Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

[Ryan]

Who knew an unplayable card like stroke of genius

You sir have apparently never played with Tolarian Academy

 

[anotak]

yeah i was considering saying something but then decided fsr was talking about a typical reasonable cube environment

 

[Ryan]

I still think it's a perfectly serviceable card in a reasonable cube environment. Could make mono-u draw go a thing

 

[Changling Bob]

four

Oh hey, this guy has haste. Now I feel stupid.

 

[Dom Harvey]

Yes, it costs four and we have Kiora in the next set, but U/G has no good cards anyway so maybe this is worth trying?

 

[Jason Waddell]

UG has lots of good cards but they all cost 3. I am running Horizon Chimera currently, mostly for the lifegain, but maybe it's serviceable. I really wish it had 3 toughness so that it could conceivably flash-block something that isn't Augur of Bolas.

 

[Dom Harvey]

I don't have room for many combat tricks, but access by two colours and scaling make this an interesting one.

 

[Jonas]

Conspire seems a bit weak unless you have a lot of tokens?

I've been thinking about some cards:

Fair tinker target?


Black artifact hate?


Also, color pie madness?



And I kind of like this card:

 

[James Stevenson]

That card looks cool. I think I need some more combat tricks, all I can think of is Briarhorn.

 

[Jason Waddell]

I've been thinking about some cards:

Fair tinker target?

The problem with Colossus is that it's so atrocious if you don't Tinker it, which makes it narrow. And it's not really a strong incentive to even play a Tinker deck.

 

[Jonas]

The problem with Colossus is that it's so atrocious if you don't Tinker it, which makes it narrow. And it's not really a strong incentive to even play a Tinker deck.

I could always make a new cube, with the theme "big risk no reward" Looking at other 7+power targets which could be intriguing, none really strike me as interesting. T2 Lightning Greaves, T3 Colossus could be amusing once or twice I guess. Bah on you tinker, bah.

 

[Dom Harvey]

I really want this one to be good:

 

[Jason Waddell]

I really want this one to be good:

Combine with Curse of Death's Hold for a build-your-own Plague Wind.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Note: You can only conspire once. It's a trigger, not an ability

 

[CML]

UG has lots of good cards but they all cost 3. I am running Horizon Chimera currently, mostly for the lifegain, but maybe it's serviceable. I really wish it had 3 toughness so that it could conceivably flash-block something that isn't Augur of Bolas.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Chris, I thought you were showing good UG cards, not embarassing draft fodder

 

[Eric Chan]

I totally run that card too!

 

[anotak]

i run that card too, it might be too good

Spoiler

 

[ahadabans]

Coiling Oracle is good. It's ability is better than drawing a card. And he's an elf. What's not to like? He's a better (albeit harder to cast) Elvish Visionary (a card I run).

I'd run Coiling Oracle too if I had room, even with the cost (something I feel like green can easily navigate anyway).

 

[VibeBox]

Coiling Oracle is good. It's ability is better than drawing a card.

 

[Lucre]

How do we make coiling oracle and the other vaguely advantageous things green does better?

• I guess we could scry more or whatever.
• We could have more ways to eat lands or doorknobs to do more interesting shit.
• I really like the idea of equiping them and making them more terrifying. Eric's Overrun theme seems to kinda do that too. It's too bad the swords don't actually cost green mana. Wouldn't that be kinda interesting?

 

[CML]

Well Coiling Oracle is an awesome Constructed card, but his cost is damn restrictive for that. So I guess it's time to just improve manabases

 

[Ryan]

I've been watching Dzy stream. Which kind of wants to make me try out Fist of Suns as a fair cheat card. Thoughts?

 

[Jonas]

Run it with Crystal Quarry

 

[Ryan]

don't forget about good old Kaleidostone