So I built a Vintage cube with all the usual characters. Eldrazi and Sneak/Show/Eureka type cards, but there seems to be a lack of answers or opposable cards to this strategy in all the colors. Black you must draft discards, Blue counterspells. But Green and Red have almost nothing. White has Containment Priest and efficient removal like Path and Swords.
Is there cards I'm missing that would help defend against this strategy? Because it seems like the most powerful strategy in any vintage/legacy cube. Whether it's cheat into play or reanimate, it just seems so strong compared to anything else.
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Green decks can usually benefit from an early show and tell and win on the next turn. Scavenging Ooze, Deathrite and reclamation sage can help a little bit for reanimation and sneak attack but for the most part those colors are not very good against those strategies. Song of the Dryads is a more recent inclusion that I think is very good. You could also include cards like Relic of Progenitus to help out against graveyard strategies.
I'm not exactly sure what a Vintage Cube is, you should provide a brief explanation so we can see what your design parameters are.
Karakas? I know that's the card that sees a lot of play in Vintage for exactly this reason (i.e. that it helps Death and Taxes bounce Griselbrand and/or Emrakul when they get Showed onto the battlefield).
You could just not play the Sneak and Show archetype.
There are plenty of other fun things you can include in its place that don't require as much dedicated space in your Cube and don't force out other, less-powerful archetypes.
Is there cards I'm missing that would help defend against this strategy? Because it seems like the most powerful strategy in any vintage/legacy cube. Whether it's cheat into play or reanimate, it just seems so strong compared to anything else.
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer
I'm not exactly sure what a Vintage Cube is, you should provide a brief explanation so we can see what your design parameters are.
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There are plenty of other fun things you can include in its place that don't require as much dedicated space in your Cube and don't force out other, less-powerful archetypes.
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