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I have to agree that Liv Sivvy, But For Humans would be pretty problematic, except if all of your humans were subpar for some reason (in which case, you have a lopsided environment, and should probably fix that instead of fiddling with ol' Livvy). ... For anyone who's curious, I've set up a...

Afternoon Delight is an untested 360 card, relatively low-powered cube where all of the non-land cards have CMCs of 2, 3, or 7. There is one additional house-rule: all Instants and Sorceries are Arcane (or anything that refers to Arcane instead refers to Instants and Sorceries). This is because...

So, I ran across this old favorite while I was building my gimmick cube: Metropolis Sprite I've found that this little lady does interesting things with pump and +1/+1 counters. The flying really helps in conjunction with that particular ability, since cheap flyers tend to be small.

Come to think of it, I agree with both of these. I'll probably make those swaps. It's in my signature, but here you go. It's a little slow going because it's not like I can crib off of other people's cubes — like, I spent an hour or so yesterday just filling out my monocolored 3-drop...

The whole idea behind manlands is that they have a built-in way to dodge sorcery-speed removal. I actually missed that Stones' effect was permanent — that actually makes it worse.

I'm pretty fond of Dread Statuary. Stalking Stones feels too expensive for what it does, and Cradle of the Accursed is kinda boring.

Happy late Christmas! My work on my dumb gimmick cube stalled over the holidays, but now I want to give it a bit more attention. Does anyone have any ideas for 7-drops? I finally came down on the side of making all Instants and Sorceries count as Arcane spells, which should explain one of the...

I mean, in a white deck it can remove all future land draws from your deck. It's like a monowhite Mana Severance! Except it costs twice as much.

Yeah, you know what? I apologize for earlier. The leaks put me in a bit of a foul mood for a while. And then my FLGS game me four boxes worth of draft chaff for free. So I'm feeling better.

I'm just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if they did that. The thing is that they wouldn't be printing one-offs - they probably requisition test sheets, and it wouldn't be terribly tricky to ask for some "fake" cards. The only really expensive part would be getting the art commissioned, but...

If we're going to bother to have multiple threads for each set, shouldn't we also separate out "official" spoilers and leaks?

So here's the thing - pretty much every set printed over the last couple of years has had some level of leaks. In some cases, those leaks have been stupidly massive. It would make sense that Wizards would start setting up fake leaks. While printing out a new set takes a lot of lead time...

Yeah, at this point I think I'm going to avoid spoilers until the actual spoiler season comes along.

I think the second set of cards feels more likely Phyrexian has never been used as a type before, and if this was a Snow set I think they would have included that in the initial set of spoilers. It's not impossible, it'd just be weird if they were real. On the other hand... Arni's templating...

Thanks to everyone for humoring me :p. I have a little under a third of the list up on CC - I'm planning to make a cube blog when I'm close to a full list. Some things that are shaking out in my more-or-less random "grab any cards that look cool": 1) 7-drops are going to be out-of-context...

If you built around it, I think that could be a win condition for a control deck in a sufficiently low-powered cube? Bounce three creatures, drop 6 power on the board, etc.

Pashalik Mons is way less aggressive. Compare these two curves: T2: Dragon Fodder T3: Pashilik Mons, swing for 2 OR Goblin Chieftain, swing for 6. T4: Goblin Trashmaster, swing for 7 (with Pashilik Mons) OR Goblin Trashmaster, swing for 13 (with Goblin Chieftain) In one of those scenarios...

I'd probably go with Filigree Familiar and Pilgrim's Eye. The Familiar is the most interesting card out of the four, and of the other 3 I think Pilgrim's Eye is the best gap-filler.

I did some initial investigations into my options for kickers, and man. This is going to have to be a low-power cube, and even then a lot of the cards aren't really worth it. The real questions, however... 1) Should I include X spells with a base CMC of 2 or 3? I was initially thinking 'no'...

I don't know. If I had to guess, I think it's because you can get most staple effects at 2 and 3, and 7 is a big beefy number that's good for ramp payoffs/reanimator/etc. Plus, 2 and 3 are high enough that you actually have some flexibility in terms of their design and function, while being...