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Gamble is great. Mutagenic Growth is powerful, but it suffers badly from 24th card syndrome. It's a good card, but I always feel I don't really need it compared to something else.

I think the larger issue for newer players is the overall complexity of the cube, the difficulty of cube drafting itself and how many "traps" they can fall into. Just some. I run Mother of Runes and Dauntless Bodyguard and have run a third in the past. If you overload it, you end up with quite...

I didn't realize the cause until you mentioned it. Now that's quite sad.

Do you feel these cards have given you any problems when it comes to power level? Skullclamp Gaea's Cradle Tolarian Academy

While I decide which sac outlet to run, I'm going to include one of my favourite cards as a placeholder. In fact, I'm going to add a couple more so I reach 388 cards in the cube: Despotic Scepter Cruel Ultimatum Scrabbling Claws The reason is that I've been looking for a big red replacement...

I'm still polishing the cube, here are some more changes I'm working on. First, some quality of life changes: Finale of Devastation -> Birds of Paradise Dragonsguard Elite -> Tough Cookie The Gitrog Monster -> Glissa, The Traitor Perennial Behemoth -> The Underworld Cookbook Selfless Spirit...

I like this one for the reasons you mention, but I'm afraid of getting killed if I reanimate it. They feel a bit fair for my cube, though they are solid. I'm mostly looking for targets that justify going into combo decks as opposed to just value ones.

Oh, I thought you only ran one! Still, I do believe Skyclave is going to be better for me here, I feel the mana is less of a limitation than size. Anyways, I've been thinking about which black reanimator targets I actually want. Rune-scarred Demon feels terrible even as a placeholder...

They say great minds think alike! I've also noticed I could support Death Shadow in my cube if I switched to Ravnica Duals. At a glance, they should work without too much hassle, but I have never actually played with the cards! My fear is if they will actually be good in practice.

I've done even more changes to the cube. Starting with my black section: Virtue of Persistence -> Orcish Bowmasters Tendrils of Agony -> Sheoldred, the Apocalypse My question here is, can I replace Tendrils of Agony with Sheoldred? Certainly, a wheel gets close to a kill and you have Sedgemoor...

It's difficult because we are always limited by our own skill. We can only approximate what is balanced as far as we can see it, often with our own biases. But I do think it's great advice: If you build the decks, you'll quickly notice which cards are 24th picks, which ones are fine but don't...

After trying, I've decided not to go high power. The reason is that I can only find two, perhaps three, reasons to go for it: Griselbrand Skullclamp Tolarian Academy It feels like a lot of work for such little gain, particularly since some of my archetypes may struggle at a higher power level...

Lotus Field What are you using this card for?

It's a worse version of: Parallax Wave Which I love and recommend everyone to try out!

I've been thinking about the changes I've to the cube. Most of them have been more impactful than I ever thought they would be. Staff of the Storyteller Lingering Souls Staff should become a cube staple, at least to the same degree as Young Pyromancer. It's the best card I've found so far to...

Davelle looks strong, but it's a fantastic design.

For me the biggest one is realizing that, just because something can act as "support", it doesn't mean you would ever want to run the card. For example, you could probably play Countless Gear Renegade in blink. But will you be happy spending Momentary Blink on it? Even if it's 3/3 of stats for...

Fantastic and truly helpful post, thank you Nanonox. I can't believe I never thought of doubling up on Dark Ritual. I was always annoyed by how limited Cabal Ritual is in comparison but I never thought about just running two copies! You are completely right about the red spells, by the way...

Gaddok Teeg is symmetrical, sadly. So it may lock you out from some key cards for your deck. However, I do want to look into more cards like this, particularly if my power level goes up again. Let's talk about that. As you know, I'm trying to square the circle by having a fair, interactive cube...

I currently run Archon of Cruelty as the most powerful top-end payoff. And it's a cool card. However, I'm kind of envious of people who run Griselbrand because you can reanimate it as a draw 7 in storm decks. I've thought about running it, instead, but I'm afraid it would be too powerful...