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Such a silly card. As someone who studied economics and continues to keep up with the literature, this is a delight to me. A neat little bauble from the Commander set. I like being able to cloak my top card at instant speed, especially when I know what it is from the surveil and can follow...

Double-posting for my own rant: Tenth District Hero does something I really like for my Cube. It's a white 2-drop that grows in a powerful but fair way and eventually protects your entire team. I like the story it tells within the card (besides the fact that lol she's now a detective and not...

I agree with your fundamental point. The "color identity" rules are my least favorite part of the impact that Commander has had on design -- I've even been multiple retail drafts where people didn't think they could run cards with off-color activations unless they included mana of that color in...

You rang?

These are the precise top three I was going to talk about too. Miss Scarlett (Headliner Scarlett) is an absolute bomb, and even if you need to keep her back for defense for some reason (no????) she still untaps with a good Chandra impression. Will make room without a doubt. Not necessarily a...

Oh wow!! So many feelings. I love this card mechanically. I do. It's probably a little weak for my list but I adore the hybridness, the effect...everything!! It makes me so happy to see the Golgari watermark on the card. I understand why they didn't do it for this set, but it feels so bad...

Yeah, I agree. I didn't see my players grabbing Satyr Wayfinder unless they were doing the graveyard deck, but it also didn't get them thinking about the graveyard deck because it just seemed like an anemic value engine to them. Aftermath Analyst is shouting from the heavens "please flood your...

I like Divination in red when you're hellbent. I don't think I'm willing to pay an additional 1 for that upgrade over something like Bitter Reunion though. The upside is there if I wanted to for sure. I think the various impulse draw effects work better for red than this, but it's a good option.

I mean, this is normally just a better Naturalize, but also hitting fliers is huge. I ran Atraxa's Fall for a hot second and while I liked it (well, not the story implications), this is much better at half the cost. You're rarely going to be in a situation where this doesn't hit what you want it...

I literally haven't stopped thinking about this card in the two hours since I first laid eyes on it. I feel like it's selfish for me to include it in my Cube, but it hits so many notes for the kinds of decks I end up drafting that I'm bubbling with excitement. Hermit Druid has a new best friend...

Escape Tunnel is sweet. I will never complain about additional Evolving Wilds variants, especially if they do something interesting like helping you win the game through a board stall or something. These are both way better than the standard version, and are the odd special frame card I'd...

My Cube is fast and mostly modern cards, thank you all for helping me come back down to Earth

Was reading some early 2000s tournament reports (as you do on a Wednesday night near midnight) and found this card: Temporal Aperture Anyone have any experience with it? It seems zany and fun. You can kind of build your deck around it to have close-to-even chances of getting your mana back...

Yeah, but how many creatures have 3+ power these days? If it was MV2 or less, I'd be interested, but half of my two drops in white are over that limit, so this basically just rips 1-drops from the top of my deck.

As a Magic card, maybe, but not necessarily as a Cube card that can justify a coveted gold slot. I'm still planning on running it, but it doesn't attack any better than a Wind Drake, which isn't ideal in 2024 Magic if I have to build my mana around a card. It gets there otherwise, clunky text or...

I did, actually! I started running it the moment I got my hands on it (2014 IIRC), and there was certainly not anywhere near the density of Legendaries in my Cube at that time. Here's a link to the earliest version of my Cube I have from around then for context, I got it pretty soon after this...

Basic Lands! Looks like one from each guild. I'm a big fan of the Selesnya Plains, the Golgari Swamp, and the Selesnya (?) Forest. Actually, it seems like Orzhov doesn't get a basic land, and Selesnya gets two, so maybe I'm confusing the top Plains. The Affinity for Planeswalkers is just cute...

I'm not the biggest fan in the world of ETB tapped lands, but I'd prefer the surveil to the cycling of the Amonkhet duals or the Tango half-cycle. Will probably test out the Dimir and Golgari ones at the very least!

(slightly altered from another comment I made) Loyal Retainers is the card that would be last to get cut of white 3s, one of the most competitive slots in my cube. It's a pet card for sure, but it's actually so good. Most of the best reanimator targets are legendary, regardless of power-level...

I'm currently funemployed so my family is staying with my parents in the boonies for a while, and have been drafting/playing standard a few times a month at the LGS that just opened up. I've made enough inroads while I've been here that I'll be hosting a Cube night on Thursday for the first...