Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
Isn't it terrible because the untap symbol?
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- Thread starter Dom Harvey
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Just run some proliferate cards. Not as "combo", but much more useful overall.
Volt Charge has been super solid since I added it. It's a decent removal spell on it's own, and with a target (or two) it's wonderfully synergistic. It feels really great playing this and making my Stormblood Berserker a 4/4 at the same time. I wouldn't run it without a +1/+1 counter theme I don't think, but then again I do not run walkers so I have very few worthwhile targets outside the aforementioned theme. Anyone with a walker heavy meta is going to get a lot of mileage out of volt charge I would imagine.
Volt Charge has been super solid since I added it. It's a decent removal spell on it's own, and with a target (or two) it's wonderfully synergistic. It feels really great playing this and making my Stormblood Berserker a 4/4 at the same time. I wouldn't run it without a +1/+1 counter theme I don't think, but then again I do not run walkers so I have very few worthwhile targets outside the aforementioned theme. Anyone with a walker heavy meta is going to get a lot of mileage out of volt charge I would imagine.
in theory this seems really neat with planeswalkers, charge counters, whatever. is that wishful thinking?
I can't imagine how that can swing in and live, and it's so much mana. Run Contagion Clasp if you want a durdly proliferate effect; it costs more, but since it also does some removal work early on, I find my controlling decks are always happy to run it and proliferate in the mid-game once they've gotten an edge. And I second the Volt Charge recommendation as well; I've been thinking of doubling up it's so handy.
Maybe this joke was too subtle. :|
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Possibly. I did think this was CBS when you posted it
Glaring Spotlight? I hardly know 'er spotlight.
Hahaha, that was cheekyGrim Discovery doesn't mill you for four though, and that really does make a difference, especially on turn 2. It would probably be fine at
If this sort of thing does catch on, I think Realms Uncharted could be interesting.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Nah, that card has been janky like forever despite people's best intentions to break it. Finding only lands is a real drawback, not controlling which of those lands you get is even worse!
in theory this seems really neat with planeswalkers, charge counters, whatever. is that wishful thinking?
I run him, but he sucks. He only gets to keep his slot because I haven't found a satisfactory simic hybrid card to replace him with.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Do you run customs? Cause
Mercurial Bairn
Creature - Ouphe
Flash
When ~ enters the battlefield, proliferate.
1/4
sounds pretty sweet
Why not just cut it and run an extra card in blue and green?
edit: that's been my approach, anyway. An unplayable in a slot is like not having that slot at all.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Yeah, when a card always ends up 15th pick, and never sees play, it fullfills no purpose in your cube. Keeping it in just because you "need" a second hybrid isn't doing anyone a favor. I would just add an interesting G/U gold card in its spot.
hybrid isn't doing anyone a favor. I would just add an interesting G/U gold card in its spot.
Did this ever work out for any of you? Did anyone even try it?
Did this ever work out for any of you? Did anyone even try it?
Tried, didn't work. The times it would be good it just gets killed most of the time it just isn't. Also it's not like you can get value the minute you play it/before they can remove it.
FlowerSunRain
Contributor
Activation cost is just too damn high and it relies on having something else that generates value to be anything other then a really expensive vigilance+shroud provider. On top of that getting killed by everything (including collateral damage from wipes/dividable burn) means that even costing isn't enough of a saving grace.
Disclaimer: didn't actually try it.
isn't enough of a saving grace.Disclaimer: didn't actually try it.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
seems superior
Dom Harvey
Contributor
then how about:
Aoret
Developer
she's decent if your power level is low enough/format is slow enough that the activation cost is attainable. I ran her in my low power grave cube back in the day (when I still cared about that cube).
Omg I thoughts drunken post about intrinsic delayed card advantage + selection was more interesting than to be immediately usurped by consistent blink abuse critters fuk, maybe I gotta stop posting at bars.
Playing the noob cube has really made me question my convictions about untapped fixing, but honestly, I'd rather fixing be largely a in draft penalty than something like a two turn mulligan the way it generally turns out with loose tapped fixing
Jeeze I like green and red disruption as much as the next guy but I'm thinking a lot of bounce lands and temples these days jeeze.
Playing the noob cube has really made me question my convictions about untapped fixing, but honestly, I'd rather fixing be largely a in draft penalty than something like a two turn mulligan the way it generally turns out with loose tapped fixing
Jeeze I like green and red disruption as much as the next guy but I'm thinking a lot of bounce lands and temples these days jeeze.
I've been lurking in Grillo's painland cube thread for a bit and it got me thinking about
...Which is a card I love, especially in Commander where it's troll level maximum. Is this thing any good in an unpowered-but-mostly-traditional cube setting?
...Which is a card I love, especially in Commander where it's troll level maximum. Is this thing any good in an unpowered-but-mostly-traditional cube setting?
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
I would say generally its a troll card. I plan on ultimately running a lot of incidental life gain to off set it though
FlowerSunRain
Contributor
Manabarbs has been a legit card in constructed in the past, it could probably do damage in cubes with higher mana curves.
That is, if Sphinx of the Steel Wind is a three drop in your environment, manabarbs is useless, but if decks routinely tap 5 lands to drop Cloudgoat Ranger to stabilize its probably is pretty good. It could probably do some work in my no mana rock environment, but it is sort of a sideboard card so I don't know if I want it.
That is, if Sphinx of the Steel Wind is a three drop in your environment, manabarbs is useless, but if decks routinely tap 5 lands to drop Cloudgoat Ranger to stabilize its probably is pretty good. It could probably do some work in my no mana rock environment, but it is sort of a sideboard card so I don't know if I want it.
Dom Harvey
Contributor
Manabarbs is just a miserable card to play against in my experience.