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Yeah, you know what? I apologize for earlier. The leaks put me in a bit of a foul mood for a while. And then my FLGS game me four boxes worth of draft chaff for free. So I'm feeling better.

I'm just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if they did that. The thing is that they wouldn't be printing one-offs - they probably requisition test sheets, and it wouldn't be terribly tricky to ask for some "fake" cards. The only really expensive part would be getting the art commissioned, but...

If we're going to bother to have multiple threads for each set, shouldn't we also separate out "official" spoilers and leaks?

So here's the thing - pretty much every set printed over the last couple of years has had some level of leaks. In some cases, those leaks have been stupidly massive. It would make sense that Wizards would start setting up fake leaks. While printing out a new set takes a lot of lead time...

Yeah, at this point I think I'm going to avoid spoilers until the actual spoiler season comes along.

I think the second set of cards feels more likely Phyrexian has never been used as a type before, and if this was a Snow set I think they would have included that in the initial set of spoilers. It's not impossible, it'd just be weird if they were real. On the other hand... Arni's templating...

Thanks to everyone for humoring me :p. I have a little under a third of the list up on CC - I'm planning to make a cube blog when I'm close to a full list. Some things that are shaking out in my more-or-less random "grab any cards that look cool": 1) 7-drops are going to be out-of-context...

If you built around it, I think that could be a win condition for a control deck in a sufficiently low-powered cube? Bounce three creatures, drop 6 power on the board, etc.

Pashalik Mons is way less aggressive. Compare these two curves: T2: Dragon Fodder T3: Pashilik Mons, swing for 2 OR Goblin Chieftain, swing for 6. T4: Goblin Trashmaster, swing for 7 (with Pashilik Mons) OR Goblin Trashmaster, swing for 13 (with Goblin Chieftain) In one of those scenarios...

I'd probably go with Filigree Familiar and Pilgrim's Eye. The Familiar is the most interesting card out of the four, and of the other 3 I think Pilgrim's Eye is the best gap-filler.

I did some initial investigations into my options for kickers, and man. This is going to have to be a low-power cube, and even then a lot of the cards aren't really worth it. The real questions, however... 1) Should I include X spells with a base CMC of 2 or 3? I was initially thinking 'no'...

I don't know. If I had to guess, I think it's because you can get most staple effects at 2 and 3, and 7 is a big beefy number that's good for ramp payoffs/reanimator/etc. Plus, 2 and 3 are high enough that you actually have some flexibility in terms of their design and function, while being...

You're welcome to it! An actually dumb idea that just came to me: there's an old format called 237 Magic that I stumbled on a while ago. Long story short: the only CMCs that you can run in a deck are 2, 3, and 7. Which made me wonder how a 237 Cube would work. My first thought is that it's...

If you have enough artifacts in your Cube, I'd go with Goblin Trashmaster. EDIT: I'm an idiot who needs to learn how to read, apparently. Pay attention to the people with actually decent ideas.

This makes me think of an alternate timeline where, instead of getting a Garruk card (or whatever), we got a Saga that was about Garruk hunting Lilliana, or Jace losing and regaining his memory, or whatever. I think I like that timeline better than this one.

In terms of White enablers, is there any reason that you skipped Quest for the Holy Relic?

Hot take: Sagas are basically what Planeswalkers should have been.

Well then. That's a win condition if I ever saw one.

Have you considered running... Thopter Engineer or Flamewright?

Thanks, both of you - that made some stuff click. I was still thinking of them mostly in terms of building casual constructed decks (which has historically been the vast majority of my play experience). I guess I was so blinded by how cool of an engine Incandescent Soulstoke + Thunderkin...