Big cube update tonight. I got a large order in from Card Kingdom and so new foils for the Cube! I'm also working on a Lands & Power package for the Cube.
Finally got some VOW cards in, ahead of NEO's release. I'll keep tinkering to see what works well once we get a cube night together.
Big Midnight Hunt swaps. A few of the new Werewolves make it in, as well as one nice Vampire card in Falkenrath Pit Fighter. I may look into putting in more Vamps like Falkenrath Gorger or Falkenrath Aristocrat depending on how Crimson Vow looks.
So apparently the Mystical Archives from Strixhaven were removed from Cube Cobra? I'm just adding those back in.
Another small swap. I'm thinking I'm going to remove all the Devotion synergies in Blue and Black. So sorry Master of Waves. It's been fun.
I'm still waiting on the rest of the lands, but I want to see how Flameskull performs and how Hand of Vecna does as well.
Made a few more AFR swaps. I feel the most cagey about the Black swaps, but I do want to see what Hellish Rebuke does.
I'm moving on from Crackling Drake and onto Expressive Iteration. I look forward to seeing how it performs!
I went to my LGS for the prerelease and gathered a few cards from the box I bought. I do still need Den of the Bugbear and Hall of Storm Giants, but those will be added eventually. I am cutting 5 artifacts to make room for these lands, but I don't think it'll be that much of a negative impact on the drafting experience. I'm also swapping Minsc, Beloved Ranger for Wild Nacatl as Nacatl just hasn't landed as a Naya card. Otherwise I'm adding some more aggressive black cards in Ebondeath, Dracolich and Wight, plus Meteor Swarm to Red as another Big Red payoff.
Of course Ragavan makes the Cube. As does Solitude.
I feel sad about cutting Out of Time, but Oblivion Ring is a better card. I believe in Hard Evidence and it fills a similar role to Watcher of Tomorrow with a better defensive body. I think that Bloodchief's Thirst is just a good removal spell and I feel like Phyrexian Arena is a bit overrated. Tireless Provisioner feels kindof insane, and I have been cutting back on the number of big Green fatties. And Theater of Horrors felt like a neat Arena, but with the number of planeswalkers in the Cube I wanted to re-introduce Dreadbore.
This is the first of a few small updates while I upgrade a few cards, like Dark Confidant. Dragon's Rage Channeler I think will be a strong card that may help enable an Izzet spells deck. Go for the Throat upgrades the Black removal suite, at the expense of a seldomly played 5 drop. And Abundant Harvest is a good utility spell in green. I don't think that losing Ghalta, Primal Hunger will impact Green in the least. Green already has some great fatties to cheat/ramp out.
Forgot the 3 tri-color cards...oops
Adding in the bulk of the MH2 previews in this most recent order. I did have to cut some of my favorites, but I think this will overall be a net positive. I'm still looking to add Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer and Solitude among others. But those are harder to acquire at the moment.
Doing some big swaps from recent Standard sets: Strixhaven, Kaldheim, and Zenidkar Rising. I'm still debating which other MDFC lands I'm going to include. I also took out Emmara, soul of the accord for qasali pridemage.