General Fight Club
- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
This one also looks fun.
I've been trying to figure out more ways to jam in food as part of a cross-synergy between my bourgeoning life gain sub theme and my trinkets subtheme that my beloved Stridehangar Automaton sent into overdrive earlier this year. I recognize that I'm going too deep on this, but I want to take it to its practical extreme because it's an interesting direction for my Cube now that I've de-powered my list quite a bit.
I've always had a good amount of artifact creatures relative to most of us, but Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade works great across different decks (and is a fine beater on her own a la my first true love Phyrexian Ironfoot) but Aloy, Savior of Meridian works on a completely different vertical while still wanting many of the same cards.
I am also enjoying other favorite cards get better with the rise of trinkets like Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender, Rosie Cotton of South Lane, Legion Extruder, and Karn, Scion of Urza. I finally can justify my boy Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge. Even Umbral Collar Zealot has improved since its recent inclusion, and Biotech Specialist feels uncuttable even if he ends up making a unique token as a novel alternative win condition.
Going even deeper into food, I've been trying out Bumi's Feast Lecture and Campsite Cuisine. This is where I think it's actually a stretch, but I kind of like them. Trying to figure out how to best support them and I came up with these. Do they make sense?
Icing Manipulator was one I played for a single Cube when it came out because I was so fascinated by it but...I don't remember! I don't know if anyone played it or had any questions or even if it made it into the pool. It's exactly what I want conceptually, and the cross-synergies with all the +1/+1 counters running around promises really cool deck construction and play patterns. But it's super confusing!! Maybe? I can't really tell. At least the +1/+1 counters really only need to tap when they die.
Meriadoc Brandybuck has been in Cube before. I only run a handful of hobbits, but my bigger concern is that people will think it's a bigger part of my Cube than it is if I have a on-its-face hobbits-matter card. It's not great, either, but I think that's OK. I think I want it more than Spider-Pig.
Gourmand's Talent solves the problem a la Icing Manipulator, and also contributes to the larger life gain thing, but it also adds another unique token and...I'm not sure people will actually want to play it? I will, but I'm curious if this seems appealing enough at my power level.
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Is he a joke to you??? This guy is weird, but will play well especially with a small life gain subtheme.
Thought you were on the Talent, not anymore I guess. These two can mill people out real quick if you are generating a lot of fodder!
Tap down your foods, not your mana.
I really like Bumi's Feast Lecture, I say go for it! At worse a bear with counter and land synergies. At best who knows!
Campsite Cuisine should also be pretty good with your legendary theme.
