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I tend to agree with Jason. On power level alone, Night's Whisper makes the cut, but you have to ask if it's actively contributing to one or more of your archetypes more than a replacement card would. One place I do like it in my cube is in the 'combo' decks - i.e. Bad, Slow Reanimator - where...

Yeah, I'm no audiophile, but I've got three different pairs of Sennheisers (home, work, portable) that I'm pretty happy with. I think the PX-100s that I bought seven or eight years ago are the best bang for the buck I've gotten from an audio product.

I actually just ran across this dilemma yesterday, as I was looking for some interesting blue spells to slot in. I pulled Curse of the Swine to the front of my pile, but then as I looked through some long-forgotten cards, I realized what I really want from that spell is Pongify

If Jason is fond of one-drops, and CML is about all things three.. I would say I have an unnatural love for the twos.

Do you mean pricey, money-wise? (...holy crap I just checked, when did Inquisition hit $7) It looks like you're trying to support the Pox archetype, but I'm not a huge fan of the card itself. It almost requires you to be in mono-black before it's viable. Something like Geralf's Messenger, on...

Holy crap. 10,000? I remember when we were on Google Groups and breaking 500 posts was a big deal. 100k, here we come.

LOL. It is true that while nobody directly questioned what my arbitrary system actually was as I called out seemingly random names, they were convinced I was cheating somehow, and that I would end up with the best land picks. Which, since I ended up in position A at least once, they were right...

CML, do your games with Whip get bogged down in Midrange Madness like they do over here? Maybe my players are just doing it wrong, and I personally haven't played with or against it yet, so I can't tell how much of the problem is on the playgroup and how much is on the card.

No, actually, upon further thought my idea is pretty awful, and Jason and FSR are both on the money. Snake for an even number of rounds, and snake plus reverse order for an odd number of rounds!

It was surprisingly relevant, and drew me about ten cards over the course of three rounds. It actually helped that I had non-menacing 1/2 Deathrite Shamans and 0/1 Blood Artists early on, as they would often go unblocked and net me at least one card draw in those games. Though the most common...

Thanks for your feedback, Lucas, as always! The previous draft's winner is actually the best humans deck I've seen assembled so far. Ironically, it was the green and black humans that were the key components. I'm gonna keep a watchful eye on Baleful Strix. It wasn't optimal for your blistering...

Whip of Erebos Has this card been ridiculous for anyone else here? In the last few drafts, we've found that the lifelink clause on the Whip tends to drag games out for forever and a half, and its reanimation ability is no slouch, either. There's only a limited amount of artifact hate in my...

I actually don't run nor support Wildfire, as I only run five mana rocks in ~380 cards. I just wanted something that fit the bill for Big Red, and Ember Swallower is serviceable in that role. I think it's much better when you pair it with green, so that you can start blowing up lands before the...

Ones 1 Deathrite Shaman 3 Gravecrawler 1 Gitaxian Probe 1 Ponder 1 Preordain 1 Rift Bolt Twos 2 Blood Artist 1 Bloodghast 1 Hellspark Elemental 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours 1 Oona's Prowler 1 Riftwing Cloudskate 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Bitterblossom 1 Telling Time 1 Ultimate Price Threes 1 Aether...

If you like Wildfire or red control... Ember Swallower

To briefly address the topic of combo in cube, Jason has actually kind of solved the problem with his Gravecrawler innovation. The deck isn't the type of instant-win combo you see in constructed, but more of an aggro-combo hybrid that can switch gears from getting in for two in the red zone to...

I get that snake works for an even number of rounds, but isn't it much worse for an odd number? Somebody would get 1st, 16th, & 17th, while some other poor schmuck would end up with 8th, 9th, & 24th. I think there's merit in FSR's idea. With the value of lands going down by the later rounds, I...

i have no idea what any of that means and i'm running it tonight o_O

I find that three is the best; any more than that, and people start making suboptimal choices like playing a colorless land or a Bojuka Bog over the basic Swamp they so desperately need. I saved an algorithm on my phone for three lands with either eight or nine players, let me type it out...

I've been thinking about that one, actually. It's a lot of mana to pay for a clone, but there's considerable upside if you have any kind of board presence, especially if it's evasive. I was already considering CML's Spitting Image suggestion, and this seems like it'd fall in the same ballpark...