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Is your cube list viewable somewhere? As a broad concept, decks with a lot of redundant/similar cards are going to benefit less from the ability to "upgrade" random cards in their hand into new cards from the deck that decks with more context-sensitive cards. The WW deck with a bunch of crappy...

Meanwhile, on an internet forum... At the end of the day, you are the only one who can decide what goes in or out of your cube, and you don't have to defend those choices to anybody except you(r playgroup). That doesn't mean you are some cube design prodigy god genius who is above the...

Thanks for reminding me about Warhound, been meaning to add him. Most of the 5 color 3cmc mana rocks are bad, it's a shame. Cut the Dracogenius for Keranos, got to play Keranos tonight and was mostly happy with him.

Should have clarified that the "all velocity cards" idea isn't for my main cube, but for a new cube that I'm helping design for my LGS. Hence the Pauper/Peasant/budget plan and the willingness to take a thought experiment to the extreme DA MAX. Going too far is the name of the game for the first...

Cube for Cube League theorycrafting and brainstorming #1: If most of the cards in a cube can be played at multiple points on the curve to help minimize land-related-variance, does that actually play well? Ie. Bestow, Cycling, (Multi-)Kicker, Flashback, Madness, pitch spells, Transmute...

Sometimes I need to revel in pointless elitism.

Proxies- I don't have a printer or the desire to make my own nice looking proxies. I don't really want to have Sharpie-on-basics-or-card-back proxies in my cube, as much as I love them for testing constructed. The people who make proxies at my LGS understandably don't want to make proxies with...

Silverheart has some play to it (requires other creatures, can be chumped, pseudo-haste against sorcery speed removal) whereas Hydra is pretty much just a removal check. It's less a case of "omg this is too good" so much as it just not being interesting on either side of the table.

I've been playing a lot of a variant format called THE DANGER ROOM/BATTLE BOX, inspired by Brian DeMars's article and Ben Stark's Battle Box being mentioned in a CFB video. The critical difference from regular MtG is that you start with one of each basic and allied guildgate/tapland off to the...

Main Cube Stuff: 1) I want to cut Signets but I don't want to cut UB Tezzeret. Welp. (Need more cool non-mana artifacts to turn into 5/5s) - Spined Thopter is on my radar, as are a bunch of the non-Signet mana rocks. 2) My fetches are tied up in Legacy and Modern decks but I want to up my...

Main Cube 450, unpowered, breaks singleton, no utility-land draft, no custom cards, no proxies, Fox only, Final Destination. Also working on a cube for a Cube League at my LGS, will link it once it gets closer to being a thing.

Brimaz has been fine over here. He has been at his best as a control/midrange card to stabilize against aggro, and in one mono-anthem effects deck. He's pushed but he still dies to Dismember, as well as pretty much every black removal spell. Also gets brickwalled by a lot of green creatures...

I think the variance is good for the game (except when it happens to me dohoho). The game loses so much design space if you mess with the lands/spells model much and would be a poorer experience for it imo Also don't think it's as prevalent or problematic as it seems. Mana screw/flood games are...

Psychatog Wild Mongrel

it's misleading to say that stone rain costs 3 and thus costs the caster more tempo than spell pierce. leaving up U for more than a turn costs as much or more mana as just casting stone rain; wasted mana is just as real a cost as paying for spells. for the record i don't currently run spell...

spell pierce doesn't put your opponent back at least 1 turn of development for the rest of the game, or randomly mana screw your opponent out of nowhere. even if the control player keeps hitting land drops, being a land down is going to stall their ability to play out their hand; while spell...

I'm running 19/450. Enough walkers are niche/inefficient enough that I don't really mind having a bunch of them. My playgroup enjoys the opportunity to play with them and there are plenty of ways to kill or marginalize walkers. Gideon is probably the biggest offender and the most likely to get...

A fellow displaced Austinite, cool deal. (I ended up in Houston, not quite the same journey) They did all-Ravnica sealed (in Japanese) at GP houston as a big side event, I missed out but my friends' decks seemed sweet. RtR block sealed felt a bit too bomby. Innistrad as a better draft format...

I remember m13 being pretty good. Maybe it was m12. Side note, what part of texas are you heading to? Not often that people voluntarily come here :V

Ninja always felt just a little too clunky. For those who run it, how is Hour of Need? I've been eyeing it as a potential add, end step snapcaster, make snapcaster a 4/4 flyer sounds hilarious.