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Some Numbers posted:Hard, certainly, but not impossible. There are some very good multicolor and hybrid commons that you should definitely run. May I present, The Golden Monkey Cube 
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AlternateNu posted:May I present, The Golden Monkey Cube I've only read the UW section and I vomited a bit in my mouth. A Vastly Superior Multicolor Cube
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May 18, 2017 03:15
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Some Numbers posted:I've only read the UW section and I vomited a bit in my mouth. Why do only Boros and Izzet get signets? Also, having Power Play in the cube without other Conspiracies to balance it out is a diiiiiiick move.
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May 19, 2017 00:02
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AlternateNu posted:Why do only Boros and Izzet get signets? Also, having Power Play in the cube without other Conspiracies to balance it out is a diiiiiiick move. Because the Boros and Izzet Keyrune are very bad. I can agree that Power Play and Unexpected Potential should probably come out.
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May 19, 2017 04:53
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Some Numbers posted:Because the Boros and Izzet Keyrune are very bad. I have PP in my cube, but errata'd to just game 1. It's still really powerful, pick 1/2 kind of card, IMO.
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May 19, 2017 23:35
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Some Numbers posted:Because the Boros and Izzet Keyrune are very bad. I don't know. Boros' double striker works pretty well with all the pumps you have in the cube. Izzet, i agree with, though. Having two pairs get added 2 mana ramp seems kind of a big power gap, though.
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May 20, 2017 00:43
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Dunno about these cubes specifically but Unexpected Potential is one of my favorite cube cards. Only problem is that it's almost universally first pickable, and I don't like cards like that in cube...
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May 25, 2017 02:15
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I only run lore seeker and cogwork librarian anymore for my conspiracy cards that mess with the draft or the game. I used to have a lot more but found it wasn't worth the extra logistics and confusion for newer drafters. Dack and daretti and recruiter of the guard etc are of course fair game.
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May 25, 2017 06:35
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I keep the conspiracies separate and only play with them occasionally.
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May 25, 2017 09:18
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Ok, weird. It seems like you can't search for Conspiracies by card type on Gatherer. They're all on there, but searching by type = conspiracy doesn't work. And if you search on magiccards.info you only get cards from the first Conspiracy set. None of the Take the Crown conspiracies seem to be on there. What give?
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May 26, 2017 00:13
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Has anyone in here run Conspiracies in powered cubes? I have avoided it since the power level seems too high when combined with some other things. Just curious if anyone else has tried it.
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May 26, 2017 00:28
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Double Stroke with Time Walk sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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May 26, 2017 00:55
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I include Lore Seeker, Cogwork Librarian, and Agent of Acquisitions in by default since they just do stuff to the draft. The conspiracies are separate and only get included on occasion.
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May 26, 2017 03:40
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I have Unexpected Potential in my Peasant Cube in a mana-fixing slot.
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May 26, 2017 03:47
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Some Numbers posted:Double Stroke with Time Walk sounds like a recipe for disaster. I had Double Stroke in because I got a foil one. First draft with it: "Dude, you need to cut this. Double Stroke + Blightning in both games is not fun" So I put in the Power-9 sideboard (its a Legacy cube, with the broken cards like Power 9, Conspiracies, etc kept standalone in a sideboard)
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May 26, 2017 05:50
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Conspiracies were either overpowered/broke a bit too many fundamental of rules (in a powered list)/too much bookkeeping/too confusing/too unpowered. That said I still run lore keeper and cogwork librarian and probably will forever.
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May 27, 2017 06:46
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Agent of Acquisitions is too good to not run, because who hasn't had that time when they wanted to take an entire pack?
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May 27, 2017 07:21
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So here's kind of a basic question I haven't seen a direct answer to in the resources I've been looking at. How many basic lands should I have on-hand for a 360 cube?
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Jun 26, 2017 17:39
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25-30 of each should be enough, depending on how many dual cycles you're running
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/\ /\ /\ Whattup whydirt! Long time man. Flip Yr Wig posted:So here's kind of a basic question I haven't seen a direct answer to in the resources I've been looking at. How many basic lands should I have on-hand for a 360 cube? 30 of each should be more than enough (if there's an appropriate number of fixing and/or utility lands in the cube list). If your particular list caters to several mono-colored strategies, you can expand it to 40 to be safe.
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Jun 26, 2017 17:46
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I ran worldknit briefly and it was a logistics nightmare when someone drafted it and shackles/rofellos.
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Jun 26, 2017 19:17
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Pontius Pilate posted:I ran worldknit briefly and it was a logistics nightmare when someone drafted it and shackles/rofellos. We always just had someone grab other basics and say "All my basics are islands/forests".
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Foolishly let someone shuffle and now I have a bent legends sylvan library 
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Jul 23, 2017 03:04
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What's the alternative? When people draft your cube you just go around shuffling all their decks?
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Jul 23, 2017 03:08
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Ha yeah should've clarified. The initial shuffle when the piles are usually larger than 40 cards.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Foolishly let someone shuffle and now I have a bent legends sylvan library The tension between collecting cards for use in cube and actually PLAYING with those collected cards is real... I would love to own power, for example, but would I actually let people put it in their decks??? Much better off paying $10 for proxies... no risk.
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I'd take some bent cards to actually get people to play with my friggin' cube.
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Jul 30, 2017 15:22
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Hadn't picked up a foil abrade or earthshaker whatever (probably won't last, but abrade definitely will) and now the stupid pro tour made them expensive
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I've started running a cube with the full complement of signets and a few other mana artifacts. Should I be counting them among my spells or my lands when building my manabase?
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Aug 7, 2017 19:12
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Half a land.
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Aug 7, 2017 19:20
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Ya, for (approximately) every 2 mana rocks or 3 mana dorks, you can shave a land.
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I didn't even think about druids and such. Danke.
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What draft methods do you guys use for drafting 4 or 6 of an 8 person cube?
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muon posted:What draft methods do you guys use for drafting 4 or 6 of an 8 person cube? 6 people: either normal (3 packs of 14/15) or mix it up a bit with 4 packs of 11/12 (more first picks, less stuff wheels) 4 people: can also do more packs of smaller size (like 4 packs of 12), but it's not great. can also do stuff like 'take two cards. keep one, remove the other from the draft'. Or, flip a pack of 6, everyone takes a card (order changes each time so it's fair), then no one gets the remaining cards. I have tried other schemes, but really nothing is that great at 4 players. But it's Cube, so about any format is going to be fun.
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Burn drafting is plenty of fun for 4 players.
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The cube I ripped off some other dude and have been playing a lot for a couple weeks now. I'm starting to develop thoughts on how to make it my own. The first thing I'm feeling is that it's lacking in the black removal department. White has some removal and red's got a fair amount of burn, but I think some of the black library manipulation could be swapped for removal. Any thoughts?
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Flip Yr Wig posted:The cube I ripped off some other dude and have been playing a lot for a couple weeks now. I'm starting to develop thoughts on how to make it my own. The first thing I'm feeling is that it's lacking in the black removal department. White has some removal and red's got a fair amount of burn, but I think some of the black library manipulation could be swapped for removal. Any thoughts? Besides nostalgia, why would Dark Ritual be in there? So I finally got all but 5 of the tri-color cards in the cube, leaving 1 of the shards card because the mana was better for them. Enough to make a person splash for that one thing. Added 1 more rare for each color. http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/13649 I'm also on my way to get all signets in foil, because everyone loves signets.
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I only see one Plainswalker, Kiora. That seems horridly unbalanced.
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GoutPatrol posted:Besides nostalgia, why would Dark Ritual be in there? The rest of the cube list looks kinda shaky, but there's nothing wrong with supporting black aggro/tempo shells with Dark Ritual. It doesn't need a dedicated Storm archetype to be playable in cube. Dark Ritual ---> Hypnotic Specter has worked since 1993. :-)
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GoutPatrol posted:I'm also on my way to get all signets in foil, because everyone loves signets. I just finished my 10 as well. Those fuckers are surprisingly pricey for what they are. I think Azorius signet was the worst somewhere in the mid teens, but outside of commander, do they even see constructed play?
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