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Oops. On an actually productive note, it's fascinating how tight the spread on average word count is for cubes that aren't explicitly 'efficient' with words. One has to wonder how much of this is due to overlap in cube staples and how much this is due to power level correlating with word...

I agree that Venser is not showing up in official canon, unless trotted out in a Masters set or as an Officially Pushed Commander! However, after an hour or so of reading the actual lore instead of working off of the lore I think I knew, I know that Karn is worried about Phyrexians developing...

Thanks for the story, Velrun! I knew the basics (EEEEeeevil Karn, heroic sacrifice), but this is both more concise and better fleshed-out. It does make me wonder a couple of things. One, evidently Venser's spark and perhaps sparks of other Planeswalkers (I hate that Walker is now an official...

@Chris--I like the flavor a lot, and I think you can definitely justify this all falling under the purview of White! However, it's a fairly pushed card when compared with Forbidden Friendship. Maybe raise the CMC to 2W or make it cost either {W/B}{U/R} OR {2/W}{2/W} ? (The middle mess is an...

Sorry for the double-post, but I remembered something really obvious and something less so! Duh, Why Didn't I Mention This: Bounce lands reduce how many lands you have in play and are staples around here, so that's another easy way to break parity on land count. I Forgot Those Existed (And...

I really like the cube, and I think your plan to make Naya something more universal than lands is a good one! However, I think you're selling White's contributions lands a little short. You're exactly right that White contributes mainly when you're behind on land count, so here are some ways to...

Death or Glory looks fantastic, +1 on it being a great find! @Velrun--I'm not sure that Vengeful Rebel 'needs' more support than fetches, but keep in mind that you're likely going to want to crack fetches at the earliest possible opportunity, which makes the Rebel both a bit counterintuitive...

Sorry for the late post--@Velrun re: Nekrataal I dunno if these are my favorite as they're all so different, but right now I think these are some of the most interesting ones in Black. Vengeful Rebel Throat Slitter Murderous Rider As may be evident, I like to push the situational highs and...

Okay, details of the rebuild! I've torn down a lot of my latest additions and rebuilt from what was left with my ZNR additions. @Trainmaster--I owe you an apology about multicolored cards. Trying to fit a fourth into each pair was hubris, and a testament to how much I love my gigantic...

Nice! I hadn't been thinking about global effects nearly as much for saboteurs, not had I thought about double strike meshing well with these effects (or at least the "combat damage" ones), so thank you for opening my eyes to the possibilities there. For stax, I do like this take on it, but I...

These are good points. I think I've figured out what I meant to say. @Jerichoalar--Oh, those are some COOL cards. Thanks for the suggestions! I especially like Reality Acid, though it's probably a little too low-powered for the cube at this point. Maybe a custom that's slightly cheaper or...

So that was a freaking lie. I've gone ahead and torn things down, then built back up. W and G still need a little more love, but it's feeling good. My biggest change is the first thing in bold (hybrid cards), but the idea I'm most interested in is way at the very end (archetypes vs themes), the...

Sublime Epiphany Cryptic Command I saw these two mentioned together and couldn't believe they've never met here in the pit. Do they even fulfill the same role? Personally, I've been thinking of Cryptic Command as a midrange Swiss-army knife for a mono-Blue/Ux deck whereas Sublime Epiphany is...

Anyone else have one of those months that seems to try to derail you? Between my cat doing her best to off my computer and work asking me to suddenly shift to nights and then back, I've completely lost all track of time. Luckily, Zendikar Rising spoilers gave me the kick in the pants I needed to...

@blacksmithy--That would honestly be pretty cool, but with the small number of cards that mechanically care about snow (just 87!!) and the fact that most of them are balanced around a limited number of snow lands makes me leery of the idea. Most of the snow cards from Modern Horizons are great...

Thank you both for the feedback! This is really helpful. And to the half-dozen other drafters, thank you as well; you're my first outside data points, so it's given me a ton of perspective on what someone who's not me would do with this environment. @blacksmithy--I didn't even realize that...

Themes Themes are meant to be more suggestive rather than prescriptive. Your lunch isn't free, make it yourself! As many interesting engine pieces as possible are shunted to the artifact section to allow them to pop up in atypical color combinations; this is one of the primary reasons for...

Long time lurker, first-time poster, blah blah blah blah. You all make some rich, dense cubes, and as quarantine drags on I tinker with my cube more and more, hoping that by the time my playgroup meets again mine will stand up well. So! A first draft...