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Yep, I agree, Staggershock has been on my shit list for a long time. Matthew (the guy you played against in the last round) looooooooves that card, and he'll just about draft Jund midrange every single time. I'm usually the beatdown, and without fail he nukes me hard with rebound shenanigans...

Vibe, this is fantastic!! Your mic is a little bit on the soft side, but aside from that, you come through loud and clear. I have to say that recording mock drafts on cubetutor as a way of teaching people how to draft an archetype is ingenious. You blast through pack two a little quickly, so I...

Lucas, I'm gonna man up and say that you were right and I was wrong. You know in that deck I played tonight - my awful BUG reanimator pile - what I really could've used? Yep. Night's Whisper. Totally would've smoothed my draws and dug me into the pieces I needed. I mean, this is as close to a...

That was one hell of an introductory post, Miasmir, and that's one hell of a cube. I really like that your large but honed cube is the polar opposite of a lot of the small, tight cubes that are prevalent on this forum. For a cube of this size, I'm impressed that the curve is as svelte and sleek...

Good points all round, Chris. It's true that I've cut Bolt for power level concerns. On Searing Spear - this is a point my players poke fun at me over and over for - I try not to run functional reprints. Instead, I deliberately break singleton in areas where I feel the cube design needs a boost...

Dredgevine does seem like a natural place to take a cube with this theme. Reassembling Skeleton isn't embarrassing, either.

Lol. Lucas said the exact same thing. I needed another cheap burn spell, and... yeah. Burn is a lot worse in Modern than in Legacy, I will say that.

This looks awesome. I love that I have to look up what half of the cards do! Any cube that makes Gifts Ungiven even better has got to be doing something right. In blue, are filtering spells like Compulsive Research and Thirst for Knowledge a possibility? Along with looters, like plain ol'...

Geeeeez, I never even thought of that. As a fellow hawk lover myself, you've convinced me to track down a copy of this quirky piece of equipment. I run Pike too, and with this there might be enough good equipment to finally axe the last few Swords, once and for all.

...Did we draft the exact same deck? I also packed my bags and made a trip to Value Town with RUG. I even had the same record, getting dispatched by faeries in the finals. That's where I learned that when you suspend a Pardic Dragon on turn 2, you can still lose on turn 10 and have more suspend...

Lol, yup. It's one of those pet cards I threw in from the very beginning, and didn't expect it to stay long, but the lifelink has proven valuable for decks needing some defence. Kind of like a Lone Missionary for black. Yeah, it's not good by any objective measure. But decks sometimes run it...

I think I'm starting to understand why Glacial Ray onto Peer Through Depths is fun - splice is like auras, but for Spikes instead of Timmies. Build your own Prophetic Bolt! On topic, I'm frankly flabbergasted at the uniformly positive response Jason's article is getting. It's a great article...

You know, that's the exact card that came to mind for me last night when Gift of Orzhova was mentioned. I have very fond memories of supersizing tiny white critters in casual games from that era. Glad I'm not the only one! On a related note, is Empyrial Plate a card in cube?

I'll be honest - I never really knew what splice onto arcane was. But there's something about hot gluing a Glacial Ray onto a Peer through Depths that's deeply satisfying.

I learned that it's never correct to suspend a Pardic Dragon. Everything after firebreathing is actually flavour text. Suspend is such a sweet mechanic, though. It's perfect for a complex, deep format like Modern Masters. I didn't play Magic back then, but I'm starting to understand why Time...

Sweet post, Kevin. I think I might shift the utility land draft all to the end, too. I much prefer completely hidden information until after the draft portion is complete, and this might reduce the analysis paralysis that sometimes happens after pack one, when people haven't quite settled on an...

Epochrasite is great. I wasn't expecting much when I added it on a whim after seeing LSV using it in an MTGO cube draft, but I've been pleasantly surprised. As a bonus, it works in the black recursion deck, too! Tooth and Nail is sweet if you support ramp and green fatties. Pretty powerful...

Not to be a tease, but try for yourself and find out!

Yeah, I get that the point of Brood Birthing is that it's bad enough that it'll likely wheel to the ramp player that wants it. It's just that, well, you didn't really feel good about playing it even in Rise of Eldrazi, so in Jason's presumably higher-power format, I doubt it'll make the cut on...

Not really a huge fan of Brood Birthing, as it was pretty bad even in its native format. I think I'd rather see another Spawning Breath in that slot. Card is sweet!