Hi all. I just went through calibretto's list compiling the average peasant cube. To my shock and horror, cavern harpy, one of my favorite cards, did not make the list in 680 cube. I feel it has been exceedingly strong as a crystal shard impersonator in my 720 peasant cube and that it pairs well with some of the most busted u/b creatures as this color pairing, especially black, has creatures with some of the strongest enters the battlefield effects.
As a constructed legacy player, I still see the card shine in Aluren decks and have been viewing it as a powerhouse. However, after seeing calibretto's list, I am wondering if I am "overly romanticizing" this card's effect. What are your thoughts on the card and why have you been taking it out of your cubes?
If a scenario comes up where a player controlling chalice of the void wants to allow a spell to resolve through chalice, such as the example below, can the chalice player intentionally allow the spell to resolve? Can a player casting a spell (opponent owns chalice) call chalice on themselves immediately upon casting the spell, does the player owning chalice, upon being reminded, have to counter this spell?
Ex 1: Chalice on 1. Opponent casts thoughtseize targeting the player owning the chalice. The player owning chalice has all lands in hand and would rather let the opponent see his hand and take 2 damage rather than counter the thoughtseize.
for protection from removal: mother of runes, very powerful card, useful in any white creature deck you will ever build in the future
or swiftfoot boots
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I agree that it's nice to have some value among the rares. I would be happier with no mythic rarity for sure.
The last booster box i bought was innistrad and I got no value. no planeswalkers, no snapcasters, no Olivia Valdaren. At this point I had already stopped buying booster packs and since then I have given up on booster boxes. Outside of drafting I just can't see why I would want to buy packs, it usually just leads to frustration and loss of money. mythic rarity and box mapping seem to have contributed to increased variance in booster boxes, and in turn my frustration.
There are still amazing cards printed at rare that fly high above some of the mythics, like Stoneforge Mystic or Boros Reckoner, while there are mythics that feel like a let down, such as the overly-hyped Skaab Ruinator.
For me, having mythics that feel like a letdown leads to more variance. In my poor innistrad booster box i got all worthless mythics. in sets where most of the money is in the mythics, the duds seem worse. you only get a small number of mythics in your booster box. If you only get 4 or 5 mythics per box its easy to strike out. I would rather all the mythics be powerful or none be powerful(all the value in rares).
On a different arguement, I have an honest question for any of you LIMITED players. How do you value this card?
Take a 40 card deck.
-7 cards for the opening draw = 33 cards left in the deck.
Go to turn four (lets pretend there is no possible way in the deck to ramp). We're down to 29 cards on turn four with enough land.
To get to his ult, I believe it's minus seven. So go there. You're now down three draws and 3 mills. You're now at 23 cards in the deck. But this is a moot point because your graveyard is back.
But let's say he took some damage (poor jace). 2 damage, this time. A Goblin piker got in. He's still at 4! Which means, if this jace takes ANY damage in limited, you're going to have to send yourself below 20 cards to just HOPE for a second -3 or an ult. Is this worth it?
Am I missing something? Why do you care if you go below 20 cards?
I have a feeling Sanctums are going to be had to move for the people who bought in. I grabbed a playset for 40 bucks 6 months ago on eBay (probably the only time I have spent that kind of money purely on a tip from this forum) and nobody's wanted them since then. With the recent spike I feel basically locked into them, they just went from "difficult" to "impossible" as far as using them as a trade resource in my area and I have a feeling that I'll either buckle and get a Moat so I can actually, you know, use them, or buylist them out as 40% of retail because they're not putting up results and major dealers are too savvy to give me more.
There's always the chance that they actually do start winning Legacy events but I am not holding my breath.
what's wrong with putting them back on ebay for profit?
Build around me cards are limited by the cards surrounding it. Hence build-around-me. She just doesn't have any good support. Maybe if she read whenever you gain life, you put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature, I could see that being used more because the odds of you gaining life more than once in one turn just doesn't seem likely unless you plan to go infinite with reckoner.
dtg99 just gave you three cards that are good support. i just saw all these cards used together by jonathan job yesterday and it looked powerful to me. i dont know if its quite worth the price either, but it certainly is powerful.
As a constructed legacy player, I still see the card shine in Aluren decks and have been viewing it as a powerhouse. However, after seeing calibretto's list, I am wondering if I am "overly romanticizing" this card's effect. What are your thoughts on the card and why have you been taking it out of your cubes?
link for the 2019 average list. https://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/156304
Ex 1: Chalice on 1. Opponent casts thoughtseize targeting the player owning the chalice. The player owning chalice has all lands in hand and would rather let the opponent see his hand and take 2 damage rather than counter the thoughtseize.
Ex 2: thoughtseize vs Obstinate Baloth
Thanks in advance for anyone that can share the answer.
kor spiritdancer, this one is expensive but very powerful, if you add it consider adding pacifism, prison term or faith's fetters as removal
for protection from removal:
mother of runes, very powerful card, useful in any white creature deck you will ever build in the future
or swiftfoot boots
predator's gambit is a better unholy strength
for defense:
ghostly prison
sphere of safety
This seems closer to ancestral memories
The last booster box i bought was innistrad and I got no value. no planeswalkers, no snapcasters, no Olivia Valdaren. At this point I had already stopped buying booster packs and since then I have given up on booster boxes. Outside of drafting I just can't see why I would want to buy packs, it usually just leads to frustration and loss of money. mythic rarity and box mapping seem to have contributed to increased variance in booster boxes, and in turn my frustration.
For me, having mythics that feel like a letdown leads to more variance. In my poor innistrad booster box i got all worthless mythics. in sets where most of the money is in the mythics, the duds seem worse. you only get a small number of mythics in your booster box. If you only get 4 or 5 mythics per box its easy to strike out. I would rather all the mythics be powerful or none be powerful(all the value in rares).
Am I missing something? Why do you care if you go below 20 cards?
As is the original poster who inferred that their faith was a cause for their actions.
what's wrong with putting them back on ebay for profit?
dtg99 just gave you three cards that are good support. i just saw all these cards used together by jonathan job yesterday and it looked powerful to me. i dont know if its quite worth the price either, but it certainly is powerful.
or urza's incubator
this would make me more happy than getting any other lands
oath of druids is banned