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You joke, but I saw some innocent soul post this on a spoiler website post this: They apparently weren't joking. --- As for today's spoilers, these struck me as interesting designs: We have a cool "soft" removal spell (which is effectively hard removal vs. tokens and cheat targets), a neat...

This one of them? On the one hand, Scavenged Brawler isn't the best reanimator target in the universe. Also, the graveyard ability slaps five different types of counters on a single creature, so there's also that. On the other hand, that's a hilariously powered-up version of Scavenge right...

I kinda like Kayla's Command? If nothing else, it's basically: Construct - {1}{W}{W} Token Artifact Creature - Construct When Construct enters the battlefield, choose one: • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains double strike until end of turn. • Search your library for a basic...

Hey WOTC, why doesn't this just have Enrage? :p

Brushwagg cube would be too powerful. It'd burn your fingers clean off.

One restriction that would actually meaningfully reduce the amount of stuff you have to deal with is only using cards from Standard-legal sets. That's only, what, five sets a year?

If by "finish" you mean "reached the point where it makes me want to puke at shear rage over how it does not exactly match my vision", then yes!

Yeah, honestly... Seriously, I like modal cards. One of my recurring cube design things revolves around modal mechanics in order to fill out the curve, but come on. Honestly, I kinda wish that, in the absence of blocks, they just had mechanics last multiple sets. So you'd have three sets in a...

Fucking hell, Wizards, stop inventing new mechanics that offer modal costs! I just finished making a new 2-3-7 cube. Look at our two heroes walking war-crimes! I feel like Urza is the stronger of the two (permanent ramp, looting instead of rummaging)... but I feel like Mishra is the cooler...

I dunno if that's supposed to be a compliment or not. :p As for the "short deadline to deal 20"... I forgot to mention that my particular 15-card environment started everyone with 10 life. And that the "grindy" decks were packing stuff like Serene Remembrance.

I mean, you're also making the assumption that I have a group of people who would be drafting this cube on the regular. Which is flattering, don't get me wrong, but the reality is that this would be a design exercise that would probably get drafted once or twice as a novelty. As for the...

"Regular" cube? I don't actually have any.

Eh, the fact that the format is going to be utterly degenerate is part of the fun. I'm also unlikely to run Life from the Loam (maybe if there was a version that didn't have Dredge?) If I'm going to include ways to loop lands, it'll be something like Turntimber Sower or the like.

I think Keyword Trading Post is a perfect example of why that style of wording doesn't work for Magic. If that were a Hearthstone card, you could hover over the card and a nice pop-up would show up that would explain exactly what each of those words mean. For Magic... well, you're shit out of...

"Oh, yes, while this card says Kiki-Jiki on it, it's actually a Mountain."

How much would your calculus change if most of the "engine pieces" for the cube lived in the graveyard (e.g. Pyretic Ritual instead of mana rocks)? Would you still think Grip was the most palatable? (Thinking through which cards work well with retrace is legitimately giving me a bit of a...

I... completely forgot that my brain off-gassed the Aura idea. I think the idea was that I'd essentially be running creature auras instead of creatures, and seeing what happens. Looking at it again... I'm not sure it'd actually be all that interesting? The problem is that vanilla token + Aura...

Restore --- Actually, here's a question - assuming a cube where all instants and sorceries have retrace, which of these cards is most interesting? Invasive Surgery Grip of Amnesia Laquatus' Disdain

Retrace is also nice with Apprentice... but I felt like I had to highlight how nice it feels to turbo-charge Explore. Like, it makes it very likely that your Growth Spiral is effectively a two-mana Eureka Moment. And I love that.

Yeah, I think I'd be perfectly happy with a 5/6 flyer for {1}{U}{U} that I milled over or looted away at some point earlier in the game. It's in a similar boat to Roar of the Wurm for me — casting the "front half" is kinda meh (you're not casting it on T3 unless you've put effort into stocking...