Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

[TrainmasterGT]

How powerful or snowbally is this guy? I've never seen him in action because I've killed him on the spot every single time in Standard but it seems extremely strong with the proper support. Thoughts?

It's strong but far from too good in an environment with a reasonable power level. As long as your drafters can kill it, it's not an issue. Nightmare Shepherd is only an issue in retail limited because the removal is so bad.

 

[ravnic]

You probably wouldn't even want to use it's ability quite often if it was in my cube, as the exile makes recursion impossible. As long as you have no problem Problem with giving black a 4 mana air elemental with upside (I'm not, but that's my design philosophy), I don't see him being too strong.

 

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

What creatures with activated abilities would you want in your graveyard if you were playing this? Preferably not infinite combos.

 

[Velrun]

Not sure this is what you are looking for but this is a decent one to have in my graveyard when I have a Necrotic Ooze on the battlefield.

 

[sigh]

to complete the modern deck trio

 

[inscho]

I love necrotic ooze!

 

[Velrun]

Spikeshot Elder seems like a spicy and dangerous mix with Necrooze.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

This card seems like it could be good at slowing down aggro decks without completely shutting them down. I'm just not sure if it lets too much get through the cracks or not. Is this playable?

 

[inscho]

I much prefer this:

 

[Velrun]

I have always loved Crawlspace and it’s flavor text but I don’t think it is playable.

 

[Erik Twice]

Crawlspace is a nice design, but two creatures is too much, as is three mana.

I tried Silent Arbiter and it never worked. It's expensive and if they can remove it you get punished hard. I never found many decks that actually wanted the card.

 

[Erik Twice]

I've been thinking about weird cards. I wonder if someone has found a place for this in cube:



My gut tells me it's less useful than Phyrexian Altar but the design is very cool.

 

[Erik Twice]

I've been thinking about weird cards. I wonder if someone has found a place for this in cube:



My gut tells me it's less useful than Phyrexian Altar but the design is very cool.

 

[japahn]

I ran this for a while, but didn't like how this completely hosed aggro and tokens and cut it.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

I have always loved Crawlspace and it’s flavor text but I don’t think it is playable.

Well that sucks. It looked like it could have added a bit of a fun dynamic to the game.

What do you guys think of this:

This looks like a fine midrange/control finisher.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Well that sucks. It looked like it could have added a bit of a fun dynamic to the game.

What do you guys think of this:

This looks like a fine midrange/control finisher.

Never tested that, and now I wonder why. Lifelink is extremely good, but this comes down quite late and it's kinda hard to control how much value you are getting out of it.

 

[Velrun]

A thing to note is that it may target any graveyard which means it should almost always be decent or better. Unless you run cards like Relic of Progenitus in which case it will suck

Very interesting finisher!

 

[shamizy]

Well that sucks. It looked like it could have added a bit of a fun dynamic to the game.

What do you guys think of this:

This looks like a fine midrange/control finisher.

Power level dependent. Too slow for higher powered cubes that want efficiency and a lower curve, but if grindy 6+ mana cards can be deployed on the regular in your environment then it should be fine. Orzhov usually isn't doing anything all that interesting with gold slots so have at it.

 

[Rowan_CB]

A good rule of thumb might be that if your cube is slow enough to run rise from the tides, it can probably accommodate this card as well. And you know how we all feel about rise from the tides.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

A good rule of thumb might be that if your cube is slow enough to run rise from the tides, it can probably accommodate this card as well. And you know how we all feel about rise from the tides.

I had to cut it, because blue is no longer the spells matter color in my cube, which nearly broke my heart.

 

[Velrun]

I had to cut it, because blue is no longer the spells matter color in my cube, which nearly broke my heart.

Even with Rebound upgrade?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Even with Rebound upgrade?

No, I meant my regular cube Rise from the Tides is still in the Heritage Cube, though it has detain, not rebound Detain is actually a pretty sweet ability on Rise, since all your zombies etb tapped, and detains helps getting to your untap step a lot!

 

[Velrun]

The anti flavor

Innistrad zombies are slow and Wizards gave them ETB tapped to materialize that into the game.

 

[Mondschwein]

Do you people like Asylum Visitor? Didn't play with it yet, but it doesn't read like it's something I want to have. I do have some discard in B(w/r) going on, but I think it's not really a payoff for that kind of deck. In fact, it looks like it's only good in that kind of aggro deck that wants to go hellbent as fast as possible, and I'm not sure if I really support that kind of play, even if BR in my cube is heavily madness-related.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

The anti flavor

Innistrad zombies are slow and Wizards gave them ETB tapped to materialize that into the game.

You're frozen with fear, as you see the zombies rising slowly from the brine. You know you still have time to run away, but your legs refuse to move! THE HORROR!

See, not anti flavor at all, it's just a matter of perspective

 

[Velrun]

Ah yes the infamous zombie police detain you in their notorious zombie prison. Oldest zombie cliché in the world.

Can’t find the old Wizards article that explains why they exactly don’t want that type of effect on their Innistrad zombies but I found this on the MTG Wiki: “ Innistrad is a plane partially infested with Zombies. ... but with some kind disadvantage (coming into play tapped, unable to block etc).”

https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Zombie

 

[shamizy]

Do you people like Asylum Visitor? Didn't play with it yet, but it doesn't read like it's something I want to have. I do have some discard in B(w/r) going on, but I think it's not really a payoff for that kind of deck. In fact, it looks like it's only good in that kind of aggro deck that wants to go hellbent as fast as possible, and I'm not sure if I really support that kind of play, even if BR in my cube is heavily madness-related.

It's usually just going to be a vanilla 3/1 for 2. It's good on occasion in the later game when both players are topdecking, but in the average case scenario it's just an early beater. It's just fine as a card, not too impressive.