General Decks that have 3-0'd your cube
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Dom Harvey
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T2 Coldsteel Heart
T3 Spike Jester
strikes fear into the hearts of men
T3 Spike Jester
strikes fear into the hearts of men
Lotleth Troll + Squad Hawk is some tech.
Chris Taylor
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Gotta ask: Why 3 hawks? 
You get 4 right?
You get 4 right?
Chris Taylor
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| Creatures (10) 1 Wild Nacatl 1 Noble Hierarch 1 Mother of Runes 1 Porcelain Legionnaire 1 Strangleroot Geist 1 Plated Geopede 1 Imposing Sovereign 1 Boon Satyr 1 Kitchen Finks 1 Slaughterhorn Double Strikers (4) 1 Viashino Slaughtermaster 1 Fencing Ace 1 Silverblade Paladin 1 Silverblade Paladin Pump (3) 1 Rancor 1 Grafted Wargear 1 Griffin Guide Misc Noncreatures (6) 1 Tangle Wire 1 Armageddon 1 Lightning Greaves 1 Lightning Bolt 1 Incinerate 1 Volcanic Hammer | Lands (16) 3 Plains 2 Forest 2 Mountain 1 Wooded Bastion 1 Fire-Lit Thicket 1 Temple Garden 1 Stomping Ground 1 Taiga 1 Treetop Village 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Flooded Strand 1 Arid Mesa |
Alright, big news!
1) I actually 3-0'd a cube draft for once! with a deck that uses no custom cards no less
2) This draft used the technique of
-Everyone gets twice as many packs
-After picking, remove a card from the pack at random
This simulates having more people in the draft table (since we're only 4 people here) by making the card pool bigger, but means you really need to think about what you're picking, since rando cardrassian could swipe it even if there's better cards in the pack. It's an interesting dynamic, and leads to some interesting moments where someone really wants to wheel a card and it gets all the way back, but gets swiped by rando right before it would get back to them.
Silverblade Paladin has really proven himself to be the right call for the double strike deck (over say, Mirran Crusader or Fabled Hero). I almost never suited him up, almost always using him to grant cheaper or more resilient creatures double strike. The tempo gained from waiting until turn 4 almost certainly would have turned this into a less effective, more midrangey deck.
Sadly neither of my new bestow guys (R 2/2 Can't Block, Bestow RR2, and R1 1/1 double strike, bestow WW2) were in the draft, I think they would have preformed well here.
Good Moments:
1) Geddon to Destroy a mutavault which would block my otherwise unblockable lethal creature (VIA Mother of Runes and a mono colored defense force)
2) Maelstrom Wanderer into Avenger of Zendikar + Kiki-Jiki, Copy avenger, play a land and swing.
CML
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Gotta ask: Why 3 hawks?
You get 4 right?
yeah uh you gotta take it up with this guy http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/deck_tech_uwr_landstill_with_j.html haha celestial flare in legacy come on dude
'twas anything but a turd out there yesterday. i'm telling you guys this is one of the best $1 rares of all time
Most underrated:
Chris Taylor
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Okay now that I've figured out that image is supposed to be Yavimaya Hollow I totally agree.
Side note: Also a sick maze of ith variant, when you think about it. You both need a creature AND extra mana, AND need to be in green. That strikes me as pretty fair.
Side note: Also a sick maze of ith variant, when you think about it. You both need a creature AND extra mana, AND need to be in green. That strikes me as pretty fair.
CML
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Most underrated:
It was never good over here and I don't know why. I'm guessing your board states are a little more elegant than mine? I'll order another copy in any case
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Go figure, I thought it was just red and black.
Yikes.
Anyway my friend texted me about how last night he got the Elspeth Sun's Champion + Cloudgoat Ranger thing to work in his last GW deck. How often do you expect people to 3-0 with GW?
Anyway my friend texted me about how last night he got the Elspeth Sun's Champion + Cloudgoat Ranger thing to work in his last GW deck. How often do you expect people to 3-0 with GW?
I did not take down the actual list unfortunately, but I 3-0'd (in a team draft) with a RUG Upheaval/Craterhoof deck with Gaea's Cradle and Library of Alexandria.
It utilised Rofellos, Lannowar Elves and BoP along with Coalition Relic, Gilded Lotus and Worn powerstone as further ramp to get out Ral Zarek // Woodfall Primus along with game enders such as Tooth & Nail into/or hardcast Craterhoof (is how I won most of my games). most of my upheavals were for value around turn 4-5 to restart slightly ahead and I had sideboard Greater Gargadon for even more shenanigens
It utilised Rofellos, Lannowar Elves and BoP along with Coalition Relic, Gilded Lotus and Worn powerstone as further ramp to get out Ral Zarek // Woodfall Primus along with game enders such as Tooth & Nail into/or hardcast Craterhoof (is how I won most of my games). most of my upheavals were for value around turn 4-5 to restart slightly ahead and I had sideboard Greater Gargadon for even more shenanigens
CML, why do your cube decks always have the ugliest curves? If they were a girl, they'd only post Myspace-angled headshots on their OkCupid profile.