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  1. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    I'm not really a big thirst for knowledge fan in cube. With a 30 card artifact section at 360 I've had consistency issues with it. 'goyf seems like a good test subject for this experiment: an already good card, that would greatly benefit from an increase in graveyard velocity rates.
  2. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets [OGW] Oath of the Gatewatch Spoiler Thread

    fangren marauder We don't really have lifegain as a strategy here, but occasionally we have someone draft up one of the artifact decks and drop this dude into it. The results are always spectacular.
  3. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    Augur of Bolas actually reads "look at the bottom three cards of your library." I hate that card so much.
  4. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    Power disparities can be pretty significant. For example, when the "gather the pack" deck gets matched up against the brainstorm deck, its going to be a big deal, especially if both decks are on a control or midrange plan. The gather the pack deck is going to have a hard time not looking like an...
  5. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    It is functionally different though, in the absence of the ability to recur from the yard: you lose the ability to ever play it. I understand the argument, but its not uncommon to base entire lines of play around potential top decks, especially when you are behind. Removing the potential to draw...
  6. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    In a singleton based format, where you may find yourself playing towards certain top decks to win, losing the ability to make those top decks can be a real cost, and thats the issue I've found certain drafters run into when they don't have recursive or reanimation options. Now whether thats...
  7. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    Let us dog pile the grave pulses a little bit more, for the fun of it. I kind of suspect the grave pulses were generally kind of a limited focused design, where drafters would initially evaluate them as green impulses (strategic planning though is probably the better analogy), they would be...
  8. Grillo_Parlante

    Card/Deck How to execute a minimalist Enchantment theme

    I'm kind of surprised by that as well; I also thought that Eidolon of countless battles would do better: white sections tend to bulk up easily with enchantment based removal.
  9. Grillo_Parlante

    Card/Deck How to execute a minimalist Enchantment theme

    Isn't eidolon just unplayable on its own? Wouldn't it be better to just not run it and go x2 doomwake.
  10. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    About the green graveyard impulses: 1. If impulse itself is too weak in your cube, filling your green section with narrow versions of it is probably questionable. 2. The problem with the creature/enchantment gravepulses is that spending your turn 2 to find a creature/enchantment that you can't...
  11. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    Sorry if I'm coming across as dismissive, I am not trying to. I run incidental graveyard support, and am just relaying some of my own experiences with the theme. If its done too heavy handed, it will feel too low power, and too far removed from what the rest of the cube is looking to do...
  12. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    A lot of the original graveyard design was supposed to revolve around different ways to generate card advantage, while more recently its been shifting to more tempo based offerings (delve). Its important not to mix the two up, especially if the format isn't about card advantage. Like lucre said...
  13. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    It really isn't even worth the test. The only cards of those type somewhat worth running cost 2, are mono colored, and find you lands: something a non-graveyard deck is going to maybe be tempted into to smooth out its draws (and I still think you want the body) Everything else is too narrow...
  14. Grillo_Parlante

    General Minor Graveyard Support

    I've done this theme to death. If you are running it incidentally I don't think you should run any of the narrow enablers, especially at 360. Thought scour, drown in filth, commune: all too narrow. The more spell velocity focused your format is the less desirable it is to cast 2-3 mana "do...
  15. Grillo_Parlante

    Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

    STE is great. You can also use him to get a body into the yard to fuel delve or other graveyard strategies in G/B/x decks.
  16. Grillo_Parlante

    General [Design Discussion] Perfect Imbalance

    There is no way I could run that lol. I was just thinking of highly pushed cards that still have a synergy component. For the Penny cube, the card would be: kessig cagebreakers Thats pretty much my philosophy on what a bomb should be: super powerful effect, still beatable, but requires...
  17. Grillo_Parlante

    General [Design Discussion] Perfect Imbalance

    I'll echo alfonso that there is a player demographic aspect to it. Most of my drafters are not very good at the game, just playing it casually, and not all of them approach a draft from the perspective of drafting to win. I have one drafter in particular who will look over a pack, see a card...
  18. Grillo_Parlante

    General [Design Discussion] Perfect Imbalance

    Could you tell more? Is there no general demand/not practical to run a 6cc black finisher in midrange or control?
  19. Grillo_Parlante

    General [Design Discussion] Perfect Imbalance

    I think its a question of degrees. You want to have people thinking of how their deck's strategy is going to be coming together during the draft, not just lazily stringing strongest cards in the pack together (not saying that happens in your format Jason). You also don't want your cube to feel...
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