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I think I might throw in a mini mill theme the next time I cube. I like that the archetype doesn't require a ton of linear, parasitic cards to function, and that many of the mill cards have dual functionality, in that you can turn them on yourself to enable graveyard antics. So! Chris, my...

Value storm, via a flurry of suspended spells ticking down! I'm intrigued. Tell me more.

I've actually been thinking about that one! Calvin, always the voice of reason, talked me down from it, but I still wonder if it's cubeable. Are there enough ways to get this in your yard? Also, I'm struggling with where to put Reflecting Pool myself. Way back when, I had it in my main cube...

WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING WHYYY That might be a good line in the sand to draw, though. All fixers in the main cube, all utility lands in the utility land pile. Would there still be enough functional lands to justify four picks apiece this way? And could you just slot the manlands into your...

Today's preview article on dredge in Modern Masters has me hopeful. Life from the Loam and Stinkweed Imp are already cards that a lot of cube designers run, and Worm Harvest is an excellent payoff for going through the trouble of digging. Masked Admirers won't win any awards for power level, but...

Continuing where I left off: Nether Traitor is one of the key cogs of the black recursive aggro deck. You can only have so many Gravecrawlers and Bloodghasts, so the shadowy spirit serves a role as another piece in the well-oiled engine. Apart from Reassembling Skeleton, he's one of the easiest...

Same here. When I'm not careful in tweaking the knobs on my cube, midrange often becomes scary good without even trying. Aggro, I have to buff. Control, I have to buff. Midrange? It's like the unsightly weeds on an otherwise well-pruned lawn - leave the yard unattended for a couple weeks, and...

Geeeez. Vince, you are a champ. That is some beautiful work, right there. Jason and I are really grateful that you and others in the community have been so willing to step up and fill the gaps that we currently, frankly, suck at. You guys are a real asset to the community!

Jason beat me to the punch, as I was going to say that the best midrange decks here just jam all the two-for-ones they can find, along with efficient spot removal. It's literally Jund, right down to the colours. A winning formula here for months consisted of Terminate, Staggershock, Consuming...

Thanks for the in-depth rundown and analysis, Sterling! Quite impressed that you went through my whole list, especially given that I don't have much of a summary up anywhere. It's clear from your comments that you have a ton of experience with Modern cube in your own right, and you have a lot of...

Right, I should have prefaced my rant and list by saying that those cards are more than fine in your typical cube list. I certainly don't want to give people the wrong impression to go and cut any card that incidentally stymies aggro decks, despite my strong and obvious pro-aggro bias. I merely...

There's a toooooon of aggro hosers. Like Dom says, some are explicitly designed to hose aggro; others are just good cards, and happen to be better against aggro. For an example of the latter category, token producers are good in aggro decks, but are also very, very good against aggro decks...

In my experience, I've found that control trumps are more numerous and easier to pick up than the equivalent for aggro decks. Any number of wrath effects, Titans and Titan-like finishers, token producers, spells with incidental life gain, and various other defensive measures are typically...

I liked Parnell's article, too. That section on anti-aggro made my eyes light up. I'd cut four of the cards in his screen cap within the last months, for the exact same design reasons (Wurmcoil, Shackles, Gideon, and Huntmaster). Thragtusk is on close watch, and only Fetters and Finks are safe...

One of my players scooped up three Jaces in a draft and joked that he was drafting "Jace tribal". Unsurprisingly, he'd get stuck with the bigger ones in hand while trying to kill off his own baby Jace.

THERE WON'T BE ANYONE TO PLAY MAGIC WITH ANYMORE THEY'RE DUMBING DOWN THE GAME In case you missed it, the gospel from the mothership: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/248e http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/248f I...

My thoughts can be boiled down to WURMCOIL RAWHR BAD FOR CUBE. If you're watching the top end power level of your cube, I'd also keep an eye on the clones. They've printed some dastardly ones recently - Phyrexian Metamorph and Phantasmal Image come to mind - that make it really effortless to...

For next time, considering: Cut Keldon Megaliths Mosswort Bridge Add Kabira Crossroads Shelldock Isle (demoted from main cube) Phyrexian Tower (sweet find Jason!) Kher Keep Smoldering Spires Khalni Garden Oran-Rief, the Vastwood Grim Backwoods Stensia Bloodhall Terramorphic Expanse Blinkmoth...

I think Death Cloud is secretly a BG card in disguise. I remember seeing some old Modern lists— or was it Extended? This was a while ago, anyways— where people ramped up to ungodly amounts of mana to power out a large volume of toxic gases. In any case, I doubt it's suitable for any but the most...

Good question. I don't even know where to draw the line in my own cube, so I'd be reluctant to generalize any kind of recommendation for others. I think where I'm going to set the bar here is when people aren't able to justify spending a pick on it, I'll move it from my main list to the utility...