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Hi Brad! Great thread. I really like the three cards you mentioned, and it sounds like you have a lot of really great interactions going on in your cube. I'll check back in later to see if I have sweet tech to add. In the meantime, here are some card images so others don't have to track them down:

Yeah, I noticed the broken pictures. One of them is Grave Pact, can't remember the others off the top of my head. The relevant files are attached, the new one is slightly changed from before.

Trying to think of ways to connect different colors. Battalion feels like an interesting space to dabble in, frontlined by the surprisingly relevant Legion Loyalist: I was also looking at Not of this World: There's probably room for Not of This World, but we could expand on that idea with...

Here it is! http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/cube-design-remodeling-part-two/

I don't currently have much going on in the low CMC part of the spectrum.

Yes, there were, but nobody played Surgery. There was also Primeval Titan Valakut. Anyways... Dragon's Maze!

Hi Dav, thanks for posting! Quick question, do you have any sample decks from your cube you can post images of? I find this really useful for understanding how a format works. (If you have a decklist on hand, I like to make the deck in MTGO so that it's easy to see all the cards laid out and...

I also don't really think Psychic Surgery was intended as a safety valve. The actual safety valves of that era were things like:

These sound kind of like irreparable color pie concerns. So many tempo decks move into red for the likes of Lightning Bolt and Lightning Helix. Definitely deserves a thread, but there are some larger issues at play here. Traditionally red carries the aggro load by necessity. There are only so...

I don't really think it's a bad thing for Wizards to print safety valves that never get used. It's far better than the alternative.

Love the Evoke idea. That forces us to run Undying Evil too! I am not super against Horde of Notions as a niche archetype anchor. I do need to take a second look at those Bringer of the ___ Dawn cards.

Keep the tech rolling! Dav, you mentioned the role of blue in this cube. I definitely need to expand there, but part of its identity will be as the primary home of sweet domain cards. Currently thinking: 1-2 Allied Strategies 1 Collective Restraint 4 Evasive Action (this will be our only...

For those interested, I have a very sparse cube sheet hosted here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkmGq9EqXDoidDFneWw2MEVRRFd2RVl4T3RRYkU2S0E#gid=0

Whatever you say, Mr. Fünke.

The strength of red control comes from the fact that it has the best answers to fast aggro (Pyroclasm, Whipflare, Slagstorm, Arc Trail, etc.). Being able to wipe the board a full turn or two faster than other decks and you have yourself a prime candidate for best anti-aggro color. Throw in the...

Regarding the presence of an Eldrazi archetype, I think you need two main factors for success: - ways to make ramp interactive - a slight reduction in speed to the environment Part of the issue with doing "big things" in a normal cube is that your aggro decks are so fast that the ramp decks...

http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/dragonsmaze/cig# Now that Dragon's Maze has been fully revealed, which cards will be slotting into your cube(s)?

I added Undying Evil several weeks ago, but haven't seen much from it yet. I dream of the Mulldrifter Evoke + Undying Evil nonsense. The one time we did see it was ridiculous. I had my opponent at negative life with Abyssal Persecutor on the table, then was finally able to sacrifice it off of...

I dabbled with Wildfire for a long time, but was never willing to put in the artifact ramp package to support it. As cool as Wildfire decks can be, they place a lot of constraints on your format. Ultimately nobody was playing them (do you really want to use a singleton wildfire when the ramp is...

We're working on implementing a site-wide autocard feature. In addition, it is super easy to insert card images directly into threads. My current process goes: Step 1: Right-click, copy URL Step 2: Click the 'Insert/edit image' button Step 3: Ctrl+V Viola!