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My cube, like many, has very small creatures because you play them for the effect rather than their stats. However, that makes bigger creatures more fun. My favourites are cheap, simple creatures that can grow very tall. Champion of the Parish Moonshadow Super Shredder Ivora, Insatiable Heir...

It depends on your reanimation suite. If you run 1-2 mana spells like Reanimate or Animate Dead, then no. If you run 3-4 mana spells like Necromancy or Royal Retainers, then yes.

Dust Elemental is one of the coolest creatures ever, but I'm not where it would actually work. Appa is the more playable version but it has like...minus a million coolness points. Academy Rector is cool, but it suffers from lack of redundancy, difficulty of sacrificing it and that you may not...

In my experience, aggro artifact decks don't always have that much of a density. A typical deck ften has 11-13 cards with the actual type and most of them aren't meant to go to the graveyard. Equipment, ramp and support artifacts don't get killed much. Some artifact decks don't even have much in...

This is my weekly reminder that Tchotchke Elemental is one of the best cards to support both between tokens and +1/+1 counters. Tchotchke Elemental It's fair, but powerful and the puzzle of it not having trample is great. I'll eventually make a proxy with no "funny" text. I might even have it...

I used to run it, it's hard for me to evaluate it. First, no other card will clog the board as hard as this one does. It's symmetrical so it can make it impossible for either player to turn their creatures sideways. Second, it's best as a combo piece not a value engine. However, it's one of...

Yeah, for me the issue is that they are just second copies of Tireless Tracker but worse. Same cost, similar role and slots in the same spot. If you have to choose, the right answer is Tireless Provisioner but I would take anything else. Interestingly, the card that has boosted green-based...

I can't draft enough lands in this cube to save my life RIP

For cube: Replenish Squandered Resources Library of Alexandria I like the small ones the best. They would be busted in constructed, but they would be a lot of fun in cube.

Liliana the Faultless looks like a great cube card. Warden of Souls is too narrow on its own, but stapling the effect to removal protection and making it into a discard outlet is truly appealing. Now, I think the activation cost, not just in cards, but in mana, puts a damper on it. But I like...

Ah, it's nothing. It's just that flavour text has gotten more and more jokey and one-liner-ish over the years but Battle of Wits was downgraded to "There's no loftier ambition than the pursuit of knowledge" which has no charm.

I hadn't seen that card before, but it does seem good. It's a miscalculation that can get you an extra card, that's something UG wants. But I might be overrating it and assuming Treshold is always on.

I'll always hate how they put jokes in every single card but the original flavour text for Battle of Wits is, apparently, a bridge too far.

For me the biggest issue with Force of Will is that it's going to get misplayed. It's bad in fair magic and it's hard to draft it in cube because you need a lot of blue cards. But people will see it and put it in their decks even when they shouldn't and that's going to have a negative impact...

The fact that it costs 4 mana makes it too expensive for what I'm looking for. I need it to be 3 mana, sadly. I already run it! It's way better, but it hasn't been oppresive after I revised my 6 drops.

I agree that most cards are designed this way. However, I don't think it's because the design space has been depleted, it's intentional. That is, they are intentionally making variations on the same principles or card designs. The issue with unique, simple designs is that they are hard to...

So, I really like Worn Powerstone in my cube but it has one issue: Since it enters tapped, it doesn't work with Goblin Welder, is a dead draw in storm and combo decks and, in general, is a bit limited in other niche scenarios. I was wondering if I could find a replacement that had a bit more...

Ennis, Debate Moderator vs Charming Prince I do run a small counters theme, but it's small and not as useful as the Scry 2 in most decks...but it's still a free counter and it's not like you would run Charming Prince for the scry, right?

Thanks guys. I think I'll switch to Cosmogrand Zenith because it has a few advantages: - Only 1 pip of coloured mana - Bleeds more openly into other archetypes (+1/+1 counters, spells) - Is both a go-wide enabler and payoff. - The decision to attack with its 2/4 body, pump it with counters or...

It's what I feared, then. I just like the concept of the card, I just wish there was something like it that was more conductive to good gameplay.