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Well, right, I just used unbalanced as a filler word. Any game where both players / teams start out with the same resources is "balanced", but can still just suck / be unsatisfying / be boring when played competitively.

This is a great post. No, not for everyone, but, I guess the main metric I go for is "rewarding gameplay at high level competitive play". This is likely influenced by my Major League Gaming background. Take a game like Halo 1. The default weapon, the Pistol, could drop an opposing player in...

I will say, cards like Armageddon, Upheaval and Sulfuric Vortex did at times create really memorable and interesting games. I don't really miss them though, but perhaps there's a discussion to be had on baking tension and "wow" moments into "fair" cubes? I do find the "tank from Turn 1" games...

Yeah, not my best article, although I have gotten some good feedback via email and the RipLab front page. I've had a lot of assorted thoughts that I've been looking for a home for, and hold pretty strongly that "low curve, strong aggro, high removal density" is a winning formula for much better...

Here's the argument I would make. You start with 20 life. If you have a low curve, but low power, you can't always properly incentivize actually playing the one drops. I would offer Hannes' original cube. It had a reasonable curve, but the power level was so low that you could just sit around...

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I ran double Gargadon for a while in a cube extremely pushed towards sacrifice effects and was surprised by how little work he did.

I think Bloodline Keeper is a pretty shitty lord, and think the "archetype" just needs one cool incentive card, as you can easily reach a high density of good cards that are incidentally vampires and can go in other decks. Duskmantle Seer is cool, and, in a way, supports the lifegain theme...

Cathodion is best in unison with the Utility Land Draft: High Market Phyrexian Tower I run him in the Eldrazi cube, where he's pretty sweet and does work. Caleb is actually my favorite CFB contributor and the one I read the most, despite not actually playing Legacy myself.

I would keep it in for the sweetness factor. The wish rule is one of the best parts of the format... And I think the Red zenith is the most insane of the bunch in microsealed.

Decklist?

Seems super narrow, combined with the fact that the flashback costs on a lot of these spells is absurd. Cool card, but I feel like it'd be a lot of work to pull it off, and all for a bit of a gimmick. You'd need to fill with affordable flashback targets like Lingering Souls and Deep Analysis...

I've looked at this before, but there's not a lot of actual incentive cards. Maybe the captain and Kalastria Highborn? Like, Bloodghast just works better with Carrion Feeder than any of these dumb old vampires. Other incentive card: Blade of the Bloodchief

Post of the year.

http://riptidelab.com/channelfireball-ghost-of-cubing-future/

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Would be okay with my cube's three Brainstorms...

No Power / Toughness. Just an ethereal creature that dies when it ETBs, triggering Kalastria Highborn over and over and over.

Are there any good ways to stretch the theme into blue?