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If you have one fetchland to recur, it's pretty disgusting. If not, it'll probably come in and just shoot down some early plays or threaten a ping. It's just never dead. I will say that if you can't get the Crucible impression going it's just okay and will quickly be outpaced.

What I've learned is that many people like to draft and finish it up with a card pool, but will never actually make cuts and/or add the lands to virtually construct a deck. This is mindblowing.

Looks like Onder and I both came up on the featured queue for CubeCobra at the same time: Neat :D

Bane of your existence if you're playing White Weenie or low to the ground R/x Aggro, not really a big deal if you're in any other archetype.

Not as an explicit deck archetype, but I'm interested in adding Foretell cards to spice up UW Control with some more options. I also like adding the pre-con commander in my UW section as it also synergizes with my blink archetype.

I'm with japahn on this, not a fan of the lack of text on more complex mechanics. I'll make the exception every now and then for a sweet card, but I also try to avoid it whenever possible. Part of the reason why I hated the Party mechanic so much.

Yeah, that's part of why I think it could be a neat little sub-theme within an archetype, but probably can't get there as a full-fledged archetype unless your environment is very specific. Still, being able to make your opponent sweat thinking that your foretold card is either a Wrath or...

Should be the act of exiling it facedown. The "foretell cost" should just be the alternate cost when you re-cast it. So Ranar lets you exile the foretell cards for free instead of the {2} , but you still pay the alternate cost when casting it down the road. I think you might have enough...

Doomskar is really nice for U/W Control decks. The early turns are usually just firing off stuff like Ponder or Preordain to sculpt your hand or dropping something like a Wall of Omens so you're not missing out on a ton of development if you foretell this instead. Being able to deploy at T3 at...

From cube sessions in the past, I remember that while I had tokens ready to go in a box for players, most of my drafters just used placeholders for their tokens with either facedown cards or just dice. Might be different for you guys, but from my years of cubing, it was very rare that my...

Dragon Whisperer Back in my day we went through more hoops to get extra value out of our pushed red two drops. We got smaller dragons and we liked it!

Always a fun read, thanks for doing this! Definitely wasn't the most engaging year from a cube or design perspective, but here's to a better 2021 when I can (hopefully) run a few drafts and actually have something to discuss around here.

Soulherder for sure. It's at a better spot with 3 CMC to curve into threats, has interactions with other exile effects to get it working, and best of all it's an end-step trigger so you can get immediate value. Brago is more powerful in a vacuum, but he requires a board ready to go AND has to...

Can we just merge and re-name it as a generic Kaldheim thread? It seems like extra legwork to navigate with no real benefit. I think we're fine with just an "official" thread for each new set with a testing/includes thread as a follow-up. Makes it easier to follow up on conversations and thoughts.

I could totally see them doing that at some point when they're hurting, but like Onder said it seems like the juice isn't worth the squeeze right now. Any major leaks we've gotten like this are usually just printing errors or someone fucking up in the distribution pipeline. The Kozilek reveal...

My guess is that there's some equivalent to the Bifrost in Kaldheim. Or maybe that sword from the trailer with Tibalt? I feel like Vorinclex somehow ended up there either by accident or in the middle of Tibalt sowing chaos and it's going to set off whatever the Kaldheim equivalent of...

These feel pretty real. I would have thought the first set was fake with the Snow Sorcery, but that Vorinclex is pretty convincing. New art by Daarken that looks on brand and never before seen, the name of the card plays into the sets themes, and the number crunch looks about right. 2nd set...

The only two that have survived long term in my cube are: History of Benalia The Antiquities War Your power level will determine whether the others will work for you, but I can vouch that these two hold up well in a higher powered environment. Benalia is just solid value all around on its...

The issue with Lorwyn, and many tribal based draft formats, is that it devolves into drafting on wheels. You need greater overlap between tribes and strategies to make it a deep and rewarding experience. Ixalan suffered similar issues with tribes lacking a lot of crossover appeal and players...

I'm super excited to see more changeling support here. I've had tribal cube theorycrafted for years now that I've tinkered with here and there, this set might get me to revisit it and maybe construct it sometime in 2021.