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UB bothered me way more when it first released, but with all of WoTCs decisions in the past few yeas I just don't really care anymore. They killed Constructed for the most part in favor of Commander, they shoveled in way too much product to keep up with yearly, and they've mostly abandoned...

If we look at the flipside of this, sorting by the least wordy cards, it's interesting to see what pops up for creature and non-creature in each color: No real surprises here for me with noncreatures; just some good clean card design. Simple and iconic. This is far more interesting...

I'm always on the lookout for more interesting discard options, will definitely be giving Blackmail a try for my next cube draft. More interactivity just leads to more engaging games in the long run and giving Black decks more options for their a core identity of disruption is just better in the...

You prefer it to Withering Torment? Withering Torment I haven't run either in my cube due to enchantments not really being that big a factor, but I did run Feed the Swarm in EDH for a few years just out of necessity to deal with haymaker enchantments in mono-black or Rakdos decks I'd build...

I wasn't much of a fan of Zendikar Rising as a whole aside from MDFCs for my EDH decks. I remember testing out maybe a dozen cards when this set was fully spoiled but it seems the only ones that have stuck around are the following: I'd say that the main reason that these have lasted so long...

Emberheart Challenger or Slickshot Show-Off I'm debating between the two of these for a 2 drop slot in red, they each have their pros and cons. Mouse brings some much needed virtual card advantage to aggressive decks via Valiant trigger, Bird can be explosive in certain decks with a potentially...

Kaladesh came out right after I graduated from college and was taking a break before really entering the working world. I was mostly broke so I think I just played the prerelease and didn't do much else with the set, I might have taken a good 6-8 months off of even picking up anything else Magic...

Dragon's Maze was a real stinker of a set all around, but I have a weird affection for it because it was the main set that had just come out when I was getting back into Magic during college. I was reading a ton of coverage for GPs, watching Pro Tour recaps, and just fully immersing myself back...

Anyone have success with Cori-Steel Cutter yet in their cubes? Cori-steel cutter I see it making waves in just about every Constructed format where it's clearly very powerful, interested in seeing what kind of cube lists can benefit the most from it before picking up a copy in the next week or...

Great idea for a thread, I go through my cube list once in a while sorting by set just to see what's stuck around for the long term. Coldsnap was before my time, my first real set was M13, but looking over my list it's just Mishra's Bauble currently being run. Mishra's Bauble Nice...

I agree completely, it's partially why I've been careful with card inclusions and exclusions for a long time until opening myself up more recently with how WoTC's design principles have shifted in recent years. You never want your players to feel like there was nothing they could do, where they...

Not too surprising, mostly the remaining DFCs as expected: Kytheon, Hero of Akros Jace, Vryn's Prodigy Overlord of the Balemurk Fable of the Mirror-Breaker Birthing Ritual If I go non-DFC for Jeskai colors I get: The Wandering Emperor Thassa's Oracle Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Word count...

I do run all ten guilds, I do not run all ten manlands. I have a mixed 4th cycle where I have the following options for now: Celestial Colonnade Creeping Tar Pit Restless Vents Raging Ravine Horizon Canopy Silent Clearing Nurturing Peatland Watterlogged Grove Fiery Islet Sunbaked Canyon If...

Stadium Headliner Ended up giving this one a run after having it in my prerelease pool. I think it's pretty mediocre as an aggressive body, but the on-board combat trick aspect of it makes it kind of appealing. Gives it different play if you draw it late where it can no longer really attack...

Made the jump into the following: Hallowed Fountain Hallowed Fountain Meticulous Archive Celestial Colonnade Flooded Strand Flooded Strand Last time I ran double shocks and fetches was the initial build of the cube a decade back at 360, but I think the bump to 450 (and maybe some pack...

CubeCon Submissions are live for 2025. I'm submitting mine this year and if I get selected as a featured cube I'll likely be making the trip in October.

Every year my friends from college come back to visit town around March and I host an 8-man cube draft. I get to draft my cube with a full squad maybe 2-3 times a year so it's a big deal for me to get to try out all the new toys instead of theorycrafting all the time. I hadn't really been very...

Went Mardu at the Prerelease and finished 2-1 with this solid pool: Ones 1 Mardu Devotee 1 Descendant of Storms 1 Stadium Headliner 2 Caustic Exhale Twos 1 Voice of Victory 1 Osseous Exhale 2 Frontline Rush Threes 1 Starry-Eyed Skyrider 1 Hardened Tactitian 1 Clarion Conqueror 1 Qarsi...

Hallowed Fountain Prairie Stream Meticulous Archive Flooded Strand Flooded Strand This is my ideal suite once WoTC gets around to finishing that cycle (someday hopefully). Hell, I might even cut out the surveils at that point and just go double shocks because I like the BFZ cycle that much. I...

I'm deepdiving back into the core design of my cube after bumping it up from 420 to 450 after my most recent draft. A lot of re-evaluation of previous format boogeyman that are much more tame nowadays with now much more powerful cards are compared to a decade ago when I first put this all...