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Gustcloak Savior I've been looking for ways to enhance weenie-based strategies that don't involve pure P/T anthem effects. Getting to swing with your whole team while having pseudo-vigilance + indestructible for any creatures that get blocked seems good without being overbearing.

Also I don't agree that hellbent has a lot of problems. Binary threshold mechanics are much easier to balance than ones that scale. Almost every broken mechanic scales - storm, affinity, and delve.

Right. Claw could definitely go in a more general sacrifice deck for sure, but obviously won't provide much gas if most of your other creatures are all in the form of tokens, heh.

Fresh Meat to upgrade your team and/or get a second round of sacrifice effects

Another way to combat generic ETB creep is to use conditional abilities like morbid or raid that add some additional setup cost or ones with narrow, even if powerful effects like Ranger of Eos that make repeated blinking less likely to be productive.

That new Tim art is sweet!

Balance Seeing this in the EMA spoilers has me somewhat nostalgic. At what casting cost would Balance no longer be broken (assuming no fast artifact mana)? Does the answer change in a cube without planeswalkers?

I believe DDLM stands for Doomsday Laboratory Maniac. I think the acronyms could probably be better defined or even cut out and replaced with the actual words in most places. Magic is already a jargon-heavy hobby, so I think making your articles as user-friendly and transparent as possible can...

Given that there are only three blue cards with threshold (four if you count Cephalid Coliseum) in all of Magic, I'm assuming that it's really more of a self-mill archetype than just that mechanic in particular.

Sorry, but no. :( Non-cube activities have limited my time. I've also recently moved, so I'll likely need to find a new playgroup before getting any testing in. If I follow through with having an Evolving Wilds in each pack, domain should be relatively easy to put together. I had a lot of...

I think this quote from the mothership is pretty enlightening: Looks like G/B elves will be the only pure tribal archetype.

Noble Benefactor

I think her (somewhat unstated) argument is that it's easier to balance a cube as a beginner when your decision for each card is binary - either it's in or out. As noted above, breaking singleton means that you now have another dial to mess with. This allows for finer tuning, but also requires...

Why? I get why a lot of people break singleton, but it's still a major part of cube design. I think it provides helpful structure to new designers who are still figuring out what they want out of cube. DeTora refers to it only as a rule of thumb and not as a requirement and even explicitly says...

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/how-build/building-your-first-cube-2016-05-19 I thought this was a really good beginner's guide to cubing. It's well-organized and straightforward and doesn't delve into the weeds. It offers some sound advice on basic structure, but also points out...

I don't have a link handy, but he's actually said before that it was originally 2G. Either way, the printed version is still in the top five if not overall best beneficial aura in the game.

Some ideas from red: Elemental Mastery is kind of a "fair" Splinter Twin that works better when you have ways to abuse multiple bodies. It does go infinite with Midnight Guard. Kyren Negotiations provides a red control finisher for a tokens deck as it allows you to hold you team back and...

Painbringer Thoughts on this as a delve-like payoff card for self-mill? It's a powerful, repeatable effect, but requiring a 1/1 to live through a multiple turns seems like it should keep it from getting out of hand.

This seems to tie into the concepts of depth and complexity, where depth is the actual amount of interesting gameplay that come from a card and complexity is how hard a card is to comprehend at a base level. Looking at high and low levels of each, you can make a 2x2 grid. Examples of each: Low...

Anyone here live in or near Ann Arbor or Detroit? I'm relatively new to the area and figured I'd check here to see if there were any cubing opportunities.