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Here's a theoretical colorless big mana package. Not sure I'd ever run it, but I wanted to get this down on paper. I wouldn't use every card in each category, but wanted to be thorough. Colorless Ramp Mind Stone Basalt Monolith Worn Powerstone Unstable Obelisk Hedron Archive Thran Dynamo...

Seeing that image makes me wish they'd reprint all the modal cards I cube with the new bullet point template. It's so much clearer to read.

Everyone starts with 6 cards in hand and an Evolving Wilds on the battlefield.

While we still have yet to see all of the cards, from what's been spoiled so far I think if you want to run true colorless cards the payoff isn't really the cards themselves. The cards are neat, but not strong enough to pull me away from running the other colors. What would pull me into...

Just curious if there's any interest in an explicit Peasant Cube thread here. On the one hand, people here are cool about lower powered cubes and cards in general and aren't just evaluating things in a purely binary is this card good or bad way, so such a thread might be redundant. On the other...

Wave sends stuff to hand while Aetherspouts sends them to the library, so it's a bigger difference than just cost and speed.

I feel like you're going to offer Wastes, they should just be in the basic land box. Being fetchable by Rampant Growth doesn't seem like enough of an upside to warrant going in the ULD.

I love the flavor on Investigation, but unfortunately I don't see either as being cubeable unless you are pushing some kind of sac combo theme. Murder Investigation was basically unplayable in either of its limited formats, AFAIK. Fate Foretold is probably the best version of this card I've...

This is getting into house rule territory, but I could see a format where both players start with a single Eldrazi Spawn (the 0/1 version) on the battlefield.

Blue getting a giant growth for their awakened lands is a neat touch. The card is still likely only sideboard material, but it's still cool in my book.

Did you ever test Gods Willing or Battlewise Valor in your mix of combat tricks in place of/addition to what you're currently running? I figure the scry could come in handy for to keep gas running coming in the mid-late game, but obviously the rebound and lifelink riders on Emerge Unscathed and...

Your first card is better than Heretic in three ways - easier to cast/goes into more decks, deathtouch (which is psuedo-evasion/removal), and higher toughness. I think being a 1/2 is what pushes it over the edge for me, letting it trade with tokens adds some counter-play to it. The second one...

Here's why cohort is showing up now: If you're going to have an ally-based mechanic that's a bit poisonous, it's better to have it in the second set when there will be the most allies available in Standard. It's a terrible cube mechanic obviously, but there are people who love allies, so why not...

Pick 1 get 4 for Squadron Hawk is a thing for sure. I think the rules overhead outweighs the benefit for how I cube, but if your group is into it, it's totally viable.

I'm beginning to think that trying to make Quiet Contemplation/Skywise Teachings a thing is maybe too cute and I should just focus on prowess and Archaeomancer effects to form the backbone of "spells matter" in blue. Thoughts?

Yeah it might help us if you talk about why you want one or both of them in the first place.

@Safra: I really like Pillory. In my experience it helps give aggro decks reach in a color pair that often lacks it as well as provide a source of pressure for slower decks that combines well with Blood Artist triggers, extort, etc. B/W lifedrain was probably one of my favorite and at least...

Just be happy they didn't add an activation cost to it like they have been with the red "shock for triggering the set's theme mechanic" enchantment in several recent sets! It's Grinning Ignus' time to shine!

I'm sure it's going to be playable in limited as is, but it would have been a cool callback if the surge mode of Boulder Salvo was actually Flame Slash instead of costing 1R.

Guild Chat - Orzhov My plan is to run 3 or 4 gold spells in each guild. I prefer guild cards to fit one of three categories. The first are cards that are strong compared to monocolor options, but nudge the player toward a particular strategy that suits the color pair. Cards in this group...