Brimaz has been fine over here. He has been at his best as a control/midrange card to stabilize against aggro, and in one mono-anthem effects deck. He's pushed but he still dies to Dismember, as well as pretty much every black removal spell. Also gets brickwalled by a lot of green creatures without help.
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yeah my pair of blade splicers are serving me fine.
Also: Other than for squirrel nest, how do we feel about this card:
Seems kinda terrible honestly
Agree. Potentially abusable in constructed (though the basic clause hurts a lot), almost never worth a card in limited unless you can show me a cube entirely warped around this somehow.
CML
Contributor
I would be if it wasn't so ridiculously expensive.
For this post, disregard worldknit:
Is there a sensible way to have 5 colour decks in draft? I guess it needs a whole shitload of duals and fetches if it does?
What about 4 colour? How dense does fixing need to be and how high does it need to be picked for four colour to sensibly come together?
I guess for both you'd need drafting monocolour to be pretty appealing as well so there isn't too much competition for fixing.
Is there a sensible way to have 5 colour decks in draft? I guess it needs a whole shitload of duals and fetches if it does?
What about 4 colour? How dense does fixing need to be and how high does it need to be picked for four colour to sensibly come together?
I guess for both you'd need drafting monocolour to be pretty appealing as well so there isn't too much competition for fixing.
Three colour seems to happen with some regularity with the riptide-y fetch/dual density, so there's my answer to that one.
I guess four colour would need to be 4c good stuff almost definitionally, just from lack of pull cards in 4 colours?
i'll relink this
http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/11849
http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/11849
I don't have the decklist handy but Jonas 3-0'd with 4.5 color Birthing Pod.
Oh, woops, it was Douggggggggg. Whatever happened to that duder? Why would anyone ever leave RipLab?
Where are you Kranny?
Laz
Developer
Sometimes the design articles are good...
http://www.wizards.com/magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/303
Also, unrelated to the above, I saw an interesting comment which made me think about threats and answers in cube.
Generally, in the first couple of turns of the game, the threats are small creatures. This means, early answers are simply things that answer small creatures. Low cost removal, like Shock or Doom Blade, or creatures of your own. This is why it is pretty much universally accepted that cubes need some reasonable density of cheap spot removal and early creatures. These combined make the early game very dynamic.
The issue comes when the early game threats are turned on their heads, and completely different answers are required. For instance, a turn 2/3 Tinker'ed giant death robot, or a turn 2 Planeswalker off of fast-mana. These early threats are completely different to small creatures, and demand completely different answers. Now I am sure it is possible to design an environment where answers to these types of threats are as common as answers to early aggressive creatures (I think the key is Force of Will...), but it certainly isn't the norm, and trying to create a limited environment where early threats are both small creatures and giant death robots is going to be a real challenge.
Legacy is difficult enough to build and design for without being hamstrung by having to draft answers...
http://www.wizards.com/magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/303
Also, unrelated to the above, I saw an interesting comment which made me think about threats and answers in cube.
Generally, in the first couple of turns of the game, the threats are small creatures. This means, early answers are simply things that answer small creatures. Low cost removal, like Shock or Doom Blade, or creatures of your own. This is why it is pretty much universally accepted that cubes need some reasonable density of cheap spot removal and early creatures. These combined make the early game very dynamic.
The issue comes when the early game threats are turned on their heads, and completely different answers are required. For instance, a turn 2/3 Tinker'ed giant death robot, or a turn 2 Planeswalker off of fast-mana. These early threats are completely different to small creatures, and demand completely different answers. Now I am sure it is possible to design an environment where answers to these types of threats are as common as answers to early aggressive creatures (I think the key is Force of Will...), but it certainly isn't the norm, and trying to create a limited environment where early threats are both small creatures and giant death robots is going to be a real challenge.
Legacy is difficult enough to build and design for without being hamstrung by having to draft answers...
Laz i linked up that article earlier on this exact page
also on the subject of power cube, i'll relink this
http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/12253
also on the subject of power cube, i'll relink this
http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/12253
Laz
Developer
Whoops! The funny thing is that now you mention it I remember clicking your link... I suspect that I opened the article in a new tab, didn't read it, came back later, read it and thought 'This is pretty interesting, I should share this!'
Also, that cube! How do I choose between 2 Moxen, an Ancestral, a Time Walk and a Sol Ring first pick?! It looks like the most balanced unbalanced powered-cube I have ever seen. Have you ever tested it?
This looks like a good start.
http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/8347
sure
this is much older design than the previous one also idk if either are any good
sure
this is much older design than the previous one also idk if either are any good