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When I look at your green 3 drops, Evolution Sage kind of pops out as being a bit bad. The card is middling in counters decks and middling everywhere else. Your 3-drop slot already has Rishkar, Peema Renegade, which is probably the best counters payoff that slot has to offer. I think you might...

I wanted to stop by and say how nice this cube is looking, especially with the customs! That Ominous Sphinx flavor text is amazing! May I suggest just erattaing all of the cards which only care about cycling (Lightning Rift and Astral Slide being the two big ones) to just caring about discard...

It's good you cut Oracle of Mul Daya, that card is very bad in most cubes. I think cutting The First Iroan Games is a bit of a mistake. That card is a great way for midrange green decks to apply early pressure and re-fuel their hands. While the card can sometimes be blanked by the opponents, I...

Zoss, Welcome to the forums! It's always nice to see some new faces around Riptide, especially when they seem to have good design chops as you do. I think this cube has a lot of cool concepts going on, and there looks to be a lot of strategic complexity when it comes to the gameplay side of...

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Looks like Dredge got a new toy...

Why not just... Demon of Catastrophes Demon of Catastrophes is a much better finisher for aggressive decks, since it can come down reasonably early and still hits just as hard. It also doesn't mess with the mana base as much since one doesn't need to reach 6 mana to cast it. Players...

"Pretty Narrow" is an understatement. You basically need to be playing a green deck that wants to be playing big X-costed instants... a category of spells which just isn't very common in most cubes. Green/Blue flash-type decks can use it but even then I don't think it's that deck's best choice.

I think your best option is actually: 10 Fetches 20 Shocks 5 Ally Manlands 5 Enemy Horizon Lands 5 Triomes 5 Five-Color/Utility Lands (City of Brass, Mana Confluence, Prismatic Vista, Mutavault Etc.) The idea here is to keep the full Fetch/Shock mana base together while still including...

I think there are many individually good spirits, but not enough to support a real spirit tribal archetype. A couple of the tribal payoffs for spirits like Rattlechains, Mausoleum Wanderer and Nebelgast Herald could be used in supporting a blue-based tempo strategy. However, I don't think one...

No, actually that is what we're talking about. Smith just said they quit cubing back in 2015-16, and that they're having an easier time acquiring cards now than back then. It wasn't harder to get 2010 bulk cards in 2015 than it is to get 2015 bulk cards in 2020. However, it is much easier to...

That's actually not quite true. It used to be that back in the day, a rare from a new set which saw extensive standard play would have a reasonably high price tag for it's entire duration in the format. Now, most standard rates drop down to being a couple bucks, regardless of how much play...

Let's try a couple using multiples of the same card:

I'm not sure there's a good argument I can make for or against either, but let's put it this way. I can't make space for Lightning Phoenix. I'm never cutting Flamewake Phoenix.

I guess, but her second ability doesn't work if they've been pumped, and there are multiple creatures in the deck with a power greater than two. She's fine, but I think she's definitely the easiest cut.

Honored Hydra is my spirit animal.

I'm not excited for return to Zendikar. I always felt like the Eldrazi were the most interesting part of the world (although WOTC did a horrible job with them in BFZ), but now they're gone. In addition, it seems like large swaths of the world were destroyed during our last visit to Zendikar...