Have you gotten some results with Overburden? I just added it to my cube, but it wasn't in the pool during our first draft, which is sad, because I drafted a sweet
landfall deck, where it would've been nice.
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Have you gotten some results with Overburden? I just added it to my cube, but it wasn't in the pool during our first draft, which is sad, because I drafted a sweet
landfall deck, where it would've been nice.
So... Gnawing Zombie. It's a card. Not a very great one, but a card. Then I remembered Gravecrawler. And Bloodsoaked Champion, and Dread Wanderer. So, Gnawing Zombie could be an actually fun zombie combo/control card. It doesn't require aristocrats support to be played, intersects fine with zombie decks, and is a decent blocker. Thoughts?
I really like it! I'm kind of tinkering with a sac-combo package right now with recurring creatures and blood artist effects and while expensive Gnawing Zombie combines both the pinger and the sacrifice outlet into a single card. I think it's worth a shot.
Also, it combos with Oathsworn Vampire (not that this makes it any better
Actually it combos with all the blood artist effects! I'm considering it quite seriously as a recurable creature for that style of deck
Chris Taylor
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It's a LOT. I found barrage of expendables to be too much, this seems untenable
Actually it combos with all the blood artist effects! I'm considering it quite seriously as a recurable creature for that style of deck
I am running Oathsworn Vampire lately, since I am supporting both, sacrifice and lifegain in black. I can't really give you feedback yet, but from what I can tell now, he is definitely worth a slot, even more so than the Gnawing Zombie imho.
Certainly. A minimum of 1BB drain 1 is kind of absurd if you can't abuse it/don't have the mana to spend. Thankfully, I think there are enough ways to abuse the synergy to make the mana investment worth while. Infinite Vengevine, anyone?
Cool. I like Oathsworn, but I don't have enough LG to make it plausible in mine.
I really wanna play Courser, but I feel like that giant 2/4 body and the life gain can be pretty oppresive against certain aggro decks. What are your experience with this card in a lower-medium power cube? Is it possible to provide enough playable enchantmental removal to make the enchantment-creature type a weakness in practice?
Onderzeeboot
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I love the card. It's not a bad thing to have something against aggro, and while this is a roadblock, they can deal with it.
I really wanna play Courser, but I feel like that giant 2/4 body and the life gain can be pretty oppresive against certain aggro decks. What are your experience with this card in a lower-medium power cube? Is it possible to provide enough playable enchantmental removal to make the enchantment-creature type a weakness in practice?
At a glance, I think your environment looks powerful enough to handle courser. You have more than enough low-cost removal for ago decks to use against it. I think adding it would make more controlling green decks a bit better and cards like Flame Slash, Mizzium Mortars, and Lightning Axe higher picks for aggro decks.
Thanks both of you! I think I understate the power level in my cube sometimes. It's probably accurate to call it medium powered?
Probably. Most of your low-cost creatures (with a couple of exceptions) are at least palatable in a high-powered environment. Your top-end finishers are not very powerful in comparison. This isn't necessarily a bad thing- Skysnare Spider will still stonewall a Delver of Secrets. That being said, my Skysnare Spider does look kind of silly next to your Braids, Cabal Minion. You do not need to change this- as long as people are playing and winning with your current fatties, you don't have an issue. Your cube looks like it has a mostly balanced environment, it's just your low cost creatures have better abilities than your high cost creatures.
I think medium powered is a fairly accurate description.
You're fine. Courser is a good card, but I don't think its oppressive in almost any environment. It certainly isn't in mine, and I feel like I'm in the lower quartile of riptide list power levels.
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A friend and I broke open a 500-card mystery box we bough from our LGS last week, and grid drafted its contents. It was terrible, mostly from lack of cards that can win the game. Our decks were terrible, but I put this "engine" together to win a game and it was satisfying.
There's not much more to say about this. Just thought I'd post.
There's not much more to say about this. Just thought I'd post.
Onderzeeboot
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Aha, it was the 500-card mystery jank box! You never know what jank you are going to get!
A friend and I broke open a 500-card mystery box we bough from our LGS last week, and grid drafted its contents. It was terrible, mostly from lack of cards that can win the game. Our decks were terrible, but I put this "engine" together to win a game and it was satisfying.
There's not much more to say about this. Just thought I'd post.
I need to make that deck now XD
What do you guys think about this easier to cast but slightly more expensive Banisher Priest that pumps itself?
Another card I'm a bit afraight of. How good is a 5/6 with flash + a free spell recursion in a medium power cube? Is it just good enough? 6 mana isn't super cheap, and the artefact type makes it maybe slightly more vulnerable.
Edit: Oh! Also, it's just instants? So maybe that tones it down a bit more?