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I was at 13% in early iterations of my cube, and got multiple complaints that there was too many fixing in the cube. That's half of the reason for tying trilands to the three-color cards (the other being that without adequate fixing they are unplayable, which often leaves them un(der)drafted). I think I cut the manlands (while fun to play with, they are pretty boring, safe picks during the draft, and they can be annoying to play against) without replacing them with something else though, so maybe I should put 5 back in. I could also go up to 3 three color cards, which would be a stealth 1% increase to fixing, though none of the Naya cards make me really happy... Anyway, that's 55/450 or just over 12%. That still leaves the increase to 3 three-color cards, but what cards are we even adding?Yeah, you might have a point there. Maybe I should scale back a bit on the pure good stuff. I mean, Sharding Sphinx can be pretty powerful, but it's also right on theme. Restoration Angel, however, is pure good stuff that isn't really necessary. I'll have a look!
Maybe, but it is a five drop that does nothing the turn you play it, the tokens don't have evasion, and it's hard to assemble a never-ending string of instants and sorceries.
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Drafted StormEntity's cube! First pick was Time Warp, and from there I had a plan, a vision. And it worked out! Got the taking turns deck laid out pretty well, and have some ways to (more) unfairly leverage the turns, especially tradewind rider + eternal witness + 1 more creature + 8 mana = infinite turns.....
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Getting back to GiftsForgiven here: Started off with Gilded Lotus and Solemn Simulacrum, leaving myself open to any kind of deck I want, as long as I want a big mana deck. (I do.) A Balance later and we're trying to go broken. Deck came out pretty odd, and it's probably a trainwreck but that's my fault for being very, very greedy.
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Edit: Wait, we're forgetting the 5 Borderposts, I did replace the manlands with something! They're easy to miss though
Haha, you remembered that guy?! Funnily enough, he was not one of the drafters who complained. Anyway, I'm going to see If I can add another three-color card to each shard. That's probably going to involve more customs though.
It's silly maybe, but if it works, it works! I've been thinking of ways to make my boosters feel less land-heavy for a while now, because it is a concern that I would like to adress, but I don't want my players to be unable to play their cards. Fixing is a very important part of cube drafts, even more so in an environment with a lot of gold cards. I really like the free triland with three color cards rule, as it not only achieves this goal, but also makes sure people always get the right fixing to splash their three color card, making those cards eminently more drafteable.
through no fault of her own. Honetly, I loathe permanent protection from colors, permanent protection from two colors is even worse! Anyway, mainly picked up good stuff in open colors and ended up with a non-synergistic deck that doesn't look particularly interesting but will probably win its fair share of games because it runs powerful cards. Sorry Sigh for not feeling it! | | | | |
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Should I just swallow my tears? I can also put Topplegeist back in, would have been great for this deck. Any others?
Ah, that explains. I'm a deckbuilder at heart, but a lot of the card are indeed simply "good stuff", autoincludes if you will. That leaves only a marginal amount of cards to tweak with. I do delirium is a possibility for the Soul Swallower, though I would have loved it if I had picked up some sorceries.
You put signatures before gameplay? I call shenanigans! :eek:Imma let you in on a little secret: Miran crusader is still in by the grace of it being signed. Yep. I'm a slave to "cool and unique". If you wanna send me a signed Fabled Hero, we're good to go
Extricator of Sin is great fun, especially if you run some aura-based removal, and Descend upon the Sinful is pretty decent as well. If you're going deep, Desperate Sentry is a 4/2 forI think Soul Swallower is a little underrated, being a gigantic threat very quickly, if you can reliably reach Delirium. And it conforms to the "fewer ETBs" philosophy. I'm trying it out at least. Interesting though about your frustration on Delirium. Guess I haven't counted in a while, but maybe my delirium count is very low... I'm using more as a compact tool than as an all out theme (drafting trap?), and I think it worked in your deck? You have a very tight selection of cards that can get you there fairly readily for your Swallower. If you had picked up the Traverse, that would have been sweet.
If I was to add to the theme, Ishkanah is an obvious candidate. But I like Spider spawning soooo much!
that makes a 3/2 when it dies. That's pretty insane if you can reliably turn it on. Kindly Stranger is a non-etb Nekrataal, Mindwrack Demon feeds the graveyard and is a nice evasive beatstick. Tooth Collector is fantastic if you've got enough 1-toughness creatures in your cube! I think you only missed Obsessive Skinner in green. It's a simple bear on turn 2, but it slowly gets out of hand in the late game. And of course there's Grim Flayer, expensive to acquire, but a pretty good two drop in .No sweat! If I'ld had known
was the "good stuff" "beginner" color, I would have gone with Prophetic Bolt p1p1, which would undoubtedly have led me down a much more satisfying path. I can't remember getting grumpy doing your cube before, so I was a bit surprised to be honest | | | |
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. I've kept most of the discard outlets and all of the madness cards in the sideboard, but Fauna Shaman and Pack Rat are pretty good in the maindeck, and there's enough stuff to put in the graveyard! And Crop Rotation can search for one of them | | | | | |
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