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May 28, 2019Ulka posted a message on The End of an EraAnd as a reminder, We are currently working on the site for the community to follow to. We will be releasing more detains as we approach the release date.Posted in: Articles
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Please note these cards were Alchemy cards prior.
Toralf's Disciple
Sanguine Brushstroke
Oracle of the Alpha
Yea... I might include all three for a draft or two just to see how crazy it gets.
The moose and the Boar are easy and clean top end creatures and given I run monstrasaur and the general this is an easy general replacement as I hate his art. The moose is fantastic and honestly makes me want to shift UG back to flash support which is always a fun strategy.
Brightblade Stoat is meadowgrain knight which I ran until like 3 months ago but better so that's an easy slot in again I think. Same is true for Shoreline Looter.
I will be replacing bloodchief's thirst with fell like many others. Hitting walkers isn't as relevant in our cubes than many legacy + cubes as we only have narset, kiora, and saheeli in many of the cubes.
The two cards that interest me that I haven't seen talked about yet are Carrot Cake a food that has an etb and sac trigger to scry 1 and make a 1/1 which is super solid in my opinion. The other one that I want to try out is Starseer Mentor. While it's not a 10/10 on its 3/5 body ,the flying vigilance combo is strong and the torment trigger if your life total changed during your turn is something I kinda love. I think it will be a pet card honestly but I'm in love.
That said my cube is currently at 445 and my goal is to get it to 400 so that it feels better given we normally draft right now with 6 people because that extra 50 cards really does make it feel sometimes that a whole section of the cube isn't present vs what 400 should feel like.
Spelunking - It's the single card that has started a great lands deck in my cube. It allows Ravnica Bouncelands to pull off some of the crazy things Amulet Titan can do but further allows you to go into multicolor easily as most of our fixing now comes into play untapped.
Breaker of Creation 6CC
Creature Eldrazi (U)
When you cast this spell, you gain 1 life for each colorless permanent you control.
Hexproof from each Color
Annihilator 2
8/4
I am kinda excited for scurrilous Sentry. The menace plus Titan text for Connives just makes me excited as it is just a slow but steady grave enabler and beat stick.
Here are the cards at the top of the list for me that I hope get downshifted for a commander deck or a modern horizons shift.
Masticore (If only, I know its Reserved List)
Ruin grinder
Duplicant
Manor Gargoyle
Perennial Behemoth
Scuttling Doom Engine
Staff of Nin
I figured I'd breakdown my thoughts on each card first more individually.
Channel: Known for abusing colorless mana this card is often part of combos either by using fireballs to nuke someone out or by allowing a player to create a colorless creature army with Eldrazi and artifact creatures.
Tinker: This is known for being one of the most abusable artifact cheating tutors in the game. Typically used to sneak out huge artifacts that warp the game in other formats in cube it often seems to enable cheating out large artifact creatures.
I know for me with both of these focusing around top end artifacts I adjusted my cube's reanimator targets to have more of these floating around the cube as they enable 3 strategies. My current list includes the following for each of these as payoffs that are known to win the game.
1 Demonfire
1 Rolling Thunder
1 Bane of Bala Ged
1 Sandstone Oracle
1 Sphinx of the Guildpact
1 Artisan of Kozilek
1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
1 Angel of the Ruins
1 Mirrorshell Crab
1 Sphinx of the Guildpact
1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
While both are short of major payoffs more exist that I currently am not running such as Walking Skyscrapper or Triskelion. So I leave you with this, do you run either of these cards, if you don't what would make you to want to run them and are there any downshifts like Wizards made with angel of the ruins that would make you consider them?
Additionally are there any other cards that fit this style of cheating the curve that you have shifted your cubes for in the past or hope to in the future (reanimator aside).
Alabaster Host Intercessor > Angel of the Ruins: I like to have 1 land cycling of each in my cube as it makes a balance and this is the only one that has felt truly weaker than the rest. Now this is tied for best option with the troll as it enables reanimator and is Tinkerable.
Electrostatic Infantry > Cunning Coyote: UR spells matters already has a lot of cards in red and the coyote seems like a lot of fun.
Sarcomancy > Forsaken Miner: a swap that feels good. I'm sad to see a card that has been present in my cube to support black aggro since the beginning is leaving but miner is just too good.
The Rack > Lavaspur Boots: an odd swap but the rack has had some lost power in recent years with how efficient things are in the cube. Long past are the days that control could just keep players witling away with the rack. Boots just makes things go faster and honesty this is the most testing of my changes made.
Goldhound > Reckless Lackey: one has haste while one doesn't. The evasion was solid but lacky also has first strike and can use it a bit easier when suited up plus the chip damage from haste is huge.
Lu Xun, Scholar General > Slickshot Lockpicker: the general had been a card I loved in tempo decks as a way to keep up card advantage but budget snapcaster seems more balance to what my players often what to play.
Basalt Monolith > Spinewoods Armadillo: an odd swap but I didnt realize that when I readded mutagenic growth I didn't move it to colorless like I planned.
I'm still looking at if I'm going to make a swap for Aloe Alchemist, nurturing Pixie, and Rambling Possum but I haven't made any decisions yet.