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I'd say a good Stoneforge starter pack in a reasonably powered cube would be something like: Stoneforge Mystic Batterskull Embercleave Bonesplitter Grafted Wargear Heirloom Blade Ancestral Blade You only really need 1 or two hits in a given cube deck featuring Stoneforge. The big thing for...

I find Batterskull to be very average in most cases. A 4/4 Lifelink threat for 5 just isn't that threatening when played on curve and nowadays it's only slightly threatening when cheated in on T3 via Stoneforge activation. It gets gross once the initial body is dead and you can attach it to...

I'm so glad that they've moved prereleases to 6:30PM on Friday instead of midnights. Being able to function at normal hours has been a godsend. Opened up a solid pool that had some good Red, Black and Green cards. Fixing in this set is too rough to be solidly in 3 so I had to make a decision...

For an Esper shell? I think Sharuum is probably better because she's an artifact herself + the card is really buying back an artifact with a kicker that gives you a 5/5 flyer. I think the artifact/enchantment synergies on this are cute in cube but way more effective in a Brawl/EDH environment...

I'm going to test out all of the following cards: I was expecting more of a power down set, but this is the year that just keeps on giving. So many cool designs to try out. Adventures are great, fill in a lot of holes here and there that I wasn't too happy with previously. Black and Red are...

I thought this set was going to be slim pickings for once this year, but I've added 14 cards to test out in my cube and I'm adding both cycles of lands to the ULD. I wasn't even thinking of making such big changes across my instant/sorcery sections, but Adventures were just too good to pass up...

Oh man, being able to update with swaps from the newest set in the middle of spoiler season on CubeCobra is a gamechanger. No more having to remember what my initial thoughts and swaps were when the card was spoiled and struggling to recall after prerelease.

Sheoldred is ridiculous if you get her out early (like most early reanimation targets), but pretty fair on curve if both sides have been developing their boards.

I feel like the opportunity cost is just so low that if you have the space for it that it's worth an inclusion. I've had many games in various formats come down to topdeck wars once both sides ran out of gas and anything that you can do additionally to mitigate that seems like a complete plus...

Oh man, I've been looking for more ULD inclusions for lands producing a single color and this new cycle is perfect. All of them offer that upside that isn't quite game-breaking, not strong enough for main cube play, but do enough to be worth the inclusion in ULD and also incentivize drafters...

Bonecrusher Giant is great. Trade in the Scry 2 on Magma Jet for a 4/3 later that will shock your opponent if they point any removal at it? What a sweet card.

It looks it came straight out of Dark Souls. The art is great. I rest my case.

I play it and it's alright. I think it's the best version of punisher type cards we've had and I do like the ability to use it as a discard outlet/flashback card later in the game. The only issue is that it's not as universally wanted from various R/x decks aside from aggressive builds. I...

Robin Hood is super sweet. It's like a red Gonti and playing it on curve in aggressive red decks is one way to keep the cards flowing until they shoot it down. Having other rogues would make it even sweeter, but that definitely feels like a cherry on top. It's definitely good enough to run on...

I'm all for more aggressive beaters in Green that can punish control and value-driven midrange strategies, but this is so inelegant. I want another Vengevine like card, but this is way too much in one card. I think you just play it in every green deck no matter what, it's just never a bad card...

Seems okay if you're looking for more version of 4 damage for 3 mana. I just cube Exquisite Firecraft and call it a day.

I'm thinking Sultai because of the pink/purple vine and also because they seem to want to push Oathbreaker as a format. He'd be the first Sultai walker.

I think Jhoira is super sweet in a lower powered cube than my environment and the only reason I didn't highlight her is because she's a little fragile. If she was a 2/4 I'd be all over it in this primer. The only issue with it is that it's not really a finisher type card, but helps you to set up...

I'm way bigger on CubeCobra than CT at this point just because of how shit Ben has been as providing any sort of correspondence with his users. Dude disappears for months without any update aside from adding in new card images for new sets. People have been using it forever because it was the...

I think Warleader is probably the fairest of those options in a vacuum (definitely the worst art though). Brimaz is a bit too early and too efficient at what it does and there aren't really any decisions to be made, Hero has a more relevant creature type but Battle Cry is a real beating if...