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I just realized too that you aren't casting Gryff's Boon from the graveyard, it's an ability that puts it into play. So it doesn't trigger heroic. Pretty sure that is the nail in the coffin for me. Bummer. I wanted to like that card.

Sounds like I'll need to test this. The 2/2 flying token that gets left behind by guide is relevant. And I'm not sure how many triggers you can realistically get with Gryff's Boon. I appreciate the input everyone. If anyone else tests this, I'd love to hear how it goes. The card is...

I've thought more on Gryff's Boon which I initially wrote off and I think it's a must include for me (heroic enabler and enchantress). I know it costs a lot to cast from the graveyard, but this thing costs one less than flashback on Silent Departure, does something in the same vein (instead of...

Without a strong self discard package, I think pale rider is a questionable include. I see the bloodghast/2shields synergy but what about when you don't have one of them and then you get 2 for 1'd from removal? 3/3 for 2 upside feels weak to me.

I think this is at least testable. Fight cards generally have so many hoops to jump through, and this shaves half of them off. I like it.

Man, 6 is a lot to pay for that effect. It is cool though.

My take is that infest effects are either really good or they don't do shit. So swingy in that way is how I would describe them. And this goes for burn as well IMO. And that's why I sort of like the scaling ones because they are never useless even if they are not cost effective. I value...

I hear the concerns, but who does this really hurt? Aggro shouldn't care. It's a late game play that doesn't gain them life. You do not need to remove it. Swing through it and burn them out. Any evasion deck cares even less. Midrange needs help against control and this is a sweet engine...

Mega-frog doesn't have trample so it can be chumped. And deathtouch on something this big is flavor text. What can block a 6/6 and live? The mechanic though is really interesting. Helps delve. Helps landfall. It's a draw engine. It combos. I don't know, I really think it's a cool card. Not...

Thanks RavebornMuse. I'm surprised to see Guttersnipe that high. I ran it for some time and it was certainly good in the "spells matters" deck (I was a fan), but it often went undrafted around here for being a tad narrow. If only that ability had been a prowess trigger (it probably would be...

What are your 6 uncuttables? Curious because I'm not overly impressed with red 3's. Feldon is the only one I won't get rid of.

Lots of people on MTGS arguing it's punisher and therefore won't be very good. Which of course simply means it's not broken and OP, and thus should be a snap include for most cubes here. I'm super excited about it because red 3's are uninspiring.

I thought I was the only one. Part of me wants to reintroduce madness and have this guy be part of that, but I just did a massive restructuring and so I really don't want to go through all that testing again. I may still find a spot for this new dude because obviously he's good in the generic...

I've been super busy so have had no time for posting or Magic. But I had to log in just to say how great this thread is. Spot on.

Retreat to Valakut is pretty solid. Both effects are desirable and landfall decks can do scary things with it in play. I had high hopes for Corelhelm, but it's not doing enough in early testing.

"Powermax" and "balanced card pool" are incompatible designs philosophies. Just need to accept that going in. You can't balance ancestral recall.

I've lost games after resolving a Sundering Titan. I've also been losing and then totally took over after resolving it too. There are times you lose more lands than you opponent. Sometimes your opponent has a way to chump block it forever and it's this big useless thing on your side of the...

Do the Pandora's box thing. Put Lore Seeker into one of your packs. If someone cashes it in, then build a pack using nothing but broken cards. I have yet to actually do this, but I love having the option. And this keeps your main cube free of the degenerate stuff while still enabling a way...

It could also be that many environments have pushed aggro so hard (and taken away so much efficient removal), that drafting that strategy is super easy mode now. To the point where trying to draft control (that has the worst odds against aggro according to traditional Roshambo), simply isn't...

For the record, my group dynamic has changed since my close friend moved away. We do not play nearly as much multiplayer as we used to. More importantly though, I don't design my cube with the idea that I should (or even can) balance for multiplayer as I feel pretty strongly that the game of...