Recent content by Alphez

Have you considered Mazemind Tome for this slot? I guess the use of counters makes it a no for your list, but I've been very impressed playing with the card on Arena. It has an 'expiry date' and you actually need to invest mana to get card advantage, so it feels balanced. It's probably a bit...

Some cards I like to support Ninja decks: Mentor of the Meek Gryff's Boon Departed Deckhand Warkite Marauder Whirler Rogue Orc Sureshot Demonic Embrace Outpost Siege Manifold Key I like Orc Sureshot and Outpost Siege because they can mess with combat math. In some scenarios you can attack...

I tried a couple drafts, and I liked the list very much! I too am a big fan of simplicity, so I appreciate what you are trying to accomplish. It's funny how difficult it is to make things look simple :D I think you have a very solid list, and I like many of your choices. The biggest issue I...

Hey everyone! I haven't posted in a while, so I thought it would be nice to document the changes I made in these past few months. These have been entirely theoretical, based solely on my own goldfishing, for obvious reasons. So I'd love to have other users' perspectives, which so often helped...

I like the way Arena handles this. You first choose a packet among 3 possible options. You then choose a second packet among 3 new options. This system is simple and good enough to make sure players end up having a playable deck, without giving them full control. I also like that some themes...

A tiny update after some more goldfishing, mainly intended to address the following: - I realised that my support of artifact decks was quite... heavy handed. Artifacts/colourless cards basically amounted to a 6th colour. By this I mean that, in the average booster, you would find the same...

Hmmm, good points. Sundering Shaman is mostly meant to be a plant for Wildfire decks, since it can be played early and survive the board wipe. I like it being multicolour, as you can generally afford to prioritise ramp and removal, and pick up your fatty later. I think Wildfire decks need this...

Thanks, that's an interesting card indeed! It could also work well with the sac outlets I run due to Aristocrats/Prison, and now the Evoke creatures.

Thanks! I think I'll give Watchers of the Dead a try. It's not the most exciting card ever, but it can do a number of useful things in my list. I think it could see play! Crashing Drawbridge also seems cool, it could see play in both aggro and control. I'll keep this one in mind, too :)

Yeah, I think I'll go ahead and add the 2 lands. But making cuts in the mono-coloured sections is getting increasingly difficult. Thopter is... a filler, honestly. I wanted to add another artifact creature that could look interesting to aggro decks, without forcing a player into running...

So, I thought about it and decided to add Evoke creatures. The amount of keywords is definitely approaching the higher limit of what I had in mind for this Cube. But I think it still feels like a curated environment, and hopefully one that does not feel too overwhelming for newer players. This...

My Cube at the time also had graveyard, Aristocrats/Stax and Prowess as archetypes. That's why I, too, expected Stars etc. to be in high demand. But that hasn't been the case. I guess that can be playgroup-dependent.

I would advise against running cards like Chromatic Star & friends. Unless your Cube is extremely low power level (which is not the case), these tend to wheel a lot. Almost every other on-colour card is more appealing to the average drafter, and - at least in my play group - people would rather...

Emry, Lurker of the Loch is also spectacular. I opened one at the prerelease and played it in my deck, along a Scalding Cauldron and (IIRC) a Golden Egg. That's really all you need to make Emry very good. Chances are that a Cube with artifact support already plays a number of Spellbombs. Add a...

Overseer of the Damned isn't half bad, either. The body is not amazing, but it does something upon ETB (which I think is much needed for a reanimator target, so you get some value out of your investment even if the fatty gets removed immediately). The token ability also helps stabilise the...