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Not Dead After all no longer synergy with Grief
Lava Dart no longer draft synergy (Young pyromancer cut)

Young pyromancer is now Bloodthirsty Adversary

Mainboard Changelist+1, -1

Regrowth is only good with timewalks and thats boring.

Big Update Coming as we hit 7.0
This update is changing the cube to:

(1) Include new awesome MH3 cards.
(2) Cut cards which has been underperforming (especially draft synergies)
(3) Add support for Green-Black Graveyard as a strategy.
(4) Add support for Five-color-green Valakut as a strategy.
(5) Continue from update 6.0 which tried to make creature combat more viable.

Other new strategies which had increased support:

See the posts below for card changes.

New draft Synergies

Multi-colored Gold Cards

Blue Changes

White Changes

Red Changes

Colorless Changes

Black Changes

Green Changes

(1) Improve removal spell suite.
(2) Make black more creature focused, enabling black-X midrange decks, including the new golgari graveyard deck.
(3) cut underpowered cards.

Mainboard Changelist+58, -58

Large update ~50 new card enters the cube. All changes are made to improve the core goal of this cube:

  • Maximize the number of viable unique deck-types you can play, making each draft a new experience. Each color should have 5+ viable archetypes.
  • Push for cool games of magic. Remove cards which ruins that.
  • Cut cards which are underperforming, especially if they are underperforming in a good deck for them.
  • Cut cards which no one picks or plays.

This update in particular is also doing 3 things:

  • Slightly increasing creature count in decks, leading to more creature-combat oriented decks.
  • Increasing % of artifacts in cube.
  • Increasing % of lands in cube.

Finally, this update also comes with a new rule; a hard cap of 50 draft synergy cards. This means the asfan is 1.5, meaning you'll see 1-2 draft synergy cards per pack. I think that is a good amount.

Lands
  • 6 surveil lands added to cube (like Undercity Sewers)
  • 4 green surveil lands added as draft synergies.
  • % lands in cube slightly increased, due to having draft synergies adding 2-4 playable spells per deck. Better manabases is fun.
Artifacts Green
  • Green is losing artifact ramp, which the green decks rarely wanted anyway. Instead green is getting better domain mana through draft synergies (improving domain and lands archetypes with cards like Commercial district).
  • Green is getting a much stronger aggressive game with a light +1/+1 counter theme. This will make it better with both white (green white aggro/midrange) and red (domain/big red-green). Ex: Bristly Bill, Spine Sower & Ornery Tumblewagg.
  • Some multi-colored slow cards replaced with better aggressive payoffs, such as Arwen, mortal queen and Glissa Sunslayer.
  • Some clunkier cards cut for speed (Elvish Spirit Guide)
Blue Red White
  • Slight improvement to white control decks.
  • Cut the worst white aggro for newer better cards.
Black¨
  • Cut the worst black removals for newer better cards.

Draft Synergy Changes

New: Max cap of 50 draft synergy cards (average 1-2 per pack).

Drafting Elemental Eruption (new card) gives + Desperate Ritual

Drafting Tribal Flames gives + Commercial District

Drafting Scion of Draco gives + Hedge Maze

Drafting Green sun's zenith gives + Dryad Arbor

Drafting Knight of the reliquary gives + Lush Portico

Drafting Displacer Kitten gives + Urza's Bauble

Drafting Elvish Reclaimer gives + Underground Mortuary

Drafting Elspeth, Sun's Champion gives + Day of Judgement

View list of all archetypes here: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/stockholm#supported-decks

In this update we added a cap of draft synergies; 50 cards. This leads to an asfan of 1.5 - meaning each pack of 15 cards contains 1-2 draft synergies.

Drafting Elemental Eruption (new card) gives + Desperate Ritual

Drafting Tribal Flames gives + Commercial District

Drafting Scion of Draco gives + Hedge Maze

Drafting Green sun's zenith gives + Dryad Arbor

Drafting Knight of the reliquary gives + Lush Portico

Drafting Displacer Kitten gives + Urza's Bauble

Drafting Elvish Reclaimer gives + Underground Mortuary

Drafting Elspeth, Sun's Champion gives + Day of Judgement

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/stockholm

--- Main Colors ---
White Aggro
Black Reanimator
Red Burn/Aggro
Green Ramp
Blue Control
5c Golos Lands

--- Multi-color Archetypes ---
Wxx Flicker
Rxx Artifact Trash4Treasure
Sultai Draw7
URx Big Artifacts
Bxx Corpse Dance
URx Sneak and Show
Gxx Cheating Big Stuff
Uxx Big Artifact
Gxx Land Combo
RGx Midrange
UBx Control
Storm (~5 versions)

--- Build-Around ---
Oath of Druids
Opposition
Monastery Mentor
Big Mana Heartspring
Zirda Combos
Kinnan Combos
Braids Stax
Birthing Pod
Fiddlebender Artifacts
Krak-Clan Ironworks
5c Niv
Flash

--- Combos ---
Dark Depths
Splinter Twin / Kiki Jiki
Copycat Combo
Mindslaver Combo
Displacer Kitten Combo

When you draft X, you also get Y in your pool after the draft!
X -> Y

Gitrog Monster -> Crucible of worlds
Birthing Pod -> Birthing Pod
Braids -> Smallpox
Urza -> The Mightstone and Weakstone
Niv-Mizzet Reborn -> Timeless Lotus
Heartbeat of Spring -> Mana Flare
Golos -> Cascading cataracts
Thousand-year Storm -> Pyretic Ritual
Orcish Lumberjack -> Orcish Lumberjack
Thought Monitor -> Thought Monitor
Mindslaver -> Academy Ruins
Sai, Master Thopterist -> Mox Amber
Splinter Twin -> Splinter Twin
Forbidden Orchard -> Forbidden Orchard
Trash for Treasure -> Mishra's Research Desk
Tangle Wire -> Sphere of Resistance
Omnath -> Fabled Passage
Armageddon -> Flagstones of Trokair
Oswald Fiddlebender -> Lightning Greaves
Ephemerate -> Ephemerate
monastery mentor -> monastery mentor
Lotus Field -> Lotus Field
Trinket Mage -> Treasure Mage
Torrential Gearhulk -> Magma Opus
Wildfire -> Wildfire
Krak-klan Ironworks -> Scrap Trawler
Mystic Forge -> Ichor Welspring
Myr retriever -> Myr retriever

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