Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight
- Thread starter Dom Harvey
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I do kind of appreciate Madcap as a cog in the WR doublestrike theme that can do work elsewhere.
Hey custom people, design a 1-drop with doublestrike that isn't broken.
But not this one.
Hey custom people, design a 1-drop with doublestrike that isn't broken.
But not this one.
Onderzeeboot
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Craven Killer 
Creature - Human Assassin
Double strike
Whenever Craven Killer deals first strike damage, it deals that much damage to you.
1/1
Creature - Human Assassin
Double strike
Whenever Craven Killer deals first strike damage, it deals that much damage to you.
1/1
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Craven Killer
Creature - Human Assassin
Double strike
Whenever Craven Killer deals first strike damage, it deals that much damage to you.
1/1
Flesh reaver does not a good creature make
Edit: Jeez, only first strike damage? That's not OP, just super unintuitive
Kird Legionnaire
As long as you control a plains, ~ gains double strike and gets +0/+1
1/1
Kird Legionnaire
As long as you control a plains, ~ gains double strike and gets +0/+1
1/1
I like it, but the toughness boost seems a little random. I mean, I get it, but....
Onderzeeboot
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Ruthless Butcher
Creature - Human Barbarian
Double strike
Whenever Ruthless Butcher deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other creature you control.
2/1
Firefury-Fist Ascetic
Creature - Human Monk
Prowess, double strike
-1/2
Creature - Human Barbarian
Double strike
Whenever Ruthless Butcher deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other creature you control.
2/1
Firefury-Fist Ascetic
Creature - Human Monk
Prowess, double strike
-1/2
Chris Taylor
Contributor
It can leave. I just felt kird ape was a 2/3, so why not
Ruthless Butcher
Creature - Human Barbarian
Double strike
Whenever Ruthless Butcher deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other creature you control.
2/1
Firefury-Fist Ascetic
Creature - Human Monk
Prowess, double strike
-1/2
1) Sweet Jesus Burn
2) this guy's power can probably be 0. See kiln fiend
Onderzeeboot
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Has anyone had any experience with this card in limited (cube or otherwise?)
I'm weary of the hexproof part, so I'ld like to know if this is an unconquerable monster or if the two mana is just the right amount of activation cost to give your opponent the occasional window to off it.
I'm weary of the hexproof part, so I'ld like to know if this is an unconquerable monster or if the two mana is just the right amount of activation cost to give your opponent the occasional window to off it.
I like to have some large-ish finisher-type in each color pair, and originally it was spiritmonger for me, who proved relatively unkillable, and this wasn't much better. Green has the edicts and a couple of the exile effects so you exempting wraths you kind of have to be playing a deck that is able to kill it to play it (same fallacy with sphinx of the steel wind), which is just awful. I've settled on Varolz being the big man on golgari's campus- powerful but a lot easier to deal with / more interesting gameplay and lines.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Has anyone had any experience with this card in limited (cube or otherwise?)
I'm weary of the hexproof part, so I'ld like to know if this is an unconquerable monster or if the two mana is just the right amount of activation cost to give your opponent the occasional window to off it.
Spiritmonger for the modern age. 9/10, would run. Activated hexproof is in no way annoying once you realize it's like regeneration but worse.
Yeah, this was my thought too. Thrun comes with Hexproof and activated regeneration, and even he isn't so troublesome. Keeping 2 mana open isn't free by any means.
5 toughness makes it both attractive but simultaneously an issue. Probably a good thing, though. I'm just a whiny red mage who hates toughness > 4 at below 5 mana.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Agenda is waay too slow
Onderzeeboot
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Agenda is waay too slow
Well now, that totally depends on your cube metagame though, doesn't it? I remember Agenda being a really sweet card way back when. It's pretty anti-synergistic with the recent surge of self-mill enabled strategies though.
"Agenda" sound so corporate.
Final Fortune has been in my cube since the beginning, and is a great "story" card. I have at least 2 people who would kill me if I ever took it out -- it's their favorite card in the cube. As far as actual quality, it can be decent in a fair number of situations, but it's probably not a top pick. It seems to work well with burn strategies in my cube.
For our group, most of us do pushups after each game equal to life lost. Final Fortune has been used several times in a lost game to avoid pushups and deliver more pushups to a hapless loser.
Sure, you might lose, but it feels like a win when you're doing six pushups while the winner's doing 17.
Oh, and it's also won a handful of games. Probably not worth a spot in most cubes on its own merits, but it sure can be fun.
CML
Contributor
Sarkhan the Mad is fantastic, if you're not aggressively power-maxing (e.g. he's straight up worse than either Olivia Voldaren or Falkenrath Aristocrat, on raw power). He's both fun to play with and against, and while he can take over games, he isn't anywhere close to oppressive. Bonus points if you have a sacrifice theme!
I tried the Tezzeret experiment, and wasn't a huge fan, but other people seem to have had success with him. At the very least, I think you want a) a package of three artifact lands in the utility draft that can be picked together, b) some suitable artifact finishers - Batterskull, Steel Hellkite, and Myr Battlesphere come to mind, and c) a bunch of cheap utility artifacts, like Executioner's Capsule. The latter pairs well with Trinket Mage, too.
I tried the Tezzeret experiment, and wasn't a huge fan, but other people seem to have had success with him. At the very least, I think you want a) a package of three artifact lands in the utility draft that can be picked together, b) some suitable artifact finishers - Batterskull, Steel Hellkite, and Myr Battlesphere come to mind, and c) a bunch of cheap utility artifacts, like Executioner's Capsule. The latter pairs well with Trinket Mage, too.
Agent of Bolas has to be forced just to make worth. Unless your cube already has an artifact sub theme, screw that guy.
Oh, I love Agent of Bolas. It's like a unique deck that takes up one spot in the cube.
Seems like a "one card" deck that needs your cube to meet the requirement of having quite a few good artifacts at every point on the curve.