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I don't normally do it for archetypes, but back when I could run cube drafts more often I'd usually try to come up with more flavorful names for my manual uploads based upon the gameplay of the deck. It made them more memorable in the long run and my write-ups were more fun to complete after the...

I'm in the middle of theorycrafting an Innistrad Reborn cube incorporating mechanics that like Threshold + Surveil to flesh it out and create greater decision points. I'm curious whether it'll end up in Innistrad Isle or somewhere on the way to the mainland.

Makes sense to me based off possible implementations they've done for draft AI in the back-end. They're not quite Skynet so any little bit to nudge them towards more specific decision trees when trying to analyze a given pick is sure to help. I'll probably be making the same adjustment later today.

It's kind of nebulous to define, but I'd say higher-powered cubes usually revolve around individual card inclusions and play patterns for me. Like when do your defined archetypes/decks get going in your environment assuming optimal curve out? What does your mana acceleration look like in...

Yes, I'd say Delirium is definitely more viable now with more cards utilizing the mechanic as well as newer mechanics helping to fuel it. A big one is Surveil which has allowed for additional avenues to pitch different card types into the graveyard without straying from your normal gameplan...

Evil Twin

Can confirm. I ran a draft years ago a little after Oath of the Gatewatch came out and was paired up against a buddy of mine. Unbeknownst to me, like a madman he drafted pretty much every single manland that came his way and played a deck that was mostly just removal spells and a Sylvan...

And I guess there's a 10 image limit per post, so my final inclusions that I couldn't post for now are the mana rock Liquimetal Torque and the equipment Nettlecyst. I'm a fan of the number of archetypes that are being fleshed out further with this set. A lot of them aren't for me, but I'm all...

Yeah, that was an incredible 2 1/2 minutes. It's got that Chris (Simpsons artist) energy.

Full on MLD has been pretty hit or miss in a cube setting from my experience. It's just trivially easy to break parity in many circumstances, which is something I don't like from haymaker type effects. And this is coming from someone who loves LD and tries to jam in MLD whenever possible in...

Going all snow-covered basics to better enable Dead of Winter in Mono-Black EDH might have been a bad idea.

Catching up after being away most of this weekend, but man there's been a lot of love for many fringe archetypes. MH2 looks like a goldmine for Cube. I'm especially excited about all this incidental support for my U/R Artifacts deck. The main issue with these kind of archetypes has always been...

This was pretty much my same experience with it. I liked it in KTK draft, but it was so slow to actually get going and wasn't what I was looking for out of a 1 drop white creature. It was pretty lackluster for me when I gave it a run years back, one of those cards that usually read way better...

Omelette du fromage

Just really big fans of Ferdinand Magellan and his love of exploration. He also ran double fetches before it was cool.

Honestly, I don't think most cube decks would be able to hit the requirements to make it work. I guess if you somehow end up with the 4C Goodstuff pile with great fixing and get to deploy early without missing a beat, but I don't think a typical 2 color deck or one barely splashing a 3rd color...

Haha, that's fair. Luckily I feel like this set is going to be opened a hell of a lot as people crack for fetches and all these new cards which should drop prices drastically across the board. Add in the million different versions of cards we get nowadays bringing down prices and it's never...

First foil printing! This is one I've been looking forward to for years.

I'd also lean towards no. Decks where I see Ape or Mom usually are still trying to develop the board early to apply pressure through T3 and late game this isn't really all that impactful if you're buying back one of those. Mom might be a different story if you've got a solid board. If the...

Man, I could have been rich if Vegas took bets on this. Fucking called it.