Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight

[FlowerSunRain]

I look at Elvish Visionary, then I look at Baleful Strix does the difference in casting cost restriction really justify this large a gap in power level?

Either way, having both in the same cube feels somehow wrong. I'm running the Strix, but I really have reservations about the card an its complete non-commital nature, but Black/Blue (in spite of its recent strixless 3-0 deck) is pretty unpopular, so I'm living with it for now.

 

[Diakonov]

Visionary seems pretty terrible IMO.

 

[CML]

Rotates in and out of my cube. There are enough ways to get more value out of visionary that I never really mind having it around.

i like it. it's great in stuff like pod and most green decks have a vague dispassionate interest in it. while the draw a card thread is doing its thing i have added coiling oracle, baleful strix, this guy, and wall of omens and am greatly overjoyed to draw some cards

 

[Jason Waddell]

I wonder if there is a world full of X/1's there Visionary is about as good on D as Wall of Omens

 

[MCMcEmcee]

Green has a lot of ways to put a random 1/1 body to use, AND typically has fewer ways to see extra cards than blue or black in most cubes; UB wouldn't even care about Strix if it wasn't so pushed, whereas most green decks like having Visionary.

 

[Jason Waddell]

My problem with Visionary is that it's one of those cards I rarely feel like I want in my final 40. I agree it has value, but when you're making cuts and have to trim a 2-drop...

 

[CML]

who trims 2-drops?

 

[Jason Waddell]

Who runs a cube with so few 2-drops they can't be trimmed?

 

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

Interesting discussion on this one. Green twos are not super exciting/interesting unless you want everything under three to be ramp.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

, and cry foul!

 

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

Im on a bit of a low with fauna shaman at the moment, trying to restrict the number of green creature searchers, but maybe i should slot it back in. Ooze is obvs good and i can take or leave the mayor.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Mayor is a human tribe support card in a third color, therefore I love it. If they ever print human support in red it's an easy cut. Hmm... Remind me to design a red human lord when I get around to printing custom nonland cards for my cube!

 

[CML]

Who runs a cube with so few 2-drops they can't be trimmed?

EVERY ONE OF US

beating for 1 is also an underrated skill. seriously playing wall of omens against control always pissed me off because if you play something that attacks for 1 maybe if the game goes long it did 5 to them and it matters

 

[Jason Waddell]

EVERY ONE OF US

beating for 1 is also an underrated skill. seriously playing wall of omens against control always pissed me off because if you play something that attacks for 1 maybe if the game goes long it did 5 to them and it matters

So... Augur of Bolas?

 

[Goldenpineapple]

THE KING OF GREEN TWOS HAS RETURNED to ravnica

SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THOSE LEGS

Is wall of blossoms more interesting than elvish visionary? Carven Caryatid too big? Thing seems like an unkillable god to me.

 

[Jason Waddell]

Courser of Kruphix has changed my opinion on big butts.

 

[Chris Taylor]

I always found caryatid was too big.

Plus: Courser of Kruphix is almost the same, but cooler. it even kinda draws you a card!

 

[Chris Taylor]

Courser of Kruphix has changed my opinion on big butts.

Can you no longer fabricate?

 

[Jason Waddell]

Can you no longer fabricate?

Your question doesn't make sense to me. Is this a reference?

 

[Chris Taylor]

Your question doesn't make sense to me. Is this a reference?

 

[Jason Waddell]

I thought you might be referencing that song, which I am quite familiar with, but I still don't really see the connection.

 

[Diakonov]

fabricate = lie

 

[Eric Chan]

Courser of Kruphix is pretty insane here, a lot better than I expected. It does a number on aggro decks, far more than Thragtusk ever did.

 

[FlowerSunRain]

So... Augur of Bolas?

 

[CML]

So... Augur of Bolas?

yeah i love augur