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I mostly view Rishkar as a worse Luminarch Aspirant that can sometimes go off. I think it being a 3/3 (baring a Twinshot Sniper or something) is a decent enough floor to be worth it considering its ceiling. I don't think you need explicit support as the cube already has a bunch of +1/+1 counter...

After taking some time off from this cube, I am coming back with a fresh set of eyes. The first thing I did was try cutting the cube down to its bare bones to see where the fluff was. In doing so, I realized that I could probably cut it down to 384 cards (increasing the pack size to 16). I...

Does it have to be madness specifically? Because if not, then I think these are pretty powerful in the right shells: Anger Wonder Blazing Rootwalla Basking Rootwalla The Raven Man Rielle the Everwise Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer Currency Converter Containment Construct Hollow One

Another option could be to pick more cards during a draft (more packs or bigger packs). At some point you hope that a player sees playable #30 vs fixing land #2 and something clicks! There are certain downsides to the approach, most notably that the best players will have better decks and...

This set is mostly a miss for me, as poison, oil and proliferate aren't what my cube is doing right now. Not a big fan of the flavor either, except for the funky White Phyrexian horrors. I am going to be testing out a single card, which is the least amount from a new set in a very long time...

Your comment about Rankle, Erik, has me reevaluating a lot of cards. I don't necessarily want second best options for every slot. Some strategies need more redundancy, but some already have a critical mass. Instead, I am coming back to some narrow combo cards, specifically mana producers and...

Random cube optimization Sai, Thopter Masterist -> Whirler Rogue I have 3 Blue four drops that create artifact tokens, I can afford to be more diverse. Urza is untouchable right now, but Whirler Rogue is a bit more generic. I like it less than Ethereal Investigator who creates more artifacts...

You once suggested this to me: Dream Halls Combo, discard, cheat and is an enchantment to give redundancy to Sneak Attack. Might be worth a second look with rector!

We posted a thread about this last year and I enjoyed reading people's answers, so I figured I would post it here and see what people share. I guess that means I have to go first though :P Cube Hit: Open-ended cards. Serra Paragon Ledger Shredder Displacer Kitten Third Path Iconoclast Why...

Good catch Karsh! Definitely a case of wishful thinking upon reading. Still happy about it.

Just a follow up on the big non-Blue draw spell I was looking for. I'm pretty sure I found it: Opening Ceremony I didn't pay much attention at all to Unfinity, but turns out I should have. The sorcery has the same quality that I liked about Inspired Tinkering, it refunds mana (all the mana in...

Another open-ended option I forgot to mention is Jolrael, Mwonvuli Reculuse She isn't an explicit spell velocity payoff, but she plays well in those decks IMO. - Baubles, Spellbombs, Smuggler's Copter, Tireless Tracker, Occult Epiphany, Ledger Shredder all trigger it from the artifact package...

Quandrix Apprentice This dude should definitely be a consideration. Plays with spell volume and lands. Makes all your cantrips able to hit gas since you are picking up lands for free. It also provides discard fodder with the lands in hand. The downside is that it’s limited to instants and...

Aesthetics problem here. I usually go for the oldest printing (bonus points for old frames) and try to pick up Old Bordered foils when available. However, they are releasing Mind Stone in Dominaria Remastered, which means it's going to have a foil Retro frame printing. Same thing for Altar of...

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I recently drafted a cool deck in Erik's cube and was trying to think of other ways to get that Gravecrawler loop going. Ones 1 Mox Diamond 1 Conjurer's Bauble 1 Bone Shards 1 Cryptbreaker 1 Gravecrawler 1 Inquisition of Kozilek 1 Carrion...

I don't think Big Score does quite what I am looking for as it's more card filtering than actual card advantage. I see it as a kind of Frantic Search where you get mana back instantly and try to chain some spells. With Tinkering I just want more cards and was thinking that the 3 treasures would...

I thought about suggesting Wolfbriar Elemental, but figured it would be too strong. Definitely my favorite out of the options for mono Green support as it is solid with even 3 or 4 Green mana. Not trying to tell you how to have fun obviously, but I'll try to say why it's fun for me (other than...

I am not a huge fan of either of those for supporting mono Green because of how narrow they are (two levels IMO). The first level is regarding the color requirements obviously, they are only playable in very heavy Green decks. The second level is from a macro archetype perspective. One is for an...

Inspired Tinkering I've really like Escape to the Wilds as a big card draw spell for non-Blue decks and am looking for more. Does anyone have experience with it? Immediately refunding 3 mana and having access to the cards for another turn seems really solid to me. Or are there other...

I am not sure where I stand in regards to Elixir of Immortality. I like how cheap it is, that it’s colorless and helps keep you alive. But at the same time, the recursion it offers is “messy”. You get everything back and have no selection. The decks that want the recursion the most in my...