergize with the +1/+1...

A couple of cards in my cube binder/maybeboard that I wanted to get thoughts on from people who have played with them in the past: Warden of the Inner Sky Astrologian's Planisphere Refurbished Familiar Bristlebud Farmer Stridehangar Automaton Monument to Endurance I'm mostly interested in...

If Landers become a common token ala Treasure or Clues then I'm on board for inclusion in the future, but probably not right now from the jump unless some cards really lead to amazing gameplay.

One thing that I've come around to in recent years is that having power outliers is a good thing for most cubes. Flat power bands are fine to explore certain ideas, but Magic at it's core is about variance. You shouldn't have just haymakers duking it out back-and-forth, but clearly best in class...

I don't remember if this card has been brought up, but I'm intrigued by: Pairs well with your removal spells to clear blockers and force through damage (4 is a lot!), will likely be a 2-for-1 in most scenarios either crashing through the board or taking targeted removal + a second card, and...

The play patterns from this card are interesting if you're running the Champion of the Parish humans package. Warping this into play on T2 grows the Champ to a sizable 3/3 right away. Casting it again bumps you up all the way to 5 power on T3 with some minor wrath insurance. If you follow it up...

Man, if this was a year ago I'd probably be all over this card but Izzet has become so stacked for me recently. Seems like a great card for U/R Artifacts decks being able to go wide and generate relevant bodies for a Steel Overseer or Arcbound Ravager.

It’s been a few months since the last cube report, but I was able to fire off a 10 man draft recently with a ton of new cards included from Final Fantasy and Tarkir Dragonstorm. There’s a brewery we stopped by back in March during the last cube session that had benches available for use so this...

Man, yet another impact white 2-drop. One of the most stacked slots in cube nowadays. This being able to turn itself into a 4/3 the turn it comes down if you go slightly off curve by going wide early is pretty gross. It rewards aggressively attacking, has the ever relevant human typing, and...

I'm sure Warp will play well in Limited, but it's a mechanic that I'm not very interested in including in my cube. Having to track additional cards in an exile zone as a one or two-off occurrence isn't something I want to subject players to.

Man, I just need the entire Battlelands enemy cycle and I'll have the perfect mana-base for my cube (swap out my 2nd set of shocklands). I've been waiting a decade now. Please just finish these up already.

The way I've thought about it is that with the abundance of fetch effects in my cube if you can get Tifa up to 3 power with a Rancor or +1/+1 counters that's all you really need to be able to push through a healthy chunk of damage. The combo line is living the dream, but I think if you can push...

Fuck yeah, less Skaab Ruinator synergy

I'll add it to my maybeboard shortlist. I'm always on the lookout for more 1 mana options to tutor up with Brightglass but it mostly comes down to how valuable they'd be outside of being just a pure tutor target. The other two cards I've been mulling over are Soul-Guide Lantern and Exploration...

Final Fantasy was a surprisingly dense set with a ton of inclusions for my cube. I wasn't expecting it with my first pass through picking out a handful of cards, but as I got acquainted with all the new options By my count I've added a dozen new cards to my environment and have high hopes for...

The Tezzeret alt-art goes extremely hard: Weird walker to evaluate as it looks to be a pure value piece, doesn't really break the game in any big way. But getting a triple Luminarch Aspirant buff for an artifact every combat is pretty big game (as is being able to stack emblems). Definitely...

After the influx of so many Landfall centric cards and support from Final Fantasy revitalizing that deck in G/W, I was thinking about other existing archetypes in my cube with missing effects and I circled back to my U/R Artifact decks. Urza, Lord High Artificer Thought Monitor Tinker Goblin...

Finally able to bring in a cool design I wanted to try out for a while: Poxwalkers There are obvious synergies with Gravecrawler and cards with Flashback, in addition to cards like Inti, Seneschal of the Sun and Containment Construct which allow for rare card advantage through exile. More ways...

Alright, gave the set another look over and have settled on a few more inclusions: Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER I love Blood Artist effects but we're past the point where a dinky 0/1 can really cut it in higher powered environments. There have been so many variants with a bigger effect or more...