I actually think breaking singleton on powered cubes sound like some really interesting and difficult to do right design space. Cutting out the weaker things people usually have going on in a singleton cube and then adding multiples of the power and some of the crucial disruption cards might lead to those dreaded t2 reanimate griselbrand to actually be really exciting.
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I actually think breaking singleton on powered cubes sound like some really interesting and difficult to do right design space. Cutting out the weaker things people usually have going on in a singleton cube and then adding multiples of the power and some of the crucial disruption cards might lead to those dreaded t2 reanimate griselbrand to actually be really exciting.
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/12253
i will not pass up an opportunity to link this experiment
come on you know we gotta try it at some point if we do more of those sunday drafts
(i should probably update it with all the funk delve cards, KTK block has been so nuts, wth)
FlowerSunRain
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If Sphinx of the Steel Wind is going to be a three drop in your cube, then commit to that and design around that, don't shove Mardu Strike Leader or some shit in there like it belongs in the same conversation.
Yes, because sphinx will just go unanswered on turn 3, because the aggro deck didn't draft any sort of interaction or disruption even though the drafter will probably know what type of cube they are drafting.
I'll assume you were just mentioning a generic aggro dude, but black is one of the best suited to deal with a Sphinx of the Steel Wind. Edicts, discard. White of course can deal with it with the best removal in the game. Red I'll concede has a hard time, but if your going the Mono Red sligh route then life tends to be swingy.
FlowerSunRain
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I'm not sure what this has to do with what I said.
Grillo_Parlante
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Same. Anafenza seems like a contender for the bestbear at this point, so anyone interested in white weenie is probably going to run her. Kitchen Finks is a sweet card, but because he's so ubiquitous - he's nearly colourless, in cubes with good fixing - I wouldn't be opposed to cutting him somewhere down the line.
So... Collected Company. This card reads really well. But the constraints it puts on deckbuilding are very real. You have to draft and then jam pack your deck with just about every small animal that comes your way. Taking a look at forty card decks, and busting out the ol' hypergeometric calculator:
# of creatures with cmc <= 3 ---> % success rate of hitting 2 or more when flipping 6
10 ---> 47%
11 ---> 54%
12 ---> 59%
13 ---> 65%
14 ---> 70%
15 ---> 75%
16 ---> 79%
17 ---> 82%
18 ---> 86%
Even in a nearly ideal situation where we manage to end up with 18 cheap weenies, we still come upon a 14% rate of failure on our four-mana instant, or roughly 1 in 7. (Hi Jason!) In a more common scenario, where we have 15 small dorks, our failure rate jumps up to 1 in 4. That's not what I'd call inspiring. You have to ask yourself if you're comfortable with this spell only spotting you one creature a good chunk of the time, and on occasion even whiffing outright.
Whats this? A card being printed that is incredibly cool, but has a low hit rate because it deals with TOL manipulation?
And I am a person obsessed with TOL manipulation?
I feel oddly better now.
FlowerSunRain
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This card was exactly the kind of design I was looking for a while ago. I'm not sure it is still what I'm looking for, but I'm definitely picking it up. Its kinda weak and formidable kinda sucks, though.
Onderzeeboot
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It's super funny though "The hiiills are alive, with the sound of craaateeers!"
"The hiiills are alive, with the sound of craaateeers!"
I quite like it, not sure what theme or cube it ought fit in, but it's interesting.
FlowerSunRain
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Summoning Sickness is a pretty big deal and dudes like War-Name Aspirant and Hero of Oxid Ridge are in my list making it look stupid. Its not awful, but 4 damage misses some key targets that you'd expect a 3 mana removal spell (that isn't likely to turn into a wincon, am I underrating that part of the card?) to handle.
4 mana removal spell! That you telegraph!
FlowerSunRain
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Well, two of the three modes on Rakdos Charm are hosers, so that's not surprising. I gotta admit this card is pretty versatile.
Anyone who is looking for artifact removal that doesn't rot, this is pretty much as good as it gets, you have 3!!! choices if you don't have a rock to nuke.
Anyone who is looking for artifact removal that doesn't rot, this is pretty much as good as it gets, you have 3!!! choices if you don't have a rock to nuke.
Is it a stretch to call it an instant speed blightning? It feels like a guaranteed 2-for-1.
CML
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i think this card is kinda bad.
rakdos charm isn't maindeckable and ergo isn't close to being cubeworthy but it was nearly a card in standard and is kind of a card in modern(?)
yeah this can shock a monastery mentor and they will discard one but blightning used to kill JACE and mind rot them! blightning would be too powerful for the standard format we have now but geez
i mean try it by all means but still
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
In cube this card is all sorts of amazing though.