Chris Taylor
Contributor
Man, with goyf and tracker in the mix, how big would a green 3 need to be before we'd pay attention?
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- Thread starter Dom Harvey
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If there's one thing green isn't lacking, it's meat. I usually like my green 3's to provide some utility / card advantage before the beefy 4's and 4's start dropping.
I play Loxodon Smiter as essentially a vanilla
4/4 beater, and he's done some good work in that role. The most important thing about Smiter for us is that he requires zero hoops to jump through; any three cmc vanilla animal (in any colour, really) needs to pretty big if it's coming with a bunch of stipulations attached before you can deploy it to the red zone.
There's also clue tokens, birthing pod, evolutionary leap, vessel of narscency, Sakura tribe elder, etc etc. I think it's interesting.
Edit Harrow, crop rotation,
Edit edit, eldrazi spawn/scion tokens
Edit Harrow, crop rotation,
Edit edit, eldrazi spawn/scion tokens
Added it to my cube when it came out, it has consistently over-performed... and this is a cube with the likes of Rofellos and Mana drain in it...
There's something to be said for a splashable, growing beater that also smooths out your draws. Ramp decks especially sometimes have that 'dead turn' where you have more mana than you need, but not -quite- enough to cast that Atarka or Gen. Wave.
Drawing 2-4 cards during that turn ain't bad. Ain't bad at all...
CML
Contributor
Does anybody play with this in their cube?
Yup, in my main cube. I have it for storm or other means to make infinite dmg. Also sometimes you might want it just for the infinite creatures in an aggro deck. Fun card, but it needs a person with guts to give it a try.
Does anybody play with this in their cube?
Onderzeeboot
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In an effort to not side-track the CN2 spoilers thread into goblin chat, has anyone tried
The rate isn't insanely bad, she's very easy to play, and has high upside if you untap?
She's super fun as the commander of my mono green ramp/tokens/lifegain EDH deck
She's super fun as the commander of my mono green ramp/tokens/lifegain EDH deck
Look dude if you're not casting Warp World in your Wart deck why do you even bother.
Also I'm going to give her a try in Cube but my expectations are low.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Well, there's no red sources in the deck, so that's a bit hard, right
There is however Doubling Season into Wort, the Raidmother into double Howl of the Night Pack into double Overrun
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I thought I disliked will of the council as a mechanic, but Council's Judgment offered a surprising deep play moment yesterday, when my opponent was on Relentless Dead + Carrion Feeder. Council's Judgment only exiles on resolution, without targeting, so he wasn't able to just sac the target to Carrion Feeder but had to sac the Relentless Dead in response, zombifying another Carrion Feeder, allowing me to exile the Feeder with a counter on it. Felt like a totally sweet play.
Each of these for E Domain:
What about Cryptolith Rite rather than Prismatic Omen?
Could work, doesn't really support Domain, and also leads to potential, like, Turn 4 big Eldrazi. Not sure if that's desirable or not.
Each of these for E Domain:
Why Nahiri? Looks pretty generic unless you've got madness or golbin welder or something.
Nahiri would be a way to cheat in Eldrazi (ala Modern), but maybe it's dumb. It feels a little dumb.
Nahiri would be a way to cheat in Eldrazi (ala Modern), but maybe it's dumb. It feels a little dumb.
Some level of "oops, i win" should go a long way in pleasing the mtgo crowd. Add all of these big play cards.
Crypto rite seems really cool. Think of the 540 version as eldrazi rainbow.
Onderzeeboot
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I hate to say this too, but how about:
Isn't that like super awesome with all these eldrazi spawn tokens?
I kinda like the scion tokens way better than the spawn tokens by the way. Pawn of Ulamog is awesome, and Growth Spasm and Nest Invader are both decent, but after that it gets progressively worse. It might not be aesthetically pleasing to use both tokens, but Eldrazi Skyspawner, Drowner of Hope and Catacomb Sifter are each more awesome than the rest of the spawn token cards combined, and they still evoke the Eldrazi part of your cube.
Hrrrrrng, I don't know what to doooo!
I'm going to test with both types of tokens and see if I hate it.