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I've long said one of the best improvements one could make to cube is to very deliberate about removal and the way you shape critical turns, "shields up" moments, etc. I am also find with archetypes having explicitly planned weaknesses. The only place where I think complaining about...

Uh, what Anotak said, and Black 2-drops kind of blow chunks. Are there cards that you're noticing are surprisingly absent from said lists?

For the record I was also running, like, triple Gitaxian Probe. I pretty much maximized the conditions for YP and didn't feel it was really worth it. Well, maximized it short of Storming out. I'm sure Dom has a different take.

http://riptidelab.com/ode-to-tinder-part-1/

I tried multi Young Pyromancer and it was kind of ass.

This is a fair point, and one I kind of responded to in the article, but maybe we can expand it here. One of the things that was needed was ways for a Pridemate deck to actually finish off the opposition, and I added some of those. The other was an attempt to minimize raw life gain while...

I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Can you elaborate?

That post needs a TL DR.

something something hand grenade

I should review more terrible things.

This thread deserves more facetime.

So why isn't everybody watching Rick and Morty yet?

I think the Theros block design is pretty cool, and like the way many of the mechanics interlock with each other. I guess that's not super on topic.

I think you're misevaluating this card pretty hard. 3-evasive power for 2 mana is a great deal, and if they want to throw away cards to get your two-drop killed, by all means.

Yo, this thread has taken a weird left turn. Keep it up.

One of the main differences is the Post works with 5-6 lands and Tron requires 8-9. Cube mana is good, but than many colorless lands places a huge burden on a cube deck's manabase.

http://riptidelab.com/channelfireball-lifegain-part-2/

Yeah, this would be my concern. There are already so many cards cut in the drafting -> deckbuilding process, that adding multipicks would contribute to more wasted picks.

Downgrading Lightning Bolt to Burst Lightning, EChan style.

Yeah, this is a weird design spot. A hybrid 2/2 (Rakdos Cackler) is a cube staple, but a hybrid 1/2 with an upside just doesn't cut it. I tried to justify it in threads and maybe even set reviews before, but when I actually played with it, the card didn't really do much. Oh well. I wanted to...