What are some main-deckable graveyard hate effects?
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White has a lot of options, but so many fall just short of being useful in a cube setting, either by being too focused on GY hate (rest in peace etc), or just a little under curve. White also has the most widespread pre-GY hate (exile effects, bottom of library effects, etc)
This is an option if GY hate is a big priority in the environment:
This is an option if GY hate is a big priority in the environment:
Yeah I'm with you there. Whenever there's a card with "Exile target card from a graveyard" as a bonus effect, I'm in!
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I thought about adding Skittering Surveyor or Pilgrim's Eye as fixing tools but now I found Prophetic Prism (again) and wonder how good it is? It draws you a card and provides fixing, while the former two draw you a land, which as well can be fixing, but not as flexible, and it can also be seen as drawing a card, as it secures your next land drop.
How good do they compare, and which would you prefer in draft?
To me, it seems clear that Prism > Surveyor/Eye, but maybe I'm missing something.
How good do they compare, and which would you prefer in draft?
To me, it seems clear that Prism > Surveyor/Eye, but maybe I'm missing something.
Oh my god no way
How to scryfall search for all artifacts that could be used in a UB EDH deck but are not entirely colorless? I do want Dimir Signet and Baleful Strix but don't want Mind Stone.
ci:ub t:artifact -ci=c
This shows me blue, black, and UB artifacts as well as blue and black mana stones, etc, but is notably missing Dimir Signet and similar.
ci=ub t:artifact -ci=c
This shows UB cards like Dimir Signet and Baleful Strix, but lacks any U or B artifacts.
ci:ub t:artifact -ci=c
This shows me blue, black, and UB artifacts as well as blue and black mana stones, etc, but is notably missing Dimir Signet and similar.
ci=ub t:artifact -ci=c
This shows UB cards like Dimir Signet and Baleful Strix, but lacks any U or B artifacts.
This should do it!
(commander:ub -ci:c t:artifact)
It's very similar to what sigh suggested. If that doesn't work, try this!
Onderzeeboot
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Haha, I was looking at your search expression, and really wondering why that didn't work, because it looked fine to me. I should use that : more often, I always write ci<=ub, which is the same but one character more. So inefficient! My personal choice (slyly incorporating the colon) would have been "ci:ub ci>0 t:artifact" (that's a zero).
in an environment without enchantment removal?
I think Frogify, Reprobation and Arrest would be too good in such an environment if it's very low powered
Subdual/Transformation/Punishment look more conditional.
Eh, you can still blink and bounce and sacrifice and do a lot of things with creatures left behind with one of those cards even if you don't have enchantment removal. It's good but it's not busted!
Yeah, you're right. I really need to play actual Magic again lol
Still having a blocker might be relevant, too, as well as mass pump spells.
Don't have that many bounce and blink spells, though.
Still having a blocker might be relevant, too, as well as mass pump spells.
Don't have that many bounce and blink spells, though.
Onderzeeboot
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Not that I particularly like Vintage Cube, but this was a gem 
Well this comment aged well. Or poorly, depending on wether or not you want to count not updating the cube over the pandemic as letting the cube "lie fallow."
I loved Companions before they changed the wording. All they had to do was balance them all better. I know this is easier said than done. Or even better: I wish they had thought of the new wording before printing the cards and balanced them accordingly before print. When it comes to cycles, I really don’t mind all 5 or 10 cards being equally strong but in this one particular case I would have my team work tirelessly on the Companions until all 10 were equally strong, playable but not broken. These cards could have defined Ikoria in a good way for decades.
