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Past saturday I've had another draft happening in my home, and I was very happy to introduce a very good friend of mine to the group. I've used to draft and play a lot with him, but it was the first time he managed to come to our new place and join this playgroup. But back to business. Because...

If I got Erik right here, inefficiency isn't the same as being narrow. I would argue that three of the four cards in his dark depths package are narrow but it's still efficiency because they enable a whole new archetype with few slots.

Even if Rusje does think that ... why does it bother you so much? Please don't take this as offense, but sometime you just need to accept (very) different points of view, even when they seem "objectively" wrong to you. I remember when @Landofand and I disagreed in a discussion about the...

Okay, guess it'll be syndic :) Woe thanks, that reads convincing. It's not that I am in love with either option, but when you want a red 2-drop with 2+ power that lets you madness a wurm on turn three, your options are very limited.

Seeker of the Way Syndic of Tithes So, on face value most people might pick seeker. But what if the deck playing this 2-drop is an aggro deck that only has like 5-7 noncreature spells in it? What if it also cares about lifegain triggers?

Great read, thanks vince! Cube really is it's very own animal, in that it's by far the way to play mtg where you have to think the most about the experience others will have playing with you (or your game pieces, more accurately). Being a cube manager is almost like being the DM in a D&D game...

Talking of 2-mana artifacts that geberate value when things die ... Agatha's Soul Cauldron This one is expensive, but I assume it's more because of some weird combos in constructed? It doesn't seem particularly high powered to me. I've cast it once in retail. It put two counters on my...

I am already on Key to the City, Gathan Raiders, Deal Broker, Mask of Memory and Zephyr Boots currently and will add Collector's Vault as well. Cookbook was meh after I cut Asmoramobhdcjukff. I haven't tried Channeler yet, because I don't want to support spells matter in red. The other two...

I didn't say it was making huge waves there, but almost every black drafter I see plays it even when they don't have access to blue, and rightfully so. Virus Beetle and other Ravenous Rats versions have been really good too, and that holds true for the last 20 years of limited at least. This one...

I think both, Staff and Alliance could be a little too much, especially since {w}/X tokens is already a super strong deck in my environment. So if wellspring plays out in a similar way and is just a step behind these, it might be just right for the CCC.

You guys are nuts, seriously. :D This card is very good even when you don't have the blue in limited.

Norn's Wellspring I've heard this was bad in ONE, but unlike that format, my cube's full of tokens that can actually block. So, maybe this is good and a nice way to link white's token strategy with black's sacrifice theme even better?

While madness enabling is certainly it's main purpose, I don't want it to be unplayable everywhere else. You'd think red would have a decent amount of cheap discard outlets that are generally useful, but it's surprisingly scarce there. I am running these 9 and I'm already not in love with half...

One information that might br really relevant here: red is not a spells matter color in my cube. It sometimes plays a supporting role in blue based spells decks, but the only red card caring about it is a lone Revolutionist. However, madness is a very large theme centered in red, where the...

Haggle Thrill of Possibility Is a 1-mana thrill that akways draws a mediocre 3-drop as one of the two cards still better? Or is the chance to draw two good spells worth the extra investment?

I decided not to try Echo. But I will try Opening Ceremony!

If someone was to proxy Collector's Vault and reword it so it says "create a treasure" first and then "loot", would that make any rules difference? That way, players would have it easier to understand that you can use the treasure for madness, I assume.

I've been cubing Booster Tutor for a long time now and it scales as much to an environment as any card could. But is this true as well for this monstrosity? Opening Ceremony I'm a bit scared of the possibility to cast multiple cards with it. But maybe that doesn't matter since you have to get...

Soo, I'm gonna ask the most important question: How does it work with madness? Can I use the treasure to pay for the madness cost? I think I can, and that would make me interested in this card as well.

Blood Fountain gives you two trinkets and can put something into the 'yard, although you probably don't need recursion on top of your recursion. Stuff like Vampiric Rites or Attrition can be sacced for the Conquest after you have sacced the creatures, that will come back anyway, for value...