Aggro Synergy Cube by silasw

[silasw]

I started this cube years ago as just a pile of cards I liked to play. I gradually evolved it using a blend of Riptide theory and traditional cube orthodoxy, and I feel like it's in a pretty nice spot.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/1ou

Powered: No
Singleton: Yes
Silver-bordered cards: Yes
Conspiracies: Yes
Planeswalkers: Small amount
Avg Mana Curve: Low
Power Level: Medium-high

Main Supported Archetypes
In addition to the basic aggro, midrange and control decks, there are specific incentives for these:

Artifacts - Most support in . Includes Artifact Aggro and Value Welder.

Zombies - with occasional supporting zombies in other colors

Aristocrats/Sacrifice -

Graveyard Abuse

Spellslinger/Prowess - with some additional support in

Minor Archetypes

• Stax -
• Twin -
• +1/+1 Counters - Still working on this one. Probably going to add support.
• Blink

 

[silasw]

Here's a deck I drafted last night. It was a 4-man draft and I barely had enough playables but I managed to go 2-0.

Bant Value (4-person draft) from CubeTutor.com

 

[silasw]

I haven't drafted that many times since I beefed up the main archetypes, so pretty much everything is still in the testing period. (Except the deck, there's one guy who always drafts that.) There are plenty of individually powerful cards in the cube, so players haven't been going for the archetypes much yet.

Things I want to add:

More support for +1/+1 counters, likely with Hardened Scales, Mikaeus the Lunarch and Hadana's Climb
More interesting stuff for green to do
Anything that tickles my fancy from Modern Horizons; how about a lands-in-graveyard theme?
Possibly a more fleshed out token/go-wide deck, although this may be too hard to pull off alongside +1/+1 counters

 

[silasw]

Adding proliferate and +1/+1 counter theme:

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Also tweaking to add more go-wide/tokens stuff:

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[silasw]

In theory, a lands matter theme could be supported using very few nonland slots. So I'm trying this:


Plus these cycles:

 

[astraedm]

May I recommend Steppe Lynx and Plated Geopede, going with the theme of aggro-synergy? You might have to end up doubling up fetch lands, but if you do they open up a landfall archetype that slots in nicely with w6 and company.

 

[Nanonox]

Wildfire + Burning of Xinye pair also very well with the land matter cards and open up a whole new archetype for very little space in the cube.

You even have a bunch of 5+ power dudes in red or guys like Rekindling Phoenix to pull ahead in addition to the above mentioned land package.

 

[silasw]

Big changes! I am probably going to double up on fetchlands soon. Also I took a page out of SirFunchalot's book and tried to lower the overall mana curve of the cube.

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Out:

 

[silasw]

I also shaved down the gold section and swapped out signets for other stuff, in an attempt to help aggro out. I also didn't want to nerf the artifact decks, so I added some artifacts.

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[silasw]

Changes to archetypes:
Lands matter is gone for now. I'm keeping Wrenn and the cycling duals to see how it goes.
+1/+1 counters have been pulled back a bit. I did add Ravager and Animation Module to tie it more strongly to artifacts, but I took out some of the weaker pieces. Hopefully it should be a viable archetype without having to play questionable cards.
Spellslinger should get a big boost since I upped the number of cheap cantrips and burn.
Artifacts hopefully is still good.
Aristocrats is not as much of a distinct archetype anymore. It didn't seem strong enough to dedicate slots.