Yeah, that's the breaking point. You're 2 draws off of actually casting anything in your hand.
If it was 1-1 island/forest split, it'd be a tougher decision but I'd be a bit more inclined to keep.
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Yeah, that's the breaking point. You're 2 draws off of actually casting anything in your hand.
If it was 1-1 island/forest split, it'd be a tougher decision but I'd be a bit more inclined to keep.
I agree. Mana vault in your opening hand though is so ridiculous. I might gamble depending on what the deck composition was and if I was on the draw. A T2 5/5 flyer that probably steals something is GG against a lot of decks even in a format this high power.
EDIT: I'm dumb. Both those flyers cost 6, so not T2. Still... this hand is potentially busted and I'd want to play it even though it would probably end badly with those lands.
EDIT: I'm dumb. Both those flyers cost 6, so not T2. Still... this hand is potentially busted and I'd want to play it even though it would probably end badly with those lands.
To me, enchantments are a very difficult card type in cube to handle. People usually don't put many of them into their cubes which requires enchantment removal to "do something else" or they're doomed to be dead cards in one match or another. That's the reason why people cut Opposition and similarly strong enchantments from their cubes. Personally, I don't want to cut every good enchantment just because there aren't many ways to handle them. I want to increase the number of enchantments so enchantment removal is playable in the main deck. Here we go.
Enchantments I run (29 in 360):
Maybes (6):
The spirit seems very interesting to me, especially after adding some more spirit-themed cards to the cube like Rattlechains. The Ram might be too strong against aggro?
Retreat to C seems to be a weaker version of Monastery Siege, Ulvenwald Mysteries a weaker(?) version of Evolutionary Leap. Retreat to K seems to be generally weak, a lifegain of 3 for each land would seem to be a lot better. Ongoing Investigation is very interesting, thoughts on that?
Enchantment removal (10):
Not many, I know. Those are very flexible and properly costed imo. Faith's Fetters doesn't stop every enchantment, though.
Maybes (6):
The four mono-coloured ones only make sense when there's a high density of enchantments in the cube, while the multi-coloured ones are very flexible, but they can't be played in many decks, so I guess I won't add them.
Enchantments I run (29 in 360):
Maybes (6):
The spirit seems very interesting to me, especially after adding some more spirit-themed cards to the cube like Rattlechains. The Ram might be too strong against aggro?
Retreat to C seems to be a weaker version of Monastery Siege, Ulvenwald Mysteries a weaker(?) version of Evolutionary Leap. Retreat to K seems to be generally weak, a lifegain of 3 for each land would seem to be a lot better. Ongoing Investigation is very interesting, thoughts on that?
Enchantment removal (10):
Not many, I know. Those are very flexible and properly costed imo. Faith's Fetters doesn't stop every enchantment, though.
Maybes (6):
The four mono-coloured ones only make sense when there's a high density of enchantments in the cube, while the multi-coloured ones are very flexible, but they can't be played in many decks, so I guess I won't add them.
I'm seriously considering selling all the junk out of my MTGO account to some trashbot and putting the tickets towards the RiptideLab cubes we're running drafts with. Would anybody want to ship me all their crap for the same purpose? There's bots that take anything and pay you almost nothing, but if we all cut loose a load of jank we can probably buy a few more cards.
Just for anybody who hasn't been following, we're building the Eldrazi Domain cube on MTGO. Most of the cards that don't overlap with the other cubes are either cheap or have already been donated, so we'll have a new cube in the lineup for the next forum draft. If you've ever wanted to draft E Domain, now is the time.
Onderzeeboot
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Crap! I have to reword all my token creating cards!
Take out the word "verbally" and this would be a hilariously fun card to actually play.
FlowerSunRain
Contributor
Just think of the awkwardness!
Onderzeeboot
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No, it's like "dies" in that regard. Just a convenient way to lessen the amount of words needed by using an evocative word, but the rules underneath stay exactly the same.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck...
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
And let's not forget other classics like
To quote Bran Van:
"And she was just everywhere!
I mean little girls wanted to be like her
Little boys wanted to be with her
And even planeswalkers somehow altered their physique just to be a little close to what Jaya represented"
To quote Bran Van:
"And she was just everywhere!
I mean little girls wanted to be like her
Little boys wanted to be with her
And even planeswalkers somehow altered their physique just to be a little close to what Jaya represented"
Now I don't know about him being my favorite character, but Ertai just as such -sassy- lines!
counterspell
counterspell
Karn looks great when things are going swell as well!
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/long-life-karn-2011-03-02
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/long-life-karn-2011-03-02
Chris Taylor
Contributor
That incinerate makes me shake my head actually