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I'm pretty much checked out of spoiler season if it's this hectic a release schedule. Way too much at once. I'll give the set a once-over before prerelease, but I think this and Avatar will have very few inclusions for my cube unless the card is flavor/art agnostic (ex. Multiversal Passage).

I'd say it really depends on your design goals. I like the comfort of defined archetypes so I have the rough shell of these classics like U/W Control or R/G Midrange or Rx Aggro in my cube, but the real fun is in the details with your card inclusions and synergies you choose to emphasize. I want...

Scout for Survivors Anyone get to try out this yet? I haven't made a slot for it yet in my cube, but I've got a draft this weekend and debating whether or not to include it. I've seen it be pretty gross in some Limited games, but haven't heard anything yet for cube. The ceiling is nutty as...

What this thread is telling me is that I should pick up a copy of Stormchaser's Talent at some point, I clearly didn't evaluate it as highly as I should have on first go around. Maybe I'll even swap in Kitsa again for a run for cube this weekend as I forgot that it was a Wizard for an additional...

I think it would be a cool thing to start revisiting older testing threads a year or so out from when the sets first came out. Good way to see what stuck around for the long haul versus what ended up being a small test run. Let's start with Bloomburrow! I had only two inclusions on my initial...

Ragavan's power is contextual. If it's left uncontested early in the game backed by a ton of efficient removal it can run away with it like it did in Modern for a while, but if you have enough early blockers or ways to gum up the board then it quickly gets bottled up. In a vacuum it's a pretty...

It's about time to revisit reanimator in my cube, specifically the U/B variants. This deck seems to come together every other draft, but I can't recall it ever winning outright. Lots of cool sequences and memorable games but it doesn't seem like it has ever been enough to win it all against...

They make so many whiplash decisions, Jesus Christ. Feels like we've only had like 3-4 actual sets with fewer planeswalkers. I don't think anyone has been missing planeswalkers at all but then again I'm not their mythical kitchen table survey respondent so who knows.

Another thing to consider is which cards gain the most from an artifact-heavy environment. Loran of the Third Path Manic Vandal Abrade Nature's Claim Manglehorn Reclamation Sage Destructive Revelry All of these become straight up single target kill spells in many match-ups if we just have a...

Voice of Victory has been really good for me, had it during TDM Prerelease where it was great and it's been in my cube ever since. Being able to just freely do your thing on your turn without fear of disruption is a godsend for W/x Aggro decks. New tokens are always annoying to include...

I'd be interested in participating in this, would be a neat skeleton in the long run for me to eventually build out a 2nd cube in paper. There is so much artifact support across the board nowadays and more being printed each set. I think one of the big things to focus on is to really define...

Ixalan was a neat set when it came out, lots of cool cards between all the flip lands and various tribal cards. Unfortunately not much long term staying power as FIRE came into being not long afterwards and also we just got improved versions of multiple effects over time. I think the only card...

I run both of them currently and happy with both options. They play very differently where Hangarback is better to actually build up board presence and make a bunch of bodies for the artifact deck while Marketback is just more generically playable across the board for other decks. They both...

Both Preordain and Ponder are well worth finding slots for. I used to be in the multiple Brainstorm boat early on in my cube design thinking well if I'm running double fetches, why not have the card with the most potential upside as cantrips? What I learned over time is that having the variety...

I've been watching a lot of Limited recently and I'm leaning towards my read on Sunset Saboteur being correct. Sunset Saboteur This just seems like a house if you can curve it out on T2 and keep your opponents side of the board clear and/or managed effectively. Coming in for an evasive 4...

Syncopate is really neat, being able to exile problematic cards is always useful. Remand is a stone-cold staple of mine and I can't imagine ever cutting it just due to how well it plays tempo. Miscalculation has the cycling flexibility which I always like. Finally I'm going to recommend Remove...

Collector's Cage can definitely go on the watch-list, I think that could put in some real work as a neat option, but I just think Windbrisk Heights reads way better than it plays. Hideaway on lands is a lot clunkier than on other permanents. I used to run it a long time ago but it never quite...

It was a fine mechanic in the set, had a lot of fun at prerelease and the one draft I did (where I lucksacked into opening a foil The One Ring and then retired from that Limited format), but it's so annoying to track in any other format. I played against a friend in an EDH pod where he was...

I opened up a foil copy of this guy in my prize packs at EOE prerelease and I think I'm going to give it a run in my next cube session. Partially because it looks beautiful, but also because I think the possibilities are very interesting. I missed that it itself had flying when I first read it...

I break singleton on lands nowadays; double fetches, double shocks, double Prismatic Vista and double Urza's Saga. I also run my duplicate voucher system to artificially break singleton as well. Right now I'm on these cards: