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Yes and no. I think 'The Deck'.dec votes for small games - it used things like Moat, Disrupting Scepter, Swords, Counterspell, etc - 1-for-1 or 1-for-n trades. So did Countertop control, in particular Miracles - Terminus takes a lot of resources off the board for a single {W}. But there have...

I guess I also should've posted my own followup thoughts! I, too, posted in my cube blog about this. https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/safras-cube.668/page-6#post-117120

Sorcery for {1}{B/R}

Bonus Round is sick but only goes in storm. it's not a Past in Flames because you can't value-PiF it or do your like baby's value YawgWill, you need to storm out that turn. but it lets you generate a lot of mana and patches up some holes in a cube storm deck (which often lacks one of either draw...

Insha'Allah the reserved list dies

'SMALL GAMES' AND LEGACY-LITE 0) Preface Sam Black – one of Magic’s better theorists – says in a 2021/Kaldheim article that Elvish Visionary and Elderfang Disciple are a microcosm of an important game design choice – that players, decks, and even formats can “vote for big games” or “vote for...

now that I've 7-x'd the draft format I feel like I can say that the draft format is not very cool. Wx aggro good fliers good. hope you enjoy this advice and also 7-x

Phenomenal post. Gonna be thinking about this for a while. Thank you.

And here are some (spoilered for size) CubeCobra test drafts I've been doing all month to figure out what goes in a deck and what never makes a 40 (and should, therefore, be cut). They also serve to get me hyped for the kinds of games I'd like to see.

I'm still working on my 2022 iteration - I may have a playgroup again??? - but here are a few design theories I'd like my cube to test. THEORY 1: Free counterspells enable 'protect the queen' Baneslayer-style threats. This could be provocatively renamed SOME OF THOSE THAT CAST FORCES / ARE THE...

"The Rock" wasn't just "a BG deck", it was "The Rock and his Millions", a specific two card combo. Those all became "The Rock", but "Junk" came not from 'the rock' as a name but from the (at the time) fact that it was "Janky Jund", or 'worse jund', therefore 'junk'. e: wow, no, I was wrong...

Good luck with your recovery! Wishing you the best.

How could i NOT , my friends: he is my everything

the Mumonkan is from 1228, I'm so embarrassed.

The safra promise is you get three pop culture references, one from each millenia CE

also i support Full Chaos Mode with volrath's shapeshifter, letting you reorder your graveyard arbitrarily as a state-based action, if only to see someone live the dream

ONE (NOTHING WRONG WITH ME) Long time no see, RipLab! I've made maybe a dozen-ish posts since mid-2020, but I'm finally revising my Cube now that I'm letting other people enter my home again. I'm doing well! To get past the small talk and into this topic, here's what I've been up to lately...

i would suck boros reckoner's dick while taking heavy fire

It's been almost 2 years since my last post, but I've been playing a lot of Arena lately, and now that I've got my second shot, I'm genuinely thinking about updating my Cube again. I saw this guy on a mtgtop8 Bring to Niv list: General Ferrous Rokiric and i was like oh man I want to finally port...

because they're both gold, duh