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So... 5-1-2 so far (yes/no/whatever)

Y'all be forgetting Herald of Torment!

The prerelease was fantastic, I went 4-2 with a sweet mono red build. Best kill: kurkesh, onakke ancient Will-Forged golem Burning anger Soooooo awesome! :D Kurkesh is going into my cube, and Burning Anger might go in, that card impressed me a lot! Altac Bloodseeker also was impressive...

Love them! Copying it with Phyrexian Metamorph and going to town with proliferate is even better :)

We're All Mountain Goats 4RR Enchantment At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a rock counter on target land, then have target creature gain mountainwalk until end of turn. Lands with rock counters on them are Mountains. When We're All Mountain Goats leaves play, remove...

Doomspawner 2BB Creature - Zombie At the end of your turn, if a creature died this turn, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield, then each opponent loses life equal to the number of zombies you control. 3/3 Weak zombie tribal that doesn't need other zombies to be good?

I'm pretty good at being totally enthusiastic about a project like that, and then go "Ooh! Shiny!" at something else a month later. I'm up for submitting and reviewing ideas though as time permits and attention doesn't wane ;)

Check :) Cemetery Reaper has been a perpetual near inclusion. I like that you can just run it without any zombies at all, because he can just crank them out himself. Other interesting zombie cards you might have missed: anathemancer Fleshbag marauder Glissa, the traitor Liliana's reaver...

Ripple was pretty bad yeah. I love sunburst, it's actually the mechanic that brought me back to the game! Etched Oracle and Pentad Prism (into t3 Bringers!!!) still have a special place in my heart. Splice onto Arcane was a pretty bad limited mechanic. It caused real feel-bad moments when you...

Well, unlikely is not the same as impossible. I would put probably put a Miscalculation under the Scepter if the opportunity presented itself, but I wouldn't be really happy about it. Furthermore, the problem with Scepter isn't that there aren't enough interesting 1-2 cmc instants, it's that...

Tidehollow Sculler?

I think we can turn to the Karsten article on mana bases again. Provided you want to drop the Scepter on t4 so that you can activate it immediately, mitigating the removal blowout, we can look how many instants ("lands") we would need to play in order to "guarantee" (90%) at least one...

I agree. It also subtly forces your hand in cube design, since you need to have a critical mass of 2 cmc instants. So, you run Diabolic Edict instead of Chainer's Edict, or Lightning Strike instead of Volcanic Hammer. I took out the Scepter when I realized I was cutting sorceries and 3+ cmc...

That is, without a doubt, the biggest "vanilla" creature you can run. I considered him, but he isn't that interesting to be honest. Lightning Angel and Numot, the Devastator seem more at place in your typical WUR deck.

You guys do realize this is a reprint from Magic 2011, right?

I think he's talking about Leatherback Baloth vs Woolly Thoctar? That's a pretty interesting question actually, but my gut feeling is that GGG is more restrictive than RGW. Now let's look it up. I linked to this excellent article by Frank Karsten before, and it answers our question pretty well...

That article was the first I read on this here site, and it made me a better cube designer. It's also funny as heck to read :)

A vanilla 2/2 for C or a 3/3 for 1C would be cubable I guess. Aside from aggro decks though, vanilla creatures just aren't that interesting. I couldn't imagine a balanced vanilla card that a control deck would want to play for example.

Hey Jason, guess what? MaRo dislikes Hornet Queen and Hornet Nest. Not only because they are flying tokens in green, but also because he could do without cards that make 4+ deathtouch creatures!

This sums up my feelings about this format perfectly. I also fully understand why Menendian would be gushing over this :)