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Yeah, there are cards that otherwise read interesting and could have neat interactions but I tend to just avoid them completely with any explicit mention of something that isn't already native and common to my environment. I've always liked Wicked Wolf from ELD as a card, it's cleaner to me...

The Phyrexians just suck. 22 Battles revealed so far and they've gone 0/22. I stopped caring about Magic lore a few years back, but this is just pitiful. Straight up losing on planes that we've never even heard of aside from a single Planechase card.

Double-faced cards, double-faced tokens, and a lot of very specific and tedious text. Might be sitting out most of this set.

Fine card, I really like it, just need to find a slot for it at some point. It's right there for my 450 module if I ever get around to it but it gets a little tougher with 420 which feels pretty tight aside from a few slots. This is likely better than Mishra's Research Desk in a vacuum so I...

I don't think classifications really matter in practice unless you had something radical like 23 white cards and 67 black cards to where the discrepancy is apparent in a cube leaning towards a color. Small outliers like 43 vs. 47 in two colors across 360 cards will not be picked up by anyone...

Probably just put them in green, don't really care aside from spreadsheet aesthetics. I've moved around Deathrite Shaman from Golgari to Hybrid to Black to Green and back to Hybrid over the years purely to make numbers look even and pretty. Doesn't really matter as long as it's an option for the...

Let's take a closer look at that GW Artifact deck from a week ago: "] Ones 1 Elvish Reclaimer 1 Shadowspear 1 Abundant Harvest Twos 1 Tarmogoyf 1 Satyr Wayfinder 1 Selfless Spirit 1 Everflowing Chalice 1 Mind Stone 1 Valorous Stance 1 Once Upon a Time Threes 1 Eternal Witness 1 Tireless...

Looks like an alright walker to me, seems like the most powerful part of it is just ticking up to 5 loyalty and maybe firing off 2 limited Regrowths. Like any walker it'll be pretty strong if you can curve into it a turn earlier than expected, but it doesn't really look like it does much aside...

Had some friends visiting town over the weekend for the first time in long while and we were able to fire off an 8-man pod. I was pretty busy through much of 2022 with other projects and commitments so cubing went by the wayside as mostly a theoretical exercise, but nothing beats actually being...

Yeah, Knight-Errant isn't the house it once was but I'd say that's just better in the long run as walkers are almost always the best card type in non-combo environments. It's still got enough game to just get the job done in most cubes and it's just a solid card with good gameplay patterns...

I think it's especially bad when you're going to have different variations of the same object that all need to be interpreted differently. Like if you have a Luminarch Aspirant out that puts counters on a creature alongside this new Elspeth you could have a board with a normal token off the +1...

Sheoldred's Edict is the truth. I had multiple plays in my last cube draft where it was relevant in helping me snipe a Deep Forest Hermit, allowed me to take out a Construct token, and even get to an otherwise safe walker behind blockers. Really sweet card.

Actually gonna chime in with a different take where if you had to get rid of one of the three, I'd keep Iconoclast and the big Saheeli (assuming this is the Brother's War card?) and cut 3 mana Saheeli. Ideally you'd just keep all three in the cube, but if space is at a premium I prefer the...

Yup, that's it. The combination of "green" and "artifacts" gave me too many hits to wade through in forum search but that works.

I vaguely recall a post by someone a while back about a G/x Artifacts archetype that they had come up with, anyone have a link for reference? I was able to fire off a true 8-man pod yesterday with friends in town (Cube recap incoming!) and one of my drafters drafted an interesting hybrid of GW...

Magic combining effects into creatures isn't anything new, but literally combining creatures into each other just feels like peak laziness to me. These are incredibly uninspired designs.

I didn't really see any cards that interested me after reviewing the set, but I think I'd be more open because then they would just be weird charge counters at that point. But most of the noncreature oil counters cards look too durdly to be worth trying out in my cube.

My cube already has +1/+1 counters that can be put on creatures via stuff like Felidar Retreat, Siege Veteran or Luminarch Aspirant. I don't want to make my drafters have to keep track of potentially two different kinds of counters on a creature with dice. The wordiness is also annoying outside...

I think it comes down to the expectations you'd like to present to your drafters. Unnecessary fluff on cards creates distractions that you as the cube designer can just gloss over due to so much exposure with your own list, but the same cannot be expected of players that might draft your cube a...