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I think the fact that they're design mistakes is lessened by their legendary status -- Valakut was a menace for what, a decade? It's a cool card, but it's so hard to interact with lands in modern Magic that I don't like this kind of importance being put on their non-mana abilities unless it's a...

So I'm looking at 25 inclusions for my 720 cube this set: tied with Midnight for most inclusions from a premiere expansion. I think many of these are just about at replacement quality with cards I already have in my list, and many of those I wouldn't keep if I were to cull my list in size, so I...

I've never been embarrassed to run Complicate even at my power level and this seems like it's got more upside, even ignoring the near-uncounterability of Channel and its ability to counter abilities as well. Wild! I love accidentally having a fat artifact creature in my graveyard after using my...

Neat dog. It's Champion of the Parish but triggers off of 50~ more cards (149 to 99 in my cube), even if it sees a ~30% decrease in white cards that trigger it (29 to 19). Will probably include as an "in addition to" rather than an "instead of", but I like this ability and I've been keen on...

Blade of the Oni This card feels like it was made for the Arena Cube. It's good early game, still useful mid-to-late game, and is interesting without being overly wordy. Wish I liked the art for it more, but it's not bad, it just doesn't look like a creature, and the neon frame one doesn't look...

Just started following this, and I'm sorry I had missed it before!! This is super cool, excited to see where it goes and potentially print it out or even make my own version

Card is super neat but it's a lot to take in at once, I don't think I could fairly expect folks seeing this card for the first time to reasonably evaluate it while flipping through 14 other cards at a time in a draft, let alone make full sense of it on first pass. Every modern set really...

As someone who cubed with Worship for way too long, I'm sorely tempted by this one...even if white 3s are too busy for me even at 720 cards.

Seems pretty good. Not the most embarrassing rate for an equipment that provides double strike to begin with, but also is in a better color for buffing power than white. I think all of the 2 MV double strikers are pretty close to being high enough power level for cube, and red hasn't had one...

There's already a dozen cards I'm excitedly looking forward to testing, wow! Leaning away from Scrap Welder even though it's my jam in a hundred ways, just because it's a bit too fair and too slow. Would love to play literally any cube that can justify it though.

I thought the livestream was tomorrow?

I played it for about two years. It's supposed to be a cute card for Sneak Attack-styled decks that helps draw you into your fatties worst-case, but it ended up being too fragile on too many dimensions. Honestly, a 4th toughness would've saved it. The fact that it takes its summons with it when...

The Wanderer art looks sick. Not so impressed with Tezzeret but that's OK.

Kairi is much better than I gave her credit for the first go-around, I figured there wouldn't be a MV high enough to make me interested in the card. Technically there's still not, but she's quite good at saying "nope" to your opponent's entire board if they kill her, which makes her probably...

All 5 dragons leaked: All 5 are seriously playable. The black one is certainly my favorite of all the recent attempts to make an impactful 5 drop in the color, and while it's not a strict upgrade for most of my five-drops in white, I'm a big fan of both of Ao's death triggers in addition to...

The set's now on DraftSim, and I'm really feeling my concerns once over. It's visually miserable to engage with, colors are hard to parse, and double rares means I feel incentivized to make a bomb-focused deck since all the core draft strategies from the respective sets feel more watered down...

Will probably play Atsushi, because I've been sorely tempted by other 4 MV dragons in the past like these, in this order: Manaform HellkiteOpportunistic DragonVerix Bladewing As much as I like what Manaform Hellkite does, I think Atsushi is generally better. The trample makes a big difference...

And this is what the "classic" side of Kamigawa is going to look like: Love the top art, can't stand the middle one, and I prefer the art of the bottom one to the more cyberpunk-is elements I've seen elsewhere, it incorporates the "neon" thing in a compelling way. That said, it looks like...

New Kamigawa art shows off the style of the world pretty well. Man, imagine how bummed WotC was that Cyberpunk 2077 didn't become the biggest game of 2021! My biggest "conspiracy" is that WotC tries somewhat to tie in their world schedule with other "nerd" culture things, like Kaldheim releasing...

In conjunction with Lucky Paper's Year in Review for Cube (which I found it incredibly smart and insightful, particularly comments from our own @Jason Waddell and @Dom Harvey!!), I wanted to start our own thread here capturing our thoughts on the year we've had. I'm eventually going to answer...