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Thanks! Vesuva is out of my price range, but Thespian’s Stage seems like an easy include if it turns up at my FLGS.

I would recommend one of these for Temur: Shaman of the Great Hunt Yasova Dragonclaw Guided Passage Shaman is my favorite but Yasova gets very cool if you run lots of sac outlets in these colors. Guided Passage is just (IMO) a super fun and unique effect.

I LOVE Brad’s post! But in seriousness... There is a surprising amount of positives that can come from running a LOW powered manabase in a HIGH powered cube. I went so far as to exclude ALL untapped fixers from my cube, and honestly, i love the way it plays! Here are some of my observations on...

Oh, it’s mostly a pet card, I just like searching my deck for goofy piles. But it does have positive interactions with a fair number of cubables:

Brad you just named basically all of the Simic decks in my cube! Except for my favorite Simic deck: Gifts Ungiven Realms Uncharted

Wilderness Reclamation I happened to see that this is quite a card in Constructed today, but how good is it in cube? My mind says “pretty narrow” but my heart won’t listen! i love flashy stuff!

Wilderness Reclamation I happened to see that this is quite a card in Constructed today, but how good is it in cube? My mind says “pretty narrow” but my heart won’t listen! i love flashy stuff!

My “main” Simic decks are based around my guild reps: Edric, Spymaster of Trest Zegana, Utopian Speaker Mystic Snake Spitting Image I’ve seeded some tools for going wide and some payoffs for drawing extra cards for Edric, with related support like Bident of Thassa, evasive dorks like Faerie...

i can definitely see myself doing that in the long run, but my current player does NOT like having to deckbuild XD might just go ahead and bump to 25 but play the 50-card deck though. made a few more packs last night, will post asap EDIT: looking back over my lists, i think it will be a...

you bring up a good point! right now i’m inserting colorless utility lands that i think fit the deck’s theme. but there’s nothing stopping me from using, say, 2 of the mono colored utility lands from the cube instead of the guild utility land and a colorless utility land. i also want to find...

i LOVE landfall, and what i hope comes with it is some killer duals and utility lands, ESPECIALLY with hedrons in the art! i can ALWAYS make room for more cool hedron-y lands! my basics box is all-ROE!

A couple low power cards that play WAY better than they look, which reading the discussion on Oubliette reminded me of: Stab Wound Lust for War If your cube has any kind of enchantment theme at all, these can help you actually win the game while also serving as pseudo removal and upping Aura...

to answer your edit question: absolutely. as cube architects, our goal is not to ape what WOTC is doing. it’s to surpass it! TENGEN TOPPA! if you’re running a hyper slick Alpha/Fetch/whatever manabase in your cube, run a hyper slick Alpha/fetch/whatever manabase in your jumpstarts! make 2-color...

So, after making some guild jumpstarts, tearing them apart to rebuild my cube from the ground up, finishing that, making some mono jumpstarts, and then finally going back to guild jumpstarts... I think that in practice, especially with a small group, guild packs are the way to go. You get to...

Had our first match with the updated cube list tonight! My wife opted for RG and RW, and true to form I went UB and BG so i could durdle around making Gifts piles. The Jumpstarts will be added to the opening post. At first the match seemed quite one-sided, as i was able to pick off her threats...

i think you’re on the right track looking at the 1ww creatures as possible cuts. i was also thinking Karmic Guide, but i’m torn because i really like having White somewhat color shifted into being the main reanimator color, even if the pro black is awkward. out of the 3 you posted, Silverblade...

Okay, need some help here... I really want to make room for Ranger of Eos and Valorous Stance, but I can’t decide what to cut! Ranger of Eos Valorous Stance Would really rather cut 2 creatures, but at worst i’ll cut a creature and a spell.

thanks! my list was very focused on drawing cards as a reward for attacking, so it made sense to help me get my Elvish Visionarys and other such dorks through the red zone.

These are not *exactly* what you’re asking for, but were both high on my short list when assembling my UG draw-cards jumpstart: Rancor Squirrel Nest Rancor to push combat damage through for Edric/Bident/Ongoing Investigation; Nest ofc to go wide.

As fun as it is to put together wild ideas for archetypes and manabases and heuristic structures for our cubes in theory, when the cards are sleeved and you’re at the table, the only thing that really matters is whether your drafters have a good time! Our own Grillo Parlante is an old hand at...