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I think I'm at the point where I can only watch LSV videos. It's become too much of a chore to watch anyone else. LSV's fast play and equally quick commentary are the only things keeping me tuned in.

Arcane Denial your own spell, to build your own Compulsive Research!

i bet my Snow White deck could take your Dumbo deck, you only have vanilla animals while i have ALL the dwarves in my corner!

go back to Lorwyn, and make it even more fairy-tale like (i.e. Disney levels of saccharine)

It's funny - I don't actually have a lot of life gain in black, but people quickly figured out they could pair white life gain with black life payment cards. Vault of the Archangel in the utility land pile went a long way towards that. Thus, a powerhouse of an archetype was born - B/W pay life...

No, I think everyone actually wants to hear more of your opinions about how (you think) blue plays in my cube, actually.

Truth be told, it's near the bottom of the pile. It's no Thragtusk or Wolfir Silverheart, and the {G}{G}{G} in its cost means it usually tables before it's picked up. I like it more than some of the alternatives at five, though. I know Vorapede is popular around these parts, but Arbor Colossus...

Hydra Broodmaster is boss. Whereas Rampaging Baloths never did very much for its cost, Broodmaster usually represents a must-answer threat. He spews a ton of power onto the board, but at a late enough point in the game alongside a high enough investment that it doesn't feel unfair to do so...

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Can't make it this Sunday. But I'll join the next one!

Fantastic post, Grillo. Really excellent. I don't think Troll Ascetic does much of anything at the power level most of us operate at, but when I get around to creating a lower powered environment, I'm going to keep this post of yours in mind.

Yeah, I'm not sure how closely this is correlated with Thrun's performance, but I might have inadvertently neutered his power by removing the suite of Swords, along with Jitte. I feel like there are so many higher upside cards in green than Thrun, though, that I can't really say I've missed...

At what minimum X value do you want to cast this guy at? Genesis Wave was often X = 6, though once you went above that it scaled ridiculously well.

Would you have a sample decklist of one of these W/x aura decks, FSR? It sounds fascinating to me, but I can't even begin to picture what a typical build of this archetype looks like. +1 for Aetherling. It doesn't do a whole lot in a losing situation against aggro, but what it does provide is...

Even though it was kind of a linear and poison principle-y mechanic, I enjoyed how rebels played out in Modern Masters. Kind of an aggro-leaning deck, but with card advantage engines built in, and multiple angles of attack. I don't know how you could recreate this for cube, though, without...

Yeah, I'm more referring to the amount of space it eats up right now, along with your earlier comment about aggro being poison principle-y, which I agree with. It sucks as a control player to table packs full of Dryad Militants and Gravecrawlers, when what you need is another signet, draw...

Yeah, I often feel like Calvin and myself are the only ones remotely interested in drafting aggro in my cube, over the last year and a half. Most of the other twenty odd players who've popped in for cube here and there would not touch Stromkirk Noble with a ten-foot pole. But wave a Chameleon...

Are there any design lessons that can be cribbed from sets like Rise of the Eldrazi? That format didn't really have aggro decks in the traditional sense of the term - Glory Seeker was the most unplayable it's ever been - but still had interesting, varied archetypes, and a surprising amount of...

Thrun feels like the epitome of a 'fair' card. Personally, I find hexproof is more interesting on durdly, non-evasive ground pounders than on your Invisible Stalkers. Having said all that, though, he's kind of at a middling power level cube-wise, so I don't even run him anymore.

I cut Grafted Wargear too, because it was kind of a crutch that aggro decks could lean on to steal free wins from unprepared opponents. Aggro decks have to work that much harder now, but I think overall the cube is better off as a whole without colourless, mega-swingy cards like Wargear.