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Yeah, brewing in Modern looks fun, but it also looks like something that would be impossible to do without being a MODO player.

Yeah, but people aren't required to spend X amount in "equipment" from the hosting company per year to stay competitive in chess or Scrabble.

Many competitive things for "youth" audiences suffer from this. At MLG events almost everybody was better off financially if they chose to be a lowly judge manning the booth (free flight, room, food, a couple hundred dollars to boot) rather than actually compete for prizes.

The problem with the custom cube project is that most of the cards seemed absurdly complicated and inelegant. It looked like it would be a massive headache to play.

Yeah, managing the playgroup is always a tough one. I know my group has been exceptionally accepting of out of the box ideas, and I feel pretty free to tinker knowing that the players will judge ideas by their merit rather than based on some inherent prejudices. But I imagine the people I play...

Well, this is a little bit of what I meant. Those creatures are very powerful, particularly if you are tutoring them up reliably. I could imagine this sort of archetype becoming very powerful. I don't know if you're only intending on adding Lin Sivvi, or if you had other Rebel fetchers in mind...

In case you weren't aware (which it sounds like you are) Andy Cooperfauss' cube runs Rebels, but he has manually chosen specific creatures to have a "Rebel" creature type. He wrote an article about it here: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/3-putting-white-back-on-the-map/ I will say...

Hmm, that's a little sad to hear. :(

Yeah, but there's a lot of Magic culture I don't agree with. In a tournament last weekend I played an RG deck where my opponent cast Devil's Play for 2 against my 3/3 Flinthoof Boar and I let him take it back. I don't think that would be the most common Magic community line there. Opponent would...

I also wondered why nobody played Ajani in Modern for a long time, then all of a sudden the community woke up and decided to play Ajani. I don't know if it's for a specific metagame reason or if people are just really hivemindey.

Elspeth + Geist feels too good not to try. It'll be at least 6 weeks before I can run a Modern list right now, at the moment I'm hibernating. I wish I had a MODO collection, then I could make fun constructed content.

Did you misspell the title on purpose? Were you being super meta?

I bought an Etherium-Horn for the Eldrazi Domain cube and it was pretty uh... well it's a dumb card. Look at it. Renounce the Guilds is in that cube and pretty cool, as well as being great anti-Geist/Bogle tech. Shadowborn Demon's art really confuses me. Like... that head and the body don't...

One of the things I like about David Sirlin is that he is very open about how terrible the CCG model is. But sometimes I also wonder now that I'm on the other side of things. The fact that things are so expensive allows for interesting content sites like CFB and SCG to exist. I enjoy visiting...

Your Utility Land stack looks pretty similar to mine. None of the ones you list are overpowered in my cube. Our strongest is Volrath's Stronghold, but we also run a ton of land destruction. The cycling lands also have a ton of synergies. I love to get a cycling lands, Loam, Deathrite Shaman...

I love Searing Blaze. I find CC costs to be much more manageable than CCC costs. I don't think it's bad to push mono-red a bit, it's just a question of degree. As far as Searing Blaze goes, I run it all the time in non-mono decks. There was a time when people were complaining about red decks...

Tectonic Edge is so good. I always forget how good it is until I see it in action. In games where you need the mana it's just there, but in some matchups it just devastates the opponent. Probably best in a slower environment where you can really take advantage of mana disparities (i.e. Caw Blade...

Yeah, I've always seen red as the best "midrange" color because its burn lets you transition so easily between playing the beatdown and playing the control deck. Burn is awesome against small creatures and great at providing reach against control. Also burn is so cheap and so useful throughout...

For reference, our best 3 - 0 sacrifice deck:

If you have any questions or thoughts about data visualization let me know. I've spent a lot of time thinking about graphing Magic data, but... well, it has some interesting issues. I would love to brainstorm though.