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I love the idea of a color-restricted cube. One thing you might consider is taking black off the list entirely, especially if you're building this cube on a "penny pincer" budget. I say that because several of the cards that are sufficiently powerful to pull someone into black are also hella...

Yeah, me too. I like that he makes zombies.

I did that a few posts back :P Anyway, i think i'm gonna go with Mikaeus for the team undying buff and that stupid 12-mana combo my drafters like to shoot for. Thanks guys!

Okay! Guess what! I got all the mono sections cut down below 60. My next two steps are to fill them out with some of the generic-but-not-oppressive guys my drafters like (one guy in particular has been loudly requesting Terrastodon), and then put together the colorless section. I think we're...

Don't worry, I'm running Doomwake too. My 5 section is much more flexible than my 6 section, where I literally only have 1 creature slot. I'm doing all I can to crush and stomp and smash down my new cube list's curve, and black is already clogged enough from 3-5cmc. Massacre Wurm is another...

I love Kokusho but, uh, i don't wanna buy her. Also, though this is not a real concern and more of a footnote, she is quite similar to Gray Merchant, who i will always find a reason to run in every cube. Grillo, you make a good point about Shriekmaw and co. being good targets. My cube will tend...

Here's a new fight scenario for you. Your black section has room for one six-drop (delve cards don't count). You don't want to run Grave Titan because you don't roll that way. You want your six-drop to be a nifty reanimation target, but also a good stabilizer for control decks. You are currently...

Yeah but Forked Bolt only costs 1... Maybe try something like this? "Whenever a creature etb under your control this turn it deals 1 damage to target creature. Put two 1/1 thopters into play." That could probably cost 3R and be okay, or 2R and be real gud. I'll let you decide how the awaken...

Oh, another thing to watch out for in this format is that black and red, imo, have a significant built-in advantage in a cube meant for 2hg, because they both get a number of burn/lifedrain effects that scale with the number of opponents. Grey merchant of asphodel in THS 2hg prerelease is the...

I've made my BFZ pre-order, so hopefully i can get a final pre-play list together by October 2! Taking into account the good advice from y'all about trying to avoid doing too much and coming up unfocused and messy, i've taken another hard think on how i'm structuring the cube and its themes...

You may want to look at tempting offer and join forces cards. Will of the council too.

A modern cube that runs sets of every influential card in the format would be an interesing experiment for someone who's either got the cash or the proxies to pull it off. On topic, is Mire's Toll anything other than horrid?

I wonder whether doubling up on Life from the Loam would help people recognize there's things they can do with it... Or just give us another 15th pick floating around :S

Ooh, i like that! I wonder if it could be worked into a Buyback cost somehow. "Buyback: Discard all but one card you revealed this turn." Gah that's not any less wordy.

Hmm, this a toughie. You might be right that just adding scry X is the way to go. Or flashback: discard a land? Eh?

You make good points on both cards. Now you've got me combing my green section for a better card to double (that i own dubs of). Some that i'm looking at, besides the ones you mentioned, are Harrow (landfall, graveyard, instant shuffle effect); Green Sun's Zenith (does all the things in...

I mean, okay, an ACS of 2 cards is okay i guess, for a sorcery. What if it flipped until you got a land instead of a nonland?

That was supremely entertaining, so I'm gonna serve you up another one. Treasure Hunt This poor guy doesn't have many non-combo things going for it. But i love the concept. It seems good in an environment where you could reasonably assure yourself of a 2.5-cards-drawn ACS. Anything else we can...

I'm debating whether to double up on Blade Splicer and Courser of Kruphix. (I'm likely doubling up on one card in the other three colors as well, but those are easier decisions for me.) For my cube, splicer gives me a token, an artifact, a blink target, and a tribal lord (which satisfies my...

^This exactly. My goal is to run lots of cards that, incidentally, use counters for something, whether that's Student of Warfare, or Jace Beleren, or Skinrender, or Shrine of Burning Rage, or Experiment One, or whatever—then, seed in a few proliferate cards across all colors, so players have a...