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Thopter Spy Network vs The Antiquities War I need help on picking a blue enchantment for my artifact subtheme. I'm also running Whirler Rogue and Sharding Sphinx.

I also don't see how Spellgorger Weird should just be discounted right off. If you have powerful spells to cast, to me it seems like Weird would do some good work. It's just 2 non-creature spells away from being above-curve, is that really so bad?

Aw, well in that case; protection is back, but also completely crazy magic designs? Thinking about Embodiment of Agonies and Glint-Horn Buccaneer

Luckily I believe that the person involved in leading this core set isn't involved in the coming fall set? So maybe we'll only see "protection from color" making a brief return. It really is just such a waste of cards.

To be fair, you and I are probably accurately stated as 1/1 as well :p So the badger will mess us up.

I think both of those effects are super dependent on what can be done with the cards in red and green. Is there enough ramp, defensive creatures and big cmc targets to cheat into play? Is there also other ways to cheat big creatures into play? If both of those questions are answered yes, then I...

I agree with sigh here! I understand the sentiment made by others about high cmc being inaccessible to many decks, but having a 7-drop doesn't mean you're completely on the rails locked in to drafting a specific deck. There are many ways to draft a deck that wants to play an expensive creature...

I mean by the same argument a lot of cards would be poisonous because only a few strategies want them. The problem between Pelakka Wurm and Polukranos isn't the casting cost I don't think, its the power level difference. Polukranos (a mythic card) is in my opinion a very strong card, much more...

Hm, I don't know if there really needs to be a difference. To some extended anything 6+ cmc is always going to require deck building considerations to be playable, since it will take maybe 10+ turns to naturally draw all those lands. Even for 5-6 cmc cards though, they can both fit as midrange...

I kind of agree with 'closed' in the sense of a closed set, but most people would probably recognize what is meant if the word 'mono' was used. In a sense a mono-archetype is already the establihed term for this, I feel?

This was my notion as well! A sphere is a set of points, which doesn't really suggest something "singular". A sphere archetype sounds like something that covers all 5 colors.

Good write-up. I found a lot of these cards to be evaluated differently in my own environment, so as with all these discussions it's crucial to state the reference power level for the discussion, otherwise it's just baseless opinions. Are we talking a wadell-ian higher power cube here?

I agree with Onder, don't underestimate the power of a quality body. In almost any format, a good evasive creature is going to do good work.

Can't really transition to "attack your opponent mode" though can it? :p

Wizard isn't an entire unuseful type either.

Remember, don't hate congratulate!! Not everyone's cube is the same. What passes as uninteresting for you might as well be exciting for someone else!

Masterful Replication 5U Instant Choose one - -Create two 3/3 colorless artifact golem creature tokens -Choose target an artifact you control. Other artifacts you control become a copy of that artifact until end of turn. Nice fun card for soft artifact themes, as well as that golem tribal deck...

Wow!! What a card?? It's like a non-land upheaval but with a built-in combo?

I didn't see a cube for you Latro, so I'm commenting on Ravnic's. tenacious dead Isn't this just a worse reassembling skeleton? I know you're already running it, isn't there other better black 1-drops for recursion? retreat to kazandu Does this actually do enough? Is it worth spending a...

As goofy as it is, getting to 25 life doesn't seem completely undoable.