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Haven't been that hyped for spoiler season since ... quite some time. I am crossing my fingers for ... • cheap white threats caring about noncreature spells, prowess or other (think Myth Realized) • new cards with flashback costs significantly cheaper than their mana cost (like Roar of the...

That's the catch (pun intended). You get this cheap draw engine that also allows you to store treasures – now you need to find a way to punch through with evasion (or maybe gain some life) to make sure you can win. You can also decide to not sell the Magikarps though.

Oh yeah, I forgot to write that here, but it's on the card. Only sorcery speed here. Block for days, mostly. It's a very creature focused meta, naturally, there are ways to put counters on the magikarp or tap it as a cost for some effects. I thought about this, could even just make it a...

Shady Deal {1}{B} Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, create a Magikarp (a 0/1 blue water pokémon). {1}: Target opponent gains control of target Magikarp you control. If they do, you create a treasure token and draw a card. I think I have to make this a tapped treasure so you can't...

I mean ... context matters. I have it in my cube and it's pretty good there. Within the very high power levels you like designig for, maybe not so much.

I'm doing a very little in between update, just because I already own the new card, the old one hasn't been maindecked so far anyway and it's probably a clean upgrade in terms of synergy potential. Winding Way ... replaces Aventurous Impulse. Winding Way is probably a more tempting pick...

Goes infinite with just Rosie Cotton of South Lane lol

I would definitely branch out themes into other colors. I used to have the typical pair archetypes in my cube as well, and it just brought so many problems, it is really beyond me why wizards uses it for every set. Maybe because it is easy to draft, I dunno. But you end up with a lot of nongold...

Yes, but as soon as you have the Grid installed, they won't get any tokens ever!

That card is very sweet with it. I wonder how much support that needs though, before it becomes a good card on it's own. You probably want as many nonartifact spells that create artifact tokens as possible? I'm intrigued. I've also found this one as a probably pretty good artifact payoff that...

Genesis Chamber is anyone here cubing that card? It is one that really speaks to me. the reason is probably, that I like cards, that can be (ab)used in different ways and shells. I also like Myr, they're so cool. So, of course you could just try to cast significantly more creature spells than...

Yeah, when I said you run some cards I would be scared of, I meant mostly those modern era midrange dudes. 4/4 fliers for 4 with multiple upsides just don't mesh well with many of the old school creatures I love to cube with. Yeah, couldn't agree more. One the most dynamic and interesting...

I already run the Familiar and Faerie Seer. I think I'll do this. Give the Siren a chance. 7 is a lot bit it also gets +1/+1 and flying and leaves a 1/1 behind.

I love Pteramander. It's a flying man for the U/x tempo decks, especially great as a ninjutsu enabler, yet it is also a card that is desireable in a U/x control deck. Now, I want stick with singleton, but still would like some blue evasive 1-drops that could appeal to control decks. Choose up...

Yeah, that's a sick common. Even with not other ways to put counters on it, it is essentially a Den Protector that just gets permanents - but still, that was a heavily played rare. Edit: Oh my freaking god it's adapt 2, so it's even better ...

So far this set is about a lot of cards that come really close to being a good fit for my cube. If Marionette Apprentice or Warren Soultrader where slightly smaller than 2-mana 2/3 or 3-mana 3/3 they would be better fits for my environment. If Triton Wavebreaker was red or even better white, I...

Vengevine is actually already in the CCC for a few years. It has yet to do anything scary. It makes surprisingly few decks though, since I track everything (for 18 month now) it was only once in a deck and went 2-1. I suspect it's just bad luck why it doesn't get played more often. Things like...

Okay, thanks for relieving my consciousness, but ... do you tell the people so you don't have "an advantage" or do you do it secretly (like a true criminal!) so people draft naturally?

To you that have cubes bigger than the amount of cards that actually get drafted ... have you ever seeded some cards into the draft pool? I don't mean in specific packs, but lets say you know that your players will only see 288 cards (a six person draft with four packs of 12), and there are...

You know what, I'll get a copy of Genesis and try it. If it doesn't work, I can still throw in Grizzly Fate or Beast Attack as I have copies of those in my collection. But I've thought about Genesis more often than the people who wrote the bible. I will report back. In my CCC thread. In a few...