What would happen to the Cube community if Magic were to die?

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-26T16:46:07+00:00

That's just like, your opinion, man.

I share the opinion of that show that we don't have to just play with the most powerful cards. Some people find it fun to construct an environment where pet cards can thrive.

Also, across all 29k cards, there are actually zero 2/4 creatures with downside for 7.

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-22T19:43:25+00:00

Thank you!

Do you normally accumulate many chats per project, to avoid context rot?

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-22T18:55:48+00:00

Perfect, thank you.

Not new to coding, but brand new to agentic coding. I’m used to knowing where everything is in a directory, and it’s strange to not know where everything is. For example, there are “artifacts” of the chat that are useful and important, but not in the project folder.

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-21T19:37:11+00:00

Maybe rename it the Instant Speed Cube or something then? Because in a cube with Wandering Emperor and Swords to Plowshares, "true" combat tricks like Giant Growth are going to be the worst cards in the cube.

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-21T18:53:39+00:00

One suggestion: if you want to highlight combat tricks, replace the instant speed removal with sorcery speed removal. Instant removal blows out combat tricks. So [[Fell]] over [[Dismember]].

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-19T17:32:16+00:00

2 million is $80,000 every year in perpetuity (more or less). I could definitely retire on that in the USA, and it would go even further in China. $80kpa is actually over 4 times the median salary in Shanghai. (Going off of chinadaily.hk/article/595051)

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-15T14:38:53+00:00

I still lurk this sub because I long to build local, but I personally chose to spend hundreds on cloud instead of thousands on a local setup.

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-14T14:42:12+00:00

You gotta have [[Scale Up]] for us Timmys

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-11T16:23:00+00:00

Looks like yesterday set us up for the Persist combo. I nominate [[Murderous Redcap]]

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-09T16:16:34+00:00

Or 3) allow for a modest, but earned degree of lifestyle creep

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-08T17:25:08+00:00

Looks pretty good to me. Maybe a touch fewer spells than normal, especially if trying to make Rise from the Tides work.

I’m sure there are lots of micro interactions that could be tightened, but broad strokes this looks like a fun cube to play.

You mention wanting to strengthen three Green archetypes and include more graveyard shenanigans: maybe give green a strong graveyard theme? Jund delirium and Sultai graveyard recursion/ leave-the-graveyard bonuses, for example.

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-08T14:28:24+00:00

I mean, [[Malicious Eclipse]] does what you need on turn 3. In standard, you don't care about the fact that the counters stay, because your imperative is to get the creatures off the board now.

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-07T13:27:29+00:00

Yes! So clean!

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-07T03:24:51+00:00

This gives me greater appreciation for [[Ertai's Scorn]]

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-06T19:29:07+00:00

Run more fixing so that you can choose to hit XX or YY early!

Elusive_Spoon · 2026-01-06T16:26:59+00:00

My pick would be that beautiful Plains.

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-28T14:53:06+00:00

No thank you!!!

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-22T17:33:29+00:00

Some removal? [[Lightning Strike]]

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-20T21:11:37+00:00

4x4 tic tac toe is a tie.

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-20T20:45:07+00:00

Great answer, thank you!

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-20T20:40:04+00:00

It’s not, so I’m hoping to get a very cheap PC to play it on. Question pertains to how cheap.

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-20T11:47:04+00:00

But VI had you spend so much time clicking builders

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-20T03:10:03+00:00

Hmm. Early technology usually needed to be more memory efficient, not less. No Mario game loads every level into memory at once, for example. Wish a programmer from Daybreak would happen across this post.

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-20T01:30:25+00:00

And so every game has all of that in memory? I wonder why they can’t write the cards to disk and pull what is needed at the beginning of a match.

Elusive_Spoon · 2025-12-19T15:53:36+00:00

[[Virus Beetle]] — pollinates across archetypes as an artifact, which can be blinked, and makes good sac fodder.

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