Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight
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I mean, it's one power/creature, but yeah, I think you're right. I'm just a little scared of lands that generate value but don't turn into creatures or sac themselves, because they are hard to interact. But I guess this is much more tame than Ba Sing Se, which was annoying in retail draft.
Ba sing sea creates tokens. Which just like
Kjeldoran outpost is much stronger. Adding power is conditional instead of a true finisher/mana sink
Kjeldoran outpost is much stronger. Adding power is conditional instead of a true finisher/mana sink
Also, there are very few green token makers. If this were white and you could pump several creatures at once, probably several times, yeah, then it would be beter.
Que? Are you sure?
white has 502, green has 434
https://scryfall.com/search?q=o:"creature+token"+c=g&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
You could add non-basic land destruction. In my urza block cube I have some land destruction, which is not unfun. In my invasion block dragon decks I have non-basic land hate. There it even feels fair.
But hey, I like playing against staxx and do not mind playing against worship with black/red which do not have enchantment hate in the old frame.
I think they meant more in a way like: green token makers usually make one big token, white token makers usually make more copies of a smaller token, which would be better together with Oran-Rief
Could this card be problematic at lower power levels? I know it's in vintage cubes and such but it doesn't do anything. I was looking for colorless instants and sorceries and there really isn't that much.
It's just that this card is worrying me more than, for example, faithless looting because it's free. Free is scary.
I do not think so, in T2 it was fine, mainly played only in Delver decks in order to have an higher chance of flipping the Delver (and occasionally some Talrand synergies) but it was not something that *every* deck had to play. I envision it to be similar in a lower-power Cube, especially since it is just a singleton
If "take a peak at villain's hand" isn't a big deal in your format then Probe is fine - the real power comes in when you're using it to check villain's hand to see if it's safe to go for your combo. A Street Wraith that happens to trigger prowess isn't *that* big of a deal, especially if you only get the one.
You know, I only just realized that copying this thing potentially gives you a weird little combo kill (it hits villain for 3 damage for each card in their hand). I wonder how viable it'd be to set that up as a hidden archetype in cube? I don't think I've messed around with Forks much within a cubing context.
I was playing with CubeCobra's new draft simulation feature and it made me want to write up a bit for this dork that the bots rarely picked.
This guy has been in my cube since the cubetutor days. Grey ogre+ with haste is a fine floor for green if all else fails, but I love that it provides an overrun effect that all my graveyard interaction also plays into. As such, it provides a game piece that can close out the game, but it has some play after sideboarding etc. I've also seen some GB lists use it on 4 as a bad lightning axe and then recur it later to buff the team for the win. I just think it's neat!
This guy has been in my cube since the cubetutor days. Grey ogre+ with haste is a fine floor for green if all else fails, but I love that it provides an overrun effect that all my graveyard interaction also plays into. As such, it provides a game piece that can close out the game, but it has some play after sideboarding etc. I've also seen some GB lists use it on 4 as a bad lightning axe and then recur it later to buff the team for the win. I just think it's neat!
Memory unlocked. I've had this exact card when I was a child. It prompted me to think of ceilings and floors. 4/4 haste overrun seems great, right? Yet nobody played it, and I though it must be bad then, since the floor isn't good in constructed. I didn't grasp the concept of draft back then, and themed cubes likely didn't even exist (mid 2000s). Always love to read when old cards find homes in cube.I was playing with CubeCobra's new draft simulation feature and it made me want to write up a bit for this dork that the bots rarely picked.
This guy has been in my cube since the cubetutor days. Grey ogre+ with haste is a fine floor for green if all else fails, but I love that it provides an overrun effect that all my graveyard interaction also plays into. As such, it provides a game piece that can close out the game, but it has some play after sideboarding etc. I've also seen some GB lists use it on 4 as a bad lightning axe and then recur it later to buff the team for the win. I just think it's neat!
It was a founding member of my Cube in 2011. It wasn't hard to cut it, but I always liked centaurs and was disappointed they didn't stay a relevant creature type in Magic as it got more "big". It's a great Cube card too for lists where the power-level is.