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I forget who it was, but someone played, I believe, singleton RDW at a PT. I think they were trying to show how stupidly redundant RDW is. Burn and small dudes. Done. As for the companion shit, I agree that the cards needed to be significantly milder incentives. I wouldn't even let the black...

Wow, y'all really gonna diss the OG? ROE or nothin' over here! I hate Rec Sage as an ETB +1 with tempo. I'd consider Wilt or Back to Nature if you're really looking for this effect. My suggestions might be crap, as The Black Cube gets to run such diverse removal. I'd suggest Anguished...

I'd run both for sure. They're lands that any deck will play, except maybe the aggro-est deck avoids Barrens. That's the kind of fixing I'm after until we get inundated with it to a point where 5C is common. I've only seen one deck out in The Black Cube and I looped Stitcher's Supplier off of...

Mutate took me a few read throughs to get it and I don't want my inexperienced players to deal with more reading. I'm open to Companions, but all the black ones seem a bit stronger than I'd like. The counters are just a bit messy because there's so many of them. It's an additional thing to...

I knew about the thread, but Gifts into Loam Crime seems slow, you know? I wasn't sure of the power level. I'm going to add it. Worst case scenario, you draw 2. Normally, in my cube, you'll get some graveyard value somewhere and it only needs to +2 to be considered good. On top of that, it opens...

Just did a draft and first picked Kathril to test. Deck ended up with 7 keywords in it with no attempt to make my cube cater to Kathril's ability. It was a fun minigame to navigate the draft with the keywords in mind. I'm going to consider if I want to make my drafters keep track of all those...

The last two blog posts on The Black Cube has my potential additions. It came in two because cubecobra didn't have the triomes in yet. I might do some cutting later, as it has bloated up over the past few sets and I haven't edited it down. If I do, just look for the post adding like 15 cards...

I saw someone one time point out that constructed formats can basically use any lands they want but we still don't see everyone playing 5c because it's just too inconsistent. You have a tricolor format, so add the tricolor lands. If someone wants to take all the fixing and play 5c, I say you...

I'm really hot to see tri color black cards, but I don't know if I want to touch mutate or companion yet. I'm a little mad that the UB deck is flash unless they continue to expand on that in the future. I did a scryfall search and didn't see much at my power level. It's either Clique and...

As further proof that WotC watches us, take a look at the colors of the ultimatums from today. They're looking out for me.

What's the power level of Gifts Ungiven like? It's an awesome card, but it seems a little slow to take a setup turn like that at my current power level. I'm not sure if I should or need to shift to accommodate Gifts and was hoping for some insight. Seems like the sweetest applications take...

This is a staple for me. I love 3 damage for 2 mana and I love smoothing draws. I start red sections of new cubes with Magma Jet and Jaya's Greeting.

I like this! It's a solid 5/5 for 5 and the ability is interesting, unique, and rewards deck building. That said, this probably goes into a greedy 5 color green deck, which you may want to be careful about encouraging. It could easily tap for 3 mana in a shard/wedge based cube. I did have an...

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That's not the issue. The UB one is a 6/6 for 6 with a random friend tacked on. That's a lot of value. WB is a 3/2 lifelink for 3, which is already good. Then, again, it just throws value on top of that and makes it a bit much for me.

Lurrus has beautiful art and I keep staring at it, but it's way too pushed for me. Bit of a shame, these companions. The Black Cube loves seeing hybrid symbols. The green and the red one are a maybe, but both seem too strong. Then the white and the blue aren't even considerations for me...

Hmm. It's always a swamp. It will probably tap for at least your own two colors of mana. It will be a manland somewhat often. Sometimes it's Nykthos. Definitely worth a look for anyone running 3cmc rocks.

I guess that's true. It DOES occasionally get those effects. I've never liked the ones with the ability to go directly to the field. Feels too green for me.

Not to sound racist, but, back in my day, we didn't have colors mixing with each other like this. That's a green card and it'll stay the hell away from my white decks!!

This point is a big reason for the existence of The Black Cube. I kept most of the one drops there in black because the aggro creatures are already kind of narrow, so how can we make them more universal? Make them colorless or, in my case, black. It makes a big difference, in my mind, to have...