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As this seems to be the place where we're discussing CubeTutor: I tried it out today and was very frustrated by the experience. It was very finicky in the way that it parsed .txt files, and would ignore any second copies of a card. I supposed you can add them manually, but then their cube...

Does your cube have 1-drops? :)

Got wrangled into a Standard tournament today. Scrapped together a couple friends' spare cards to make a Naya Blitz style deck, which was the only viable option given the card pool. Round 1 on the draw I keep a 2 Burning-Tree hand, and draw Burning-Tree Emissaries Turns 1 and 2. Champion of...

Alright, I need 160 more cards to complete this thing. I'll order about 140 now, proxy the 20 most expensive, and should be able to start testing soon.

Sweet. Just to clarify, there's nothing really to see at that link right? All I see are some folders and a brief readme.

I'd like that too, but it's a bit outside my domain. The best I can do is write controversial articles that spark discussion. They're already pretty well aware that people would like them to go online more frequently.

I will say in Andy's defense that I think he came to many of the same card choices independently, even if I was the one to write about them publicly. I think I did more work in connecting the sacrifice themes to other colors, but in the end credit's not all that important. As long as people are...

I need somebody to scour the internet for the world's most poorly designed fan-made double-faced card. Maybe the flipping follows a Markov chain based on some obscure thing (number of nonbasics tapped at the beginning of the declare blockers stage). Preferably it would also have some custom...

I will say that I really like the Devour mechanic, and wish that there were some more playable cards with it. I could do some good work with a quality Devour card in my current cube. It's an intuitive enough mechanic that I wouldn't be surprised to see them bring it back someday. They even put...

More things: When you reduce the cost, you have to specify which mana bubble you're applying the reduction to? Why make the ability be (X + 1)? Wouldn't 'X1WU: Counter CMC X spell' work better? I can't imagine the game being very fun with this guy on the battlefield. For Undertow, what if...

Lotus Cobra is pretty good even without fetches. It fixes your mana and accelerates, all without tapping. Any land drop will let you play T3 4-drops, which is a pretty important tempo boost. Lotus Cobra was probably the best 2-drop in that deck.

How on earth can creatures on the stack be tapped? Aren't they spells when they're on the stack anyways?

Oops! Edited the article, thanks for pointing out the error of my ways.

Agent is as ridiculous as you would expect. Look at the targets. There are so many Legacy-quality cards to hit. Main thing is to hold the Agent if they have an empty board, lest you cascade into a kill spell.

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Okay, well for now the world of Reddit has access to it: http://www.reddit.com/r/mtgcube/comments/1fbteu/excellent_wildfire_primer/ Bask in your glorious feedback Chris!

You may be right, but I haven't seen it happen with Shackles yet. It's also another one of those cards that gets better the slower the format. I've got my eye on it, but only have about 4 - 5 drafts with it in the cube and I don't recall it dominating any games yet. If somebody pulls together a...

Yeah, all of this should probably be in the GBS thread. Regarding your changes, can you elaborate on these cards: unfulfilled desires twilight shepherd mindslicer shard lands