into your "hand"
See, I feel you, but three of the flipwalkers are very dear to my heart in function. I want to run some planeswalkers, but most regular planeswalkers are... too easy?
Honestly, if Reckless Impulse is performing well in the Cube, I would just play both rather than doing a 1 for 1 swap. The draw-two impulse is such a nice effect for Red decks that some redundancy is totally warranted.I've been running Reckless Impulse in my cube and it has been a B-tier spell. Solid, but nothing spectacular. You run it because it's yet another instant you can use to draw, trigger storm, Pyromancer, etc. And I wonder if it would be too much of a downgrade to do this:
It doesn't affect turns in which you go off but it is substantially worse of for set-up and it's very much not a turn-two play. Do you think the difference will be huge or will the difference be small enough that it's worth the sacrifice of slotting in the Druid? It's a human, it uses counters and I already run Managorger Hydra as spells support.
Thoughts?
I don't think these are directly comparable outside of both being flying men. While Thousand-Faced Shadow is a ninjutsu payoff that can also help to turn on your other ninjas, Spectral Sailor is more of a flash payoff and mana sink for decks that are trying to hold up interaction. I'd say Sailor is more flexible because it's more open-ended, but Shadow is better in its specific deck. However, which one will be better in your Cube is entirely up to the role you need to fill.
Which flying men+ is better? My blue aggressive decks have usually at least a couple ninjas and an equipment. Other decks usually don't play them as much, unless they have a specific reason (think Pteramander).
It sounds like you will get more mileage out of Spectral Sailor. I don't think most drafters will look at Thousand-Faced Shadow and see anything other than a Ninjas card, especially if you're about to have an influx of players who haven't drafted the Cube before.I think being flying men is the most important role for either, as I need those for ninjas to work. Being useful in different decks is probably a higher upside than being another ninjutsu effect, especially since I'm not in love with this one.
I try to keep my cube as “sandboxy“ as possible. I think I want to leave it up to my drafters wether they see a ninja supporter, a reward for holding instant speed interaction or a sideboard tech against a bunch of aggressive X/1s.
ooh i would play that too
I actually use one-sided DFC’s for drafting and deck building! I have the actual DFC’s in clear sleeves, so you can flip them without having to remove them from the sleeve
You're asking the right question, but I'm not sure what the answer is. I would never maindeck Merchant of the Vale for its body alone, so it stands to reason that it's alsno not a card I would want to draw with Thrill of Possibility or Haggle either.
Does it though? You're (usually) way happier to draw it than a land on turn twelve, right? Part of the benefit would be that it's guaranteed to be (its garbage body, but...) not a land. I think. I mean I'm also inclined to not play it over Thrill, but I can see the appeal of lowering the fail-state to Blind Phantasm.
