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!

 

[shamizy]

How has this been so far? I'm going to get a chance to finally run another 8-man draft in a few weeks and I'm going through the list making a ton of updates that I've been holding off on. One of the big things is updating my Duplicate Voucher system swapping out Young Pyromancer for Searslicer Goblin. While I was at it I was debating whether Ritual is better than Pod to double up or if it's just worth a single slot inclusion.



I'm also interested in how the Landscape cycle has played for your guys. Might be what finally makes me interested in bumping up from 420 to 450 for the long haul.

 

[TrainmasterGT]

I'm also interested in how the Landscape cycle has played for your guys. Might be what finally makes me interested in bumping up from 420 to 450 for the long haul.

I love these cards, but I would not want them in a Cube with the regular Fetchlands, especially if the mana base plays duplicates. They want their own environment to shine.

 

[inscho]

How has this been so far? I'm going to get a chance to finally run another 8-man draft in a few weeks and I'm going through the list making a ton of updates that I've been holding off on. One of the big things is updating my Duplicate Voucher system swapping out Young Pyromancer for Searslicer Goblin. While I was at it I was debating whether Ritual is better than Pod to double up or if it's just worth a single slot inclusion.

My .02 having never tested Ritual, Ritual is more versatile. Pod is better at assembling a combo, but is obviously more narrow. I also like that Pod is an artifact which has a lot more niche interactions in my cube than enchantments.

If you are looking for a value generator rather than a tutor, and the card type is irrelevant, I think Birthing Ritual is an easy upgrade on Pod

 

[shamizy]

I love these cards, but I would not want them in a Cube with the regular Fetchlands, especially if the mana base plays duplicates. They want their own environment to shine.

Might just give these a test run in the draft and see how they turn out, alternatively may just run the full Painland cycle. What I really want is for the BFZ cycle to finally have the enemy lands printed, those would be my third dual cycle of choice, but it's already been a decade so I'm not holding my breath any longer.

My .02 having never tested Ritual, Ritual is more versatile. Pod is better at assembling a combo, but is obviously more narrow. I also like that Pod is an artifact which has a lot more niche interactions in my cube than enchantments.

If you are looking for a value generator rather than a tutor, and the card type is irrelevant, I think Birthing Ritual is an easy upgrade on Pod

Yeah, those were my thoughts as well. I like Pod with very dedicated lines in a deck that managed to pick up the right pieces, but I think Ritual will just be solid more often based off the sheer virtue of being able to see nearly a quarter of your remaining deck each time. The "may" does a lot of work with that trigger. I'll probably just mock up different vouchers for the future and give it a run with double Ritual for this next session.

 

[inscho]

The "may" does a lot of work with that trigger.

A LOT of work. You can sacrifice nothing, you can also sacrifice a creature without a valid target and stuff 7 cards on the bottom if they suck.

Working the turn it comes into play is huge too. An upkeep trigger would’ve been way less interesting. It situationally gives you a vigilance creature, while an upkeep trigger would’ve removed a creature from combat and then replaced it with a creature that couldn’t attack (without haste).

 

[Nanonox]

A LOT of work. You can sacrifice nothing, you can also sacrifice a creature without a valid target and stuff 7 cards on the bottom if they suck.

Working the turn it comes into play is huge too. An upkeep trigger would’ve been way less interesting. It situationally gives you a vigilance creature, while an upkeep trigger would’ve removed a creature from combat and then replaced it with a creature that couldn’t attack (without haste).

I misread the card and this changes everything. Also didn't really consider the card selection aspect. Good breakdown!

 

[inscho]

I misread the card and this changes everything. Also didn't really consider the card selection aspect. Good breakdown!

I might’ve talked myself into it lol

Seems like the game patterns would be way more interesting and rarely play out the same way each time…another improvement on pod which feels like it pretty much does the same handful of things over and over again.

 

[shamizy]

I might’ve talked myself into it lol

Seems like the game patterns would be way more interesting and rarely play out the same way each time…another improvement on pod which feels like it pretty much does the same handful of things over and over again.

Made some swaps on Cobra, fired it up for a draft and saw Ritual P1P2 and here's what I cooked up:

Abzan Ritual

 

[TrainmasterGT]

Made some swaps on Cobra, fired it up for a draft and saw Ritual P1P2 and here's what I cooked up:

Abzan Ritual

10/10 deck no notes.

 

[Mondschwein]

Landscapes are my go to lands for lower/peasant power level with a slightly higher retail limited power level in mind. I just love them.