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Yeah, I'm absolutely enthralled with looters. They're a little on the slow side for the typical 'riptide cube' on here, but I think they could thrive in a graveyard-friendly environment like this. Other possibilities: Bonded Fetch Civilized Scholar Breakthrough Compulsion Sultai Charm A...

Do it! Circular Logic Obsessive Search Arrogant Wurm Basking Rootwalla You've probably already thought of this, but there's also the Dredgevine archetype, which works pretty well in BUG. Potential cards that could go in the theme, in addition to cards already mentioned earlier: Hedron Crab...

Yep, I'm a Randy Buehler fanboy too. The league has been all over my twitter feed the last two weeks, but I don't have much time to watch Magic these days, sadly. When is this team Rochester thing going down? Also, what decks have been winning their rotisserie drafts (too lazy to check)?

BUG! Hurray! (...errr, Teskai? Jemur...? I still don't know these wedge names very well.) In my own cube, I love blue in these BUG shells for its filtering capability, which helps you dig for your combo pieces and fill up your graveyard for shenanigans. Depending on how graveyard-centric you...

Can you guys haggle over PM or something (right under the Riptide Lab banner, go to Inbox -> Start a New Conversation)

Yeah, this came up in the Skype thread, where I suggested cutting one or two colours might be in order for a primarily four-player format. It would make the players fight over colours more, and you'd be able to justify running alllllll the gold cards. Even tri-colour!

Yeah, trying to accommodate both four-man and ten-man groups sounds awkward. It's a big difference from expecting six to eight players week in, week out. I find that proper fixing is the biggest concern when playing with small groups - you aren't guaranteed to have your deck's dual lands in the...

Kird Ape Wild Nacatl assuming you only have room for one

I got this impression, too. It feels like this set would be a lot better to draft than to crack sealed pools for - you can find and take more relevant fixing, and let the duals that don't match your colours pass on by to the appropriate player. You're probably more likely to wheel late...

14.4% fixing! That's really interesting - I wonder if that's higher than any other limited format to date. That's.. that's almost cube-like.

That's pretty sweet! I wish I was one-tenth as handy as you.

Goddammit, $20 a pop. Is it Vintage?

Grillo, I think you get an achievement. As far as I can tell, yours is the first cube on this forum (other than Jason's) to be proxied up and played by another designer.

I'm really tempted to build this list and give it a whirl online. It even appears to be budget-friendly, too!

Yeah, make a Standard thread or something. People already chat about the format in the Skype group, but it'd be nice to have a place on the forums for that, too.

http://riptidelab.com/turbo-living-end-in-modern/

Algae Gharial was quite the card in the removal-dense, high-attrition environment of Shards limited. There was also this guy: Rockslide Elemental

The easiest approach is to start by running all of the multicolour cards that you want, and then trimming or adding monocolour cards to even out the ratios. Red has always had both the best and the most gold cards here - between its strong Rakdos, Gruul, and Izzet sections - so I compensate by...

Kids, remember this, when a strange man comes up to you and offers you something: Just Say No to cycles.

Not to be a downer, but I tested it two years ago, and it was about as bad as you guys are saying.