Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

[Nanonox]

Has anyone played with these? I am on a Proliferate trip right now and these seem decent. Populate is also a cool mechanic that I wouldn't mind abusing.

Cayth provides both the fodder or the counters so you can use Populate or Proliferate. Servos being artifacts, this seems both like a sweet glue card, payoff and enabler! Populate + Brudiclad is also fun.

Xavier also ties a lot of themes together, but is more committal. You need creatures to sacrifice or counters to remove. The counters part is actually cool with Sagas or maybe some Persist creatures.

Hit or miss?

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Has anyone played with these? I am on a Proliferate trip right now and these seem decent. Populate is also a cool mechanic that I wouldn't mind abusing.

Cayth provides both the fodder or the counters so you can use Populate or Proliferate. Servos being artifacts, this seems both like a sweet glue card, payoff and enabler! Populate + Brudiclad is also fun.

Xavier also ties a lot of themes together, but is more committal. You need creatures to sacrifice or counters to remove. The counters part is actually cool with Sagas or maybe some Persist creatures.

Hit or miss?

I have not Cubed with either of these, but having seen them both played, I think Xavier is too narrow for a 3 color card, wheras Cayth ties in pretty well with a bunch of themes. I think she'd be better in Bant or Naya, but she's still cool in Jeskai.

 

[Velrun]

Yeah you’d have to be EXACTLY on populate and proliferate for a 3 color card to be viable. Also your cube also has to be pretty low power. Otherwise people will just not pick up the card and most likely not even run it due to the risk of not having a good enough mana base to cast it reliably.

 

[Nanonox]

The cube is lower powered yes. Cayth distributes counters and creates tokens so it’s pretty self contained, not too worried. Xavier definitely less so!