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Psssh, no reprinted mechanics is my prediction.

Lightning Belfry

This is nutso, I'm pretty sure I got it for around 20 cents when RTR was released. Or just kept a copy from a draft and didn't think anything of it, other than being a borderline cube card.

Unleash was barely even a mechanic. I think in practice I've put the counter on the card 90%+ of the time. Maybe that's a cube bias though. Only this one ever gets put on blocking duty:

I like that the graveyard mechanics interact with each other in a smooth way. Should encourage drafting certain three-color pairs. Whenever I drafted RTR things felt really disconnected.

pays 0 life, Morbid on demand

What about... Xantcha Sacrifice a permanent: Regenerate target creature Starting & Max Hand Size: +1 Starting Life: +3

This never would have occurred to me. Thanks!

I'm not sure how effective it will be, but when we've been playing, we've used a houserule for Cube Pack Wars that fetchlands don't deal damage to use. Since you can't do that in MTGO (or change the starting life total), I've put in a higher density of incidental lifegain than I normally would...

Is this all that necessary? Can't you just not run land destruction in your stack? Or where do you land on that?

I was wondering if you guys had thoughts on designing single card stacks. For the purposes of this discussion, I mean a format where players are randomly given cards (through some mechanism) from a stack of cards. More specifically, for my purposes I mean designing a pile to do cube pack wars...

Ones 1 Delver of Secrets 1 Deathrite Shaman 1 Inquisition of Kozilek 1 Chain Lightning 1 Brainstorm 1 Thoughtseize 1 Mox Diamond Twos 1 Augur of Bolas 1 Snapcaster Mage 1 Incinerate 1 Mizzium Mortars 1 Arc Trail 1 Daze 1 Evasive Action Threes 1 Electrolyze 1 Liliana of the Veil 1 Vendilion...

How many land slots do you have? If you have lots of extra room I would start looking for cards that are useful to multiple archetypes you support. If different drafters want the same card for different reasons, often that creates a good draft dynamic.

Sorry, to be more explicit, are people against running Delver of Secrets in their cube lists now?

Wait are people anti-Delver now? I loved it in mine but I also ran like 4000 Brainstorms.

The -1 is a surprise game winner. As in, you surprise yourself when you realize "oh right, if I -1, I win the game".

This card was always just a Sulfuric Vortex for aggro decks that was only active when functionally Hellbent. As a 1-off in a 40 card deck nobody will build around it, but just shove it into a deck that tends to empty its hand anyways. There's mild play to it (don't play your mountain so you have...

Just to bump this, I've been playing some more cube pack wars with my girlfriend and this is what we're currently running: (player 2 in parentheses) 20 random non-land cards 5 basics 5 allied fetches (enemy fetches) 5 enemy shocklands (allied shocklands) We also play that fetchlands don't do...

I really liked Venser when I ran him. It's a good anchor for the archetype, if that's what you're looking to do. The biggest issue is that many cubes only run like 3 gold cards per guild, so you have to be pretty set on that as your direction considering the competition for {W} {U} slots.

This makes me almost as sad as Sakurai's quotes on competitive Melee.