Card/Deck Single Card Spotlight
- Thread starter Dom Harvey
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Massive target on his head, can get way out of hand in the right deck- I would be afraid in one of these many-brainstorm cubes. He's kinda like wake thrasher in that it's essentially a vanilla huge/huge for 
, you just have to work for it a little bit, so it gets the added bonus of always being big and popping babies when it dies.
, you just have to work for it a little bit, so it gets the added bonus of always being big and popping babies when it dies.
Onderzeeboot
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Yeah, I like Chasm Skulker. Brainstorm's been great with it.
Can this card be fair? This is assuming there's no busted combo pieces to draw into. I figure it'd be mostly used in a control deck, where if that deck has a large life total by the time they get to 6 mana, that's your own damn fault for not pressuring them enough. I could just be underestimating it and it's just irredeemably busted, though.
Dom Harvey
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Bargain swings wildly between 'this card is terrible, why is it in your Cube' and 'this card is broken, why is it in your Cube' with very little in between
I had it in for a few drafts but it never seemed to do much. Just too much work for too little reward.
Alright. I've been unsold on Bargain. What about
Not to be a negative nancy but even worse IMO. Always looks better than it is.
Edit: how has Read the Bones been?
Edit: how has Read the Bones been?
Read the Bones has been perfectly fine so far. It's obviously not a high pick, but you don't cut it from your black midrange or control decks.
I had a feeling Null Profusion isn't good. It's just frustrating because I'm looking for a late game card advantage engine for black and Liliana Vess isn't cutting it.
Onderzeeboot
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Dom Harvey
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if you want to go more old-school:
FlowerSunRain
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Erebos is great, but he is pretty contingent on becoming a threat.
Bargain is just ultra swingy. If your cube is glacial enough, I'm sure its awesome, but in most cubes trying to win off a Tidings is unlikely, nevermind a higher casting cost Tidings that costs a ton of life. Necropotence is the better card and the intrinsic synergy with Gray Merchant is pretty awesome.
My favorite long game black card advantage engine:
P.S. Wonder rocks socks.
Bargain is just ultra swingy. If your cube is glacial enough, I'm sure its awesome, but in most cubes trying to win off a Tidings is unlikely, nevermind a higher casting cost Tidings that costs a ton of life. Necropotence is the better card and the intrinsic synergy with Gray Merchant is pretty awesome.
My favorite long game black card advantage engine:
P.S. Wonder rocks socks.
Chris Taylor
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Erebos is great, but he is pretty contingent on becoming a threat.
Bargain is just ultra swingy. If your cube is glacial enough, I'm sure its awesome, but in most cubes trying to win off a Tidings is unlikely, nevermind a higher casting cost Tidings that costs a ton of life. Necropotence is the better card and the intrinsic synergy with Gray Merchant is pretty awesome.
My favorite long game black card advantage engine:
P.S. Wonder rocks sucks.
I too can vouch for this masterpiece. Jesus the inevitability this thing creates is nuts, but it's never broken because of how painful it is
I love it. Exactly what I was looking for.
Yeah. This forum turned me on to Phyrexian Reclamation. It's virtually uncuttable for me at this point. Works in all kinds of decks and does exactly what I want black to be doing.
CML
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maybe i need to try it again but my experience with reclamation was that it did nothing
yawg will is really fun
wheel of fortune is one of those cards i really wanted to work but didn't
timetwister clearly does nothing. has anyone tried time spiral? curious about that one
yawg will is really fun
wheel of fortune is one of those cards i really wanted to work but didn't
timetwister clearly does nothing. has anyone tried time spiral? curious about that one
I've never cast Time Spiral, but I've played against it a few times in traditional powermax cubes. It usually does something pretty crazy, but unpredictable. You usually need to have board control before you cast it. If you're getting beaten down, it's probably not going to help you stabilize since the other deck gets to reload too. If you're comboing off, though, it'll usually win you the game on the spot. I dunno. I'd never run it. I find that kind of card distasteful.
