General CBS

[TrainmasterGT]

Is Spirit Tribal kind of a real cubable thing now? I’ve seen recommendations for stuff like

and it gets me wondering....

I think there are many individually good spirits, but not enough to support a real spirit tribal archetype. A couple of the tribal payoffs for spirits like Rattlechains, Mausoleum Wanderer and Nebelgast Herald could be used in supporting a blue-based tempo strategy. However, I don't think one could go deep on something like Lifespinner and have the theme integrate well into the cube.

 

[Brad]

Spirits seems like it probably works. A lot of well-costed flyers in the deck. Cards that stand on their own without tribal payoff. I don't see why it couldn't work. Just be sure to avoid using the really narrow payoffs, or maybe allow only one. If you have a flyer's deck present, they'll mesh into that just fine.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Nah bro:
Get that thief of hope in my veins!
Any excuse to put Nameless Inversion back in

 

[Brad]

Is a walls deck automatically unfun to play against? This is for a Jumpstart. GW, probably.

Protect yourself and then drop some bigger stuff would be the idea.

 

[blacksmithy]

forget dropping something big, here’s your Walls wincons:

 

[Dom Harvey]

Playing against Walls may feel hopeless if you're relying on attacking with 2/1s but the idea of Walls is awesome enough that I'd do it anyway

 

[Brad]

Alright. I'll toss it in there and make sure all/most of the decks are somewhat prepared for it. There's going to be a flying deck and there was a few goblins that fuck walls up for red. I find it really cute to switch a wall's P/T, so I'll throw in that effect somewhere lol.

 

[Erik Twice]

Walls are awesome, making aggro players cry is just icing on the cake.

 

[Erik Twice]

Is there a way in Cubecobra to see the least (and most) drafted cards in your cube?

 

[N0oh]

Kinda un-intuitive, didn't made it work in analysis, but in list, sort, you can sort by elo. It have to have a better way to do somewhere I guess.

 

[blacksmithy]

take that ELO rating with a grain of salt though XD

 

[Erik Twice]

Yeah, it seems the ELO comes from across all the website which really puts a damper on its usefulness. I don't think Reveillark is the 13th worst card on my cube!

 

[Brad]

Yeah, it seems the ELO comes from across all the website which really puts a damper on its usefulness. I don't think Reveillark is the 13th worst card on my cube!

That's exactly what Reveillark wants you to think! You absolute fool...

 

[Erik Twice]

That's exactly what Reveillark wants you to think! You absolute fool...

Won't someonebody think of the value?

 

[whydirt]

Do we have a thread for green cantrips/card selection spells?

 

[Brad]

Do we have a thread for green cantrips/card selection spells?

Do we need a whole thread for a dozen cards?

 

[Chris Taylor]

Nah it's gotten better thesedays
My favorite is grapple with the past

 

[blacksmithy]

it may be a little lame but i really like this one just for the scrying:

 

[Chris Taylor]

Anyone used these people?
https://mpcautofill.com/

 

[ravnic]

My favorites in green draw:

 

[Erik Twice]

I decided to run Grapple with the Past over Winding Way because I found more decks wanted the filtering, Raise Dead effect and instant speed than they wanted the efficiency of Winding Way.

 

[ravnic]

Did you guys try out the Tinkerer's Cube Draft on Arena? I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to play synergistic decks AND farm some coins. But everytime I tried so far I got totally slaughtered (2:3, 1:3, 0:3). I don't even know why. I seriously questioning my skills now. In normal booster drafts I often get to 6 or 7 wins, but here I draft decks of which I am really, really happy, and then I look like the total rookie in every game

 

[Nanonox]

I've tried a few so far. I went 5-3 with a BG self-mill midrange deck where I would gain value with escape creatures. I was missing some ramp and early removal and aggro decks beat me.

Then I tried a UR tokens/tempo deck which also went 5-3. The highlights were Young Pyro and Saheeli along with Hellrider. I lost to the mirror (1 damage away!) and some slower decks that were able to stop my aggression.

I had a really sweet RW tokens deck, with lots of one and two drops and Hellrider, Castle Embreth and Heroic Reinforcements and burn. I went 2-3 losing out to a bunch of slower decks. While I had aggro creatures, they always seem to have a 1/3 or something to slow me down enough that they could take over. It was frustrating because it felt I was always a play away from winning, but then something happened. My creatures did not have evasion and I think it was my downfall.

This last one I have, I am currently 3-0 with a 5 color blue based pile. I have cheap interaction and filtering, I have some mana rocks and a few road blocks and my top end is Golos, Chamber Sentry, Nicol Bolas (the 4 drop dude), Dinrova Horror, Shipwreck Dowser and Huatli, Warrior Poet. As stupid as it sounds, these big dudes are amazing at just holding people back and/or attacking for the win. Games have not felt close so far.

I've found that drafting around synergy to be tough. I will now focus on drafting good cards and if some synergy pieces arrive later in the pack, then I move in. Bombs -> fixing -> cheap interaction seems to work decently!

 

[ravnic]

I at least managed a 3-3 this time with a white-black aggressive midrange deck, some focus on tokens or going wide but not enough enablers to do so. Eh. but I also had an unusual amount of flooding today in arena. And since I'm sick, I can't do much else lol.

Maybe my problem is that I am used to threats that don't kill you that fast. My cube is more old school-ish in that regard.

 

[shamizy]

Signed for the Cube Cobra Content Creator program and got approved, published an updated version of my B/W Humans thread from years back. I'll be cross-posting anything interesting I end up writing here in the main forum or in my cube blog over there in some form. Hopefully we can get some more Riptide style content out there!