Eric, tell us what's up.
Card/Deck Humans
- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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I dunno, there's not much to this theme. A few months back, I started writing a long primer for this exact topic, before I realized it basically came down to the three mainstays that CML already covered. Optionally, if you want an enabler:
You probably already have a bunch of incidental humans, especially in white. Some notable off-colour ones:
You probably already have a bunch of incidental humans, especially in white. Some notable off-colour ones:
Write more about incidental human support people. I need to see what the options are. And only if the stuff is playable in an attacking deck. Trinket Mage is already pretty iffers.
How many of each "humans matter" card do you run? I'm thinking of making a package for humans that overrides Lynxes with Champions and guarantees humans in lots of other slots.
I run three Champions, and one of each of the other cards. But I could see making a case for doubling up on Mayor and Xathrid Necromancer. They're both solid cards even without amassing a bevy of humans. I've seen Mayor churn out a crapton of werewolves on his backside, and the Necromancer is a poor man's Kitchen Finks even by his lonesome.
I also run double Experiment One, but he's just incidentally a human.
I also run double Experiment One, but he's just incidentally a human.
xXathrid Necromancer
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FlowerSunRain
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Bonds of Faith with human support becomes a giant strength//pacifism split card. I'm not cure if anyone is interested in having such a card, but its pretty neat to get two "couldn't be any more different" effects on the same card.
Chris Taylor
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You know, I keep wanting to try that card.
Most of my double strike creatures are humans...
Dom Harvey
Contributor
There's a lot of overlap between battalion/battle cry/'horizontal pump' cards and human token makers:
CML
Contributor
i like the bonds of faith idea
do keep in mind that my cube naturally has 51 humans, which is 3-4 times the size of any other tribe with explicit support. ergo the search is not for playable humans but for human enablers, of which there appear to be ... those three.
as we've discussed recently i'm reluctant to break singleton unless cards are both super-awesome and work poorly as one-ofs (or are cantrips), so here i don't see any need to double up.
i'm sure i've run these searches before but
http://magiccards.info/query?q=o:human&s=cname&v=card
do keep in mind that my cube naturally has 51 humans, which is 3-4 times the size of any other tribe with explicit support. ergo the search is not for playable humans but for human enablers, of which there appear to be ... those three.
as we've discussed recently i'm reluctant to break singleton unless cards are both super-awesome and work poorly as one-ofs (or are cantrips), so here i don't see any need to double up.
i'm sure i've run these searches before but
http://magiccards.info/query?q=o:human&s=cname&v=card
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I wish there were more retroactively humanized amplify creatures. Daru Stinger is kinda awesome except for the fact that it comes down after nearly all other humans in the cube.
CML
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the Human theme is one of my proudest Cube design innovations because it's so simple and obvious, like a swan's melody turning into a symphony
really though i think far more successful themes are like this than they're like Zombies
I like that it halfway works with zombie decks. It's also nice that boros decks have a bunch of extra things that proc from time to time. Little cutie interactions coming up have a similar appeal to rolling die in games. Density of champions is kind of a thing that feels weird for the player considering weenie decks and you start hating cards for being a Kor etc.
This is a dumb card, right?
I don't hate it, honestly. His niche is an extremely powerful one, and 3 power is nothing to scoff at.
Unfortunately he dies to everything. Every 4-drop can't be resto angel.
Unfortunately he dies to everything. Every 4-drop can't be resto angel.
FlowerSunRain
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Consequences: Vomit