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, Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist.
Onderzeeboot
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Dudes! 100 pages!
I like Lucre's suggestion.
I like Lucre's suggestion.
Somebody mentioned this in the gruul thread:
any good?
I run him, but the jury is still out. I think he should be interesting/good, but has probably been a bit too narrow lately. I am upping my flashback count, so I want to hold on for a bit and see how he fits in.
I overlooked this but wonder if its playable? Usual cubes vary caveats, but self mill, counter synergy, heroic/prowess...
It's a very dredgy kind of card! What's the general amount of +1/+1 counters we can expect this to deliver?
edit: I wonder what this would feel like with something like dredge 3 on it.It feels like the kind of card I'd like to be fun and solid and reasonable but when I think about it, seems like a pipe dream.
Losing to swingy pants decks is kinda low on my list and this is like the swingiest of pants cards that only makes its way into one deck and is very rarely capable of giving you a cards worth of value consistently even under those circumstances.
Even if you managed to make a reasonable archetype that was like this card + bloodghast is it's inevitability, you're still talking about one deck being served here for a card that is spotty even in graveyard themed decks. We aint talking about a blocker or a removal spell here.
Losing to swingy pants decks is kinda low on my list and this is like the swingiest of pants cards that only makes its way into one deck and is very rarely capable of giving you a cards worth of value consistently even under those circumstances.
Even if you managed to make a reasonable archetype that was like this card + bloodghast is it's inevitability, you're still talking about one deck being served here for a card that is spotty even in graveyard themed decks. We aint talking about a blocker or a removal spell here.
Onderzeeboot
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So, given that I support Grixis, and that it's mostly a control shard, is this playable? I currently run Unscythe, Killer of Kings, but that wasn't very satisfactory for the player who ran it yesterday. The other alternative is a custom card, but I suspect Gem's effect is exactly what a grindy control deck that's looking to get to seven or eight mana is looking for.
Now there's a bad inspiration!
Onderzeeboot
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Actually, the Sphere is plenty playable. It helps that you don't have to pay the cost at once, and you know what you get. For 5-color decks or nongreen decks looking to ramp into big threats, this is a perfectly servicable cube inclusion I think. (This statement obviously doesn't apply to high-powered or really fast cubes.)
Yes, I can acknowledge that someone might want to play that card under some sort of circumstances. It still sorta strikes me as a "bad Inspiration" though, but I'll also tell you I consider cards like Kroasan Tusker and Fact or Fiction to be "good Inspiration"
Does anyone here think 2, 2 Gem is unhealthy in a cube environment? I mean it would be playable occasionally in 2 colour decks that way and not make you feel like shit when you already have your only mountain.
Does anyone here think 2, 2 Gem is unhealthy in a cube environment? I mean it would be playable occasionally in 2 colour decks that way and not make you feel like shit when you already have your only mountain.
Onderzeeboot
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That card just seems so bad. It doesn't ramp, it doesn't get you the card you want most, it's too expensive, and
I think it's underrated. Three mana instant for two cards, puts three cards in the grave, acts like a mini Mana Severence, and with ULD you easily grab 4 nonbasics.
I love Haakon. And I don't think you need knights to make it playable. It's more about having discard outlets. If you can reliably bin it, then you have a 3/3 recurring threat much in the vein of gravecrawler (which works with gravecrawler in fact - Haakon is a zombie after all).
If you also have a knight or two in your deck, well that's gravy. But it's not the ability that is key to Haakon being good IMO.
PS. If you run Haakon, consider also running Nameless Inversion. It's decent removal and obviously is busted with Haakon.
If you also have a knight or two in your deck, well that's gravy. But it's not the ability that is key to Haakon being good IMO.
PS. If you run Haakon, consider also running Nameless Inversion. It's decent removal and obviously is busted with Haakon.
Too good? Does nothing?
FlowerSunRain
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On top of that library isn't a remotely interesting card. It get by on pure power level, the design itself isn't interesting (see: Magus of the Library that no one cares about). Just like I wouldn't be impressed if someone took a lightning bolt, sharpied the three into a, I don't know, seven and started bragging about how great it is, I find Library banal.
I have thought about what Magic would look like if it was balanced around the library/ancestral recall power level and it is pretty difficult to conceive of it making any sense.
I have thought about what Magic would look like if it was balanced around the library/ancestral recall power level and it is pretty difficult to conceive of it making any sense.