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1. Looks pretty sweet.

   Although I don’t think Fling is going to be any good.

   Brendan | Jul 16, 2010 | Reply

2. Is your cube green really so stacked with creature destruction that you can afford to miss on Plummet? I mean, you just recently put in Lignify to the cube because mono-G removal is Just That Good.

   Jeri | Jul 16, 2010 | Reply

3. White
   Sun Titan: playable, but I am not too exited about this one.
   War Priest of Thune: Enchantments are such a rare type, that I would rather play Ronom Unicorn / Kami of Ancient Law instead of creature that i have to play like a bear most of the time.

   Blue
   Aether Adept: since U doesn’t have too many cheap creatures, this should be an auto include
   Jace’s Ingenuity: looks like a good card draw spell for such a big cube
   Preordain: If you like this card, you should find some room for Ponder as well.

   Black
   Dark Tutelage: With the high cmc in your cube, I don’t think you will be too happy with this card. People with an 0.5 mana lower average casting costs are skipping on this card, because it is just so much worse than Bob (which still doesn’t appear on your list) / Arena. I would recommend adding Dark Confidant and/or Graveborn Muse instead.
   Liliana’s Specter: Shrieking Grotesque saw some T2 play and tuning him into a moncolored card should make him good enough for the cube.
   Grave Titan: Best cube card of this set

   Red
   Ember Hauler: red aggro can use another 2 drop
   Fling: You do realize that this is reprint, that nobody played before M11 (outside of maybe Affinity), where you even could stack dmg?
   Inferno Titan: Nice a red Triskellion in XXL
   Manic Vandal: Virdian Shaman is a great card, no matter in which color

   Green
   Cultivate: everybody should know by now how good Kodama’s Reach is
   Fauna Shaman: So much worse than Survival, but most likely still good enough for the cube.
   Obstinate Baloth: auto include
   Mitotic Slime: Worse green playables ~ than most other green playables ~5 mana, but i f this can kick out one of your other expensive token producers (Centaur Glade / Bestial Menace) it is a huge upgrade.
   Primeval Titan: Shouldn’t my finisher just win me the game? This look even worse than Vigor, which sees about 0 cube play.
   Sylvan Ranger: it costs 1 more mana, but Krosan Tusker gives you an extra card instead of a 1/1 + has some potential with reanimation and lategame value if you just hardcast him.

   Artifacts
   Brittle Effigy: For 5 mana, every color but green (which can just play a bigger dude) has something better to get rid of creatures.
   Crystal Ball: It gives you a great increase of card quality if the game lasts longer and is a powerful addition especially for slower builds.
   Sword of Vengeance: Until we will get more playable equipments with Mirrodin 2, Akroma’s sword has its place in the cube

   eidolon | Jul 17, 2010 | Reply

4. Plummet is a fairly narrow card that would only see sideboard play. I agree that it’s not worth the slot.

   I haven’t made any concrete decision on Sun Titan yet, If I do add it, Akroma gets taken out.
   I prefer ronom unicorn to this. I don’t want to have to wait to play my 2/2 bear
   I’m not including bad-o-war. But since your cube keeps balooning in size I could see playing it.
   In a 450 card cube Ingenuity isn’t worth playing. In a 600ish card cube, I would play it.
   I’m taking out Ancestral Visions for Preordain
   I don’t think Dark Tutelage is worth a spot. It is a bad Phyrexian Arena and bad dark confidant. I don’t like not being able to kill this (in a black based deck) if I get low on life.
   Liliana’s Specter is good. I’m not sure what I’m cutting for it yet.
   Grave titan is the best card in m11.
   Ember hauler is taking the place of Slith Firewalker in my cube.
   Fling is not worth a slot.
   Inferno Titan is awesome.
   I’m taking out Keldon Vandals for Maniac Vandals
   Cultivate is going in over Search for Tommorow
   I’m not adding in a second Survival quite yet. But in a 600 card cube I agree with the adition.
   While the Slime is cool, I don’t think its good enough.
   I’m not sure if I’m going to play Obstinate Baloth instead or in addition to Ravenous Baloth.
   I like my fattiest better than Primeval Titan.
   I have enough ramp where I don’t need to play Sylvan Ranger, but I would be playing it if I were you.
   Brittle Effigy is kind of meh. If I ran this I would be running Trinket mage in addition though.
   Crystal Ball and Sword of Vengance looks good.

   Pringlesman | Jul 17, 2010 | Reply

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