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If we're going to have an artifact theme, I'll add this: Thopter Spy Network Now I'll nominate @Onderzeeboot and @Chris Taylor

I personally prefer cubes more leaning towards the uncharted spectrum. When I basically rebuild my CCC during last winter, I tried to make the vast majority of my cards less didactic (even without knowing that term :p ), yet have them have as much synergy potential as possible. I wanted cards...

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I really like this cycle which I am running in my ravnica cube. Flight of Fancy Strands of Undeath Galvanic Arc Fists of Ironwood Faith's Fetters Fetter's is kind of an outlier as it's the only negative aura (you could count Knightly Valor from Ravnica 2 as the spiritual compleation). But the...

I think most people here try to: - keep their curves low - have 1-drops that stay relevant later in the game These general rules of riptidian cube design already make AG much better, while it also helps you with that second goal. It also works very well with all kinds of graveyard themes like...

It can probably be played in an aggro deck too, but my hope is, that it makes a grindy value playstyle with 1-drops possible - which would make them much more versatile. But in general I think one thing people seem to miss about Abiding Grace is, that blocking is an important feature of most...

Abiding Grace Just like Wildfire and Demonic Pact, this thing has created it's own archetype. Because I didn't have time to draft and play for the last few months, I've only seen the Abiding Grace deck in action once (in {G/W}, while I assume it will be best in {W/B}), but theorycrafting...

I like that they now, according to maro on blogatog, made white primary in little cantrip creatures

@landofMordor Hey, your playgroups happiness is always the biggest goal, including yourself, but not above others. And when your idea of building mechanics like these into your cube helps them to have more fun, that's upside only. I didn't meant to come of as offensive in my post and I totally...

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Well, since lifegain sources are so easy to come by, you could also just run very few, relatively strong payoffs. They would almost act like buildarounds ymand your deck would need more of a plan than getting that one card to trigger, but it's more interesting deckbuilding anyway if you have to...

I love sweepers too. They're swingy but their mere existence adds a lot of excitement - for the players and even spectators. But as I am running a lower powered cube that's not super fast, I have to be very careful in how I balance them. I run these currently: Hallowed Burial Rout Time Wipe...

-status:owned or status:"not owned" if you don't have any listed as "ordered" or such

It's funny, but as a designer AND player, I've always been more intrigued by cards and mechanics that make you wanna do usually suboptimal things. And it goes beyond just preferring zombies about better non-zombies because I might have picked up a Cemetery Reaper. Bloodrage Brawler Anger...

The biggest problem with lifegain is still, even though we've had a few more iterations in sets, that the payoffs are still mostly narrow cards. I even thozght about removing the archetype, but it's my gfs favorite thing to draft and play, so I instead expanded it into green ... I mean, she's...

It's a card that I for some strange reason originally dismissed, but now I'm cubing it. Equipment/Artifacts, Landfall, Goblin tribal ... almost all my red decks want this. And so do I. You could also say "Einfach Toggo!"

Oooh, I forgot about ransack the lab ... now I have to figure out if I like this more than Underworld Connections ...

I have the classics Night's Whiser and Read the Bones already, as well as Foreboding Fruit, which plays nicely into my devotion subtheme. I'll add Underworld Connections, which has been good before and just got pushed out because I had space issues.

Hm, yeah that sounds about right. I might have enough room to still try it at some point, as I can't help but get a little excited by that card (I love drawing cards in all colors), but I will keep that in mind to not fall for it's agency trap.

Hm, okay, the mixed reactions here didn't help it. I guess what makes me ultimately not include it, is that you also need to be creature heavy. I'd like the majority of my card draw spells to be flexible and also go into something like a very creature-light {U/B}-control list.