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you're crazy, Keldon Marauders is one of the best red two-drops around

I currently run Arbor Elf Arbor Elf Utopia Sprawl Utopia Sprawl No one's actually 'gone off' with the above, though I don't know if anyone's tried. It's one of those themes that doesn't scream "linear poison mechanic", though, cause they're each fine on their own.

C'mon, you should know FSR by now. He's a straight shooter, and not one prone to sarcasm. I actually took out Qasali Pridemage for a while, and only slotted him back in after adding the latest batch of Journey into Nyx cards. I think I ran Teeg for a good year or so, but he was mostly...

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Sometimes they don't have the land in hand, though.

The whole point of Stone Rain is to deny access to a colour, though. And if you're lucky, multiple colours. It's not about the delay, so much as the complete denial. Unlike with counterspells, where you're aiming to hit their best spell, but sometimes have to settle for any spell because you...

In the 'GW hatebears' category I think I prefer in almost all situations (especially now with Theros block) Qasali Pridemage

This is how I know you and I are in sync when it comes to cube design, FSR. I run a whole bunch of stuff on your land death list, along with others you didn't mention, like Riftwing Cloudskate. Similar to your Wild Growths, I've got a buncha Utopia Sprawls. And yet I still can't wait to toss...

New question! Rank the tapped cycles from best to worst. (I can't even name all the tapped cycles, so this will be educational for me either way!)

This. Not to mention stone rain takes out the key colour or colours that the control player is leaning on. Randomly being colour screwed for the next several turns after spending some time and life laying out your perfect manabase is not going to make a control player's day. If you feel I'm...

I agree with Jason's assessment that Primal Hunter is one of the few cards that pulls me into green, especially since I don't run Primeval Titan. He's got enough raw power to entice you down a certain road early on in a draft. I mean, you don't take that guy and say "hey maybe I'll splash him...

Those level-up guys really encourage you to go near-monocolour, and punish you pretty badly for splashing. It's been a while since I've seen an 8/8 Dragonlord, but it was way more common back when my cube was bad and mono-red was top tier. Nowadays, 4/4 is about as large as he gets, and even...

The jury's still out on Fated Intervention. I like the idea of six power's worth of instant speed tokens, but {G}{G}{G} can be hard to muster up. Though they serve pretty different purposes, I might eventually revert this one back to Kozilek's Predator. Overrun and co. might not be great when...

Even though it can whiff, I find that Augur of Bolas is more interesting for drafting and deckbuilding, because he poses a challenge to you. Omenspeaker is always going to be her same mediocre self, but Augur asks you to unlock its potential by skewing your draft a certain way. I enjoy a small...

Ah, silly anecdote time. I didn't realize it was that time of day already! You realize that all of your arguments against Spell Pierce also apply to stuff like Remand, right?

You know, Spell Pierce is way less of a control hoser than Stone Rain.

If you support green aggro, Boon Satyr and Wolfir Silverheart are some of the best curve toppers there are. Get those in there! For what it's worth, I run nine five-drops in green. There's.. a bit of a bulge. It's ok, though, because green sixes are surprisingly bad. Acidic Slime Arbor...

I feel like the irony is that Spell Pierce is wretched in Grim Monolith cubes, despite the plethora of targets, because those cubes tend to be slow as molasses. You might as well just run Negate there. Riptide cubes, on the other hand, tend to pack a ton of creatures, and yet Spell Pierce is at...