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White border is disgusting. Y'all are heathens.

Honestly, seems like too many hoops to jump through if you can't reasonably get rid of it. I really like the new 1R Cycling enchantment from MH1 if you're looking for that kind of effect where you turn dead cards into gas.

I've never really seen Brago do a whole lot in my environment the few times I tried him out, very slow with not getting a hit in until T5 on average, but I'm very interested in Soulherder. The interactions with ANY exile effect is pretty interesting and its at a perfect spot in the curve for...

It depends on what Brago is doing for you currently. If he's consistently blinking a lot of things at once to generate maximum value, then Soulherder won't be able to replicate that effectively. If you only ever find yourself blinking a particular creature to reap value, then Soulherder is...

I agree with that, I was in that exact position when I was first designing my cube. I would look over the most popular cube threads at MTGS, see what they were running, and try to emulate something similar. It wasn't until actually playtesting and seeing things in action that I saw things that I...

That's very true, but I wouldn't agree with low powered cubes as a term. That makes me think more of an environment bereft of powerful cards at all by choice, where there is a flat power band that compensates for the lack of outright bombs. Personally my environment is decently powerful all...

I just want to see more discussion in general, which is not something that the Reddit format is conducive to for the most part. I don't use MTGS as much of a reference when it comes to my own design or card evaluation, but I do reference their Testing/Includes thread when a new set comes around...

Velrun, are you not a fan of foils? There is technically the Judge promo which also exists which is about as close as you can get to splitting the difference:

Old version is better on so many different fronts. Better card frame/border, better art, and the flavor text is way sweeter.

I don't mind the stamp, but the bottom border bothers me so much whenever it catches my eye. It's just completely asymmetrical with the top black border. On that note, I don't understand the appeal of miscuts either. Some of the ugliest things I've ever seen cardwise.

You know, I actually had a cube draft fire some months back with 8 drafters and I think I have pictures of the decks assembled that night, but I can't for the life of me remember how that night went or who won. I'll post up decklists at some point once I find them and if my memory somehow...

My favorite Gifts deck I've ever had was an Emrakul deck where I'd use it as a form of super ramp for Emrakul, the Promised End or as a means of setting up reanimation: "] Ones 1 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Oath of Nissa 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald Twos 1 Exhume 1 Go for the Throat 1 Grasp of Darkness 1...

Hmm I can't think of a strong card that I haven't run because of the art, but for each card I try to run the version I find most aesthetically pleasing from a art and border/frame perspective. I'm a huge fan of the old frames and the shooting star, I'll often look for versions of cards in that...

Holy shit Yawgmoth is so freaking cool. The payoff that Aristocrat decks needed for a long time. I'm so excited to run this in W/B Humans or as a curve topper for recursive aggressive decks. You can have a really really disgusting turn with Gravecrawlers and enough black mana. I currently have...

Gideon of the Trials vs. Gideon Blackblade Trials is more generically useful in a handful of different archetypes, but Blackblade is a sweet card for W/x aggressive strategies that can be cashed it to remove a roadblock later in the game.

Ranger Captain is pretty awesome too. Being able to sac on your opponent's upkeep/draw step to prevent them from playing a T4 wrath to stabilize the board is exactly the kind of reach you need in W/x aggressive decks to get across the finish line. White 3s are incredibly crowded nowadays but...

Holy shit, this is the exact card I needed for Welder/Daretti strategies to take off. A second pseudo-Welder effect AND weird Red artifact Entomb variant stapled to a body is all I've ever wanted. I'm definitely going to revisit a U/R centric Artifact archetype after this set is released. This...

I was actually going off the artifact archetype because I didn't really have anything big drawing me towards it in my environment, but Urza makes me want to revisit it altogether. Two bodies, a weird callback to Tolarian Academy, and a mana sink all in one? This card is incredible. I like...

Yes, that card is Flusterstorm. It's going to be the buy-a-box promo for Horizons.

I think FTK is probably the best red 4 for Cube. Powerful effect, will usually trade off with two things off the ETB + body, and it's super splashable. I'd play it in any R/x I'd draft, from aggro to midrange to even control as a kill spell + body. It's just so versatile. There are cards with...