Recent content by ravnic

Dawning Archaic I just realized that this is a cooler, colorless version of Sailor's Bane. Probably slightly worse in my cube actually, because it has no removal protection build in, but still worth the swap I think.

I'm convinced. Tbh, Venser actually seems like a perfect example of cards I love cubing with: clean textbox, despite it's simplicity though it's flexible and skill testing; it has weak stats and is somewhat old school. Weird that I never even thought of trying him.

Maybe Venser is what I want, actually. Bouncing a spell makes it feel much more like a 2-for-1. Can anyone here elaborate what play patterns make Venser, Shaper Savant a great cube card? I've actually never have cast him in my entire life, for some reason.

Much more relatable now! I personally reduced my Cube Cobra bot-drafting a little bit. I once went through a period of serious over-design. Often I was adding cards and then cutting them again without ever giving them a chance in the draft. Sometimes I had three cards in the same slot in...

I'll never understand how you can make all these cuts with dozens of changes every release :p

Pretty cool shit. https://cubecobra.com/cube/deck/4621ee6c-e16c-42f9-b0a1-afa75b2bfd63

Wait, that post is from 2014? ... how long have I been registered here?

Even though this isn't for me, more "noncreature spells matter" cards are a welcome sight.

I don't think I'll be casting 10-drops in an environment with 4-drops that pushed.

Cube Open Potsdam, Draft 2 This happened on sunday morning. I was drafting a really cool cube build around Death's Shadow in the other room, so I can't say too much on how this draft played out. 1. {B}{G} Midrange 3-0 (6-0) Ones 1 dryad militant 1 elvish reclaimer 1 disfigure Twos 1 Tough...

Meh, would use it as a proxy for Mind Stone if necessary.

I really like the idea for this cube to take ramp away from green and move it to colorless mostly. You could also consider just having a really huge colorless section and have the colored sections relatively small. Maybe that would work out? What I wouldn't pay too much attention to, at least...

Hmm, I don't think more expensive bounce is what I need here. Essentially I am looking for a card that helps to make mono blue and green/blue fit against creature-based decks. I do have a relatively strong counterspell suite as well as two stealing effects in blue in Welcome to the Fold and...

Unable to Scream Floodpits Drowner Blue interaction that's not a counterspell/bounce/stealing. Both feel almost too good for blue? I am usually not too conservative, but I believe blue should be bad at andwering resolved threats. Maybe I should just go back to Eaten by Piranhas? I like how the...

Cube Open Potsdam, Draft 1 this was firing on saturday morning and I participated myself. 1. Mono {R} Goblin Aggro 3-0 (6-2) Ones 1 soul-scar mage 1 tattermunge Maniac 1 monastery swiftspear 1 frenzied Goblin 1 figure of Destiny 1 Mogg raider 1 firebolt Twos 1 sparksmith 1 dark-dweller Oracle...