Card/Deck Broken cards for lower power

[ravnic]

But for Field you need seven (!) lands with different names. Getting those into a deck is a challenge already (especially if you, like me, have almost half your fixing be Prismatic Vista). And since you will only have one Field of the Dead ever, you aren't going crazy with zombies either. A few 2/2s in the late game don't seem super relevant tbh.

I am not even sure the card would be playable in my cube. Is it even as good as Zendikar's Roil? I am not convinced.

 

[LadyMapi]

The issue with cards like Field is that the gap between them being playable and them being broken is really narrow, and people are going to be disappointed if they drafted the card because of its reputation as a crazy powerful card and just got a zombie or two out of it.

 

[EzPzJapanezy]

If you're doing this, you probably deserve every zombie, even in fair cubes, right?

I don't find Field to be an egregious inclusion. Like you said, you include a suite of Vista's as your primary source of recursive, strong fixing. Your Loam / Dredge support for 660 doesn't seem so omnipresent that Field would easily come online, and Temur <-> Rainbow strategies would just earn a new potential finisher in the form of a Land that is very flavorful and interesting.

If you over-supported land-focused hyper-ramp / land-recursion I would probably recommend to stay away from it, but those 2 strategies seem really balanced in your list.

 

[ravnic]

Your Loam / Dredge support for 660 doesn't seem so omnipresent that Field would easily come online

I appreciate your take, but you kinda had to type tag:core on cubecobra for that to get a more realistic overview. My cube is essentially a shifting 360 card cube where 324 cards from the core appear in each draft (90% of the pool), so you are much more likely to get certain pieces like Elvish Reclaimer or Crucible of Worlds.

 

[EzPzJapanezy]

Interesting, yeah that makes a lot of sense. I will try to analyze your list through using that tag from now on when posting responses.

If I may ask, when you consider cards like Field as a 'healthy' inclusion for your environment, are you scrutinizing it as a potential 'core' inclusion? Or more as if it would play well / fairly enough with your 'core' list to warrant testing as an occasional? (or maybe both?)

 

[ravnic]

No, I wasn't thinking of it or any of the cards mentioned here (except maybe demonic tutor) as a core card. These constructed/powered cube all stars have the perk of being exciting, which makes for good occasionals. Core cards are judged more on the basis of elegance, flexibility and such, good clean magic.

The idea is that you open a pack with Oblivion Ring, Opt, Throat Slitter, Reckless Impulse and Mother Bear and then a Mox Opal or Bazaar of Bagdhad it would really catch your eye – even when it might be correct to take Opt or whatever.