General "Looking for a card"-Thread

[Nanonox]

Powerful, inherently fair as a non-trample creature and just plain fun.

I’ve seen this in your cube and drafted some decks that make good use of it.

My issue with it though, is the lack of synergy potential. The ceiling can be high, but when you reach it, your guy is just big. If I ran a Berserker archetype then maybe, but as it stands it doesn’t do enough.

RG stuff not mentioned



Can scale to your environment. Turn 2 Ant Queen might be too much though. High ridk, high reward!



Cool controlling card in Gruul. Big body, enables landfall and discard and can be a win condition late.

 

[ravnic]

Oooh, I keep forgetting about Orcish Lumberjack. I really want to try him, now that I run occasionals. Now I have to reconsider. Living Twister is cool too, but not cool enough for me personally.

 

[TekLazar]

Not a rg card but

lives rent free and is a great occasional. Soul's fire is also fine but... really boring. Kazuul's fury is probably the best if you can deal with double-faced.

 

[Seeker]

we have

now! You can do fun things when your creature has a bigger butt than front! This doesn't do much for RG specifically obviously, but you know, target your Brimaz, King of Oreskos or very small Vivi Ornitier or whatever.

 

[ravnic]

It's nice with ...



Which actually was in a very early iteration of my cube as lower powered Wildfire support

 

[Dom Harvey]

I'm British and have never heard the pig phrase before but I LOVE "every part of the buffalo"

Empirically many of my drafters have coded Rydia as some Saga synergy card rather than a landfall/discard machine which is unfortunate

 

[ravnic]

What is your favorite interaction? I currently only have good ol' Mystic Snake.

I also really like Dreamdew Entrancer, but I found out it was the best card in BLB limited, A+ with the same winrate as Sword of Fire and Ice, so I assume it has to be too strong for my cube.

Aether Mutation is cool, but bounce is worse with all the enters effects we have. Temporal Spring is probably cooler because it can hit noncreatures.

Is there anything decent I am missing?

 

[Nemo]

What is your favorite interaction? I currently only have good ol' Mystic Snake.

I see that you run Scuttling Sentinel as an occasional.

I always enjoyed this during Ravnica block when Simic had plenty of 0/0 creatures:

 

[Seeker]

The og Plaxmanta is still an option, if one that's showing its age by giving actual Shroud.

 

[ravnic]

I see that you run Scuttling Sentinel as an occasional.

I always enjoyed this during Ravnica block when Simic had plenty of 0/0 creatures:

Yeah, that's awesome, I'm running two copies in my RAV block cube to give simic some interaction.

But this is for my main cube where I don't have 0/0s running around :/

The og Plaxmanta is still an option, if one that's showing its age by giving actual Shroud.

Plaxmanta is cool, but what I'd prefer would be something that interacts with opposing threats in some way.

 

[Mown]

Decisive Denial seems like it would be the obvious suggestion.
Frogs had a big etb theme, so Dreamdew Entrancer might be less exploitable in your cube. I haven't drafted Bloomburrow so I wouldn't know, but I figure that would play heavily into its strength.

 

[Seeker]

Maybe? It's a little... thematically doesn't hang together, if that makes sense. But it sure does have modes.


kind of along the same lines but worse at protecting your own idiot

 

[gaytransmulldrifter]

 

[alvoi]

+1 for


Very strong card, but never too powerful. If you want to be fancy, there is also Snakeform. I also liked a lot Incubation // Incongruity in RNA limited. Temporal Spring is one of my favourite cards, but maybe in 2025 it is too slow...

 

[gaytransmulldrifter]

I think Temporal Spring might be able to hang in ravnic-rate-land, although in order to love that card you need to say "oh boy!" instead of "ew gross!" when you realize that it can be half a Plow Under