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Welcome to the forums! Both of them. The best way to encourage people to go multicolour is by providing powerful untapped fixing, rather than shoving gold cards down people's throats. If you add a lot of gold cards without adequate dual land support, you'll just see them tabling over and...

Alright, you got me. I'm going to try out Squelch.

Are these cards sized by playability? If they are, I think you hit the nail on the head.

Yup, I threw in my lonely copy of Masked Admirers. Finally, a format where he can be a star! ...maybe. As maybe the biggest fan of Squadron Hawk on these boards, I don't really have any interest in running him. Tutors and shuffle effects seem kinda miserable if each player has ~150 card...

Agree on dialing back colorless cards. I might even go so far as to scale back on cards that require only one coloured mana symbol, and jam more CC cards, to make sequencing more interesting. Never felt better about casually tossing in Samurai of the Pale Curtain, Voidmage Prodigy, and Goblin...

I actually think you want to keep the number of Preordains down in a low power format like this. It's a noncommittal, boring pick that's guaranteed to be anywhere from very good to outstanding in your deck, so it's usually wrong to pass it. I find those kinds of cards unsatisfying to draft.

If by "dig" you mean "dig up", then yup! It's really just whatever I had on hand. I guess red is where all the sweepers happened to land, but it's not like you can draft a red deck. I don't see myself actually going out and acquiring cards for this format, and stuff like Martial Coup seems...

I went through my junk rare binder and my cube reject pile, and ended up with these Day of Judgment Infest Blasphemous Act Caldera Hellion Chain Reaction Volcanic Fallout Jund Charm

What I can't figure out is why people don't take fetchlands more highly in everyone's cubes. I don't think they're overrated or underrated here - just, well, rated. But they seem undervalued in other people's environments. Don't players want consistent manabases so they can cast their spells...

I agree with Chris's assessment of Grafted Wargear as being in the insane pile, even if it's maybe a half-tier below the other pieces of equipment. It varies, though. If you run stuff like Smash to Smithereens and Viridian Shaman, you probably have more outs to it, so it becomes closer to fair...

Harm's Way is a lot of fun in a combat-oriented cube, so that one seems like a keeper. I haven't ever played with the card, but I imagine the cantrip on Shelter makes it good. The other three are roughly interchangeable, and you could probably do to keep just one of them around. I like Test of...

I dunno, flash might be okay. It would still be a fair bit off from, say, Baleful Strix.

I was going to dig up some old, rancid sleeves that had previously housed my cube, and reuse them. But on second thought, maybe Battle Box deserves better.

Yep, this was my thought too. Mana sinks seem way better in a format where you can guarantee ten land drops, on curve, every game. Kabira Vindicator Knight of Cliffhaven Enclave Cryptologist Halimar Wavewatch Skywatcher Adept Nirkana Cutthroat Beastbreaker of Bala Ged Kazandu Tuskcaller A...

Going through my box of Alara commons, it occurred to me that domain is a perfect theme for Battle Box. Allied Strategies Worldly Counsel Drag Down Planar Despair Tribal Flames Matca Rioters Might of Alara Tromp the Domains Dragonsoul Knight Worldheart Phoenix And, of course...

Yeah, triggering Brimstone Volley and Tragic Slip isn't too hard around here, with any kind of creature combat. I mean, I assume it has to be better than something like Wakedancer.

An article from the creator of the format, Brian DeMars: http://www.starcitygames.com/article/28625_The-Danger-Room.html It sounds like he uses a shared library, but BenS changed it to individual libraries, so that scry and fateseal work the way they normally would.

Battle Box list on CubeTutor, for easier perusal: http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/13444

This was a good, informative read: http://killingagoldfish.blogspot.ca/2014/06/dont-pass-conspiracies-in-cube.html

Good call on Predator's Howl. I'll admit I didn't even read it in Onderzeeboot's post until you mentioned it by name. It was pretty good in Conspiracy multiplayer for my opponent, so I'm not sure why it never registered that this could be a cube card. Hey, beats the Fated Intervention I'm...