General Decks that have 3-0'd your cube

Dom Harvey

Dom Harvey

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Torrent Elemental was a quick 'damn, we have 12 people and I need to add more cards' addition. It's probably bad and it wasn't designed to just be played as a 3/5, but the guy seemed happy with it. Seems cute with Scavenging Ooze/Relic of Progenitus/Deathrite Shaman/Varolz/Grim Lavamancer/Whip of Erebos
 
Lucre

Lucre

It just seemed bad in that deck but what do I know : )
I like your ideas too, it seems better in cube than constructed, if a little slow both ways.
 
Onderzeeboot

Onderzeeboot

Ecstatic Orb
Even without taking advantage of the activated ability, it makes blocking impossible. I bet it's pretty annoying across the table...
 
Lucre

Lucre

omg playing and podding your emissary up into any of those 3 drops sounds like crazy fun peter!
Omg did you ever delve pod into an early atarka?
 
Peter LaCara

Peter LaCara

Lucre said:
omg playing and podding your emissary up into any of those 3 drops sounds like crazy fun peter!
Omg did you ever delve pod into an early atarka?
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Sadly I wasn't the pilot of this one, but I did hear about a Thunderbreak Regent getting podded into a Thundermaw Hellkite the turn after it had been Claustrophobia'd, which sounds hilarious. 1UU Lava Spike yourself? Sure, why not?
 
Meltyman

Meltyman

International TableTop Day and a local cube night is behind us.

Time to post those 3-0's (2 drafts)

Esper Control:










Bant Upheaval










Onderzeeboot said:
I'm curious how aggro will perform with so few one-drops. Let me know, will you?
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In our first draft the aggro player went 2-1, i think he lost his second match to some Splinter Twin combo deck. Splinter twin player won 2 games barely by top decking the combo.
The aggro deck looked like a straight forward RG with bloodbraids and other fast creatures + burn.

In our latter draft mono W aggro was in the finals and lost to Bant.
Mono W player had 2 steppe lynx and an on-color fetch land in his sideboard.
He rather played Hokori, Dust Drinker and Entreat the Angels over them, but otherwise his deck was a full fleshed out monoW-aggro with no fillers.
In our gaming group aggro is passed around often, so even though i have lowered the amount of aggro cards from cube night to cube night, you see those aggro decks do well in every draft, usually because there are only 1-2 players aiming for that archetype.

Myth Realized was amazing.
It finished a lot of games yesterday in both drafts and it also kept those pesky aggro dudes at bay, with low mana investment.
 
Dom Harvey

Dom Harvey

Contributor
Got a 4-man draft in today, and someone built this masterpiece:

5c Sam WTF are you doing aka Bloodstained Mire Bant










Rafiq trampled on my dignity in a number of ways, including T2 STE T3 EOT Advent T4 Rafiq; Advent -> Unflinching Courage -> Rafiq; and Primeval Titan -> Rafiq + bestow Boon Satyr, attack for 22
 
Meltyman

Meltyman

Time for a 3-0 yet again.
Aggro still going strong.. questions were asked if 3 Gravecrawlers is too powerful, i am not sure yet.

Br Aggro:









It also had the new Liliana in the deck:
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safra

safra

How consistently was flip Lily a walker and how often was she a worse Nighthawk? Has Wheel been fun to play? Does it show up outside of combo or aggro? What else in the environment supports it?

(sick deck!)
 
Meltyman

Meltyman

safra said:
How consistently was flip Lily a walker and how often was she a worse Nighthawk? Has Wheel been fun to play? Does it show up outside of combo or aggro? What else in the environment supports it?
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Player who piloted this deck flipped it at least 4 times, because he had so many sacrifice effects. The reason to flip was to mainly net a zombie for gravecrawler, but obviously an added bonus of a planeswalker didn't hurt.
It wasn't broken or powerful, but it was a really interesting card!

Wheel of Fortune is used mainly for storm in my cube, i wouldn't add it otherwise. I know aggro and burn strategies could use it, but i rarely see that.
So, no it doesn't show up too often, it is mainly for storm or big mana strategies.

vennythekid said:
I would imagine Liliana is the nuts in a Pod shell. I can't wait to try it out. Thoughts?
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Go for it, Liliana is a perfect cube card in my opinion. Anti-aggro or a fine aggroish card that also nets you some value with a planeswalker every now and then.
I think black needs more cards like these.


SIDE NOTE: Tymaret was really powerful in this shell, i had my doubts of it, but it really worked hard :D
 
Lucre

Lucre

safra said:
How consistently was flip Lily a walker and how often was she a worse Nighthawk? Has Wheel been fun to play? Does it show up outside of combo or aggro? What else in the environment supports it?

(sick deck!)
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that card seems better than nighthawk in a deck that is already very powerful and good (zombies) and worse than nighthawk in a deck that needs help in many cubes (black control and midranged)
 
Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

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Lucre said:
that card seems better than nighthawk in a deck that is already very powerful and good (zombies) and worse than nighthawk in a deck that needs help in many cubes (black control and midranged)
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Then maybe the zombies deck will finally leave nighthawk for the control players! :p
 
Rasmus Källqvist

Rasmus Källqvist

Did a 6-man with my experiment with 3 copies of a particular one drop for each color (champion, delver, bloodsoaked, stromkirk and experiment one) and pulled out all my sweepers to see if aggro would flourish.

I got a really sweet Bant human-prowess deck and faced of this in the final round, I got pretty decimated:

vampires like red







 
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