Eric Chan's Modern cube (405)
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Chris Taylor
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its pretty nuts in my friend's peasant cube
Man, these suggestions are all gas. I like the point about costing 1 to equip, makes all the difference in the world.
I'm running Empyrial Plate right now, but I don't know if it'll catch on. Maybe either of these would make a good substitute?
I'm running Empyrial Plate right now, but I don't know if it'll catch on. Maybe either of these would make a good substitute?
Mask of Memory seems kind of marginal if you only trigger it once. And that's not necessarily given. But if you're attacking them and connecting, then... win more... better to just play another creature... hmm.... I've never play it but it seems pretty iffy. I could imagine being wrong though.
Chris Taylor
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I figure if there's a curiosity worth playing, mask is probably it. Graveyard synergy, splashable, mitigates flood, etc
So it seems like that time has finally come: aggro is, at this juncture, too good. Between me slowly but gradually shrinking the cube from roughly 405 cards down to its current size of 368, doubling and quadrupling up on strong one drops (Champion of the Parish, Gravecrawler), and excising any number of raw two-for-ones, neither control nor midrange are typically able to withstand the onslaught of rushdown weenies. Boros and Rakdos, in particular, are nigh unbeatable when the nut draft deck comes together (especially if either Lucas or Calvin are at the helm). I think it might be high time to put the brakes on nerfing control, and try to reverse that trend.
These are the relevant changes I swapped out last night. Am I going too far? Does this changelist look reasonable? I don't really know what I'm doing since I never buff midrange & control AHHHH HELP
OUT > IN
Kor Skyfisher > Lone Missionary
Emeria Angel > Wall of Reverence
Jace, Architect of Thought > Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Nekrataal > Shriekmaw
Mizzium Mortars > Bonfire of the Damned
Hero of Oxid Ridge > Ember Swallower
Magma Jet > Staggershock
Lotus Cobra > Sakura-Tribe Elder (wasn't going to do this, but Calvin convinced me it's worth a shot)
Strangleroot Geist > Sylvan Caryatid
Beastmaster Ascension > Thragtusk
Duskmantle Seer > Baleful Strix
Ghor-Clan Rampager > Huntmaster of the Fells
[nothing] > Drogskol Reaver
Jinxed Idol > Wall of Tanglecord
[nothing] > Wayfarer's Bauble
To balance out the above list of changes, I'm also cutting a few control favourites. Olivia and Oona consistently see a ton of play, and while I don't think they're necessarily overpowered, I think they're due for a break, if only temporarily. Tamiyo is coming out because I want to keep the number of monocoloured walkers per colour at two.
Olivia Voldaren > [nothing]
Oona, Queen of the Fae > [nothing]
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage > Logic Knot
These are the relevant changes I swapped out last night. Am I going too far? Does this changelist look reasonable? I don't really know what I'm doing since I never buff midrange & control AHHHH HELP
OUT > IN
Kor Skyfisher > Lone Missionary
Emeria Angel > Wall of Reverence
Jace, Architect of Thought > Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Nekrataal > Shriekmaw
Mizzium Mortars > Bonfire of the Damned
Hero of Oxid Ridge > Ember Swallower
Magma Jet > Staggershock
Lotus Cobra > Sakura-Tribe Elder (wasn't going to do this, but Calvin convinced me it's worth a shot)
Strangleroot Geist > Sylvan Caryatid
Beastmaster Ascension > Thragtusk
Duskmantle Seer > Baleful Strix
Ghor-Clan Rampager > Huntmaster of the Fells
[nothing] > Drogskol Reaver
Jinxed Idol > Wall of Tanglecord
[nothing] > Wayfarer's Bauble
To balance out the above list of changes, I'm also cutting a few control favourites. Olivia and Oona consistently see a ton of play, and while I don't think they're necessarily overpowered, I think they're due for a break, if only temporarily. Tamiyo is coming out because I want to keep the number of monocoloured walkers per colour at two.
Olivia Voldaren > [nothing]
Oona, Queen of the Fae > [nothing]
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage > Logic Knot
Kind of hate Wall of Reverence
Looks like I'm a couple days behind on the Specter's Shroud thing, but I really want to equip it to Fencing Ace and attack on turn three. That's awesome!
Yeah, I'm not a huge wall fan, but it felt like white control needed a push, and this was Calvin's recommendation for a defensive card. If this ends up clogging games, I'm blaming him.
Have you ever played with the card? It creates miserable, miserable drawn-out games. I would go into the tank here, I think you can do much better.
Wrath of God?
EDIT: oops, you already run 2x DoJ
EDIT: oops, you already run 2x DoJ
What about this baller of a card?
This card doesn't seem like the worst, but I guess nobody knows about it because of Baneslayer and Archangel. Probably not what you need though.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Genju is sweet because (Like raging ravine) you can activate it mutliple times and get lots of counts of old lifelink, so it's a manland that is actually kinda sweet on T6
Faithmender sounds ballin
Faithmender sounds ballin
Oh man, didn't even realize this!
I think they errata 'd that one!
I had a deck that made use of that in the old Mirrodin / Ravnica days. Between that and shining shoal there was an awful lot of ways for a mono white deck to spend it's cloudpost mana. Clestial Kirin was also just the bee's knees. I'm always sad there won't be any more arcane.
I had a deck that made use of that in the old Mirrodin / Ravnica days. Between that and shining shoal there was an awful lot of ways for a mono white deck to spend it's cloudpost mana. Clestial Kirin was also just the bee's knees. I'm always sad there won't be any more arcane.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Nope, it's not lifelink, so you can still do that trick.
Dom Harvey
Contributor
you can't do it any more, not sure why but I remember they mentioned that card specifically. I believe it was changed to an overwriting characteristic or w/e the technical term is
Yeah that's what I remembered Dom but it might be the case that they did away with those edits when they made the jump to simultaneous in lifelink.
BTW I believe the MS-08 DOM is my favourite mobile suit
