Ryan Saxe's Classic Cube
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There are a bunch of maybe phyrexia cards. Dinosaur, Nissa, Defectormite, Conduit of Worlds, etc.

I think all of those would make the cut if my cube was back at 540, but at 360-405 they just aren't needed.

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painland in common Death Shadow color

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Rabbit Battery > either a red one or two-drop too, but it's not on CC yet.

Plenty of other testable cards in the set, but none that blow me out of the water.

Adding cards back that I was forced to cut because I can't have them on MTGO

Debating if I should re-add Demonic Consultation and Paliano Vanguard. They're fantastic cards in the list, but they almost feel like un-cards.

This is just getting the main cards I want in, and a lot of the cuts are temporary. I will go through the MTGO data soon to see what other changes I want to make.

Other cards on my radar:

Lunarch Veteran
Bloodthirst Adversary
Suspicious Stowaway
Fateful Absence

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For some reason this card was randomly removed at some point not reflected in the log. Readding it.

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I just love BBE so much more than Huntmaster, and while it arguably fits in less decks than Hunt, it's better when you want it. I'll miss Huntmaster as another "human that makes nonhuman" for winota, but that's okay. Grumgully is more important.

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I hate evolving wilds, this land does nothing on turn 1, but at least is untapped later and can produce multiple colors.

Liliana has been too clunky, Bloodbraid is great, but I think the worst GR card and I want to make room for another persist enabler. And expanse is a necessary evil, but I think can go for Ariistocrat to come back.

Removing multi-color slots with low-play rates that don't also push archetypall. Falkenrath Aristocrats does push archetypes, but not to the degree I want. I'm not sure I can justify it AND Judith in BR.

Agent is a good card, but it's too easy to have misses. I imagine this card will make it back one day.

I loved Fiend Artisan when it was printed, but it has played too clunky. It's cool in Blaggro, and G creature combo, but in both of those decks it ends up requiring too much mana before I care about it for too high an upfront cost. Needed base-stat to be a 2/2 such that it wasn't a terrible T2 play.

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I like this card in my cube, especially now with Winota added.

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something has to go, and I think this is blacks worst interaction. Still +2 from original submission, which I'm happy with.

Keeping human theme in white, but removing bigger desire to splash, and hence re-adding Benalish. Adding Winota as a more splashy way to say there are some ways aggro can branch out, and just as a fun buildaround people can go for with some weird applications (Persist decks can use it to put Melira into play, for example).

Still need three cuts, but this seems like a positive change.

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