A Johnny's Pridemate

Literally if it was templated quench w/kicker (3): make a 2/2 flying spirit token, way more people would be on it.

I know most people skipped the cowboy set, but having a strictly better quench is pretty good in Pauper Mono-U Terror!

The historian needs the library?

What a nerd, lol

Lots of cool changes, but Scryfall drag & drop is peak!!!

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CubeCobra UI refresh looks sick!
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These PT top 8 decklists give me hope

Topics on the horizon include mill, scry, flying, destroy, and exile

Just put out the fifth of these, and have another four picked out for the rest of the month (easy part of going through the evergreens first).

(Also, I just realized that they were not saving properly, so a bunch of previously not free ones should be free now)

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Me looking at the various decks of the #PTECL:

Immediately got my ass kicked in premiere draft after posting this (2-3 on Kithkin)

Haste And the bass keeps running and running and running, running, running...

Let's get it started in here:
ajohnnyspridemate.substack.com/p/haste

Out: BREAD drafting
In: It's about drive, it's about power

The deck from last night

Also, Sunderflock is a very good magic card lmao.

Y'all ever go 2-1 in retail draft by forcing 5c aggro? Because I did tonight, and hell yeah.

Note to self: cut a few fetches for other basics/better duals, surgical extraction is fine, but duress might even be a better stand in for thoughtseize, golgari charm is fine but a better sweeper is needed, Rise is funny but doesn't need 2x

I forgot icetill explorer was a castable card when I'm playing ramp lol. Really need more wildcards for exploration tho

It's so bad lmao

Brewing some haut garbage on Arena timeless rn. One part Insidious Roots, one part aristocrats, one part striplock lmao

This is a midrange build of it that's pretty different from the faster aggro variant you usually see on Arena Bo1. Check it out!

Standard Deck Tech: Bo3 Mono White Lifegain Time to make your opponents "Respect Your Authority"

Oh, hey, look, I did a deck tech on Standard Mono White Lifegain because people don't believe I 2-1 at FNM with it regularly:
ajohnnyspridemate.substack.com/p/standard-d...

YouTube video by Joseph van den Berg A sassy chat about color balance in cube

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Tl;dw color balance in #mtgcube really doesn't matter and you can just kinda do whatever

I can't lie, that's a fun one too. Snowballs really well for a 2-drop!

For me, it's Maze of Ith, because that is a ridiculous card lmao.

Click the link to P1P1, if you so choose:
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Pushed a late-night cube update: cubecobra.com/cube/blog/bl...

Love using the data to build a cube, would be very cool if I was smart enough to build a system to do that on a broader scale/integrate it to a large population of players.

Not a lot of shockers. 1 drops like Path to Exile, Llanowar Elves, Sol Ring all at or near the top of cards that have appeared in multiple drafts (ELO biases 1-draft wonders over consistent hitters). But lots of strong faves in midrange/control like Torrential Gearhulk, OG Garruk, Gift of Paradise

Cube Data

Haven't worked on this in a minute for various reasons, but I decided to dig back into the data analysis side of the SABRCube, and recalculated ELO values for all the cards: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

P1P1 LA: As a designer P1P1 LA: As a designer In tyotl 2026, we are blessed enough as a cube community to have an ever-increasing breadth of cube events to attend to. I am fortunate enough to be based in a fairly large cube...

Wrote about my experiences at P1P1 LA as a designer!

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