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if you just want a vanilla beater, this guy's got your back Wake Thrasher it's funny how we were talking about a {1}{G}{G} vanilla 4/4 being cubeable in the other thread, cause this guy is often a {2}{U} 6/6 out of the gates, growing to 10/10 over time

This is a thing. I'm not kidding! Seraph of Dawn

Yes, I vote for that one! Hmmm, you people convinced me - I'll try Hinder, over Dissipate.

It's really hard to do t1 Champion of the Parish into t2 Ash Zealot... but not nearly as difficult to do t1 Champion, t2 Keldon Marauders. I mean, sure, if your curve is t1 Goblin Guide, t2 Ash Zealot, t3 Chandra's Phoenix, and your manabase consists of 11 Mountains, that's one thing. But for...

I feel that a {1}{G}{G} creature has a much better chance of being cast on-curve than a {G}{G} one, with cube manabases being what they are. Like, ballpark, 70% versus 40%. As I mentioned in the red two drop thread, I'm not a big fan of CC creatures, and try to limit them to one per colour...

I currently run Loxodon Smiter as essentially a :1::g::w: vanilla 4/4. So if they ever came out with an actual vanilla :1::g::g: 4/4, I'd probably be the first person in line.

Ash Zealot is a more than fine woman, but :r::r: cards have a very high bar to cross, much like :w::w: bears do. They're hard to cast on-curve, unless you're mono-red or near it. I find that cards like this tend to perform better in constructed, where you can have a really sweet manabase, than...

Yeah, I guess I'm neither a fan of Negate nor Essence Scatter in cube; I like reactive spells to be able to hit a wider swath of potential targets. The only one I run of either category is Spell Pierce, and that only gets a free pass because it costs :u:. To be honest, I'd say "none of the...

Agree. None of my best recurring aggro / sacrifice shenanigans decks maindecked Smallpox, even when I spent a pick on it. It's a little too tricky to get maximum value out of all four symmetrical effects - sometimes the sacrifice and life loss would be good for you, say, but the discard would be...

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Yeah, if you're a Podder, there are a bunch more options available to you, that may or may not be better than Borderland Ranger: Farhaven Elf Wood Elves Yavimaya Dryad Incidentally, I'm not a big fan of Borderland Ranger... too slow for aggro, not explosive enough for ramp, he's the...

You guys are probably right on Keldon Marauders. I think I have an unnatural bias towards him, but like his brethren Hellspark Elemental, he leans a little more on the burn side of the spectrum than the creature side. On a related note - how do you guys feel about Goblin Guide? He's a guy that's...

In reevaluating my red two drop section - which had been ignored and gone stale recently - I figured I should take thorough stock of everything red has to offer. To help me organize my thoughts, I roughly grouped all the relevant red creatures into three broad tiers, and ordered cards within the...

Gosh darn, that's embarrassing. I'd never even seen this before! Temple Acolyte

Am I the only guy excited by Arashin Cleric? Value 1/3's for two are sweet, especially in the Esper colours. While blue is already flooded to the gills with value bodies, white could stand to use a few more. This guy's base stats make a lot more sense than Lone Missionary from a few years back...

i think super Crushing Vines would have to be :1::g: before i gave it serious thought

The U/R deck you posted in the winners' thread was sweet, but... man, that mana base. Fourteen basics feels a little dicey in a deck that's splitting its colours pretty evenly down the middle. For a brew as impressive as that one, the mana could stand to be better. Improving your cube fixing...

At the risk of sounding like a nagging mom, I'd speculate that the reason that Rancor goes so late in your cube is because you don't have adequate fixing for aggro. In general, cube designers have had a rough go of making G/x aggro work. However, X/g aggro tends to be more feasible, and decks...

Anyone excited about this guy? Bloodgift Demon was kinda mediocre over here, even though he should've theoretically been good in a long game against control. This guy seems like he could put a real beating an aggro or midrange - especially those pesky green decks - wiping out an army of tokens...

Yeah, at the power level you're going for, I'd definitely axe Ajani Vengeant and other multicolor cards that are grossly more powerful than the rest of the environment that you're crafting. Sorin, Lord of Innistrad falls into this camp, too. At the bottom end of the spectrum, I'd aim to nix some...