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Yidaro's form of cycling is perfect for effects like Oath of Druids or Sneak Attack, where it's easy to pick up big animals to cheat in but hard to achieve redundancy on Sneak/Oath(/Arcane Artisan etc) and you don't want to draw too many creastures (or any at all with Oath). With a midrange deck...

Teferi would be fine if the static was something like "Opponents can only play spells during their own turns", which preserves most of the functionality but still lets them use now otherwise dead counters to force through cards on their turn and doesn't randomly hose stuff like Finale of...

Krasis is a solid, scaling payoff that's not over the line anywhere IMO. If you can cast it as a 10/10 on Turn 6 then I'm equally (or more) scared of what you can do with your 12 (!) mana and the issue is probably your mana production, and the base case of 2/2 draw 1 gain 1 for 4 mana is fine -...

The new girl on the block is a great discard payoff: Rielle, the Everwise The discard payoffs are at their best if you have ways to dump a bunch of cards at once (Attunement in particular is great, since you can put the down payment on it whenever and then any discard-matters card is an...

Gilded Goose - A mana creature that avoids the feast-or-famine play pattern that cheap mana creatures often lead to, where you are either a turn ahead the whole game and this is such an upside that you are incentivized to build your deck to exploit this (more 3-drops etc) but you then become...

R&D has heard your call! Oko, Thief of CrownsUro, Titan of Nature's WrathHydroid Krasis

having your first post be about Gurzigost is honestly iconic

A Cube that has to worry about 5C goodstuff piles is going to end up with a lot of 2C and maybe 3C goodstuff piles instead. That's a product of the spells in the Cube, not the fixing.

Updates! Top 4ed another Team Open in February with the best decks in each format back then (Reclamation, Inverter, Amulet) Starting writing biweekly for SCG Then earlier this week I won an online PTQ with my baby boy: Ones 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Elvish Mystic 4 Hardened Scales Twos 4...

Fire Covenant

I've been building entire red sections around Faithless Looting and friends for the past year and this is completely unbelievable with all of those. Or how about: FirestormDevastating DreamsWheel of Fortune

Is Thraben Inspector really "above the curve"?

I guess we all have more time for writing now BUILDING BLACK AGGRO Back in the day Cube owners would constantly wonder how to address the problem with black - the black aggro decks seemed weaker than their Boros counterparts, the tools weren’t there for black control, and the go-to combo...

- Atraxa does seem like a pipe dream without more fixing. I'd hoped Breya would feature in more artifact decks; I wonder if CubeTutor/CubeCobra's AI gobbles up fixing indiscriminately? - Scrying Sheets might be a good call actually - UR Spells isn't explicitly pushed but there's a tension...

This isn't tied to COVID but that certainly gives me time to think about it: Cube brings out the worst part of my perfectionist streak since there's no structure or defined goal to building a Cube and it's easy to burn down the whole house and start over if my latest sketch even just looks like...

These three threads give some answers to the last question Archetypes I like in WG: +1/+1 Counters: Green is always the core for this deck but white is the best supporting colour as it offers the best mass pump in Mikaeus, the Lunarch and Gavony Township as well as all of the Ajanis, Citadel...

Storm's WrathHour of Devastation

I LOVE Deathmist Raptor but it's the perfect example of a card that's strong with only a handful of specific cards making it hard to do anything with reliably. You can't set up these format-defining Den Protector + Raptor chains when you only have one of each

Rimestag is a lot cleaner and doesn't mislead drafters into looking for an energy subtheme (Cub can be a self-contained threat so it suggests it less but it's still a natural thing to expect)

Everything I said about Yawgmoth would apply without the proliferate text, that's just a bonus