I was hoping to make proliferate one of my main themes. It sucks that there are only 14 total proliferate cards. I see multiple Contagion Clasps in my future...
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- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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It doesn't take too much to make a theme felt. For example, the average SOM draft only had 7.8 cards with the word "Proliferate" on them. Wizards uses their mechanics far more sparingly than we perceive. A little bit goes a long way.
That's a good point. Assuming I want to hit a density slightly higher than that (say, a little over 1 proliferate card per drafter), I'd need about 10 proliferate cards in my 360 cube. That seems really doable.
Maybe:
2 Contagion clasp
1 Tezzeret's Gambit
1 Grim Affliction
1 Spread the Sickness
1 Plaguemaw Beast
1 Thrummingbird
1 Inexorable Tide
1 Viral Drake
1 Volt Charge
Yeah, you were right. That was really easy
I could easily add a couple more from the list.
Maybe:
2 Contagion clasp
1 Tezzeret's Gambit
1 Grim Affliction
1 Spread the Sickness
1 Plaguemaw Beast
1 Thrummingbird
1 Inexorable Tide
1 Viral Drake
1 Volt Charge
Yeah, you were right. That was really easy
I could easily add a couple more from the list.
I love this thread, but it's smack dab in exam season and all my regulars are tied up at the moment.
This deck looks awesome Chris. I always liked Sewer Nemesis, and I just don't have room for him at the moment. Liliana + Deep Analysis is pretty awesome.
This deck looks awesome Chris. I always liked Sewer Nemesis, and I just don't have room for him at the moment. Liliana + Deep Analysis is pretty awesome.
I have no idea how to add cards that aren't in my collection in the MTGO beta client, so you guys get a big ol' list instead.
Creatures (15)
1 Goblin Guide
1 Intimidator Initiate
1 Rakdos Cackler
1 Spikeshot Elder
1 Stromkirk Noble
1 Dark Confidant
1 Kargan Dragonlord
1 Keldon Marauders
1 Plated Geopede
1 Oona's Prowler
1 Stormblood Berserker
1 Boggart Ram-Gang
1 Manic Vandal
1 Avalanche Rider
1 Falkenrath Aristocrat
Spells (8)
1 Adventuring Gear
1 Burst Lightning
1 Arc Trail
1 Incinerate
1 Searing Blaze
1 Stone Rain
1 Flame Javelin
1 Earthquake
Lands (17)
2 Blood Crypt
1 Mutavault
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Teetering Peaks
1 Wooded Foothills
9 Mountain
2 Swamp
EDIT: Super belated edit, to test out new cubedeck tags!
Creatures (15)
1 Goblin Guide
1 Intimidator Initiate
1 Rakdos Cackler
1 Spikeshot Elder
1 Stromkirk Noble
1 Dark Confidant
1 Kargan Dragonlord
1 Keldon Marauders
1 Plated Geopede
1 Oona's Prowler
1 Stormblood Berserker
1 Boggart Ram-Gang
1 Manic Vandal
1 Avalanche Rider
1 Falkenrath Aristocrat
Spells (8)
1 Adventuring Gear
1 Burst Lightning
1 Arc Trail
1 Incinerate
1 Searing Blaze
1 Stone Rain
1 Flame Javelin
1 Earthquake
Lands (17)
2 Blood Crypt
1 Mutavault
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Teetering Peaks
1 Wooded Foothills
9 Mountain
2 Swamp
EDIT: Super belated edit, to test out new cubedeck tags!
Rakdos Deck Wins
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Adventuring Gear is baller. Especially with Double Strikers and 20 fetchlands. But really, getting +2/+2 off of a single landfall trigger is often significantly better than Bonesplitter's +2/+0. The extra toughness enables creatures to win battles instead of trading.
Not to heap more unnecessary praise on the land utility idea, but I found that with nearly mono red decks like the one above, I was always tempted to shave my land count to 16 and sometimes even 15, because flooding with a bunch of 1/1 dorks on the table is just so bad. But when I can pick up useful lands like Tectonic Edge and Teetering Peeks between packs, I'm much more amenable to running the full 17. This has the wonderful side effects of smoothing out my mana, and increasing the value of landfall cards, particularly Geopede and the aforementioned Adventuring Gear. It harkens back to Zendikar-era standard, when people would debate whether it was correct to run 25 or 26 (!!) lands in their Boros landfall aggro decks.
Dom Harvey
Contributor
Other fun equipment: Sigil of Distinction, Basilisk Collar, Mask of Riddles/Memory, Runechanter's Pike, Bonehoard
CML
Contributor
yep, it was boros aggro in ZEN-SOM standard that i ran the gear. hawks n mystics before hawks n mystics were cool!
dom: i've found nobody wanted to play sigil or the masks, though i had em in for weeks and weeks. collar has always been pretty popular, ditto pike and bonehoard (especially with the graveyard theme)
dom: i've found nobody wanted to play sigil or the masks, though i had em in for weeks and weeks. collar has always been pretty popular, ditto pike and bonehoard (especially with the graveyard theme)
Basilisk Collar is a fun one. I still have fond memories of a "Sparkblade" deck I made before SparkBlade existed that grabbed Basilisk Collar with Trinket Mage and paired it with Cunning Sparkmage / Inferno Titan.
Agent is as ridiculous as you would expect. Look at the targets. There are so many Legacy-quality cards to hit. Main thing is to hold the Agent if they have an empty board, lest you cascade into a kill spell.
Lotus Cobra is pretty good even without fetches. It fixes your mana and accelerates, all without tapping. Any land drop will let you play T3 4-drops, which is a pretty important tempo boost. Lotus Cobra was probably the best 2-drop in that deck.
CML
Contributor
i know, that's why i typically run 3-5 fewer than the other colors (and far fewer gold cards in U). sweet deck though, drafted by the finest legacy player in WA -- i love having over people who push the boundaries of cube on one hand. on the other i guess i just like losing to my dad
edit: i appreciate the naya deck a lot more
edit: i appreciate the naya deck a lot more
