Recent content by akj

Ah, you don't come to Riptide for anything less! You're absolutely right - there are some very powerful cards in here and some much more underpowered stuff. I'm at least gratified that they're in 3 colours! You picked out three built-in 2-for-1s. In the past I have taken them out as overly...

Thanks so much for the feedback and encouragement! Creature heavy is the nature of starting out, but I do see your point. I haven't managed to fit in another noncreature spell in blue *but* you're right about the timing restrictions - I've swapped out an essence scatter for another disperse...

Hello again! Over the past few years I've been working on a pile of 180 cards for teaching beginners. I’ve been playing Magic for donkey’s years now, and my favourite thing has always been teaching new people to play. I started with five ‘beginner decks’, which was fine, but I love limited and...

Loads of changes. I've tried to rebalance the colours, the number of creatures, removed the troll cards, and swapped an archetype out altogether. I've also updated the front page, giving a rundown of the cube and some vital statistics. I have unashamedly stolen some cards from the Penny Pincher...

Mm, we're up to 360 now, which I should have added to page 1. Average CMC is 2.88, so we're roughly in the right place I think, I was quite careful at the start to try to keep the curves in hand.

Blimey, RaBM - thank you so much, that's super helpful. Let me try and assess, sort out the mistakes you've correctly spotted, and I'll do a proper write up when I'm done (and update the front page...)

Anyone had any success with the Awaken in a cube? E.g. in my current cube, which explicitly supports +1/+1 counters in blue and green, could do something like this. Chasm Skulker -> Cyclone Sire Simic Fluxmage -> Rush of Ice Academy Elite -> Coastal Discovery Stoic Rebuttal -> Scatter to the...

All I could think of is Steel Overseer, which might be OTT with the splicers. Will keep looking.

Thanks Sigh - switched back the Eidolon and added Ashnod's Transmogrant (!) to support both artifacts and +1 counters.

Hello, and thanks for all the feedback so far. I'll be filling in some gaps in the collection on Sunday, so working through some final changes before then. Lots of updates! OUT Gruul CharmMistfire Adept Rakdos Charm Baloth Null Rakdos Carnarium Simic Growth Chamber Evacuation Codex...

Cheers Rasmus. I'll do the maths on removal as suggested. It's certainly helpful pulling decks together. A few are working nicely, others less so. As pointed out by... Thanks Grillo, you're absolutely right. Here's the latest change list based on more Riptide Lab reading. Cutting some blue...

Hi Rasmus - thanks for looking - I bookmarked your cube for inspiration earlier this week. Yes, I wanted a multicolour theme, pushing it with signets and lands. I've made a few more changes this afternoon. Current issues I think are; 1. Blue is slightly too creature-heavy. 2. I think I'm...

Thanks - I thought it might be handy if the first five turns aren't quite enough to finish them off, but maybe just nub drafting skills. I think I'm going to go up to 360, take some inspiration from the Sigh cube, then put the thing together and test it. Thanks again for all your help - read...

Thanks Sigh (I drafted your cube, really really good), and thanks Kirblinx and Grillo for drafting the cube. Here are the first set of changes. Nightscape Familiar -> Ruin Raider (Narrowing to support suicide aggro) Undying Evil -> Graveblade Marauder (Narrowing to support Dredge/Delve)...

Guys, thank you so much for replying and for drafting the cube. Having posted it I then realised I'd done exactly what I wasn't supposed to do which is 'here's a cube, here are some archetypes, what do you think?', so I'm keen to remedy that. First things first, combat. I love good combat...