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Worldknit How have people's experiences with this card been? In its first time seeing action in an admittedly awkward five-man draft, Worldknit ran the table pretty decisively. From what I could tell, the things that made it good at a small table: 1) There were less people in specific...

Without ever having played it, here's my vote for Collective Blessing! I'm a sucker for overcosted anthems that give huge bonuses, though. From the second group, I like Smiter, even if it's essentially a vanilla 4/4 almost all of the time in cube.

Deckbuilding was awesome! Yeah, we had a Skype group going and everything. I mean, brainstorming and brewing is always the best part, isn't it? And then bouncing ideas back and forth off teammates for everyone's mutual benefit makes it even better. Never mind that Jonas and Calvin built their...

Right, saving it for the end means people aren't speculating on what they think they'll draft - they should have a half-built deck in front of them, and know what gaps in mana fixing they need to fill, as well as how greedy they can be with colourless lands.

Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker omg this guy has HASTE i was wondering why everybody was all over this, now i finally get that he's not just a poor man's Gideon

Have folks tried running the utility land draft concurrent to deckbuilding? It usually takes a while for people to lay out their builds, and I haven't found calling out names while people are settling on their final forty to be too disruptive.

Sulfuric Vortex...? That's less burn than Lava Axe, unless you've buffed that one to hit creatures, too. Maybe my initial wording was unclear, but I meant spells that have the capability to hit either creatures or players. By that nitpicky standard, Flame Slash is just removal, and Boros Charm...

SOME OF THOSE ARE NOT BURN

It's typically not a pure burn strategy a la constructed, but something of a hybrid burn deck. Just like you're probably not going to build a pure zoo, draw-go control, or Kiki-Pod combo deck in cube - unless you're Dougggg - you're probably not going to be assembling a deck of all Lava Spikes...

It's really swingy in the same way that Baneslayer Angel is really swingy, except for the aggro beatdown archetype instead of white control. I can see not wanting to run it for that reason. The last time I saw it, it was on a Prophetic Flamespeaker and taking out my life total in large chunks...

Yep, let me clarify - I'm not talking about red removal, only burn. The comment from my player was that it's too easy to assemble the burn deck, where you can sit behind a couple of creatures, and then just count to twenty by pointing burn at their dome. For example, the burn in the deck I...

I got a comment last night that there was a disproportionately high amount of burn in my cube. I'd always been under the impression that I wasn't running enough burn, so that feeedback came as a surprise. I figure I'd put the question to you guys: How much burn do you run? This is where I'm...

I think there might be room for both, actually. I'm sold on Treasure Cruise in the high-velocity blue tempo decks; the next time I give a slower blue control deck a whirl, I'll see whether or not I would've liked to have had a Dig Through Time in place of any of the card draw spells.

Never really been a huge fan of it, to be honest. It's better in higher power lists, which tend to have more cards with powerful enter-the-battlefield effects - see Jason's double Kitchen Finks and double Shriekmaw - and I don't want to warp my cube in that fashion. I tried triple Birthing Pod...

After playing a land light, UR spells matter / tempo deck tonight, I can safely say that if the third card could always be guaranteed to be a land, that would be fantastic. The deck runs tight on mana as it is, and getting that fifth or sixth land in the lategame to open up some options gives...

A lot of times I peeked over at my graveyard, I had something like six cards there. As games went long, that number went up, well into the double digits. I think I only resolved Ancestral Vision once or twice on the evening, which is about my running average over the years, as the game often...

Yes, this was my deck from a draft tonight. Haven't finished playing out all the matches yet, though - will probably do that over lunch the next few days. Young Pyromancer was the best she's ever been - she dropped a lot of power onto the board over the course of the evening. Yup, white is a...

As someone who runs Vendetta, Spite seems a-ok! I really like Grim Affliction, too. Riverwheel Master feels really pushed - being able to disable multiple blockers isn't even something red gets to do easily on a body, let alone blue. Maybe if the controller has to pay :1:? I can imagine having...

Ones 2 Delver of Secrets 1 Judge's Familiar 1 Rakdos Cackler 1 Ancestral Vision 1 Burst Lightning 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Preordain 1 Ponder 1 Rift Bolt 1 Serum Visions Twos 1 Borderland Marauder 1 Firefist Striker 2 Young Pyromancer 1 Hands of Binding 1 Rune Snag Threes 1 Aether Adept 1 Goblin...

Maybe I actually just run both for now. Not at all what I was expecting to do, but they both seem super sweet.