Mirage Rath themed cube

Chris Taylor · Jul 22, 2014

Its looking like there are a few auras to speak of, so winds of rath could be okay

Jesus thoguh, why do all the white ones give +1/+54897265349856432985?

Jonas · Jul 22, 2014

Because this is what white is all about:

I'm looking at other auras at the moment, since there are a few pretty bad in at the moment.

Jonas · Jul 22, 2014

Interesting auras that I have to choose from, and are not yet in the cube:

Chris Taylor · Jul 22, 2014

I like abduction

Jonas · Jul 22, 2014

Abduction seems pretty sweet. I forgot two:

anotak · Jul 22, 2014

i think unstable mutation would be quite strong in your environ

Jonas · Jul 23, 2014

Well, I do need some cards that can finish games.

Chris Taylor · Jul 23, 2014

Maybe another overrun? Elven Cache has to be unplayable...

Jonas · Jul 23, 2014

Surprisingly playable, given how slow the cube is, but another overrun could be a way to close games earlier. I might feel a bit unfair though. Very much worth pondering.

Jonas · Sep 12, 2014

Tiny change, got some cards, and will be taking out the islandhome cards in a future update

Out:

In:

Heavy Ballista does not make for interesting board states, whereas Sidar Jabari encourages attacking. Necratog has a more interesting synergy with cards like skyshroud vampire and vampire hounds. Added the caliph as the first izzet card, izzet will also get a frantic efreet,. None of them are cards that pull you into izzet I guess, but they could be interesting.
Selenia and Crovax are just pure upgrades.

Jonas · Sep 12, 2014

Hm, double carnophage with double or triple sarcomancy could go a good way towards making cheap aggro interesting. What a revolutionary thought!

Jonas · Sep 15, 2014

Finally got to cutting the islandhome trap:

Out:

In:

GG convinced me that I should keep Zombie scavengers, so I'm doing that. Instead of the islandhome trap, I put blue shadows back in, making it a three colour theme. Ertai's familiar fits well with the other phasing douches, and also has some synergy with Living Death, and what other graveyard manipulation I end up putting in.

Jonas · Sep 16, 2014

Adding Mirri's guile, how does doubling up on mirage fetches sound? Or do I need more cards that can take advantage of a shuffle effect?

Grillo_Parlante · Sep 16, 2014

I think those effects are always good, if for no other reason than the library thinning.

Jonas · Sep 17, 2014

Isn't library thinning just a myth anyway? Or is that just in 60 card decks?

Chris Taylor · Sep 17, 2014

Jonas said:
Isn't library thinning just a myth anyway? Or is that just in 60 card decks?

The margins are small. Better in 40 cards, but still real small

Jonas · Sep 17, 2014

I suspected as much.

I've been pondering this thing here for a bit, and I'm conflicted. It plays pretty well, but it's a bit hard to get overlap between the themes, or rather, between the sets. Flanking is just in one of the blocks, and slivers is just in another, same with phasing, shadow, etc. Its not like they can't benefit from cards in the other block, but is that enough? Is it a fools errand? Am I going crazy? Blargh.