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My group and I sometimes play EDH with my cube. Instead of using 100 card decks we use 60 card decks. So you draft like 50-60 cards, make a 60 card deck with basics. The only difference is you can use any creature (as opposed to just legendary) and usually we play that every creature also has...

Ah. So like Elesh Norn. I remember when that used to be in my cube. Once it resolves everyone just angrily quit. Really glad I took it out.

This is basically what I did in my first iteration of my cube and my artifact section has consistently been weak every since. Even as I try to give it some buffs here and there. I just find it very hard to balance. For some reason, and this is likely attributable to my lack of general MTG...

What does GRBS stand for and what does it mean?

Yeah I used to have much heavier removal but it felt kind of stupid because it was just games of resolving creatures, getting the removed before they could do anything, over and over. And eventually someone either ran out of gas or rand out of removal and they would just win. I also observed...

I do not think I know nearly as much about MTG as a whole about you so I will certainly defer to you on this kind of analysis. However, is not the whole point of cube that we are not confined to the design decisions that have been made for MTG as a whole? If "yesterdays" game was different...

I have both Kari Zev, Skyship Raider, Pia and Kiraan Nilar, and Pyromancer's Goggles in my cube but for some reason my drafters do not rate them very highly. Not that they think they are terrible. Just not first pick worthy. I wonder if that is because I have done a poor job designing my...

I liked this series so I figured I will continue it with Red. I am in the process of making some updates to my cube and Red need some work so I will post the cards I run that I think fit this bill but would love to see some other suggestions (red needs a buff in my cube). I have me and all the...

I don't know. Maybe I am bad at magic or something. But I can think of plenty of instances where using my removal might be efficient from the standpoint of "Did I spend less on my removal spell than he did on his permanent" or "did I use my mana as efficiently as possible this turn" but where I...

In my opinion, perhaps the paradigm being presented in this thread is not the best. Or at the very least, it is not the ONLY way to think about removal. For instance, the way I tend to think about it in the format I am trying to curate is that removal should, most of the time, be a "net-win" in...

Basically Zombie tribal is in blue and black, vampire tribal is in red, white, and black.

As far as supporting Zombies, these are the cards that syngergize with Zombies: CryptbreakerDark SalvationLord of the UndeadLich Lord of UnxGraveborn MuseGravespawn SovereignPlague BelcherGisa and GeralfKalitas, Traitor of GhetHavengul RunebinderGravecrawlerCompelling DeterrenceRelentless Dead...

Yeah I like Asylum Visitor. Definitely going to add that in and take out Blood Scrivener. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yeah rat was another one I was thinking about cutting. I am trying to get a discard theme going on which is why I have Blood Scrivener in there. It just seems hard to find cards that can go into a discard theme deck that aren't extremely narrow (like cards with madness which seem like they will...

Pick 2 to cut: Apprentice NecromancerBlood ArtistBlood ScrivenerBloodcrazed PaladinBloodghastDark ConfidantHeir of FalkenrathKalastria HighbornPack RatRelentless DeadZulaport CutthroatScrapheap Scrounger My thinking was that I would cut Scrapheap Scrounger. I like the card, but I feel like...

Sorry that was the joke I was trying to make. But I realize the punchline may have been buried under too many layers of irony, especially given the delivery was in text form. I agree with others (echoing the post I made a bit ago in the mana-curve thread I dredged up few weeks back) that...

I'm not sure if this was directed at me, but if it was, I want to point out that I said that it does not fit as many themes. Not that it was not good enough.

If I were playing a prowess themed deck I would want like a maximum of 10 creatures in it, but probably closer to like 6-8. In which case it feels like it would be hard NOT to trigger prowess.

Pia Nalaar seems so durdley to me.

I have been trying to make a similar archetype available in my cube. One thing I did to make the archetype more flexible and also more expansive is to add some "equipment matters" themes that can kind of overlap with the artifacts matter. Any deck that like has a strong equipment component can...