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Land Tribal intersection: Riptide Lab

Anybody else coming around on the new card border?

Intersect Brainstorm and Sacrifice themes? :p

Hmm, I don't really think of the graveyard as one of the active play spaces of this cube. Thirst is a card, and it's there, but cards like that and Forbidden Alchemy aren't really going into a Gravecrawler deck, nor do most of these cards do much when dumped into the yard. It's a nice thought...

Yes, well, there's a couple ideas. One is to have regular "good" cards contribute to the theme, e.g. Falkenrath and Putrid Leech. The second is, if you make the theme big enough then it becomes a major component of your set. I've had red decks that use sacrifice themes without using...

Black 3-drop candidates, with the hope that things are more control friendly than aggro friendly: Demonic Taskmaster Phyrexian Rager Ophiomancer Arrogant Bloodlord Discuss.

Keep in mind that for curve purposes the black cards are like, 90% of a card and other color cards something like 30% of a card, in a mixture distribution. Cutting Stronghold Assassin, Geralf's Messenger, Lifebane Zombie and Curse of Shallow Graves.

Okay, let's talk about this. This is a big problem people. The support that comes from other colors mainly comes from 3's. That means I need to create demand for them, specifically by slashing the 3's the you get from just staying in black. I need some more generic and/or control-friendy 3...

Okay, time to visualize Support cards by CMC: Ones 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Gravecrawler 1 Gravecrawler 1 Gravecrawler 1 Gravecrawler 1 Cabal Therapy 1 Innocent Blood 1 Entomb 1 Unearth 1 Faithless Looting Twos 1 Bloodghast 1 Wretched Anurid 1 Jinxed Idol 1 Perilous Myr 1 Goblin...

This. I have written an article about it but it hasn't been published yet. Stay tuned. For paper I just make a 360 list. There are a lot of polycube cards I don't have in paper.

Hallowed Burial, untap, Grenzo, go to town.

I don't really want double Mirror Entity. It goes unplayed fairly often, it's not really ideal for multiples.

I was looking to take out Blooghast #2 for a more "goodstuff" black 2-drop and the pickings are so slim. How do we feel about double Confidant as interaction with the top of library theme?

Okay, so here's the problem with the archetype. It gets too much of its stuff from within the color, and too much of the stuff it relies on is not in demand by other drafters. This allows the deck to be too consistent in practice, even though there are a lot of different theoretical builds that...

I've seen it work but generally if you're recurring crawlers you're doing alright for yourself.

Yeah, Sculler's been a part of the archetype from the beginning. Perfect fit. Even has the cheeky Carrion Feeder interaction.