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Some Cube content finally -- the Most Cubed Card of Each Year! I don't think this is particularly illuminating to Cube community folks like ourselves, but the data I pulled for this already has some cool insights I'm excited to share with y'all in future weeks.

In a lower-powered cube, a 3MV gold card is going to be halfway to a turn 4 play on average unless your drafters focus on fixing. Even at low power levels, paying 4 mana for "draw an extra card every turn" is strong but rarely oppressive. For context, even my reject cube, a purposely de-powered...

Time for Cube Cobra's Most Cubed Cards of the New Set During Release Weekend, a statistically useless but practical and fun way to explore some level of meta-trends! Caveats: 1. Cards spoiled early are always over-represented, as they're on Cube Cobra for much longer. 2. There are many types...

I've been procrastinating on finishing my big essay about my basic land box for nearly a year now, but since I do want to share it, I'm going to just do so and briefly spell out my philosophy: My Land Box (CubeCobra) Goals: 1. Maintain the spirit of my cube experience with the basic lands...

Welcome to the forums, my friend! I already like your style quite a bit! It's really rough. On one hand, Cube is an excellent place to centralise your collection, your favorites, and the rich history of Magic: the Gathering. On the other, we're already at the point where many cards look like...

I also won my pre-release, something I found very strange considering I was on very little sleep from having travelled the entire day prior. I've been away on vacation! Back now, will be sharing more thoughts as well.

Preliminary thoughts so far: Flowering of the White Tree in for Starnheim Unleashed Super sweet anthem that both supports my legendary-matters sub-theme (that has a strong core in white aggressive strategies) and token strategies (to a much lesser effect). Starnheim Unleashed is one of two...

I get where you're coming from, but I think it's a poor mechanic even on the "external card" standard. I still run plenty of stupid mechanics and cards that invite memory issues or have too many complex bobbles to track -- including the new Praetors that flip into sagas, a card type I've had...

Fool of a Took indeed! I wasn't interested (for cube, at least) until I realized that this counters 69% of my creatures for one mana...that's really not that bad.

It does, so it's great against things like Ophiomancer, Porcelain Legionnaire, or even getting death triggers from a Wurmcoil Engine in the right context, so there is potential there for sure. It helps you overcome some of the most annoying bricks on your opponents' side. But my cube has much...

Seems interesting. Not sure there's enough value in it, but conceptually it lets aggro decks get around some of the most obnoxious midrange bricks.

The one that's, err, "standard borderless" -- not the one that's part of the scene. 0341! Also, liking the new spoilers from today: Moria Maurader This is the right way to do tribal! I'm a fan, even with the double red in the mana cost, because the upside is pretty incredible here. Lizard...

I've never needed ten copies of a card before seeing the borderless art version of Minas Tirith. This set is sweet so far, and I'm similarly going to be sticking to borderless where able but I'm finding I hate the frame less than I anticipated. The basics are wonderful too, these are all...

I just picked up an Invasion of Tarkir after seeing it in action a few times, super neat card. But yeah, the fact that there's no more battles for the next year or two is an actual strike against them. I haven't found them as fiddly as others (certainly they're no Day/Night) but it's a...

In a traditional zoo deck? It's rough, but you can do it. Toolcraft Exemplar Blade SplicerPorcelain LegionnaireMaul of the SkyclavesFiligree VectorGlimmer LensHotshot Mechanic[Lion SashPortable HoleDancing Sword

Standard Procedure Standard Procedure just got a lot better :cool: (I love this card, btw. It's not very friendly to the environment I'm trying to support in general, but the creativity available is TotK-tier and is worth the complication it provides)

Sure, but Sun Titan is equally oppressive on the composition of cubes. It's run more than the next 10 white six-drops combined according to Cube Cobra (I've got an article coming out eventually about it).

Haven't been able to cube this year since I moved to a new country and haven't been able to have enough time to both meet a critical mass of new Magic players here who I'm comfortable bringing into my home with my children AND having a free day to host (I'm pretty close though, the second thing...

Ranking the Showcase Treatments – with Math! I made a formula combining survey data (thanks all who contributed here) and sales data I scraped from 4 major sites to figure out which of the 16 planar showcase styles in MOM/Aftermath were objectively the best.

Thanks both!! I appreciate the home-town support I've gotten from y'all here :)