Yeah, I'm with you on that first point. After some thought, I'm forgoing slotting in
Mizzium Mortars, or other creature-only based burn. Everything either has to
go to the face, or otherwise
wipe out multiple creatures to be worthwhile in cube.
I'm actually not sure what it would take for
Erebos or
Gray Merchant to be good, which led to me posing that exact question on the devotion thread. I've got
Phyrexian Arena, but.. not a whole lot else. Unless
Bitterblossom and
Curse of Shallow Graves count. In red, I'm trying out
Purphoros, as I feel like his static ability is a lot stronger, even if you can't enable his devotion count for a while.
Heh, non-blue control. That's funny! In all seriousness, I'd like to see archetypes like this emerge, but I just don't know if they're viable in the current environment. BW midrange is a real deck, and has taken down the draft before, as black's ability to remove any and every threat goes a long way towards controlling the board state. If you're looking at G/x anything, though, the closest thing I could offer to control is value midrange or ramp.
Kitchen Finks /
Restoration Angel /
Thragtusk might be a decent starting point, and would probably hose the aggro decks good. The problem there might be finding a way to beat the actual blue control decks. A bevy of planeswalkers would go a long way, I suppose. That, or going
over the top with
large men.
Stupor is fine, but thoroughly unexciting. Back when I had it in my list, I couldn't be bothered to play it, even on the occasions where I would draft it. Discard-two pretty much has to cost two mana. So I've got
Wrench Mind along with your new favourite,
Rise // Fall!
