I should probably give Arabella, Abandoned Doll a go. I think the Goosebumps villain vibe initially turned me off to it.
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That really surprises me, I have perfectly cromulent Selesnya cards (looking at you, Kudo, King Among Bears), but not one that I'm like, I'm never cutting this.
Brightglass Gearhulk is a stud, and does everything I want in Selesnya. I still like KOTR even if it’s showing its age some
I don’t mind having an obvious archetype (like blink) as it’s an easy thing to latch onto if you are a beginner or want to draft easy mode. This is especially true if you have some other complicated decks that are draftable.
That said, not a huge fan of Soulherder because of how fragile it is. I like Azorius Kykar more as it does a few things and has redundancy with Ghostly Flicker or Displacer Kitten.
That said, not a huge fan of Soulherder because of how fragile it is. I like Azorius Kykar more as it does a few things and has redundancy with Ghostly Flicker or Displacer Kitten.
White sucks ass. Been struggling with it for Eldrazi a lot lately. Makes no spawns/scions and doesn't do much that the other colors can't.
It's like pulling teeth to get me to respect a card with two colored pips and you want me to play how many?!
Onderzeeboot
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Could that be a preference thing? I like my Boros section plenty, but I also love playing Boros decks, so it feels like there’s some correlation, for me at least.
Yep, highly recommended. I also feel the colour restriction isn't huge while, at the same time, preventing dumb splashes into other colours.
My Boros section only has two real Boros cards:
I've also slotted this guy in Boros for counting purporses since it has Replenish synergies:
Matter of preference for sure, but also cube context dependent. There’s a lot of interesting cards in the pool to choose from, but I don’t find many appealing for my Boros archetypes and cube power level
Boros has been fine for me, but aside from Winota, Joiner of Forces there are very few gold cards that have interested me over the years. It's always been a rotating door of some Lightning Helix variant and some new thing to try out in the 3rd slot. It's not necessarily difficult to design for the R/W decks, but I do feel it has less a defined identity than R/B or W/B Aggro within my environment.
Anyone have experience with Sowing Mycospawn?
I should mention that I do run a ULD so the options for lands are way more plentiful.
Anyone have experience with Sowing Mycospawn?
I should mention that I do run a ULD so the options for lands are way more plentiful.
It's very good in Constructed!
By which I mean:
-It's obviously better if you can pay the kicker, ideally off colorless ramp so you do it early enough that a Caustic Rain matters (remember that card?!)
-It's obviously better as the things you fetch scale upwards - getting a Sanctum of Ugin, or a Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, or, god forbid, a Glacial Chasm...
No experience beyond the really obvious but I'm not gonna not post Caustic Rain when I get the chance.
By which I mean:
-It's obviously better if you can pay the kicker, ideally off colorless ramp so you do it early enough that a Caustic Rain matters (remember that card?!)
-It's obviously better as the things you fetch scale upwards - getting a Sanctum of Ugin, or a Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, or, god forbid, a Glacial Chasm...
No experience beyond the really obvious but I'm not gonna not post Caustic Rain when I get the chance.
Onderzeeboot
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I heartily endorse Showdown of the Skalds! Scales well to power level, very powerful in low mv cubes, but still super satisfying in slower cubes!
Anyone have experience with Sowing Mycospawn?
I should mention that I do run a ULD so the options for lands are way more plentiful.
I ran it for a bit and found it fine, but I simply didn't have enough sources of
to make it work. I'm currently on Casal, Lurkwood Pathfinder in the same slot now, which suffers from not getting any land but benefits from being sick as hell and letting my legends do an overrun.
Dom Harvey
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Vibe check:
him big
Onderzeeboot
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I mean, he looks like he can party hard! I think he passes the vibe check!
Just stomps all over an Aggro deck; no way you get past a 5/5 Vigilance body + a removal spell + Ghostly Prison for two turns. By then the other side will have stabilized hard after a few draws. It's probably fine to play in higher power levels, but it's going to create an arms race.
Vibe check:
Currently in my on-deck binder because of this:
I do miss control having a Elspeth, Sun's Champion type card that very much resets the aggro players stance. Control has gotten much worse in the average Cube that's following new set releases these last five years, because so many creatures like Gut and Ragavan and even ones that are more commonly played amongst this crowd like Luminarch Aspirant are able to snowball without immediate answer. I think Elspeth is a little too slow for that in today's world.
So think Yojimbo helps here. Comes down when you need it to, and really gives you a chance to breathe and reintroduce yourself to the battlefield with a fancy new hat in a few turns.
So I do think, even though it'd be in the top crust of power-level for me, it's probably fine for balance reasons. That said...
As my Cube gets increasingly Commander-pilled with "do this and you get this!" style cards and I dig into things like graveyards and tokens and the like, this card takes up a pretty valuable slot. White 4s used to be one of the most contested around, though the cards that previously took up that slot are getting dropped from powered, unpowered, and mid-powered lists alike. You don't see the likes of Gisela, the Broken Blade or Gideon, Ally of Zendikar quite as often as you used to. I think if your Cube can handle Gideon/used to play him, it's philosophically a good upgrade and a more interesting card.
All to say: if you're playing a more powerful Cube, I'd include it without a doubt. It's a neat card. Even for me, yeah, I'm now going to go down a rabbit hole today about white 4s.
Can I interest you in
? I recently added it to my cube as a control build around and it has been a lot of fun. It's tough to balance since you want cards in hand as a control deck, but that means creatures are getting through. Cards like Mishra's Bauble that play to the board are at a premium because you can crack them EOT to get a card while keeping your hand count low. Planeswalkers are also very good alongside Bridge.
It is symmetrical so you need ways to remove it when you are ready to turn the corner or you have to find other win conditions.
It does have possibilities to induce feel bads, but removing a single artifact isn't too difficult. It also isn't a lock in the early game because you first have to lower your hand size. Anyways, might be the card you are looking for!
Wanderer actually only does the Silent Arbiter effect for herself, so if you really want to impact the full board, you still need Arbiter or something similar!
no wait it's two decades later
if you cast her, then -4, they will have exactly one creature left to attack with
(would you believe I already knew this when I posted her and was prepared to make this argument)