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That's an interesting idea I hadn't considered. When I meant I wanted to slow down the format and remove some of the one-drops, I was more referring to narrow, two-power, one-drop guys that only go in the fastest weenie decks - your Goblin Guides and Soldiers of the Pantheon. I'm less concerned...

I might be worried that Deathmist Raptors are a little poison principle-y in cube - much like Gravecrawlers, except without having incidental zombies sprinkled throughout the colour. Even when I was running ~10 zombies total, it was often tough to stick one long enough to recast some...

It was really good in M13 draft, from what I remember, though that's a world and a half away from cube draft! I think there's a place for a couple of select library-attacking control finishers, as long as you place them in your cube for that purpose - i.e., not to support some vaunted mill...

Chris: i was talking about good cards, like, the ones that people play for example Mindless Null

Yes, absolutely - not to mention that ETBs have other synergy with things such as blink. Death triggers are a lot harder to maximize full value out of, unless you're drafting the RB sac-aggro shell, or a midrange Pod variant; this is doubly hard with expensive creatures, compared to early drops.

Yeah, the reason I see Kokusho as a mostly french vanilla Shivan Dragon is that in a pure control deck - one going for value, attrition, and long game, rather than synergy with sacrifice effects - we found over here in practice that it was actually a lot harder for his death trigger to go off...

I just hope that, for the sake of a good limited environment, landfall does something else other than offering +2/+2 bonuses to creatures. I'm not sure where they're going to take the mechanic this go-round, but a whole format full of essentially can't-block creatures did not make for a good time.

To respond to this real quickly, I wasn't suggesting that Grave Titan be the standard bearer for what a six drop finisher should look like; my point was that Kokusho isn't a strong board stabilizer, but neither is he a strong pure finisher. Aetherling is obviously the best example of a card in...

Does the "terminate test" start to apply at six mana? Honest question, I haven't visited the other place in years. Also, the reason I brought up the other four cards in comparison is that the crux of the argument seems to be that "5/5 flyers for six with upside should be good enough", and I...

Wait, people still do the "terminate test"? Here's a card that utterly fails this so-called test, and yet is considered by many here to be too powerful for their environments. Wolfir Silverheart

Triple Khans is my favourite draft set of the last couple years; Rise of the Eldrazi is my favourite draft format of all time. Both are formats that are on the sloooooooow side. It's really been making me rethink my own cube format, when it comes to speed. I was always under the impression that...

Yeah, having just won four games by the skin of my teeth in a Magic Origins draft off Sphinx's Tutelage, I can attest to how much fun it is for both the pilot and the opponent. There's a whole lotta tension in the reveals - goddamn you and your artifacts!! - and it encourages the player to draft...

At the risk of touching off another page-long debate, I feel like people are overrating a 5/5 evasive body for 6. These creatures below are all that and a bag of chips, yet still see next to no inclusion in cubes. You really want the sacrifice or recursion synergy with Kokusho before he becomes...

I think that was my post about more multicolour decks, less multicolour cards. But yes, guild themes are absolutely the best way, in my mind, to encourage those multicolour decks! Possibilities for Selesnya: Token Overrun Raise the Alarm Midnight Haunting Secure the Wastes Predator's Howl...

I know this is in English but it might as well be in French, can you explain the combo for us slower folk

I think Raveborn is right on the money. Assemble the Legion looked interesting on paper... and then was busted in an uninteresting way in practice. It doesn't actually contribute much to an enchantment theme, because it more or less guarantees that you'll win over the next few turns, without any...

I guess over here, black control decks haven't typically overlapped with the black sacrifice/recursion decks, which might be explaining why my evaluation of Kokusho doesn't line up with others. Black control is usually just looking for value cards or board stabilizers in their finisher slot, and...

Born of the Gods - worst set of the last five years? If not the winner, then a true contender! Re: Theros block, I just wish there'd been one or two more playable bestow creatures, as that was one of the most interesting mechanics they introduced that didn't have a constructed-level playable...

Prowess and double strike do nice stand-ins for heroic, too. I'm a little biased against heroic, because it tends to encourage somewhat poison principle-y voltron decks, but double strike works well with any type of pump (global anthems, equipment), while prowess does a nice temporary heroic...

Holy crap Lucas, those posts were great. I don't know why I love hearing so much about niche Standard interactions from over a decade ago, but everything you said about those decks is fascinating, and a bit off the beaten path. Also helps illuminate why people who played in that era are so high...