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Colossal Badger Yes

I am Colossal, but no meme. Unlike my counterpart, the public does not badger me. What am I?

I think you make some salient points about Nissa, Ascended Animist's floor that I had failed to consider in my initial evaluation. I still think Nissa, Who Shakes the World is a better card in general (Usman Jamil calls her "The Queen of Green Planeswalkers," and I still feel inclined to agree)...

Well said! My fixing is still worse than yours because I am still using a singleton mana base (for the time being), but I think we're still broadly trying to support similar color breakdowns.

I think it's too context dependent to say definitvely. The increase in win rate from casting the bomb would need to offset the loss in consistency from having to support a deck with more colors than intended for the format. The win rate advantage to playing fewer colors than a format's mana base...

I agree with the first part of this for sure. My point with talking about Prismatic Vista was that it's a lot better at maintaining a mana base with mostly light pip costs (like {1}{R}, {2}{U}, {3}{W}) as opposed to heavier costs ({1}{B}{B}, {U}{R}{W}, {G}{G}{G}). It's going to be difficult to...

Going off of this, I think a contributing factor to the appropriate number of gold cards in a given environment is the type of fixing in a Cube. In addition to the quantity and quality of fixing in an environment, how fixing is designed can dictate how difficult it can be to play a second or...

It's more that it's an essential tool for Cube designers who want to encourage artifact decks working with noncreature artifacts. There really are not a lot of cards that act as payoffs for specifically doing noncreature artifact shenanigans– they're mostly cards that turn noncreature artifacts...

Dragon's Rage Channeler Dragon's Rage Channeler is probably my favorite payoff for noncreature artifacts. Its surveil ability rewards you for playing noncreature artifacts, fueling your graveyard and helping you to find your other best cards. The delirium ability turns the channeler into a real...

That's certainly not a sentence you hear every day (despite the fact that it's correct when reflecting upon the statement). 5 is a lot of mana if the card doesn't literally say "win the game" in some formats (*cough* Modern *cough*)

Nissa, Ascended Animist I know this is a slightly older post at this point, but the more I think about this new Nissa the less I like her. I thought this might be an interesting discussion. I think this Nissa is good when she's able to win the game with her faux-craterhoof impression. While I...

Awww, I got disappointed there for a second. I thought there were going to be more cool new cards! That's... actually significantly less than I thought... only about one thing per month. I bet if Unfinity and Warhammer 40k had released when they were supposed to instead of getting pushed back...

What’s coming out in two weeks?

Testing thread? Testing thread.

This is a testing/includes thread. Post pictures using /ci or a text list using /c with what cards you plan to include and what cards you plan to test. Including: Ossification Planar Disruption Mercurial Spelldancer Barbed Batterfist Cankerbloom Jor Kadeen, First Goldwarden Interesting but...

We finally found out who the Tooth and Scale of Chiss Goria belong to!

I think Vraan, Executioner Thane is better than ZC and Blood Artist when being used fairly or outside of Aristocrats, but worse when it is part of a Combo deck. If you're sacrificing 5 things in a turn to Goblin Bombardment, you're going to want a Blood Artist variant over Vraan. However, if...

I think it’s more that Mayhem Devil is a reason to play a sac deck (3/3 body is fine by itself and the potential ceiling is very high if you can support it), while Juri is more a reward for a deck that is already doing a lot of sacrificing.

Seems like a running theme in this set: Sawblade Scamp Vindictive Flamestoker Exuberant Fuseling Cacophony Scamp

Oh for sure, the old Starcity catalog has a lot of nice foundational theories from the earlier days of Cubing. I'm not familiar with Thea Steele but JP and Usman's old articles are all very nice! Today the only person they have consistently writing about Cube is Ryan Overturf who... is not the...