You are probably right, but that's what I like about the theme. The payoffs just work by themselves via attacking. Limits how narrow it can be.
General Tapping archetype
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I have to agree here, I think some of the best gimicky themes are the ones that are based around just playing the game normally and incidentally tapping into some fun interaction
Dom Harvey
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If your Cube is an Urza block Cube where the creatures all follow the design conventions of the time (slow and/or bad) then of course you won't get the most mileage out of Opposition, but I think it says a lot that it has been excellent in every Limited format (my one Dominaria Remastered draft was a beauty that 3-0ed by Storming into Empty the Warrens and then locking with Opposition every game) and most Constructed formats short of Legacy that it has been legal in. In a modern design era where creatures are cheap and good (and many of them make more creatures!) the card is very obnoxious.
Key to the City is a nice tie-in here too (wait are card tags not available from the main taskbar any more?)
Key to the City is a nice tie-in here too (wait are card tags not available from the main taskbar any more?)
I was literally coming here to comment this, and you put it better than I ever could. I agree 100%!
Why?
Shamizy didn’t say locking out of all the available mana. Just locking out of mana. That sentence could be any amount of mana.
No need for a perfect curve with several creatures per turn to lock your opponent out of one or more mana.
i like to play griefer crap that makes people cry in edh, but in my cube only fun cards are allowed, so no opposition
I can follow that morality compass. In cube you are responsible for the amount of fun the players have. Or at least partially responsible. When it comes to EDH you are not. Wizards are responsible here.
I've never played a game of EDH that I enjoyed but, maybe I should try building an absolutely miserable griefer deck and play that
That also invalidates
I like to play only games where not a “single” card makes misery. Read a balanced game/cube is what I want. If one card invalidates that, then I am not sure it is that one card or all the other cards in the cube. E.g. tutors are as strong as the best card for the situation. If the power band is not that divergent, then tutors are not worth it. There is for every style a (mana) value for an tutor.
very innocuous and fair magic cards
Well, I do not think any planeswalker is harmless but obliterate is a fair card. If you get to cast it and come ahead you have earned it.
very innocuous and fair magic cards
No one ever thought this.
Not necessarily, your opponent would need to have no blockers and you would still need enough creatures to deal 20 to them. 5 creatures + Opposition can lock an opponent out of the game, 5 creatures plus trumpet blast probably can’t.In your deck a simple
would have won the game outright not?
"The Curse of Cool Things Costing 4" strikes again!I didn't see it mentioned yet, but in Lorwyn draft there was a U/W tapping archetype, with payoff like
There were also payoffs that cared only about Merfolks, but with a sharpie you can make them more interesting:
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
So, I wrote this in the MOM thread yesterday, but what I left out is that I also ran some convoke option, and that mechanic was indeed a perfect fit for Radha, (and by extension all of the “I want to be tapped” creatures)!I was "goldfishing" some drafts against the AI to get a feel for the new cards, and I got this combo together <3
Good times, good times XD
I didn't see it mentioned yet, but in Lorwyn draft there was a U/W tapping archetype, with payoff like
I feel obliged to add this card, not only because I am a shadowmoor fanboy, but also because it's a reminder that "becomes untapped" triggers work with that theme too.