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Not to derail Stubob's excellent thread here, but I find that my experience is exactly the same. I'm often done my matches in 15 minutes, so I look over to my right, and there's a smorgasbord of permanents nearly spilling off the edges of the table. Sure enough, they're still on game 1. The...

No worries at all! That's what this forum is for, and divergent viewpoints are always welcome. From a personal standpoint, I'm less interested in spreading the wealth of card drawers, only because other colours have myriad ways to generate their own two-for-ones (Squadron Hawk, Shriekmaw, Arc...

You'll have to help me understand what kind of deck wants Night's Whisper, cause I guess I'm still not seeing it. A two mana spell that isn't good on turn two and is only good when you're out of gas clearly doesn't belong in an aggro deck, which cares about developing the board and pressing the...

So.. here's the thing. Even with the Modern restriction that I use, black has no shortage of good two-for-ones. Indeed, you could reasonably argue that black is the king of card advantage, outside of straight traditional card draw. Just looking at 4cmc cards and under in Modern: Dark Confidant...

Hey, I can totally respect sticking to your guns. For the longest time, I was strictly singleton and Modern-only, too. With that said, I think you still have room to increase the density and quality of your fixing a hair. You mentioned the Scars fastlands as a potential upgrade, and it would...

Also, Nether Traitor is pretty sweet in the black recursive aggro archetype. It's a real card. And Mana Tithe can randomly blow people out, most of whom won't play around a white Force Spike.

I'll just chime in and piggyback on CML's fixing comment by saying that I'm also currently breaking my Modern restriction, to finish out the fetchland cycle with the Onslaught originals. I love the dynamic that fetches provide, and as Jason outlined in his eye-opening article, having more...

Geeeeez. The main reason I didn't play in my local store's MM event Friday night is cause they were also running sealed, and seven (!) full rounds of it, which apparently started at 6 pm and ended at 1 am. When I heard that, I thought the store was crazy. Turns out there are crazy stores most...

STAB WOUND (You're not serious about Perish, right...?)

To borrow an overused phrase: SHIT JUST GOT REAL. Personally, I've been a huge fan of Kranny's work over the past several years, and his cube has been a constant source of reference for me as I tune and tweak my own design. His innovation and breakthrough with the black Pox archetype opened my...

Yep! I actually think that even at +0, she would be way more fair, and easier to bring down via combat.

Yeah, he's definitely not overpowered, and might be a tad underpowered, if anything. He ain't no Elspeth.

Yeah, no worries, I think this is just a case of different strokes for different folks. It's true that my cube is missing some of the powerful plays and synergies you get from a traditional list, but I'm aiming to produce some equally cool, if slightly less powerful, interactions in my somewhat...

Yeah, I'm totally with you here. My definition of mass removal is really liberal, and probably different than most people's. Anything that can potentially take out multiple creatures is labelled as mass removal, so alongside Terminus and Pyroclasm, I'm counting Angel of Serenity and Engineered...

If you take a look at my cube list, there's still plenty of high end rewards for slower decks to build up towards. White has things like Sun Titan and Angel of Serenity; blue has planeswalkers up the wazoo; black has a plethora of fatties, including Sheoldred; if you dip into multicolour, Simic...

Thanks for posting your list, Arjan! I like the look of it. As I mentioned in the other thread, I'm curious about the self-mill theme, because it's something I want to try out myself. If you don't mind, I have a couple of questions about how it works in your cube: With a large cube list, and a...

Sweet! Just let us know when you get around to it - this forum software isn't great at showing when posts are touched up.

It's funny, too, because games with decks that went big could easily go long, and it wasn't at all out of the question to redraw the discarded card, considering the starting library size of 40. If I recall correctly, my opponent actually redrew his Emrakul that game, then hardcast it, but I had...

Now that you mention it, you're right about discard being vastly powered down in the triple Rise format. I vividly remember siding in Perish the Thought against an opponent whose sole game plan was to stall and ramp to 15 (!) in order to cast the single Emrakul in his deck. When he built up to...

That's an interesting point about making the power curve less flat deliberately. I know we value power curves as flat as possible in traditional cubes. But for cubes that are a little more unique or out there, having cards that are obviously more powerful than others seems like a great...