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I'm likely skipping out on adds to my cube with the next two UB sets (too far gone for me art and flavor-wise), but ECL is already pretty exciting with the new designs. I'm saving a slot for Formidable Speaker; it's everything I've wanted as a creature tutor and can set up some awesome lines...

Just stomps all over an Aggro deck; no way you get past a 5/5 Vigilance body + a removal spell + Ghostly Prison for two turns. By then the other side will have stabilized hard after a few draws. It's probably fine to play in higher power levels, but it's going to create an arms race.

That new Figure of Destiny variant looks sweet, I'm all in for more playable mana sink options in G/W decks. Bitterblossom on a body feels good also, but did they have to make yet another unique token? Looking forward to this set, less enthused about all the surrounding UB releases until then.

I only know one player among my Magic friends who ended up attending this prerelease. I'm just picking up a few singles and calling it a day, just not my set at all.

Boros has been fine for me, but aside from Winota, Joiner of Forces there are very few gold cards that have interested me over the years. It's always been a rotating door of some Lightning Helix variant and some new thing to try out in the 3rd slot. It's not necessarily difficult to design for...

Infinite card glitch, Magic players HATE this simple trick.

I've been using my duplicate voucher system for the last 5 years now and it's worked pretty well. As long as players are aware of any draft enhancements prior to the actual draft (so that they aren't confused when looking through a pack), it's pretty simple to understand. I think you could...

Multiversal Passage This is the only card I'll be including and it's replacing Triomes as the squadron pick with tri-color cards in my cube. This does a better job of allowing those decks to play the third color without just going full greed like you can with triomes. Should be a pretty good...

Mana dorks are still very powerful in accelerating you to the 3 and 4 drops that are very much above rate nowadays, but it's tougher to keep them around to reach the big ramp payoffs. As such I don't really think super ramp into gigantic bodies at 7+ is all that viable in higher powered...

I'm pretty much checked out of spoiler season if it's this hectic a release schedule. Way too much at once. I'll give the set a once-over before prerelease, but I think this and Avatar will have very few inclusions for my cube unless the card is flavor/art agnostic (ex. Multiversal Passage).

I'd say it really depends on your design goals. I like the comfort of defined archetypes so I have the rough shell of these classics like U/W Control or R/G Midrange or Rx Aggro in my cube, but the real fun is in the details with your card inclusions and synergies you choose to emphasize. I want...

Scout for Survivors Anyone get to try out this yet? I haven't made a slot for it yet in my cube, but I've got a draft this weekend and debating whether or not to include it. I've seen it be pretty gross in some Limited games, but haven't heard anything yet for cube. The ceiling is nutty as...

What this thread is telling me is that I should pick up a copy of Stormchaser's Talent at some point, I clearly didn't evaluate it as highly as I should have on first go around. Maybe I'll even swap in Kitsa again for a run for cube this weekend as I forgot that it was a Wizard for an additional...

I think it would be a cool thing to start revisiting older testing threads a year or so out from when the sets first came out. Good way to see what stuck around for the long haul versus what ended up being a small test run. Let's start with Bloomburrow! I had only two inclusions on my initial...

Ragavan's power is contextual. If it's left uncontested early in the game backed by a ton of efficient removal it can run away with it like it did in Modern for a while, but if you have enough early blockers or ways to gum up the board then it quickly gets bottled up. In a vacuum it's a pretty...

It's about time to revisit reanimator in my cube, specifically the U/B variants. This deck seems to come together every other draft, but I can't recall it ever winning outright. Lots of cool sequences and memorable games but it doesn't seem like it has ever been enough to win it all against...

They make so many whiplash decisions, Jesus Christ. Feels like we've only had like 3-4 actual sets with fewer planeswalkers. I don't think anyone has been missing planeswalkers at all but then again I'm not their mythical kitchen table survey respondent so who knows.

Another thing to consider is which cards gain the most from an artifact-heavy environment. Loran of the Third Path Manic Vandal Abrade Nature's Claim Manglehorn Reclamation Sage Destructive Revelry All of these become straight up single target kill spells in many match-ups if we just have a...

Voice of Victory has been really good for me, had it during TDM Prerelease where it was great and it's been in my cube ever since. Being able to just freely do your thing on your turn without fear of disruption is a godsend for W/x Aggro decks. New tokens are always annoying to include...

I'd be interested in participating in this, would be a neat skeleton in the long run for me to eventually build out a 2nd cube in paper. There is so much artifact support across the board nowadays and more being printed each set. I think one of the big things to focus on is to really define...