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I mean, MODO was pretty garbage for a long time and still is very unimpressive as a platform held together by spaghetti code. MODO took off as a means for heavily invested players to get in their reps and just grind if that's what they wanted to do, but it absolutely did not take with the vast...

They've got a handful of events coming up early 2020 as well which leads me to believe that this will be the new Modern. I'm also pretty sure their mystery end of year set is just going to be Pioneer Masters.

I don't think so, but you need enough incidental support for them to be worth it. If I were to see either of this when opening my first pack of the draft, I'm assuming that there's some dedicated U/x Artifacts archetype present. Not exactly sure which is harder to get the most value out of, Sai...

On a pure power perspective, Mom is stronger. Giver is more interactable though and leads to better gameplay.

I'd say I'm somewhere between a Strix 7 or 8.

I'm not really a fan of Delver in Cube, tried to make it work a few years back but I'm pretty sure it's a trap. It's just difficult to build up the redundancy and density of effects you need to make Delver comparable to how powerful it's been in Constructed formats when drafting a cube deck...

I thought long and hard about any blue cards that I wanted to double up on and I couldn't find anything that was compelling that would actually add to my environment. I think what matters more is mechanical distinction for the decks that would want those cards than actual colors. There's major...

It's a decent card, giving an aggressive creature +3/+1 to punch through bigger blockers is big game, being able to gain some card advantage when your creature dies is also nice. The biggest thing it has going for it is the 1 equip cost, that's very low for something that gives you that much...

Alright, so I've been grappling with the problem of duplicates not being wanted by any drafter at the table for a while now. If no one is interested in playing a Human Aggro deck or making Pod, all of sudden those cards with two copies become dead cards within the pool. With my cube at 420...

I'd say a good Stoneforge starter pack in a reasonably powered cube would be something like: Stoneforge Mystic Batterskull Embercleave Bonesplitter Grafted Wargear Heirloom Blade Ancestral Blade You only really need 1 or two hits in a given cube deck featuring Stoneforge. The big thing for...

I find Batterskull to be very average in most cases. A 4/4 Lifelink threat for 5 just isn't that threatening when played on curve and nowadays it's only slightly threatening when cheated in on T3 via Stoneforge activation. It gets gross once the initial body is dead and you can attach it to...

I'm so glad that they've moved prereleases to 6:30PM on Friday instead of midnights. Being able to function at normal hours has been a godsend. Opened up a solid pool that had some good Red, Black and Green cards. Fixing in this set is too rough to be solidly in 3 so I had to make a decision...

For an Esper shell? I think Sharuum is probably better because she's an artifact herself + the card is really buying back an artifact with a kicker that gives you a 5/5 flyer. I think the artifact/enchantment synergies on this are cute in cube but way more effective in a Brawl/EDH environment...

I'm going to test out all of the following cards: I was expecting more of a power down set, but this is the year that just keeps on giving. So many cool designs to try out. Adventures are great, fill in a lot of holes here and there that I wasn't too happy with previously. Black and Red are...

I thought this set was going to be slim pickings for once this year, but I've added 14 cards to test out in my cube and I'm adding both cycles of lands to the ULD. I wasn't even thinking of making such big changes across my instant/sorcery sections, but Adventures were just too good to pass up...

Oh man, being able to update with swaps from the newest set in the middle of spoiler season on CubeCobra is a gamechanger. No more having to remember what my initial thoughts and swaps were when the card was spoiled and struggling to recall after prerelease.

Sheoldred is ridiculous if you get her out early (like most early reanimation targets), but pretty fair on curve if both sides have been developing their boards.

I feel like the opportunity cost is just so low that if you have the space for it that it's worth an inclusion. I've had many games in various formats come down to topdeck wars once both sides ran out of gas and anything that you can do additionally to mitigate that seems like a complete plus...

Oh man, I've been looking for more ULD inclusions for lands producing a single color and this new cycle is perfect. All of them offer that upside that isn't quite game-breaking, not strong enough for main cube play, but do enough to be worth the inclusion in ULD and also incentivize drafters...

Bonecrusher Giant is great. Trade in the Scry 2 on Magma Jet for a 4/3 later that will shock your opponent if they point any removal at it? What a sweet card.