General "Looking for a card"-Thread
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Onderzeeboot
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As an honest suggestion, I've been super impressed by...
Works super well in any spell based deck (a great theme for UR), and it's become the four drop I'm most looking out for if I pick up a Wildfire. A single spell cast before the Wildfire means it grows out of the 4 damage range when you cast the Wildfire (which will put the second counter on the Hound before the Wildfire resolves). Card continually exceeds people's expectations over here!
Works super well in any spell based deck (a great theme for UR), and it's become the four drop I'm most looking out for if I pick up a Wildfire. A single spell cast before the Wildfire means it grows out of the 4 damage range when you cast the Wildfire (which will put the second counter on the Hound before the Wildfire resolves). Card continually exceeds people's expectations over here!
I'm a huge fan of Shaman of the Great Hunt. It's never found a home in my cube for some reason...maybe I should remedy that.
Thanks for all of the suggestions! I think I'll try either Shaman of the Great Hunt or Moltensteel Dragon!
I'm looking for some Equipment that:
-Costs 1-3 Mana
-Is worse than Loxodon Warhammer but better than Flayer Husk
-Does more than just pump power/toughness
I'm also looking for a counterspell to replace Daze. Somewhere between the power level of Dissolve and Dismiss .
I'm looking for some Equipment that:
-Costs 1-3 Mana
-Is worse than Loxodon Warhammer but better than Flayer Husk
-Does more than just pump power/toughness
I'm also looking for a counterspell to replace Daze. Somewhere between the power level of Dissolve and Dismiss .
I haven't cubed it myself but I believe lots of people like Mask of Memory. There's also Mortarpod, which I do like as a powered down version of Goblin Bombardment.
For counterspells, maybe Memory Lapse?
For counterspells, maybe Memory Lapse?
What's a good U/W generic "noncreature spells matter" payoff. I want something that can interact with enchantments and artifacts in addition to instants and sorceries, but all I can find is Cunning Breezedancer.
Is skywise any better than Breezedancer though? I like dovescape, although it seems a bit annoying to play against.
Thanks for your time!
Would pair well with your aura theme. Does it need to be a guild slot?
I would like a guild slot. I'm looking to cut most of my aura theme, save for some of the auras themselves, Kor Spiritdancer, Hero of Iroas, Danitha Capishen, Paragon, and Fabled Hero. A lot of the "Aura Payoffs" that I have right now are just really janky in practice compared to most of the other synergy decks. Like, I want them to work, but usually players are just better off slapping pants on an Ahn-Crop Crasher than they are Valduk, Keeper of the Flame.
What I'm looking to do is:
Bleed the artifact theme into W/B a little bit
Replace R/W attachment with R/W Equipment
Replace U/W with something else
Make G/W the only "auras" deck in the cube
Power-up W/B Constellation
What I'm seeing a lot of is people are drafting the decks I want them to play, but they aren't playing the payoffs. For example, the other day, Rowan_CB drafted this deck:
WB Big Recursive Enchantifacts from CubeTutor.com
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Obviously they did a couple of weird things with the reanimator package in this deck, but it's still what I'm looking for. The thing is, though, they're not playing the "payoffs" I added for this archetype (Grim Guardian and Underworld Coinsmith) even though they have them in their card pool. I can kinda see why, too.
So basically, I want to broaden the scope of my narrower archetype enablers. I want to pick enablers that do more than enable one style of deck. A Replenish that functions as both a Breath of Life for enchantments but also potentially a Living end type effect. A Hanna, Ship's Navigator that brings back more than just semi-ok auras (to be fair, she does more than that right now). That's not to say I want to cut my enchantment theme, but the aura stuff specifically is really narrow and is probably actively worsening my draft environment.
That was a bit of a rant, I suppose, but hey, sometimes you just need to talk. I like Shu Yun and Myth Realized quite a bit. I think I'll probably try at least 1 of them. Thanks!
Probably worth putting in your cube thread at this point, but here's a few cards I've been very happy with.
Actually pretty fair with a curated equipment suite.
Balancing artifact and enchantment themes is a very tall order imo. My heavy use of the graveyard is one way I've managed to find any harmony. Being lower-powered and running almost all of the playable enchantment creatures does seem like a good way to "build in" support, but I'm not sure if your list is exactly low-powered.
I'm not sure what a U/W Prowess Tokens deck looks like in a lower-powered environment, but it's been very successful in my cube. Another benefit is that it plays well with other archetypes, and it doesn't require a lot of real estate if you're smart with your includes:
EDIT: Prioritizing artifact creature tokens can also be a big help in cross-pollinating strategies:
Actually pretty fair with a curated equipment suite.
Balancing artifact and enchantment themes is a very tall order imo. My heavy use of the graveyard is one way I've managed to find any harmony. Being lower-powered and running almost all of the playable enchantment creatures does seem like a good way to "build in" support, but I'm not sure if your list is exactly low-powered.
I'm not sure what a U/W Prowess Tokens deck looks like in a lower-powered environment, but it's been very successful in my cube. Another benefit is that it plays well with other archetypes, and it doesn't require a lot of real estate if you're smart with your includes:
EDIT: Prioritizing artifact creature tokens can also be a big help in cross-pollinating strategies:
I'm looking for suggestions on a 2-4cmc black creature that is valuable for control-oriented decks. No flips or morphs. Cube in sig. To give you an idea of where my head is at, I'm currently looking at these two completely different cards:
? It s o r t a works as a 186 dork in a much more interesting way.
I like:
Although the former definitely most enjoys a graveyard-oriented control deck and the latter is somewhat format-dependent on whether control or beatdown decks get the most from it.
More generically, Bone Shredder and Banewhip Punisher fit nicely into any deck.
Banewhip punisher is a great design. Some cards just have the perfect amount of play to them. Banewhip encourages you to eke out a little extra value with it somehow without it ever hogging the spotlight.
I'm a fan of Necroplasm, recommend testing it. It resets aggressive starts and is even better at daeling with tokens. Also, it helps dredge out if that is a deck you're supporting. Really cool and tricky card. Adds a lot of decision making not only with it's recursion ability. Oh, and if you have ways to add counters on it, it can grow infinitely. So many ways of playing that guy.
Yeah, I may give plasm a try over Stinkweed Imp. Imp’s deeper dredge is nice, but I’m not exactly short on that type of effect in my cube. A recursive sweeper is pretty appealing. I used to love Plague Spitter back in the day...
Gonti is a good one too.
Gonti is a good one too.
Onderzeeboot
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I would not recommend cutting Stinky from a Graveyard Cube though
Fine.
I'll cut Viscera Seer to make room. It wasn't making many maindecks.
I would keep the seer and drop stinkweed. Seer helps combo, which is what your cube is about. You have plenty of self Mill and are adding another in its place. Also you want to check necroplasm. It completely hoses tokens and puts a lot of pressure on low curbs decks.