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Holy crap, a judge actually ran over to answer the judge call! I'm floored.

Fantastic primer, Vibe. As someone who didn't play Magic during any era where storm was dominant, never knew what went into a storm deck, was too afraid to draft storm in any incarnations of the MTGO cube, and most importantly, has been thoroughly thumped by storm online without realizing what...

Yeah, I suppose this is just another tool in your shed, that you have to make sure you use for the right purpose. Like that chainsaw in there that you use all the time for cutting the hedges, but really shouldn't bring down upon the neighbour's annoying chihuahua. Hmmm. What was I talking...

First things first. Blood Baron is an absolutely awful card for cube. Protection is just about the most swingy, high-variance, non-interactive cube mechanic ever printed. So, you know what's better than single protection? Double protection! Gee golly whiz, that should make for some grand ol'...

Yeah, no worries at all about shooting down suggestions. This is definitely a tough nut to crack. As Jason mentioned to me at one point, abusing the graveyard is completely orthogonal to the way a game of Magic is normally played, particularly in limited environments. Innistrad solved this...

Man, this comment is prescient. In my cube, red tops the charts in gold & hybrid cards, while blue is at the bottom. It didn't happen on purpose, but red just seems to have way more multicolor goodies. Blue, on the other hand, barely has anything, but it's easy to compensate for that by adding...

Fantastic topic, Chris. This is a topic I wrestle with myself, as I try to enable graveyard shenanigans, reanimator strategies, and recursive aggro decks, while at the same time, allow other decks to keep the graveyard archetypes honest and make them play a fair game of Magic. Deathrite Shaman...

@PlatypusPlatoon. Like Vince, I'm not much of a Twitter user. I guess I just don't "get" it.

Shock fetches seem really sweet, and roughly in-line with the power level of normal fetches. I don't run any custom cards myself, but since you've already gone hog wild with them in your own set, I'd vote to go with those. How do these work with shocklands? Is it crack, fetch, TAKE FOUR?

Welcome to the forums here, zarepath! Building that first cube is a fun and rewarding project, and hopefully you'll be seeing the fruits of your labor soon with your playgroup. My first "cubes" (I hesitate to even call them that, since I had no intention to building a cube at the time) were...

Did Wildfire not end up working out? I did a cube comparison the other night, and actually added Wildfire back into my own cube when I saw you were running it.

I just want to say, that is a SICK spreadsheet. Major props for your super detailed organization and visualization.

I usually hate browsing custom card forums, because people just don't know how to design cards. They jam three or four clashing abilities onto cards that are undercosted and completely off the color pie. So with all that said, I'm very impressed by all of the cards you've come up with. They all...

I've used adventuresON and strikezoneonline the most when shopping for old cards. Both of them have pretty reasonable prices. I'll have to give the tcgplayer aggregrator a shot next time. I visit that site all the time, and for whatever reason, I had no idea how their shop worked, so I never...

For your viewing pleasure, I made SCD into the longest tag instead. No, but seriously, I'm not sure if I can force them to all be the same size, short of typing in thread tags that are all the same length. Sorry!

I'm going to start adding thread tags, as a kind of compromise between subforums and a giant mishmash of thread soup. Let us know if this is good, bad, or just horribly ugly.

Hey Vince, not to sound too much like a broken record, but I'm going to quote myself from this very thread: So it's not that we haven't thought about this topic; in fact, Jason and I bring it up every now and then. But with anywhere from five to seven users online at our busiest times, we're...

Yeah... hmmm. I don't know how you respond to that. Maybe show him how good it is by beating him with a Boros aggro deck, with Reckoner as the centerpiece? Funny thing is, in a multicolor walker deck, Reckoner isn't half bad at protecting all of his expensive investments.

Huh. What was the nature of the complaint? The downsides I can see to this brainy minotaur are that a) he stonewalls aggro really hard, and b) he's not easy to cast, despite his hybrid cost. I haven't tried him in cube yet, but he seems exciting, so I've got him in there right now, awaiting a...

Have you (or anyone else) figured out whether we can add multiples to our cube lists? Maybe I'm just missing something, but I can't seem to figure out how to tell it that I have 4 Squadron Hawks.