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Which is a shame because playing some brawl on arena made me realize how much I would like a singleton 1v1 60-card 20 health format (with no commander!). I don't really feel like I want to invest the time and money to get a constructed deck together, and singleton is a really nice way to play...

Hm, I think they're maybe experimenting with the overlap between commander and standard?

Honestly part of the phenomena isn't so much the +1 card in itself so much as the just absurd amount of consistency it gives a deck, right? If you play Gyruda you almost don't need any other ramp targets.

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You're totally right! Totally forgot about that. Mana sinks could easily be considered even more fundamental for a really good draft format :D

I guess you play this in like really aggressive R/x decks right? And cash it in at like turn 5-6 once you're out of gas?

My worry is that this is perhaps to situational to really show up as a proper theme, but it is a fun sub-theme interaction kind of thing that someone might discover. Rosheen seems maybe like the best card there? For Unbound Flourishing, really how many cards do you need to play with it for it to...

Just for reference, searching for "cycling" in scryfall gives 269 hits :)

So far I've managed to distract myself with other things than cube during quarantine. Luckily, I'm in a position where I can work from home, which has meant that I've managed to blur the line between work life and leisure time, which causes its own type of fatigue. Nevertheless, I'm still...

This seems like a really cool way of adding an extra layer to the existing raiders theme in orzhov! I've always been intrigued by running reanimation + cycling fatties in something like GB, and this seems like a nice translation of that to weenies.

I'm surprised at the amount of mutate creatures that have essentially 1 card's worth of an effect, like fetching a land or edicting your opponent. Pacifism seems both really strong and surprisingly weak in that regard?

I think mutate has been pretty fun in the 1 draft and 1 sealed I've had the chance to play, but one thing I've noticed is that the format feels kind of removal-checky? It's not that difficult to build up a pretty dangerous stack, and it's going to beat you down really hard unless you can punish...

That's actually a pretty spicy green self-mill incentive!

I'd just like to chime in with 1) I think enchantments are cool, and 2) As the density of enchantments goes up in the cube (especially if you're running enchantment creatures) the answers to enchantments become much easier to run. So it's possible for the format to actually become a little...

Yeah I agree with this point! Running essentially a "second copy" of a card but in gold means that you are rewarded for playing that color pair.

That's a good point! Might be unfair to compare it to skinrender, which might even be indicative that I shouldn't run it depending on the power level I want to end up at.

Blight-Breath Catoblepas In a low to medium power cube, would this ever work as a black devotion incitement? Seems like it's just a bit overcosted for what it does compared to a card like skinrender

When the sets released I would suppose!

Hm hard to say. I was pretty focused on WB so might just be that I wasn't paying attention + didn't know about any of the archetypes prior to the draft. Should do a few more drafts maybe!

It's like a DIY version of Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius!