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The power ceiling honestly depends on the Splice card. They were very conservative with the costs of Arcane cards in Kamigawa. That said, a lot of the cards with cheap splice costs basically turn into one-card archetypes if you can combine them with ANY instant/sorcery (picking one per color)...

On the topic of "specialized removal", I love this thing for my "constrained CMCs" cubes: Inscription of Ruin It's a Mind Rot, Sorcery-speed Smother (which is pretty dang good when it hits almost everything in the cube... but not everything), or tiny reanimator spell as needed, and then turns...

I'm surprised that your Boros Artifacts list doesn't have this majestic lad on it: Experimental Synthesizer That card is honestly pretty nuts if you're bouncing/flickering artifacts.

Oops, sorry, the rule only applies to Instants and Sorceries. Another version of the same idea that I had post-Strixhaven was to combine Arcane and Lesson into a single type. If you pull up a list of Sorcery-speed Arcane spells and a list of Strixhaven Lessons, they look *surprisingly* similar...

Hello, it's me again, with another unnecessary cube idea. The rules are thus: The idea here is that this mana base actually does something rather interesting: On T1 You can produce either {c}{c} or one mana of any color. On T2+ Assume that your third gate was Izzet Guildgate. You may do any...

I've also considered replacing Surveil with Scry (or vice-versa). Has anyone given this a try?

One of my cubes has an "all spells are arcane" rule, with the following package of cards supporting it: Oyobi, Who Splits The Heavens Dampen Thought Psychic Puppetry Soulless Revival Thief of Hope Desperate Ritual Glacial Ray Budoka Pupil Long-Forgotten Gohei If I was going to do that in the...

I mean, that requires you to have an untapped land and three specific combo pieces in your hand on T1. In a format that's singleton for all three of those pieces. If someone opens with that hand, clap them on the back and congratulate them on hitting the roughly 0.35% chance of that happening. :p

I could see Grim Discovery + Prismatic Vistas being worth it if Bx Domain/Landfall is a thing in your cube. :p More seriously... Regrowth effects kinda suck unless your format has ways to abuse them. Like, theoretically there's a format where casting Regrowth to get back your Brushwagg is a...

It was actually going to be... Prosperous Partnership vs. Stimulus Package RGW draft environment, except all the lands are untapped Rx duals (so it's effectively White vs. Green, with Red as "colorless"). Will this ever be made? I dunno.

Which is, if you're familiar with both games, damning with faint praise. (Eclipse Phase is a game with a great pitch that has crappy mechanics and some pretty bad setting writing. So... most RPGs, really.)

I'm reminded of how, back in the day, there were two RPGs that were both published by the same company - CthulhuTech and Eclipse Phase. The devs for CthulhuTech were always very salty about the fact that Eclipse Phase outsold their game... despite the fact that EP's author literally let you...

Behold, true love! Seasoned Pyromancer Mandatory Friendship Shackles Fable of the Mirror-Breaker Reflection of Kiki-Jiki (The shackles aren't actually necessary. I just had to give them friendship bracelets.)

To distract us from our bitching about Magic... How imbalanced would this be, a priori? 1. One player has 40 cards and no life total. They win the game if they reduce their opponent to 0 life. 2. The other player has 44 cards (a normal 40 + a playset of Hedron Alignment). They win the game if...

Those two cards are of such wildly differing power levels its not even funny. Seasoned Pyromancer is really good. My suggestion? Tilonalli's Summoner (shut up it's a pet card)

Here's the thing... if people are buying them as an investment thing, how many of those packs are actually gonna get cracked? Especially since there's a very good chance that the contents of that pack are worth less than what people paid for them. It's depressingly likely that people are going...

I would honestly love it if we got more Strixhaven Archive-esque art for spells. Like, it's all well-and-good to have representational art for permanents, but I like the art for spells (and enchantments) being a little more abstract.

I'm not sure I agree with you on Burmak (not to my tastes, really), but I am glad that Wizards have started to commission artists with distinctive styles again. I would replace her on that list with the other Guay, though. Change of Fortune|VOW Demonic Bargain|VOW Lethal Exploit Impulse|DMU

I like Faldorn + Conspiracy Theorist, though I could honestly lean either way on the two-drops depending on how often you think Channeler's "4/4 for 1R" mode will be active.

I would love to contribute to this thread, but I lean too heavily on twisting the rules for my cube (and I'm also generally pretty bad at "decks not cards" design...). Like, you couldn't steal any of the my loose archetypes from the Capitalism Cube, because a lot of them rely on the fact that...