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Cubetutor draft bots are notoriously fickle, though, especially ones without a lot of draft data to train them. I recall Ben saying that for the first five or so instances of a card appearing, the bots don't look at the past draft data, and essentially make a random decision to select or not...

Yeah, I mostly have a problem with protection because it can randomly blank entire decks, and prevent them from interacting meaningfully. Hexproof, to a lesser extent, also ignores large swaths of cards in certain matchups, making any inclusion with it a card to watch carefully. Meanwhile...

On the flip side, you can have three and even four colour decks that are tightly focused, well-oiled pieces of machinery, where all the moving parts mesh perfectly with one another. I guess it comes down to what you're trying to do with your environment - neither multicolour decks nor good-stuff...

Glen Elendra Archmage hosed control decks something fierce over here - a double Negate on a stick is no small potatoes if you can stick her, and her extremely cheap activation means there's rarely ever a 'shields down' moment beyond that initial turn. Once I realized how badly she was kicking...

Yeah, I've run Spell Pierce, Negate, Glen Elendra Archmage, and other variants from time to time, and eventually found all of them wholly unnecessary. With the way most Riptide cubes are structured, control needs all the help it can get, and hating on their spell parade while you make unkillable...

I agree with Skrap, let's tone down the rhetoric. We can disagree on cards without making the issue personal. For what it's worth, I find that things like Spell Pierce, Negate, and other such anti-spell cards hose control a lot more than Loxodon Smiter or Abrupt Decay. It's not the end of the...

This all really goes well with Wildfire! Wildfire Ember Swallower Hammer of Purphoros Courser of Kruphix Cultivate Titania, Protector of Argoth

This is really interesting... as much of a pro-aggro bias as I have, my impression was that as a four mana sorcery Faith's Fetters wasn't quite good enough against aggro, where you just want cheap interaction (your Condemns and Sunlances). It tended to fare better against midrange, especially...

On the scale of "bad things", with protection being a 10, and hexproof being, say, an 8, I would put uncounterable at somewhere around a 2 or 3. It doesn't generate nearly the game-long feel bads that a permanent with protection or hexproof on the board does, nor is it strong enough to warrant...

anything less than 16 copies, of the foil FTV version no less, is the wrong move

In my opinion, uncounterable is essentially flavour text in a cube context, and I don't use it to weigh decisions when adding or cutting cards. I've been running Loxodon Smiter for months as a vanilla 4/4, and can't remember a time when either of the clauses came up. Same with Abrupt Decay.

It doesn't deal with triggered abilities (Blood Artist, Dark Confidant), nor static abilities (Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Elesh Norn). Good call on the manlands, though, I'd never even thought of that interaction.

I wasted a bunch of money a few years ago when I wanted to test Threads of Disloyalty... and I wouldn't recommend anyone else put down their hard-earned cash on it. As low curve as our formats are, no one has a cube nearly as fast as, say, modern constructed, where Threads is a sideboard-only...

Another vote for Ashcloud Phoenix - he's been surprisingly good over here, and is a great addition to the Big Red decks that a lot of folks are trying to support. Doesn't fill the same role as the aggro curve toppers, but a nigh-unkillable creature is a great value card for any red deck trying...

i might be really showing my backwater roots and ignorance with this post, but i'm going to let it fly anyways if Pia and Kiran are supposed to be of an ethnic minority, how come Chandra herself is whiter than snow is she adopted, i didn't read any of that origin story fluff when it came out a...

can someone translate that either to or from French again so that i have a fighting chance of understanding it

I know it's not exactly the same thing, because Zendikar's Roil plays nice with an enchantment theme and is hard to peel off the board, but for a mana more you can get yourself some big ol' beasts Rampaging Baloths

I dunno, I think it's fine. I've never had a problem.

If you're considering Wall of Reverence, I would highly recommend this gal instead. She's underrated, and is a pick that will go to the control player who wants it; but most importantly, she can end the game. Seraph of Dawn

my vote will always be for