Dear Thrill of the Hunt, 

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I love you man. You helped me win my second Cube Invitational when the top 4 draft was a silent auction draft with my Pauper Cube (which evolved into my Duplicate Sealed Cube). I drafted a low to the ground Green and White deck and you were one of the all stars of that deck. I freaking love combat tricks, and you are one of my favourite combat tricks. 

To be fair, you have won a high level constructed event: Grand Prix Montreal in 2007. In a Green and White aggro deck in the Block Constructed format. A constructed environment where a combat trick is actually good, sounds like a great environment to me. That is why I personally didn’t get the problem with Monstrous Rage. When a combat trick is one of the best performing cards in your constructed environment, sounds like a dream to me. Same reason why I personally don’t have a problem with Echoing Boon in the 100 Ornithopters Cube. Any card that makes combat tricks good enough in a cube, is a card I love to see (I do think it is completely valid that Andy cut it from the cube from a stifling design restriction). 

I used to not like regular limited because I didn’t like playing with the Grizzly Bears and Hill Giants of this world. That is what drew me to cube, a limited format without bad cards. But I don’t like power maxed limited environments either, too much variance for my taste. Plus in those environments combat tricks are never a thing. And this is what cube has to offer me, that amazing in between space where I get to create the type of limited that I love to play. No bad cards, but combat tricks a plenty. I have created 14 cubes with at least one combat trick in them. I love each and every one of those combat tricks. 

And I love playing with you Thrill of the Hunt, and I know we will be seeing a lot more of each other in the future. 

With love, 

Hanjo