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From your list, I really like Loaming Shaman. Green is shallow on 3's anyways, and the stats aren't too embarrassing. I think this is in the good compromise region you're looking for of "narrow effect on a card that has other value". Dryad Militant does some work here. You could always...

I love this thread, but it's smack dab in exam season and all my regulars are tied up at the moment. This deck looks awesome Chris. I always liked Sewer Nemesis, and I just don't have room for him at the moment. Liliana + Deep Analysis is pretty awesome.

When I used Kher Keep, I kept copies of these ugly-ass guys around: Your list looks pretty solid. I do wonder how often Pendelhaven is relevant, but since it ETB untapped I suppose there's a pretty low bar.

Welp, CML's cracked the case. No need for an article after all. :)

I will say, I cut all Reanimation from black and gave it more of a recursive-aggro focus, and it's been a lot more fun to play with (opinion, obviously), and the overall power level is more on par with the rest of the cube. I'll probably put back in reanimator in some capacity (likely when I...

Hey Vibe, if you have one, I'd love to see a decklist from a recent Storm deck.

For reference: Consuming Contract At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one—You draw two cards and lose 2 life; or destroy target creature; or __________*; or you lose the game. You can't choose the same mode twice. *This ability originally read "Cast a spell without paying its mana cost."...

I was about to throw a flavor fit about a non two-color cascade card, then I remembered these guys:

Interesting... I'll keep this in mind if I get there, but I imagine I'll be playing with the pre-cons for some time.

Well, I'm not actually proposing a new system, just trying to reveal the underlying mechanics behind competition for cards at a draft table and what you should really be thinking about when designing these things, as well as a case-study at how these concepts have been applied in retail draft...

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/247b Anybody a fan of any of the YMTC4 submissions? How did you all vote?

I will say, I hope we didn't come across as overly negative. This is something that I think is a really innovative idea, and I look forward to using it for cards that I really am unsure about. Stuff like Blood Scrivener comes to mind. One of the best things it does is that it forces you to...

That said, understanding power level is useful and design can go poorly if you're far off the mark (Skullclamp and Jitte say hello). I just think it's like Step 0 in a long design process. Sure, I could say Blood Baron is stronger than Obzedat, but that's just a sliver of the information I...

I do think it's a nice idea, but one to be used very sparingly. I think MTGS is really plagued by this notion that picking the stronger card from a player perspective is always the correct design decision, when in fact design is very much about creating good and enjoyable decision dynamics with...

@CML, you might have missed it in my post, so I'll ask explicitly: Can elaborate on what specific sorts of graveyard decks / effects are too powerful in your cube? The reason I ask is that a lot of the spells you mention will be utterly useless against many types of graveyard effects. Identity...

Deckstats says mine is 2.74, and that's counting stuff like Porcelain Legionnaire as 3 CMC and my two copies of Greater Gargadon as 10 CMC.

Once my decks start failing to find off of Path to Exile, I think it's gone too far. :)

Lol at Reanimate being "graveyard hate". The net effect of including reanimate in a cube is to need even more graveyard hate. Perhaps you can elaborate on what specific sorts of graveyard decks / effects are too powerful in your cube? Goyf is very rarely smaller than a 3/4 here (land, creature...

Currently an 8-man draft of my cube will have 78 lands drafted and 106 lands to choose from (numbers combine main draft and utility draft). I don't really think we need to pass above 10 lands drafted per player.

You just increase the speed at which things go in the graveyard. Fetchlands, Thought Scour, etc. Also, it should be noted that Vintage has a prominant dredge deck. CML also runs a fair share of Dredge cards too.