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When I first began constructing my cube around 4 1/2 years ago, I took many of Waddell's original cube ideas to heart and implemented them within my own environment and built a 360 offering with double fetch/shock manabase. The issue that crept up early in design was the ease with which greedy...

I'm feeling these:

I don't agree with Tezz AoB. He's a powerhouse in environments with early artifact accelerants, but he's very very narrow otherwise and requires to be built around. If you can curve like two artifacts into him and have a ton of hits with the Impulse ability, he's incredible, but that requires...

Doom Whisperer isn't an ETB value engine, but it is above rate and way pushed for constructed play. I'm not as worried about it in Cube though; it's not particularly difficult to deal with provided you're running a less limited suite of removal. I just don't like how it's an above rate body with...

The problem with Delver for me is that the circumstances to make it into a great card are limited. If you drop it early in the game and flip it over off a lucky reveal and manage to push in 6+ points of damage before defenses are up, it's awesome. If it's just a dorky 1/1 like it is most of the...

Commander wise this set is meh, but cube-wise it's been a gold mine so far. I'm already planning on trying out the following cards: Also thinking about putting in Thespian's Stage into my ULD just for wonky shenanigans with Turtle Island.

Yeah, I'm with Aston on the Glint-Nest Crane. If you're in the market for a 1/3 that can also block in the air, the Crane is just better and has the upside of filtering and potentially drawing you another card. Augur of Bolas was a passable cube card for a long time. An unconditional ETB draw a...

I'm interested in trying out Saheeli, a nice support piece for UR artifact shells. Being able to turbo out something like a Myr Battlesphere + another relevant spell on T6 off her, a rock and maybe some artifact land(s) is very appealing. Adds even sweeter utility for the Artifact Lands I keep...

I'm a fan of all three of them, but I'm leaning towards Last Hope and Veil. Veil is powerful and has a unique effect, while Last Hope is just efficient as hell and slots into a ton of decks as a great utility card. I actually think Last Hope is better than Veil for my cube at least. Death's...

Knight of Meadowgrain. Cleaner formatting, better art, and a more relevant base body.

Nah, I hate referring to them as Tangolands. It was a terrible nickname from the get go. I get the two to tango thing, but it just didn't stick for me. Seemed more like people trying to get the name to catch on, but stop trying to make fetch happen; it's never going to happen. Also, Tangolands...

Not gonna get them anytime soon since RTR = Shocks, but I just want my cycle of Enemy Battlelands. Sometime in the next 2-3 years would be great, but I probably won't get them till like 2025.

The biggest issue I have with the question is using "best choice" as a qualifier. The "best choice" is not a black/green creature based on what we've seen throughout Magic's history, a flying/vigilance creature would normally be UW. Sure, you could probably make something that fits flavorwise...

I'm feeling Newjani as well. I've been running Ajani, Caller of the Pride for a while and he's been solid, but this one slots more nicely up the curve with how Wx Aggro decks want to play out. Mostly going wider in the early game, then you need to shift vertically to really pressure the...

You're right, I was thinking of Tragic Arrogance. I still think Cataclysm is pretty busted in stronger environment if you get ahead and stick a hard to deal with threat before minimizing the resources on both sides. Too hard to crawl back from.

Probably. Cataclysm becomes more busted when the cards that you leave behind are more capable of carrying you to victory on their own. This includes army in a can types ala Rabblemaster/Hero of Bladehold or continuous sources of card advantage like walkers.

I'm not sure how viable these specific partner cards are without the other half. Battlebond is designed such that the pair will always be together in a given pack and can then be snapped up at once when your team picks. Drafting strategy then kicks in as to whether you pick the pair or just one...

First batch, leaving up 2 to cycle can be hard to manage if you need to curve out accordingly. It's far easier to find an opportunity to leave one mana open vs. two, and cycling is especially great when you can flip that card into a play for the turn. It really is format dependent though...

I'm excited to get an affordable copy of Land Tax without ugly man art.

The most distressing thing to me about WOTC's whole Kamigawa Never Again stance is that we constantly see them making these same shortsighted decisions and calls without really understanding the reason why certain things might have not worked out. This goes beyond unsuccessful set design with...