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This is exciting. I hope the set includes a few simple designs that will become classics. Every time they quit doing core sets, they come back to it. There must be something of value to it, right? I think part of the recipe for making them successful is that they don't need to be redone every...

It definitely does! It's only the latest in a whole series of sets that create flavor clash in our cubes. I might start thinking of a flavor clash budget in addition to a complexity budget. A card needs to be good enough to be worth the weirdness, and I don't want an entire cube of Tough Cookie...

Chainsaw is a nice glue card, which makes the jarring flavor with respect to most other settings more annoying! It could easily have been something like "Soulfire Axe" using charge counters in a fantasy setting. Maybe I'll run it anyway. The wordiness isn't egregious for how much it does. It...

Makes sense! This could yield some useful modal stuff.

I found something I like: Monoskelion

I'm looking at artifact sacrifice outlets, which seem to be one of life's persistent questions in cubing. I kind of want to add Altar of Dementia as a sac outlet and a build around card, and that makes me look at equipment again for players who might want to pump some dudes for the altar...

Fair enough! For somebody who wants a cube to look and feel a certain way, there are quite a few ways for WotC to screw up a card, and bad artwork is right up there.

Have you considered Burning Prophet over Heartfire Immolator? The repeatable scry is nice smoothing that can help non-aggro red decks do their thing over the long game. And it's an interesting size that makes it work as a good blocker but also a relevant attacker with the trigger.

I've been working pretty hard on a major redesign of this cube! This represents a big step for me, because I moved into a new tier of complexity. I have had some fits and starts in trying to figure out how high to dial this up. I looked at a bunch of other cubes and retail sets for comparison...

I agree with this. When the regular colorless non-C stuff already does what you need it to do, you're golden and you can keep the mana the way you want it while keeping other cards that you can't live without.

Agreed. I am stubbornly avoiding the devoid ones, even though a few are appealing. There's also Awakening Zone, but I don't think I want to run that. The Scion thing is indeed annoying, but I don't see any of those that make me think twice about adding that token type. I think I will simply run...

Yeah, Malevolent Rumble looks sweet enough to make me consider adding Eldrazi Spawn tokens. That card does a lot. It might be the best green self mill sorcery now. I want two of these in my cube, preferably two copies of the same one. Even though this one is wordier than a couple of the others...

According to people who like constructed / Karsten style mana bases in their cubes, it's not crazy to run 16% lands in a cube. For you, that would be over 100 lands. You could have your cake and eat it, too. If you didn't want to make cuts, you could just add more lands, do 16 card packs, amd...

Agreed, and you also highlight the reality that a certain drafter might force the same type of deck most times or every time, so as designers we should figure out how to make that work in a way that allows people to have fun. I have a burn guy in my small group, so I will drsign to help him not...

Is this the direction you plan to go? Otherwise I will need help deciphering your reply, since I am not aware of any interesting history that you may have with burn spells. If you do have a certain history or affinity with burn, please share! Personally, I have been playing fast burning red...

Nah, it's just a different type of challenge than designing more of a typical cube. With 30 count, the designer needs to find a way to deal with a supply that gives each player 6+ copies if they want them. The card needs to be useful enough to get drafted instead of drafters just letting it...

For most of my ideas, 30 out of 180 is too many. I think a removal spell could work, though. Bone Shards

This is a good idea for a thread - it provides some good food for thought. Seasoned PyromancerConjurer's ClosetRishkar, Peema RenegadeMorbid OpportunistSevinne's ReclamationLiving DeathHonored HydraSiege-Gang CommanderEvolutionary Leap

I actually switched some of green's ramp from 2MV to 3MV in my current cube, because ramp can easily take up so much space space in 1-2 MV that it crowds out everything else in green. I'm trying to some aggro and madness elements to green after reading the thread below, and I think a slower ramp...

I like this pair of one drops. Retrofitted TransmograntSarpadian Simulacrum