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If you're working on a budget then some of these probably aren't feasible right now, but modal spells are fantastic in cube. Looking over my own list, I'm currently running all of these: Cryptic Command Profane Command Primal Command Ojutai's Command Silumgar's Command Kolaghan's Command...

Here's the issue with those kind of effects; they're very narrow and hardly ever picked until there's only draft chaff left. The idea of giving drafters sideboard options is nice, but no one is ever excited to draft explicitly narrow hate. You want cards that are functional and capable most of...

I like my current configuration at 405. It's the right number that allows for variety in my drafts while also making sure that most of my existing themes are well supported and available from draft to draft. 450 is a little unwieldy for me, too many archetype defining cards would be missing when...

Yeah, once you delve deeper into Cube design with more experience, you'll see just how much better it is to have interactive cards all throughout. Sure, you can be of the mindset of just wanting to powermax and play the most broken shit ever and it'll be a cool experience once in a while, but...

Helm is fun, there's a real cost of saccing a creature to gain control of another creature that can be abused only if you have recurrable threats ala Gravecrawler and Bloodghast. It's more fair than shackles which is pretty much free to steal any creature in a blue deck. I don't currently have...

Oooh, I'm developing a lower powered cube over the next couple of weeks and Ninjutsu seems like a cool inclusion. Haven't played much with it, are all of the cards in U/B?

Birthing Pod is an interesting archetype with the right support. The optimal number is 3 for 360+ lists, but that's only so that the pod drafter will find a way to end up with two of them (three is probably overkill). Once you get two pods, you're cooking with gas, and you begin to evaluate...

Yeah San Diego, I go to UCSD for school. Mostly play at Game Empire and SD Games and Comics for FNM/prereleases.

That's true, my red decks all seem to curve out at 4 or 5 in the cube, especially the Grixis variants that I've been seeing in more recent drafts. A 6 drop in red isn't what I'm usually in the market for. I hope that there's a decent one sometime that wows me to slot into the main cube, but I...

I think that was the most miserable game ever. But I did get to Word of Seizing his Omniscience and then drop a Sire of Insanity. Quickly ended the turn. Fuck that guy.

Yeah as far as EDH goes, I have 7 different decks that I've built over the last two years. I like having different decks for different power levels. I mostly play with my friends, occasionally at LGS with random people. It's good to gauge the kind of group you're playing with before you jump...

Basically ramp with creatures to the aurora (or with artifacts) and look to spawn token bodies as well. Something like Awakening Zone is really good with it. It's one of the few green board-wipes you could get in a game of Commander. It lets green reset the game and is a great way of dealing...

I've been riding a bike to my summer job for about a week and it's given me like half an hour to listen to old albums off my iPod I haven't heard in a while. I rediscovered this gem.

Yeah, I don't understand the EDH hate here and in other forums I see (mostly Cube forums tbh). Nerds trashing nerds in the same freaking hobby is weird to me. I play pretty much every format of Magic and I see the merits to all of them. There is no perfect format, though Cube does combine most...

Urgh, still have Soul of Shandalar in mine but he hasn't done jack shit in ever. He's probably out at the next update. I feel like Sentinel is a real sweet card, but it might just be overcosted by one. If it were a 3/5 for 4W, I would be more excited to run it. As a six drop though? It's kinda...

Faithless Looting Tormenting Voice Magmatic Insight I need some help deciding which of these (maybe 2/3) I should be running. I've had Faithless Looting in my cube since it's inception, but I've only seen it run like twice. I don't really have much reanimator shenanigans happening either...

Hitting your lands is the biggest thing in EDH. The mana curve in that format is pretty steep, most everything relevant is 4+. It's a colorless form of ramp for colors that don't get access to ramp very often, a good inclusion in many non-green decks. Ramping up into your big threats is always...

But I'm just imagining dumb scenarios like Ajani's Pridemate equipped with the sword, Courser of Kruphix on field, and let's say an untapped fetch. Think of the triggers, da triggurz.

Whoa it's been about 3 months since I last updated/posted in here. A couple of quick non-Origins updates though: Acquired a copy of Noble Hierarch earlier today, will be adding into the Cube later tonight. Pretty stoked to have a dork to bring some sweet Bant fixing, serve as a target for...

Tragic Arrogance seems pretty interesting, I didn't realize that having the ability to choose made it that much better. I'll definitely pick up a copy now. Do you not like Jace for Limited/Constructed or at all? I think he's fine in Cube as a looter/dude-who-enables-earlier-delves. Also I...