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  1. Grillo_Parlante

    Aikola's Budget Cube

    The three lotus petals seem like something to keep an eye on. Since they are the only source of fast mana in your cube, i'm guessing they can enable some brutal plays above the power level of the rest of the cube. What those would be I have no idea, but having a monopoly on a cube's fast mana...
  2. Grillo_Parlante

    Card/Deck Mana rocks / Colourless mana fixing

    I've found that when your cube shows some restraints with its other colors, red can be pretty dynamic. It has some good dig options, spot removalburn spells, and mass removal. In most cubes blue overpowers every other color in terms of dig/card advantage, and creatures have high enough...
  3. Grillo_Parlante

    General CBS

    I don't really care for the tactics that gamergate people have used, but at the same time I cannot stand Anita Asarkessian, or the way that game journalism has shifted increasingly towards pushing toxic forms of identity politics. Feminism is fine when it’s about equality, and as gaming...
  4. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    Ok, I drafted three decks, but one of them in particular I wanted to share as I think it showcases some of the higher interactions the cube is capable of, which I am usually terrible at describing. www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/220553[/url]"] Ones 1 Brainstorm 1 Darkblast 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell 1...
  5. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    I've been going over the artifact sections, and I think there is some space there to sort of plug in what you like and experiment a bit. The sports that went to triangle of war, pithing needle, and the two ashnod's altars I feel are all very interchangable. Door to nothingness, I think, is...
  6. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    Living death reared its ugly head last night, and I drafted this combo beauty. Ones 1 Hedron Crab 1 thoughtseize 1 tragic slip Twos 1 Ambush viper 1 Scorned Villager 1 Lim-Dul's Vault 1 Mayor of avabruck 1 altar of dementia 1 mulch 1 wild mongrel 1 gatstaf shepherd Threes 1 yavimaya elder...
  7. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    Test of faith looks super sweet, and I had no idea that card existed. It also looks like a complete beating. I really don't know much about combat tricks, since most cubes traditionally can't run them due to the removal strength.
  8. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    Hmmm....the truth is...I have no idea lol. Here is the thing, I have been running a very similar af/enchantment destruction package for well over a year at this point, across this cube and my old cube. Really, the important thing is having a certain density of those effects: you want to...
  9. Grillo_Parlante

    General How to execute a minimalist Artifact theme

    The thing though is that its not just a question of accelerating you into a top end or mana fixing. Gilded lotus lets you sequence out more plays in a turn, which is a big deal. In fact, it lets you sequence out an additional play the turn that its cast, unlike meteorite which has to kill...
  10. Grillo_Parlante

    General How to execute a minimalist Artifact theme

    This seems a little bit like running an incidental tribal theme (artifact tribe). Usually the way you do that is run some density of <insert tribe> that you want in your cube anyways, and than run a few "lord" cards that are strong on their own. For example, bloodline keeper is a better vampire...
  11. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    Worm Harvest is very strong. It can serve as a win condition, alt. win condition, or a stablizing piece. Because it has retrace, you can just self-mill to find it or gifts ungiven to get it in the yard, and it has a ton of interesting interactions in the ghoulcaller's bell/lim-dul's vault cat...
  12. Grillo_Parlante

    General Fight Club

    Thats tricky, those cards all play somewhat different roles. I think it would be more appropriate to compare raise the alarm with gather the townsfolk; and gather wins in a list supporting human tribal, otherwise raise the alarm does. Triplicate spirits you would want (I would think) to be...
  13. Grillo_Parlante

    Sets [C14] Commander 2014 Spoilers

    That artifact living death looks like it would be amazing in your list. Also love the new dualcaster mage; what a fun card.
  14. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    Yeah, I really like both of those lists. I like how you added the counters theme into green. Data from the grid cube is also actually really helpful, since certain interactions are more likely to come up there. How has crystal ball, the delve cards, and pelakka wurm been? It looks like the most...
  15. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    1.) Generally, fixing over here is good enough where you won't see a pure UG deck, typically it will be some sort of BUG deck, and those come together all the time. Mulch is a graveyard ramp card. Traditional ramp is just about building up your board, while graveyard ramp is about building up...
  16. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    Hopefully, people see the time stamp on this and see thats its new...but it was suggested on the cube tutor forum for my cube that ashnod's altar may have outlived its welecome, for which I am inclined to agree. I originally envisioned the altars being a center piece to a sacrifice ramp deck...
  17. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    So, I made the changes for tonights draft. Ran time ebb in place of vanishment, and it worked out very well. I unexpectedly did not have a copy of unexpectedly absent, so that will have to go in later. I felt like even though humans had gotten a buff, the buff to removal in the form of...
  18. Grillo_Parlante

    Innistrad Themed Cube: 360 Unpowered

    There is a metric ton of sweet blue cards that I could potentially run, and here is my list of cards I have thought about at various times: body double venser, shaper savant sturmgeist keiga, the tide star thought scour treasure cruise selhoff occultist havengul runebinder skaab goliath...
  19. Grillo_Parlante

    180 cards, 3 colour cube.

    The fetches seem fine. I felt like the cube was in a good spot as far as mana fixing was concerned; you would only be punished if you completly ignored mana fixing in the draft. Those are fair points with haakon. I guess my inner johnny just wanted to use him as an engine, and I forgot he...
  20. Grillo_Parlante

    180 cards, 3 colour cube.

    Here is another one: www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/212624[/url]"] Ones 1 Basking Rootwalla 1 Deathrite Shaman 1 Experiment One Twos 1 Grisly Salvage 1 Looter il-Kor 1 Lotleth Troll 1 Necrogenesis 1 Scavenging Ooze 1 Snap 1 Tracker's Instincts 1 Wild Mongrel Threes 1 Compulsive Research 1...
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