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The set's now on DraftSim, and I'm really feeling my concerns once over. It's visually miserable to engage with, colors are hard to parse, and double rares means I feel incentivized to make a bomb-focused deck since all the core draft strategies from the respective sets feel more watered down...

Will probably play Atsushi, because I've been sorely tempted by other 4 MV dragons in the past like these, in this order: Manaform HellkiteOpportunistic DragonVerix Bladewing As much as I like what Manaform Hellkite does, I think Atsushi is generally better. The trample makes a big difference...

And this is what the "classic" side of Kamigawa is going to look like: Love the top art, can't stand the middle one, and I prefer the art of the bottom one to the more cyberpunk-is elements I've seen elsewhere, it incorporates the "neon" thing in a compelling way. That said, it looks like...

New Kamigawa art shows off the style of the world pretty well. Man, imagine how bummed WotC was that Cyberpunk 2077 didn't become the biggest game of 2021! My biggest "conspiracy" is that WotC tries somewhat to tie in their world schedule with other "nerd" culture things, like Kaldheim releasing...

In conjunction with Lucky Paper's Year in Review for Cube (which I found it incredibly smart and insightful, particularly comments from our own @Jason Waddell and @Dom Harvey!!), I wanted to start our own thread here capturing our thoughts on the year we've had. I'm eventually going to answer...

I could quibble with some of your specific arguments here, but I think this is right. I'd still rather this path than the one from 2017 when development made even more mistakes, sets were generally less compelling, they were already deconstructing the competitive circuit, and there weren't...

The Wanderer art looks sick, hope that's actually the art on the card (even though I know it won't be, RIP). Can't find it atm, but Maro's said that about half of the cards will be leaning on the more "neon" side of the aesthetic and the other half will look/feel more traditional Kamigawa. I...

I think this is the last of them, but wow, these are great. The Axe lets you draw a card with damage, and while it doesn't give any power or toughness bonuses, it also guarantees that the card is a spell. Seek doesn't really work in paper, but in a cube environment where you don't have to worry...

I've said this elsewhere but my cube is my Zen garden. A constant state of maintenance is half of the value for me curating it. I'm currently working on my reject cube (the ban list is cards in my "main" cube) and by nature, it will also be constantly evolving as well as new cards rotate in and...

I had been thinking the same thing, but the middle ability was a series of logic gates that my just-off-of-work mind had not been able to grok properly. And red 5s are right next to white 3s as the most competitive spaces in cube. I love that we get another playable and interesting Tibalt...

Oglor doesn't draw, but he dumps cards in your graveyard and lets you improve the quality of your draws. The power level is not quite as high as a looter, but it lets you look at just as many cards overall, and does so passively, which I really like. It's stupid good with so many cards too with...

If I wanted to include a card with the spellbook mechanic, I'd probably just pick three of the cards that cover the broadest range of effects and let folks pick one. I almost certainly won't do it, but that's how I'd mechanically handle it. Today though, I saw TWO new cards I love, the first of...

I mean I do hate them, and they're super sloppy looking already, but there's some interesting ideas here. I mean, you could make this into a paper-legal card pretty easily. You write it like this: When ~ enters the battlefield, look at the top 6 cards of your library. If there are two or...

I ran it for years and it went last or second-to-last the entire time. Only GR decks were aggressive enough and flexible with mana enough to justify it, and even then, the red two-drops were just as threatening, even if they were less resilient. Green aggro is a dream I can't stop having but...

Agreed that all the "Gotcha" cards are miserable, but I think that Unhinged in general was the worst of the bunch in terms of both design and jokes. And when I say "bunch", I mean it -- according to the MtG wiki, they're now just called "acorn cards (formerly silver-bordered cards)". That's...

One of the biggest reason that you don't see them around is that folks who play at game stores, at least here in the states, are fairly hostile to silver borders. I've seen greater acceptance to Shaharazad both pre and post banning to even an innocent Timmy, Power Gamer in someone's 99 at the...

I'm honestly not sure, but I would bet it does based on some of the results I've gotten.

We use the website, as the card requests. It's more fun to have no idea what you could even hit imo. It's a five-color card that you have to know what you're getting yourself into with it. If the cube wasn't 720 cards, I wouldn't want it, but since it's only even drafted every other time on...

Lucky Paper survey results are out! Nothing too striking to note here and few surprises, considering it seems that the typical cube managers seems to avoid DFCs. Nothing I think was a community miss from playing a bunch of limited with VOW either, except maybe the lovely Voldaren Epicure, which...

Today, Mark Rosewater announced the first real details and teaser cards for the upcoming (un) set, Unfinity, due out April 1st. Unlike the previous (un) sets, this one will not be silver-bordered, and presents some interesting opportunities for us Cube curators and theorizers. But before that...