Only 3-color cards I've had success with are Nacatl and Nicol Bolas.
Article [MCD] Commander previews
- Thread starter Dom Harvey
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I rotate in the low-percentage 3-color cards. Recently, The Mimeoplasm has actually been played in a few decks. Reanimator decks are either UB or GB, so BUG is a pretty natural fit. Maelstrom Wanderer has also been pretty popular.
CML
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Cruel Ultimatum too, HOW COULD I FORGET. One of the few control cards ever printed that I genuinely love
FlowerSunRain
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Fiery Justice has always been playable. I also find it cute that it is the three colors that Fire Covenant isn't while serving the same purpose with a reversed drawback!
FlowerSunRain
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On a different note, is there anywhere you can pre-order single from these decks? All the stores I usually buy from are already sold out.
Dom Harvey
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Neither of them are blue!
Chris Taylor
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Yeah I wanna pick up one of those strategic plannings for pike 
Only card I need out of the most expensive deck
Only card I need out of the most expensive deck
FlowerSunRain
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counting to 5 was never my strong suit.
Broodmate Dragon, Maelstrom Wanderer, Cruel Ultimatum, The Mimeoplasm all get picked pretty highly in my cube. Ruhan of the Fomori often gets played even if he isn't early-picked
Is it just me or is Ruhan a really really dumb card?
I mean he's a beefy three-color vanilla creature, and he's not even green.
CML
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OK RIPTIDELAB. LET'S ALL GATHER ROUND FOR CML'S TOTALLY POINTLESS STORYTIME!!!
A friend told another friend of his unfamiliar with MTG culture that a 14-year-old girl had Stage IV lymphoma, and her dying wish was to write an article that would be featured on the Mothership. With the very last of her strength she was able to type it out, hunting and pecking, ponderously, like Steven Hawking at a pick-up bar, and send it in to whomever manages these things. Thus "Nymphs of Theros" was published. The friend went home and read it, then told our mutual friend, "You know, I don't want to be a dick, but that article was pretty dumb, even for a 14-year-old girl. What's more, there's something wrong with your story. If there really was a girl dying of cancer, wouldn't they have at least had a little time for, if not a photo-op, then an announcement on the front page?" We then decided that, would we were to endeavor to reproduce (gods willing, never) and our fetus had written the article, we'd have to give it a mercy killing. Thus my new dysphemism "post-birth abortion" was ... born.
The whole point of the story is that Ruhan is not only dumb, he's dumber than "Nymph(o)s of Theros."
Going back to 3c cards, my great love of gold sections bigger than a Downtown Vegas pawn shop makes me wanna type out some more stuff.
Rhox War Monk is on-again, off-again -- it's a fantastic card that time has for whatever reason forgotten. The new Rhino is sweet, too, and he reminds me of another card with equal mana cost that saw some play: Finest Hour.
Esper Charm was a ridiculous constructed card that is too low-impact in Cube.
Sprouting Thrinax might be good in a Waddell-style thing.
Fiery Justice is well-loved over here, it's a terrific card.
I could never get anyone to pick Broodmate or Mimeoplasm.
A friend told another friend of his unfamiliar with MTG culture that a 14-year-old girl had Stage IV lymphoma, and her dying wish was to write an article that would be featured on the Mothership. With the very last of her strength she was able to type it out, hunting and pecking, ponderously, like Steven Hawking at a pick-up bar, and send it in to whomever manages these things. Thus "Nymphs of Theros" was published. The friend went home and read it, then told our mutual friend, "You know, I don't want to be a dick, but that article was pretty dumb, even for a 14-year-old girl. What's more, there's something wrong with your story. If there really was a girl dying of cancer, wouldn't they have at least had a little time for, if not a photo-op, then an announcement on the front page?" We then decided that, would we were to endeavor to reproduce (gods willing, never) and our fetus had written the article, we'd have to give it a mercy killing. Thus my new dysphemism "post-birth abortion" was ... born.
The whole point of the story is that Ruhan is not only dumb, he's dumber than "Nymph(o)s of Theros."
Going back to 3c cards, my great love of gold sections bigger than a Downtown Vegas pawn shop makes me wanna type out some more stuff.
Rhox War Monk is on-again, off-again -- it's a fantastic card that time has for whatever reason forgotten. The new Rhino is sweet, too, and he reminds me of another card with equal mana cost that saw some play: Finest Hour.
Esper Charm was a ridiculous constructed card that is too low-impact in Cube.
Sprouting Thrinax might be good in a Waddell-style thing.
Fiery Justice is well-loved over here, it's a terrific card.
I could never get anyone to pick Broodmate or Mimeoplasm.
I have absolutely no idea why he is blue.
However he's on a different level of big dumb object from Woolly Thoctar which went last pick about 3 drafts in a row until someone actually planned on it getting wheeled and the person beside him realized he was in aggro and took it instead of some other card he wasn't going to play. I cut it at that point. On the other hand, 7/7 is big enough to straight up beat everything except 3 other cards in my cube in a fight, and it trades with 2 of those. The cheapest of those is 7 mana vs his 4 (unless you count Greater Gargadon as being cheaper). If almost nobody can profitably block him, that's a pretty great asset.
edit: disclaimer my cube is really weird and full of durdly slow things, normal cube logic doesn't always apply to what is good (or perhaps interesting)
However he's on a different level of big dumb object from Woolly Thoctar which went last pick about 3 drafts in a row until someone actually planned on it getting wheeled and the person beside him realized he was in aggro and took it instead of some other card he wasn't going to play. I cut it at that point. On the other hand, 7/7 is big enough to straight up beat everything except 3 other cards in my cube in a fight, and it trades with 2 of those. The cheapest of those is 7 mana vs his 4 (unless you count Greater Gargadon as being cheaper). If almost nobody can profitably block him, that's a pretty great asset.
edit: disclaimer my cube is really weird and full of durdly slow things, normal cube logic doesn't always apply to what is good (or perhaps interesting)
CML
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But ano "full of durdly slow things" sounds like every non-Riptide Cube ever
fwiw there's an article i wrote (a pair actually where i reported on the "elementary-school theater" of 2012's player's championship feat. childish drama director Sheldon Menery) pillorying PVDDR's terrible, terrible cube draft, which starred (as i recall it) Spell Pierce, City of Traitors, and Ruhan.
tangent: i cannot watch official magic coverage without thinking of this any more. thanks a lot, guys.
fwiw there's an article i wrote (a pair actually where i reported on the "elementary-school theater" of 2012's player's championship feat. childish drama director Sheldon Menery) pillorying PVDDR's terrible, terrible cube draft, which starred (as i recall it) Spell Pierce, City of Traitors, and Ruhan.
tangent: i cannot watch official magic coverage without thinking of this any more. thanks a lot, guys.
CML
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Oh come on man. I just get so excited when I hear the pure adrenaline and meticulous analysis and amazing varied tone of voice of not at all a giant narcissist, ZAC HILL!!!
I am looking forward to writing a book where I describe various WotC coverage teams as "circle-jerk triskelions" and a certain member thereof as "... a one-man ouroboros, filled with the sperm-burping self-satisfaction of auto-fellatio"
I am looking forward to writing a book where I describe various WotC coverage teams as "circle-jerk triskelions" and a certain member thereof as "... a one-man ouroboros, filled with the sperm-burping self-satisfaction of auto-fellatio"
I don't think I could have envisioned this conversation when I created this website.
Chris Taylor
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Guys, guys, guys, we're all missing the point on Ruhan. He's George Bush! Randomly attacking people, not knowing quite where he's going, and rather unpopular as a general.
Zedruu the greathearted is Obama, constantly being accused of giving away too much but the restrictive cost of him doing anything prevents him from actually doing what he wants.
Numot is Nixon, I guess. Vietnam?
Zedruu the greathearted is Obama, constantly being accused of giving away too much but the restrictive cost of him doing anything prevents him from actually doing what he wants.
Numot is Nixon, I guess. Vietnam?
Dom Harvey
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oh god, don't let CML see this
"Vote Zedruu 2016 and I'll give you that Pyromancer's Swath and Steel Golem you always wanted."
Chris Taylor
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I will bring spellcasting down under 13% by improving government celestial dawn programs nationwide.
