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I had a similar idea of making all artifact creatures count as Golems. Rebels + Allies sounds really good too! Very BTP, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Here's a pack from Laz's "Draw-A-Card" cube, also known as the Lucre Cube, also known as one of my favorite Riptide cubes: Krosan Tusker Nemesis of Mortals Akroan Skyguard Repulse Corpse Dance Ghoultree Chartooth Cougar Worm Harvest Dance of the Dead Heliod's Pilgrim Crumbling Necropolis Wild...

Yeah, it is a lot—and I agree that not all of these themes will be created equal. Now that I've got that mess up on CT, I'm starting to put thematic packages together on a spreadsheet and culling cards that seem, y'know, bad. For some reason I've been having the easiest time breaking down the...

Hmm, that is somewhat context-dependent. If your Gruul decks are beatdown more often than not, Revelry is what you want. If you have a high density of artifacts and enchantments, or if you like Gruul to play ramp/tapout control, which is awesome, Hull Breach gives you better value. They're both...

Yeah, I didn't think those cards were any good either... *sigh* I really hate designing Cube tribal themes, man. I'm not even sure how I could sharpie Appeal and Malcontents to be playable with, idk, one human instead of 3 or more.

Is this too win-more? Mass Appeal I'm looking at whether it's tenable or not to give Humans one tribal incentive per color, but this is all I'm finding in Blue. And while we're at it with the janky Human support in INN-block... Kessig Malcontents Eh? Eh?

Okay, big update! All the "rough piles" for the mono-color sections are up. These piles have an insanely wide power band, I know. I'm still hem-hawing about where to set the power level. Do I cut Big Mama Elspeth, a card I love, to open up more decks? Do I cut some of the more fringe decks to be...

Warriors is such a fun tribe. You get sort of a lorwyn effect going because of how much it overlaps with humans and zombies.

Derp XD I never looked at the original, expected it to be a nomad or jobless XD

That is a gud card. Why soldier and not warrior?

Akrasan squire + doomed traveler sounds like a sexy one-drop to me.

For a similar effect, try Spear of Heliod. I also liked Captive Flame quite a bit in Peasant cube, and Stonewright does a similar thing.

Here's one from Timbers' budget cube: Plumeveil Chain Reaction Gore-House Chainwalker Cackling Counterpart Preordain Char Bloodbraid Elf Yavimaya Elder Boros Guildgate Bloodsoaked Champion Fabled Hero Frostburn Weird Prison Term Vault of the Archangel Battlegrace Angel I think my pick is either...

Grillo, I really like the idea of using lifegain to power Black life payments. I think that's what I'm going to go with in this cube. And speaking of Black, the rough pile is up on Cubetutor! This one is much bigger than the White pile, so there's going to be a lot to (eventually) cut. Also...

Okay, looking over this pack again with Monday-morning eyes... I think if i were in my BDSM-Griefer-Johnny mode instead of my usual scrub-Spike mode i'd take Howling Mine and hope to wheel Terminus or Ojutai's Command.

First of all i want to say thanks to all you guys for giving me good, thoughtful feedback. Second, from what you're saying i think i really need to start posting some more cards on CT, because i may be leading you on in a way by only showing my white considerations. Let's focus in for a bit on...

Okay, here's a question. At what overall cube power level does Ajani's Pridemate become playable? Because while i know AP is the incentive to play a lifegain/drain deck, it just does not excite me. Is there a keyword we could Sharpie on to the pridemate to put him in contention with, say...

Breaking singleton might happen (precursor golem is the best tribal lord ever), but i avoid customs that cant be made with a sharpie and an existing card. One im running now is borderland ranger with a strike through the word "basic," and to satiate my drafter who loves mono-Black, i'm probably...

To begin with, what's on CT right now is a super-rough draft... Basically it's everything that i could foresee making it into the final list. So there's a lot of glop in there for sure, but on the other hand there's probably some things i didn't put in the rough list that might get added in as i...