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Yep, Blasting Station is the linchpin that holds the whole deck together here, too. Especially when the games grind down to an unbreakable board stall, the ability to go to the face with a full auto machine gun is indispensable.

The discussion of Mox Diamond over on Chris's thread made me think about its younger, less popular cousin, Chrome Mox. This card is obviously missing all of the land synergies with enablers like Life from the Loam, so its use is limited to more "fair" decks. The trouble I'm having with this card...

Hey Nathan, thanks for posting your list! I'm always curious to delve into other Modern cubes, in part because they're not all that common. From punching our lists into Rob's kickass tool, it's probably not surprising how many of our cards overlap. Obviously, you run a larger list, but those...

Thanks a ton for reposting this, Rob! Like I said you to earlier, I really admire the hard work you're putting into your diff tool. I've been using it over the last day or two, and I have to say it's a godsend. It's about 100x more effective than bringing up two Google Docs and trying to eyeball...

Good point about saving bandwidth on the image leeching concern. And thanks for the pointers from both of you - that'll definitely come in handy when I get around to this, and gives me more motivation to tackle it quickly!

As much as we like to harp on it, salvation is still the largest cube discussion forum around. Heck, a bunch of us came over from there because we were dissatisfied with the climate that was being fostered. One possible approach is to continue to post links to your CFB articles in their cube...

Okay, I think we could definitely work on implementing something like that, piggybacking on top of another site's existing auto-card feature. You're right, some threads call for big ass pics of cards; others require a little more of something resembling subtlety.

I actually had Oust in for a while at the beginning. While it was fine, it was never exactly what our white decks wanted. It hosed green mana dorks very well, as sending a Treespeaker or a Cobra back to the top of the library is pretty crushing for a ramp deck looking to get off the ground. But...

Yeah, one option is just to use an existing site's auto-card feature, like the one over on magiccards.info. Being brand new to this whole website thing, I.. don't exactly know what's kosher and what's not, when it comes to etiquette on image leeching. The other option is to host the images in...

Yeah, I have concerns about the massive image leeching we're doing at the moment. I mean, I guess it's not really massive right now cause we only have 20 or so users. But if this site grows past a certain point, we'll probably have to discourage this kind of blatant bandwidth stealing. The...

I've done a couple mock drafts of your cube on TappedOut, and while I initially recoiled at your spread of gold cards in the other thread (OMG 12 GRUUL CARDS MY HEAD HURTS), I've come around. I don't think it's something everyone should try at home without the help of a trained professional, but...

Pet cards!

I gotta say, this idea is brilliant. An artifact themed cube, cherry picking the greatest hits from the likes of Mirrodin, Esper, and Scars blocks, while avoiding their obvious flaws. I'm sold already. I also love how you've featured the artifact lands, leading to interesting tension between...

I'm confused about why Wizards made Skylasher. This is the card most obviously engineered to fight blue since Great Sable Stag. What kind of blue menace needs an unbeatable blocker to stop it, though? Geist of Saint Traft? Vendilion Clique? Delver of Secrets...?!

My dislike of red control in cube is that it's typically used exclusively as a splash colour. Like you said, red has the best anti-creature arsenal, between its suite of flexible burn spells and its variety of splashable sweepers. But what drafters are typically doing is throwing Staggershock...

Nathan, you MUST show us your list. The cube gods command it. I suspect you're right. I imagine that some cube designers have a lot of nostalgia for the Wildfire deck, from an era when you could realistically ramp up to six quickly using artifact mana in Constructed, and then put the game away...

These are on my short list to test. Some of them are shoo-ins, like Ral Zarek, while others are a shot in the dark, like Rot Farm Skeleton.

Very much a meat & potatoes kinda guy, but it's the exact kind of thing that a white weenie enthusiast like myself wants. It's the type of body that isn't embarrassing against control decks packing a ton of removal, which is where I want to be as the aggro player. Chances are your opponent will...

That's a good idea, and is something a lot of forum sites have in addition to an auto-card feature. I'll add it to our to-do list.

This kind of image leeching would get you killed on other forums. And yet here we have Mr. Site Admin advocating to STEAL ALL THE BANDWIDTH This is how you know you're on a different kind of forum.