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Courser of Kruphix is pretty insane here, a lot better than I expected. It does a number on aggro decks, far more than Thragtusk ever did.

Yeah, I love this super flavourful implementation of assassins. I mean, nothing against Royal Assassin, but, you know.

Yeah, the more I think about it, Twincasting Doom Blade to wipe out your team on turn two sounds like the opposite of fun. Even turning a random Farseek into a cantrip might be way too good, because it's guaranteed to happen every time you cast it. Only the creature-based hidden agendas seem...

If this card is half as good in cube as I assume it is, I wonder if there's any appetite for fixing the die roll problem in general. With the fast environments that riptide cubes tend to encourage, winning the die roll seems like it's more important than in, say, the MTGO cube. I suppose I could...

Cogwork Librarian was super fun in Conspiracy draft tonight, and by far the most interesting of the "draft face-up" cards. I don't know if it's overkill to run two of these in my cube. Most of the other constructs we encountered were more gimmicky than anything. In particular, I feel like Lore...

CML brought up some interesting ones in the other thread. I don't have room for all of them, so.. FIGHT! Boros Elite Doomed Traveler Soldier of the Pantheon

Yeah Gravecrawler doesn't need any more juice. On the other hand, this pile of Squadron Hawks over here could use a boost!

Despite there always being a plethora of good four drops, I agree that both of these have been wonderful. Interesting, unique, and containing a fair bit of play to them. I think these are in for the long haul over here, too.

It's pretty well established at this point that both Innistrad and Theros blocks have been universally excellent for cubes of all shapes and sizes. But what about Return to Ravnica block? After having more than a year to soak, any standpoints or disappointments? Sphinx's Revelation I don't...

Are you looking to go from fifty fixers to forty, or from sixty to fifty? At 450, I think you want that extra fixing, so I probably wouldn't go below fifty. I actually run that much fixing in my ~390 list, and I couldn't see myself going lower. Gotta support those aggro decks! Have you...

At Riptide Lab, you're not doing it right unless you're derailing some thread somewhere.

Whoa, our second 10k took a lot less time than our first!

Necromancy strikes me as the perfect power level for reanimator. As someone who's used Makeshift Mannequin, Dread Return, and even Zombify (!), what I really want a lot of times is to get my combo online by turn three. If you have Murderous Redcap in addition to that trio of Nekrataals, then...

It's.. not very good here. I'm stubbornly sticking with it, because I want to see the nut Delver deck happen once, but I'm no longer optimistic. It should be better with multiple Brainstorms, though.

The nice part about human tribal, unlike zombies, is that there are so many incidental humans in your cube, that even just taking and running a single Champion of the Parish is rarely wrong. When I used to run four, sometimes they would get split evenly between two drafters, and each would still...

Real men start their red aggro curves at two! Nah. It's just that I don't run any multiples in red, so my total count wasn't relevant for my example.

Much like CML, I actually find picking up a second copy of Champion of the Parish to be satisfying, and then wheeling the third and final copy hugely rewarding. Same with Delver of Secrets or Gravecrawler. Nothing says "my plan is coming together!" like getting your much needed tribal one-drop...

Could be a little from column A and a little from column B... U/B tempo very rarely came together here, though in the very few occasions that it did, Duskmantle Seer would have been excellent. Still probably not worth a precious gold slot though.

Agreed. This was absolutely fascinating, James. I want to publicize this to a wider audience, but don't know where / how to.

Yeah, there are only four one-drops that I run more than one copy of - Champion of the Parish, Delver of Secrets, Gravecrawler, Experiment One - and aggro does pretty well for itself over here, while not completely crowding out other archetypes. Each of these one-drops is actually pretty good...