Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

[japahn]

Every time you read Feldon, it does a different thing. That's probably because we shortcut cards a lot and Feldon does a lot of unusual things. Imagine it was:

1RR Filip of the Fourth Path
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
1RR, T, exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of your next end step, exile that token. Activate this ability any time you can cast a sorcery.

It's much, much worse in many different ways and still reads almost the same!

 

[inscho]

Don’t forget the old trick of making a token in your opponent’s end step, making another in your main phase, and attacking with two tokens

 

[Mondschwein]

too weak, even with ninjas?

EDIT: Banshee also looks good with stuff like Reveillark

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Keening Banshee used to be a personal favorite of mine. Such a sweet little card!

 

[LadyMapi]

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[TrainmasterGT]

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[Onderzeeboot]

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[TrainmasterGT]

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Not a 3/3 for 3 that gains life

I mean, it's the objectively superior card. But if you want the life, it's only a 2/1.

 

[Dom Harvey]

 

[LadyMapi]

 

[Mondschwein]

Are you trying to implement a lifegain theme?
Guess I'd go with straight BW there, as those have the most incidental lifegain and the most interesting payoffs.
Punishing Fire and Kavu Predator look just very narrow if you're not playing The Lifegain Cube.

btw what about the following



those three look like the strongest/most interesting ones. Did anyone already test them? They're quite mana intensive, but I see some decks that would want a recurrable threat/blocker that aren't black.

 

[ravnic]

I tested the green and the blue one quite some time ago, no idea why I cut them. I like the green one the most I think, as that's where you can get the sweet landfall/loam synergies, as well as enchantment stuff.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Ok but there's a good card that enables the first two:

 

[Jason Waddell]

I ran the grove combo via ULD before and it felt kind of... forced? I like the idea in a constructed deck but in cube it felt heavy handed.

 

[Mondschwein]

too narrow to combo with haste and etb fight?
what else does this combo with?

 

[TrainmasterGT]

too narrow to combo with haste and etb fight?
what else does this combo with?

This card's main interaction is with the free haste granted by suspend. The more suspend within a format, the better it gets!

 

[Brad]

Seems cool with the Riot mechanic. Decent fit for some kind of Gruul strategy. Definitely narrow, but that's a lot of extra stats.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Seems cool with the Riot mechanic. Decent fit for some kind of Gruul strategy. Definitely narrow, but that's a lot of extra stats.

Fires.dec?

 

[Brad]

Spoiler

Terror is too much for whatever power level this nonsense is.

Idea might not be too narrow. It's almost like haste tribal. There's plenty of good haste to run. It's a little awkward that it's kind of 3c if you want the Ambuscade redundancy on Forcemage.

Just Forcemage, Halana, Rhythm, and a bit of an emphasis on haste in red is pretty decent for this idea. I've always thought Ragebeast is an under appreciated card, as well.

EDIT:

Spoiler

Varying power levels of ETBs. Get supercharged with a +/+ enabler out.

This could be cool.

 

[LadyMapi]

And there're a bunch of ways to leverage that boost, beyond literally granting haste:

The obvious ones are Dash and Suspend:



But what about stuff that puts creatures onto the battlefield tapped and attacking?



Or, you know, some other silliness?

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

Hmm I wanna see the 40 card example deck, this seems very much like a fun penny dreadful deck rather than something that's actually possible to assemble in a cube draft as a player rather than a designer

 

[LadyMapi]

I feel like this is less of a "draft the haste/Primal Forcemage deck" thing, and more of a "hey, this interacts with a surprisingly broad range of cards" thing.

 

[Erik Twice]

Terror of the Peaks is brutal, I cut it from my cube because it was dominating and I run bullshit like Forbid and Mother of Runes.

 

[Brad]

I think this could be a real deck. It only wants the Forcemage as a single slot dedicated to it. Beyond that, you get to run ETB fights and haste creatures. Those are playable anyways. The cost of including this is pretty low and it's a very cute synergy. I may look into it for my secondary cube.

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

At what point does this stop being a stone soup? Wouldn't a hasty RG deck potentially cut this card? I'm saying this as a person who has definitely also looked at this card before! While +3/+3 is a lot of extra stats, it happens occasionally, and the rest of the time you have a grey ogre. I guess it's sweet in a format where playing a grey ogre isn't the worst?