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I'm doing the land thing in my cube. Its not going to be as heavyhanded as the enchantment thing, but I'm going with it. Here's what I've got: Discarders: Obviously Seismic Assault, Scorched Earth and Molten Vortex fit here, but also spellshapers/looters in general. They discard cards...

So, someone I work with knows I plays Magic and he mentioned wanting to play. He asked me what kind of decks I have, and I told him I haven't played constructed in like 15 years and basically only play cube. He looked confused, then told me he mostly plays white and blue. He didn't mention any...

The Best Card in Khans of Tarkir Many cube enthusiasts can't help but be a little disappointed at one of the core themes of Khans of Tarkir: three color cards. We all know the design limitations of cube and how they relate to heavily restrictive casting costs, so no need to dwell on them...

I don't know if I actually want to do this, but I'd like to know what doing so would require. 1) I guess an artifact theme needs artifacts, but since artifacts are colorless they already have an increased range of decks they fit in. Therefore, the artifacts chosen need to be either somewhat...

In general it seems that cubes are designed to be played at a variety of player counts, which inevitably comes along with all sorts of compromises that ensure it doesn't perform its best at any player count. From my vantage this seems like a logistical concern: its too much work to make separate...

I think Sultai Soothsayer is cool and I'm probably going to run a pushed version of the card for giggles, but upon looking at the spoiler I'm wondering if there is something more here. Sultai have a self-mill theme. There mechanic is delve, which gets great use out of cards you throw away...

White is the toughest color to get involved with graveyard stuff, so in this thread we list them all. Threshold: None of them seem very useful. Divine Sacrament? Flashback: Lingering Souls, Prismatic Strands, Embolden, Rally the Peasants, Battle Screech, Ray of Revelation, Unburial Rites...

I have some thoughts about basic cube design that isn't really anything we don't already know, but I wanted to put it into words anyway because I think it is one of the best takeaways one can get when figuring out how to put together of box of magic cards with the intention of sharing it with...

I’ve been slacking on my “articles” on the best cards in each set, which is a shame because I am officially declare the Theros block in the top three in Magic history. I love the mechanics, I love the design, I hate that so many cool cards are underpushed (but not dismayed!) and my current cube...

What makes you want to go into B/U? Usually, the only time people in my cube go into B/U is when they are making a control deck, nabbing counters, finishers and removal. They also usually go into a third color (any of them), keep the curve a little high and value through. B/U heroic has gotten...

I'm not sure if this card has a purpose in Legacy or Vintage, but as a cube card, this is pretty unacceptable. The -2 is a card in and of itself and considering how good the +1 one is, it basically reads "feel really bad about thinking it was ok to play the artifact you drafted." I mean, some...

Will blue get an aggressive heroic creature? Will red get a decent bestow card? Will the gridfillers rejoice at a W/G Ajani? Will devotion get a decent chunk of support or simply be a cube footnote? Spoilers start Monday!

In this thread, we confess our failures at card evaluation and cube design. I will start with two, one very old and one very recent. After winning a cursed scrolled in a Tempest draft, I thought it was total jank and traded it immediately for a despotic scepter. One year later there were 28...

Magic is designed by lots of different people over many years and is developed to suit a number of different formats. It might be the understatement of the year to say that because of this, many of the game elements don't work together very well. Recent comments on goblin tribal illustrate this...

I know this is sort of late, but a probably facetious request was made for me to do it, so here it is. Please note this particularly hard for me because I always spell Gray as Grey and I had to fix my spelling about 37 times. Gray Merchant of Asphodel It’s pretty impossible to get me excited...

StormbindFurnace CelebrationLightning RiftIon StormSeismic AssaultBurning VengeanceGuttersnipeGrim LavamancerWords of WarPyromancer's SwathSearing MeditationPurphoros, God of the Forge (Related, but not exactly the same) Electropotence Rivalry Magus of the Scroll Arc Blade There's one in...

Do you know about a store called Snakes and Lattes? The reason I ask is that they apparently have a game expansion in stock that I can't find anywhere else. Are they reliable? They want friggin $25 to ship to the US, so I wanted to be sure.

This is possibly the wrong place to ask this question and if I were to delve into the depths of the internet it may already be answered, but does anyone know exactly how Opalescence interacts with the Theros God cards? If devotion to white is <5, Heliod with Opalescence on the table is a 4/4...

I'm talking about that deck that runs Carnophage into Sinkhole. Does anyone like that deck? I've cut back on the cards for this deck recently. Sarcomancy is gone, along with Nether Void and Dauthi Slayer. In have come all of the sacrifice/graveyard superfriends. I'm tempted to just finish...

http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/96403 This is my cube now. It is still under construction. Comments and ideas are always welcome.