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Yeah, absolutely. The only question is whether you have the time and energy to manage two cubes, as thinking about designing even one cube can consume a lot of mental space. Personally, I decided it wasn't worth it, as the M13 set cube is just a diversion I bust out every now and then to train...

Ones 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Tragic Slip Twos 1 Accorder Paladin 1 Blood Artist 1 Bloodghast 1 Gather the Townsfolk 1 Raise the Alarm 1 Seeker of the Way 1 Selesnya Guildmage 1 Boros Charm 1 Travel Preparations Threes 1 Fleshbag Marauder 1 Goblin Rabblemaster 1 Lingering Souls 1 Mardu Strike...

I'm gonna spout the same answer I do every time - a set cube of your favourite core set! Mine's M13. There's a surprisingly amount of depth, enough that veterans won't be quickly bored - this is the set with the Roaring Primadox/Bond Beetle synergy - but it's still straightforward enough that...

Yeah, that's a great, interesting observation. Make equipment too good, and you run the risk of decks of all shapes and sizes running it for pure value (Sword of Feast and Famine and Batterskull being notable culprits here). Make equipment too bad, and no one gives it a whiff. It's really hard...

I'm maybe the world's biggest Into the Roil fan, but I think it's more of a control card than a tempo card.

This is certainly true, but these decks still want about ten or twelve creatures, and it's really backbreaking for the opponent when many of those creatures also confer a tempo advantage. I guess I'm trying to say that these things aren't mutually exclusive - you can run both Aether Adept and...

My favourite bounce spells in this kinda UR tempo deck are the ones on a stick Man-o'-War Aether Adept Venser, Shaper Savant Mist Raven Riftwing Cloudskate

you could probably make the tokens 3/1 with haste, and it still wouldn't be overpowered

I don't, and I agree it's pretty weak - Crystal Ball is no one's idea of a cubeable card, and the much-harder-to-cast Ascendancy is only marginally better. On second thought, probably any graveyard filler is better, i.e. Grisly Salvage.

Is Mimeoplasm an option? As reanimation on spells go, he's pretty good value for five mana, and fits into the graveyard theme I'm assuming you'll have. While Sultai Charm is efficient and versatile, I actually think Sultai Ascendancy is a better build-around, and signals the supported theme...

...oh wow there's a preferences page! you learn something new everyday

you can turn sigs off?! what sorcery is this

Yeah, FSR hit the nail on the head. Putting three of the most important one drop in each colour gives that aggro strategy a strong definition, and tells your drafters that the archetype is strongly supported. At the same time, though, Delver of Secrets and Cloudfin Raptor are almost a complete...

That actually sounds reasonable, because you're running lands in a completely separate draft still, right? I think most cubes around here are in the 47-50% range for creatures, but lands comprise anywhere from 11-14% of the cube. In my own cube, 57% of all my spells are creatures, but they count...

Aside from Edric, this guy is also sweet, and secretly the best soulbond card for cube Tandem Lookout

That's... that's not bad at all. I agree that Lotus Petal would be better in Magic, especially considering the number of times I've been stuck with a five or six mana sweeper in hand, but was one mana short of casting it, and took a bunch of extra damage before I peeled the final land. Maybe...

Whoops, I think I confused myself. The way Hearthstone works, both players draw on the their first turn, but the second player's starting hand size is four, rather than three. In Magic, the first player already skips their draw step. So the way I'd proposed to simulate this would be to instead...

Yeah, all of your strong arguments above are why I've always been a fan of small, tighter lists (<= 450), rather than the giant, sprawling, MTGO cube lists. In defence of their cube, though, that list probably gets run hundreds of thousands more times than our lists do, so having a greater...

I really like mtggoldfish, but I no longer believe in their methodology or their results. For limited formats, they frequently seem to report that being on the draw will lead to a higher win rate. If this is true, everyone - especially pro players - should have come to the same conclusion, and...

i'm not following standard closely at the moment, but i suspect the prevalence of tokens (and that being the de facto aggro strategy, outside of RDW) has something to do with it what's something a Mardu Woe-Reaper really doesn't want to see? two soldier tokens or three goblin tokens