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Cube Update! Some massive life changes for my partner and I have got me spending a lot of time getting the collection sorted and stored. While sorting and storing, I started swapping in some promos and foils in for the basic bitch printings in the Ana cube, and figured it was worth a small...

I will be running Reigning Victor in all my Simic decks if this change happens.

I play Lilah already! Painters Servant is absurd ofc (And also a reason to run stuff like Hibernation or Omen of Fire), but just plotting a bunch of terrible draft commons into a huge storm turn is already good enough in my less sweaty games. Having Manamorphose would be sick though. I love...

I'm hunting some mid power level cards to help support Lich-Knights' Conquest. I'm running a bunch of things that happen to help it out (Cryptbreaker, Sarcomancy, many many discard outlets), but only Call the Bloodline is really intended to go with it and I think the rest of the support I have...

We usually use Infinitokens, but the BLB Offspring tokens are so darn cute we tracked down all of them for our BLB sealed league, and still use all the otters for a friends Alania deck. I think Tender Wildguide won the vote for cutest, which is sad as we never see it anymore.

How can you say no to this face? Coruscation Mage Token (I will not be Ottering, but I appreciate the suggestion) Edit: So, when I linked the token image, the image in TekLazar's post changed from the card to the token. Thought that behaviour for the tagger plugin should get pointed out, as...

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I cube with both people who try to eke out every tiny bit of advantage they can on every possible decision, and people who are just now discovering the concept of reading for the first time (I love all of them I promise). Fact or Fiction (And Sphinx of Uthuun) have absolutely tarpitted our EDH...

This got me to double take. Maybe it's just coming from memories of constructed formats and having never resolved a Gifts or Intuition in an unpowered cube, but I've always found FoF to be slower to resolve. Like, Gifts/Intuition, you're thinking about piles when you draft and build your deck...

That does work pretty well with the twiddles for extra stationing too, that's sick.

Oh shit yeah we aren't rarity restricted, you can just play like Coffers and Academy. Yeah I'm doubling down on Petal/Twiddle Storm as a suggestion.

Speaking of Storm, there's also the old pauper Petal Storm deck? Enchant a single land or Karoo with a bunch of Fertile Ground effects, then Splice Psychic Puppetry onto Petals of Insight to generate arbitrary amounts of mana, arbitrary storm count, and reorder your whole deck into the bargain...

I had this exact experience when the EOC bicycles got spoiled, because the ONS cyclers felt so narrow to me. I ended up cutting them, but I've missed them - The Loam decks can't really do 'the thing' off 2-mana cyclers at all, it's harder to squeak in an Astral Slide trigger, etc. The Ux control...

I think its about activation cost for the effect/how much the effect is naturally signposted during the game. Like, I've never had a bad beats story involving Celestial Colonnade - someone looking at six untapped lands is going to expect something, and hopefully then looks at the number of cards...

If you're running some hate like Ruination, From the Ashes is an amazing hate piece that also works as a combo enabler. Wiping your own non-basics to fetch untapped basics means it does a terrible Scapeshift impression, acts as a ritual, and fills the yard for Splendid Reclamation effects. It's...

You'll probably end up running Life from the Loam because it's a sweet lands card, and that says one thing to me: Cycling lands. While I would then immediately run Astral Slide, there are other ways to synergize with an abundance of cycling lands. Discard-matters effects are really plentiful...

I run both Pia and Faldorn as 'Madness' payoffs that happen to work with the like, 3 impulse draws I also cube, and Vega with the Flashback/Retrace/Jump-Start stuff I'd also be running anyway, and honestly that's been enough at my power level. Pia has been the worst of the three because there's...

Love the 'Only basic Swamps' idea. Rather than drafting lands for off-colour mana, what about having to use the Ooze for it? Plenty of dorks, maybe even some of the mana filters like Blood Celebrant/Abzan Devotee/Gravestone Strider, or true dorks like Blightsoil Druid and DRS. As far as cards...

My bet is Simic - Strong Overbeing of Myth vibes to me, plus the colours of the celestial bodies in the background.

Cube Update! So it's been a hot minute since my last update. Something about having a baby does eat into time available to write pages of nonsense about Magic. Still, we've gotten quite a few reps in with the cube over the past... year!? (where does the time go!?). Not just drafting this with...