That also puts the removed creatures back into the opponents deck….
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Yeah the wincon is the opponent falling asleep leading to a game loss for slow play.
control players (me) love causing others to suffer so this sounds like icing on my cake of aggro tears
I'm having flashbacks to Creatureless Cover-Up in GRN draft.
Man that was a fun draft set.
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It's sick with Astral Slide too no I don't take feedback.
Man that was a fun draft set.
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It's sick with Astral Slide too no I don't take feedback.
I've been cubing Booster Tutor for a long time now and it scales as much to an environment as any card could. But is this true as well for this monstrosity?
I'm a bit scared of the possibility to cast multiple cards with it. But maybe that doesn't matter since you have to get to six first and how much different is there really between a 6-drop and two 3-drops?
I'm a bit scared of the possibility to cast multiple cards with it. But maybe that doesn't matter since you have to get to six first and how much different is there really between a 6-drop and two 3-drops?
I think my favorite O-Ring to combo with it is Touch the Spirit Realm for that sweet, sweet Channel effect. Though the nastiest O-Ring has to be Parallax Wave...
@ravnic I think it depends a lot on both color pip density and the average mana cost of your cube. To test, I grabbed a random pack from the CCC:
| WHITE (1) 1 Shepherd of the Flock BLUE (1) 1 Omenspeaker BLACK (1) 1 Okiba Gang Shinobi RED (4) 1 Disintegrate 1 Battlefield Scavenger 1 Anger 1 Beetleback Chief GREEN (3) 1 Experiment One 1 Beanstalk Giant 1 Ant Queen COLORLESS (1) 1 Key to the City GOLD (2) 1 Rakdos Guildmage 1 Nightveil Spectre LAND (2) 1 Battlefield Forge 1 Prismatic Vista |
Assuming that you cast this thing T6 and have already played out a land, I'm not sure that there's anything super broken you can do with that pile of cards for
. Especially since 4 of those cards are straight-up unplayable if you've already played your land for turn, and 2 others would need you to Beanstalk Giant up an appropriate basic to play them (assuming that you actually have an appropriate basic, of course).
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try it out, it's a fun one and you can control whats in the boosterI've been cubing Booster Tutor for a long time now and it scales as much to an environment as any card could. But is this true as well for this monstrosity?
I'm a bit scared of the possibility to cast multiple cards with it. But maybe that doesn't matter since you have to get to six first and how much different is there really between a 6-drop and two 3-drops?
pretty busted!How busted is a Timetwister you have to work for? Actually, how busted is even timetwister in a super fair lower powered environment with close to zero combo stuff?
yup! Storm loves both but they're solid and powerful toolsI've been cubing Booster Tutor for a long time now and it scales as much to an environment as any card could. But is this true as well for this monstrosity?
i think it needs to either make a token itself or cost less mana or oil to draw. storytellers staff it aint
I've heard this was bad in ONE, but unlike that format, my cube's full of tokens that can actually block. So, maybe this is good and a nice way to link white's token strategy with black's sacrifice theme even better?
Staff of the Storyteller is definitely the premiere version of this kind of effect but I want to shout out Chivalric Alliance again in this thread as good token support that does a similar thing to Norn's Wellspring. Your tokens may die when attacking, but you can hold up tricks or effects with the guise of wanting to get the attack trigger, so it behaves pretty similarly, and fuels itself too if you'd like!
I like Norn's Wellspring just fine and would've tried it out in my actual cube had those two cards not recently been printed, but it is what it is.
I like Norn's Wellspring just fine and would've tried it out in my actual cube had those two cards not recently been printed, but it is what it is.
Talking of 2-mana artifacts that geberate value when things die ...
This one is expensive, but I assume it's more because of some weird combos in constructed? It doesn't seem particularly high powered to me.
I've cast it once in retail. It put two counters on my Gingerbrute and exiled a Merfolk Coralsmith, which allowed me to turn my food golem into an unblockable 5/1 which was just enough to win the race. That was fun. I wouldn't mind repeating that experience in cube.
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Also, if I were to proxy it, I would turn the order of it's abilities around. If you start reading it from the bottom it's much easier to understand
This one is expensive, but I assume it's more because of some weird combos in constructed? It doesn't seem particularly high powered to me.
I've cast it once in retail. It put two counters on my Gingerbrute and exiled a Merfolk Coralsmith, which allowed me to turn my food golem into an unblockable 5/1 which was just enough to win the race. That was fun. I wouldn't mind repeating that experience in cube.
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Also, if I were to proxy it, I would turn the order of it's abilities around. If you start reading it from the bottom it's much easier to understand
There's dozens of infinite combos with Agatha's Soul Cauldron in EDH, yeah. If you're running Spike Feeder already for any shenanigans or like making opportunities for dumb interactions, it's really strong and can go infinite nearly on accident.
I'm including it just as a value engine. There's no infinite combos available in my list with it (that I'm aware of) but it's a super neat card that also is incidental grave hate. My players love pieces like this that are mini engines, and while I agree with you that it'd be 10x easier to grok if the abilities were written in reverse order, I think it gets there anyways for cubes of pretty much any power level.
I'm including it just as a value engine. There's no infinite combos available in my list with it (that I'm aware of) but it's a super neat card that also is incidental grave hate. My players love pieces like this that are mini engines, and while I agree with you that it'd be 10x easier to grok if the abilities were written in reverse order, I think it gets there anyways for cubes of pretty much any power level.
GG is less expensive and less of a menace in constructed these days, but what does that mean for a cube that hasn't that power creep going on and is still happy casting Rakdos Cackler, Jackal Pup or even just Flameblade Adept? Is the guide's drawback more of a thing in a cube where games usually don't end quite as quickly? Or is it crazy to consider this in a cube where this will almost always deal at least 4 to them and where 1-mana removal spells aren't abundant?
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Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
It's one of the greatest Rx aggro signals that doesn't just say "you lose if you don't have an answer". I love the little goblin!
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
He’s not actually that big, but he’s been eating all kinds of shit to learn how to cook, so his constitution is through the roof
(For real though, look at that fireplace behind him for size reference. That rat is nightmarishly huge!)A huge ass rat by definition