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i hate to be a negative nancy but we tried it over here and it was... bad. it only hit level 2 once ever, but despite that i don't think it killed any creatures. needing :b: to activate after spending all that mana leveling it is the deal breaker

...that card is busted beyond belief

for easiest to cast, there's Night's Whisper

I'm something just short of a Maro fanboy - I think I've read his column every week for nearly ten years, even when I was out of Magic, and am almost caught up on his 180+ podcasts - and I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in that he's just a very optimistic person. He tends to get...

To me, Goblin Heelcutter is fighting for the same slot as this guy Pyreheart Wolf The wolf has been great here, making blocking a real conundrum, but I'm beginning to wonder if the hasty goblin might just be better, as the damage he contributes himself is non-trivial.

i've considered both of these guys multiples times, but they're a hair too low on power for my environment Penumbra Spider Stingerfling Spider not sure if these guys count, cause they're also finishers Arbor Colossus Soul of Zendikar Sylvan Primordial

I hope that the eventual result of this thread is, like, a ten-question survey that can identify what kind of cube designer you are, and put you on a plot or graph, so that you can compare where you stand with everyone else.

+1 to a :2::u::u: Time Warp (though i very much doubt we'll ever see that)

in my own playgroup... i'm the most guilty of that :confused:

i tried running that, but sorcery speed is a real killer :( two colours & instant > one colour & sorcery

Yeah, I think the main difference is that you have some cubes that are custom built from the ground up, with specific design goals, supported archetypes, and crossover synergies in mind. At the other end, you have cubes that essentially start out as traditional, singleton, power-max cubes, but...

Not to mention it only targets your opponent's permanents, so you can't "Redirect" it by destroying your own last permanent, which is also unintuitive. I recently switched to Banishing Light, too.

Double Blood Artist is a little dangerous, I would tend to agree, especially in lower power environments. I'm currently running Falkenrath Noble in lieu of a second Artist, and he's holding his own, despite being a Dreaded Four Drop. In my head, I keep oscillating on the correct number of...

Off the top of my head, you could also try any number of these Phyrexian Arena Underworld Connections Curse of Shallow Graves Curse of Predation And it's not a stretch to extend this theme to white Heliod's Pilgrim Temporal Isolation Prison Term Griffin Guide Journey to Nowhere Glorious Anthem

Very interesting post, bumbeh! I can tell that you're a long time, studious reader of this forum, from the information you've been able to gather. I don't disagree with the two schools of cube theory you've come up with. In my mind, I'd broken down the cubes on this site along two simpler...

That's totally fair. In my own list, I try to keep the self-milling to the cheap value cards - your Satyr Wayfinders, Grisly Salvages, and Thirst for Knowledges - on the theory that in the early game, you can afford to stock your graveyard. In the late game, though, I don't want my players to...

This is probably totally wrong, but I recently cut Forbidden Alchemy because of the decking issue. It gets cast fine the first time, but by the time the owner gathers enough mana to flashback, their library always looks dangerously thin (no doubt in part because that type of durdly Dimir deck...

well, consider that Kalonian Hydra is essentially arbitrarily large - and he has trample. but he isn't really seen as cube-worthy, or at least, he's not considered interesting enough to warrant inclusion, as just a pile of stats. four mana might be as high as we can go for just some numbers in...

Right, the power of Prime Time all depends on what sweet utility lands you pick up during the draft. For those of us who run a utility draft - where you can pick up the likes of Kessig Wolf Run (!) or Volrath's Stronghold (!!) without using an actual draft pick - his upside becomes a decent bit...

Yeah, I'd run Frost Titan before judging him. On paper, he looks fairly unimpressive, and I remember being nonplussed when he was spoiled back in 2010. When he comes down, though, his actual effect on any given board state tends to be dominating. He can either freeze the best opposing creature -...