Give me some! I have a slot in my polycube for 3-color cards.
General Three-color cards worth running
- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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sphinx is kinda bomby.
I half feel like propping up Nicol Bolas/Cruel Ultimatum.dec would be an interesting asymmetric 3-colour deck incentive, rather than adding a whole bunch of 3-colour stuff. I have no idea how this works in practice, but man, it sure sounds like fun.
Oh yeah, forgot this guy! He's amazing!
Both cards are very good and I would happily run them as my only 3-color cards. They definitely incentivise people to go into Grixis control.
Oh, well, right, I would totally cut them before I cut Maelstrom Wanderer, but they're definitely the next two on the list.
Dom Harvey
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The last time I played a powered cube I got this Tinkered on me on Turn 2. I was playing Gruul beats. Like, the first line of text already beats that deck, and then the "protection from red and green" is just a kick in the nuts.
Yeah it's pretty much impossible to remove. It's a black artifact multicolored creature with protection from green and red with six toughness.
Technically, that's no different than Inkwell Leviathan.
Chris Taylor
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Lifelink and Vigilence basically give up any hope of racing it though
CML
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I love those cards but neither make the cut as a '3-color bomb'
We can relax the criteria a little for Wild Nacatl since he's not really 3-color. I've tried a bunch of true 3-color cards though and they're all going to be very fringe and frequently picked 15th, so why not make them build-arounds? Cruel Ultimatum and Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker and Maelstrom Wanderer are the closest to those (I dissent from the Wadds argument that 3-color fatties are more restrictive than 3-color, uh, non-fatties), but then some build-arounds like Zur the Enchanter, however powerful and fun, don't work, and I think about just having Nacatl and Ultimatum and feel much better about my design choices.
Other than that I nominate
esper: none
We can relax the criteria a little for Wild Nacatl since he's not really 3-color. I've tried a bunch of true 3-color cards though and they're all going to be very fringe and frequently picked 15th, so why not make them build-arounds? Cruel Ultimatum and Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker and Maelstrom Wanderer are the closest to those (I dissent from the Wadds argument that 3-color fatties are more restrictive than 3-color, uh, non-fatties), but then some build-arounds like Zur the Enchanter, however powerful and fun, don't work, and I think about just having Nacatl and Ultimatum and feel much better about my design choices.
Other than that I nominate
esper: none
Dom Harvey
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I anti-nominate Rhox War Monk
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I like these except for Fervent Charge. I ran Realm Razer forever though, and nobody used it.
Yeah... charge is definitely the most awkward, but hell, it's effectively a double anthem for one more mana than glorious anthem. Makes a few 1/1 tokens a lot more frightening real fast.
This. All five of the Charms from SOA were extremely versatile.
Hmm... but there are already so many good Bant cards...
Dom Harvey
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Like what? Say it, I dare you.
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