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Dropped onto Page 2 deservedly after a long hiatus from posting but circumstances forced me out of retirement! Some members of Chris' playgroup wanted to Cube but we didn't have one to hand so I volunteered and scrambled to reassemble my paper Cube that had been split in half in service of...

I really think you need to reassess recent sets. Kaldheim is a very strong set - even if you discount the Valki/Cascade interaction spawning the best Modern deck of all time or the Tibalt's Trickery nonsense that got banned in several formats, it was the set that defined Standard recently...

Welcome back! I simply must see pictures of this cat

Which of these 'looks like' a Magic card? There's the strict literalist sense in which any Magic card necessarily looks like a Magic card - but if every card in the next set suddenly looked like an Invention/Invocation (or the Secret Lair concert poster cards etc) it would mark a definite...

Charms also hit different when so many of the best cards have modality of some kind built into them these days. It's not the unique selling point they could boast in Shards block >13 years ago

I've been on a bit of a break from Cube preparing for that Set Championship - decks are locked and I get to battle on Friday! If that doesn't go well, I'll have another shot at it!

For the record Arcanist doesn't work with Exalted the way we all want - the spell in your graveyard has to be a valid target when DHA's ability goes on the stack before its power is boosted by Exalted

Did a bunch of drafts and had a lot of fun, looks like it's off to a great start!

I was aimlessly mulling over an artifact Cube before this spoiler season. A few days ago, I was thinking I should just pause it until the whole set is spoiled because this is the artifact set I expected The Brothers' War to be. Now I'm wondering if I can properly support an artifact theme again...

I've really soured on Crucible. Being colourless gives it this allure of being playable anywhere but in practice even decks that should want it rarely do. In theory it goes in your Stax or Wildfire deck but if it only really pairs with those cards you now have a mostly dead draw that only works...

ALCHEMY (Innistrad)?! The Alchemy announcement is a crucial milestone in Magic development but isn't really relevant or accessible to paper Cube owners (beyond its indirect implications for how cards are designed generally) and the first batch of cards is a mixed bag for people willing to put...

Got to contribute to Lucky Paper Radio's end of year review for Cube, check it

Satoru is an incredible card and design. I'm hoping for more exciting Ninjas so that you can build towards supporting them in UB in a high-power format

You call it Looting because that effect is named after Merfolk Looter in the first place

Can't possibly object to Harvest but I do like Vessel here a lot - few other card selection tools outside of blue have such a wide scope and there are a ton of graveyard synergies for it to enable. Hard to rule on Avenger vs Berserk since they are such radically different cards. I like Avenger...

INNISTRAD: CRIMSON VOW A fine but unremarkable set, Crimson Vow falls flat as Innistrad's grand finale for me. I like some individual cards and even the gameplay of this set's new widget but the wrapping up a multi-block arc of a beloved plane is a nigh-impossible especially after the tonal...

Sower of Temptation Master of Waves Puppeteer Clique I wouldn't be happy to draft Sanguinary Mage - I have to trigger it twice (or once with Prodigy in play) to get it above the baseline of a 2-power creature in my red deck. Unless you have a firm stance against breaking singleton, Mage (or...

Working off this list for now, with this as the core. Writeups coming, feedback/drafts etc appreciated in the meantime

In the same vein as Elspeth: Grave Titan I want a beefy black finisher and reanimation target - this is the obvious one that many of us labelled as too strong for our Cubes years ago. For those of you who do play it or gave it another chance, what's the verdict in 2021?