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I've found in my environment that spending five mana to make two Grizzly Bears, or eight mana for a trio of Centaur Coursers, is usually worse than what your opponent is trying to do in the early game. Aggro decks will have one drops that grow out of control, or 3/4's for two. Control decks...

At least I upgraded from Shock to Burst Lightning! Did you know I also downgraded <burn spell of choice> to Volcanic Hammer, and to this day still get questions about it from my players... *runs away*

Yeah, I feel like a good powered cube would require more singleton breaking than the cubes we build on here, not less.

There are so many good black two drops! In Modern alone, these are the ones I like more than Pain Seer: Blood Artist Bloodghast Bloodthrone Vampire Dark Confidant Oona's Prowler Pack Rat Reassembling Skeleton Rotting Rats Ok, maybe Rotting Rats isn't an all star. But he fits a theme.

I like the colourless one-drop Savannah Lions! I guess Magic has come a long way, but they don't feel overpowered in the slightest. I feel like Field Researcher could use a slight drawback, a la Silvergill Adept, so that control decks don't just snap him up as a cheap Sea Gate Oracle. Maybe the...

Yeah, there's no way he's better than Ninja. Ninja draws you cards right away on turn two. This guy doesn't draw until turn four (!!), barring shenanigans. Jason, how did you know I do exactly that? Are you spying on me?

I picked the green deck, and opened a Kruphix in the seeded pack. So, of course, I went G/U.. and gave away my unplayable god by the end of round two.

In my experience, Massacre Wurm hasn't been nearly as overpowered as it reads. A turn six Infest - even a one-sided one - isn't overly backbreaking, compared to all of the actual Wrath effects that exist in cube. I think it's actually a good fit, power-level wise, for a control deck six-drop.

This is an interesting vantage point. I don't disagree that having seeded packs minus the promo - but guaranteeing an on-colour rare - might address a lot of the existing problems. It is admittedly nice to have some say as to which colour you'll run in an otherwise random sealed pool.

Pain Seer I know I'm late to the party, but.. is this guy just a really bad Ninja of the Deep Hours? I'm not sure if there are common ways to tap and untap him in cube, other than going through the red zone, which he's not particularly well-equipped to do.

VOM. IT.

It's pretty much all downside. Everyone gets the same promos, so you have to deal with the same bombs over and over, round after round. Meanwhile, you're still every bit as susceptible to the luck-based randomness of sealed deck across your five normal packs. On top of that, there's additional...

Sealed deck actually isn't half bad! This seeded pack prerelease business with promos that you can run, though? Hot garbage.

There were a ton of Heroes' Bane standoffs from where I sat (namely, the 0-3 table). It made for really awkward games of chicken where each side tended to have enough chump blockers for an arbitrarily large vanilla creature, enough to deter either player from attacking. Everybody just stayed...

I think the painlands are at about the right power level for utility draft, actually. I might be biased, because I've been running them there for nearly a year, but I love the tension that comes about when you have to balance how much damage you want to take off your shock / fetch manabase while...

The likes of Frostburn Weird, Augur of Bolas, and Calcite Snapper are very controlling, though. I mean, opposing control decks playing their own 1/3's and their sweepers won't really be intimidated by you nipping them for one or two damage a turn. I suppose a blue tempo deck that keeps these...

One of my cubers pointed out this week, while drafting as decent of a blue attacking deck as I've seen as any, that this type of tempo deck can never beat an actual aggro deck in a million years. They're great at keeping the momentum when they're ahead, but have a really hard time trying to play...

Preach it! Gavony Township is one of those innocuous cards that I barely noticed when it was released, but has slowly grown to become one of my favourite cards. Not just favourite spell lands, or favourite lands - but favourite cards, full stop. I've grown to appreciate the flexible mana sinks...

Nah, I don't see it being too good. I mean, Scar exists. edit: Wait, apparently this card exists already. But I like Suicufnoc's version better.

I really should've just made a poll, shouldn't I. ...ok how the hell do I make a poll