Brett's Cube

Suicufnoc · Jan 29, 2015

Ignore this whole thing, its wwaaaaayyyy out of date.

Ez time to pozt my cube list.

Some random facts:
Unpowered
Even more unpowered
But not that unpowerful
Multiples
Custom Cards
360ish

Some themes/subthemes I support or am attempting to or something:
Spells Matter - URwb
Sacrificing - RBw
Lands(fall,sac,etc)-GRW
Incidental lifegain-WBg
Blink
+1/+1 counters
Pod

Random Things I like:
Flashback
Alternate Costs(kicker, evoke...)
Life Payment
Cycling
Scry
Hybrids

Things I will not try:
Infect
Mill
Miracles
Morph/Manifest
Protection
Storm
Threshold? (maybe some custom variant, though)

Red
White
Black
Green
Blue
Colorless
Lands

Undiscovered Paradise
Cavern of Souls
Unexpected Potential
Worldknit
Mutavault
Custom: Weeping Willows
Custom: Brass Cave
Gemstone Mine
City of Brass
Wasteland
Wasteland
Wasteland
Wasteland
2x each Shockland
2x each Fetchland
Custom: 5 single-type man-fetches

Multicolor

Grillo_Parlante · Jan 29, 2015

How fast is your format? I've always assumed that genesis was more suited for slower, more grindy formats.

Suicufnoc · Jan 29, 2015

It's pretty fast but you can get to the late game. Genesis isn't an all-star or anything, but he was at least fine last time around.

Suicufnoc · Nov 2, 2019

Notes on archetypes/little combos/themes/whatever. Working on rebuilding and putting on CubeCobra after stealing some stuff for constructed again... Figuring out what I need to proxy.
Not every card pictured is something I'm gonna run.

Lands
Primary Colors: G
Secondary Colors: RW
Tertiary Colors: B

Key Lands:

Running: 2x All Fetchlands

Threats (Besides Manlands):

Not Running: Molten Vortex, Goblin Trenches

Tutors:

Not Running: Sylvan Scrying, Crop Rotation, Scapeshift

Land Recursion:

Running: 2x Life From The Loam, Ramunap Excavator, Crucible of Worlds, Wrenn and Six, Titania, Protector of Argoth

Other Relevant Cards:

Friendly Reminder not to run Zuran Orb alongside Titania, Protector of Argoth
Not Running: Zuran Orb

Wildfire
Primary Colors: R
Secondary Colors:
Tertiary Colors:

Sweepers:

Running: 2x Wildfire
Not Running: Blasphemous Act

Mana Rocks:

Creatures:

Planeswalkers:

Not Running: Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Koth of the Hammer

Blink
Primary Colors: UW
Secondary Colors: GRB
Tertiary Colors:

Blinkers:

Targets:

Top of Library
Primary Colors: U
Secondary Colors: GRB
Tertiary Colors:

Putters:

Users:

Shufflers:

Fair Tinker + Artifacts
Primary Colors: UR
Secondary Colors: B
Tertiary Colors:

Cheaters:

Targets:

Fodder:

Incidental Artifacts:

Spells Matter
Primary Colors: URW
Secondary Colors:B
Tertiary Colors:

Trigger Cards:

Running:

Spell Recursion:

Spell Tutors:

Multi-Use Spells:

Aristocrats
Primary Colors: BR
Secondary Colors: W

Tertiary Colors:

Sac Outles:

Fodder:

Triggers:

Reanimator
Primary Colors: BWU
Secondary Colors: GR

Tertiary Colors:

Reanimation:

Discard:

Hellbent/Madness
Primary Colors: BR
Secondary Colors: U

Cards:

Suicufnoc · Nov 3, 2019

Made some progress on CubeCobra: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/brettscube

One interesting thing/concern:
I started out working with the list of cards above. Those themes left me with about twice as many red cards as other colors. I guess red is the new blue? Anyways, I may need to put some though into more concrete themes for the other colors. Or maybe not.

Just put in Eidolon of Blossoms, but Beast Whisperer is also in, and makes Eidolon look pretty silly. One of these isn't of appropriate power level, and that's probably Eidolon, though my power level isn't set in stone yet.

Need to decide exactly what Tinker targets are okay. Right now the only real target is Duplicant, which is probably too good. Considering some of the Gearhulks. I think I'll go that direction before either cutting Tinker or cutting all the good targets.

White board wipes at 5 mana. Supreme Verdict at 4, though that may get cut for being too boring a gold card.
Red burn looks something like this (not necessarily running all of these):
1 Mana Instant: Burst Lighting
1 Mana Sorcery: Pillar of Flame, Firebolt
2 Mana Instant: Magma Jet, Abrade
2 Mana Sorcery: Volcanic Hammer, Mizzium Mortars
3 Mana Instant: Fiery Temper, Blast from the Past
3 Mana Sorcery: Collective Defiance

Reasonably happy with the relative power levels there, but we'll see how that works for the environment. Right now Red looks really good at killing 2 toughness creatures, and not great at killing 3+.

Path to Exile is probably the best removal in the cube, but I love path...

Suicufnoc · Nov 26, 2019

Didn't have nearly enough red 2 drops, they now look like this:

Not thrilled with green threes, wan't the section be more aggressive to follow up a t1 dork:

TrainmasterGT · Dec 21, 2019

If you're looking for aggressive green 3s to follow up a t1 dork, I can see the following being good:

Just to name a few.

Suicufnoc · Dec 23, 2019

I should probably try Serpapod, it's just so boring... I like Boon Satyr. Jadelight Ranger I kind disliked when I first saw it, but it was more fun to play in standard than I expected, so maybe. I'd like Lovestruck Beast more if all my mana dorks were 1/1s, which I guess could happen...

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