So i was curious... does anyone have experience with ante cards? i wanna throw in everything, from rebirth through to contract from below and even stuff like jeweled bird. It'd make an actual tournament of the cube a bit more interesting, and it's not like you're gonna "lose" any of the cards (since they're all mine anyways). Any advice?
Only experience I have with Ante is the Shandalar PC game, but Contract from Below is the most powerful card ever printed. It's miles above any of the other power 9. Darkpact was also important in Shandalar. It's probably weaker in a singleton environment, but when you're anteing multiple cards with things like 4x Contract from Below in your deck and shuffling those contracts back into the deck with Timetwister, Darkpact was important to get back Timetwisters or something else you needed to keep going. Jeweled Bird is also solid. It's floor is a 1 mana cantrip, but it can be better if you have a Timetwister or Regrowth in your deck.
So ive already built a cube, but i've had a hard time leaving it alone. So far, it's a powered, 360 card, pre-urza block (except it also has the zen/ons fetches) cube. So obviously, lots of fast mana (black lotus, moxen, channel), lots of game-breaking stuff (yawgmoth's bargain, wheel of fortune, time vault), and not a lot of powerful creatures (force of nature, phyrexian colossus, palinchron), and somewhat prison-heavy (the abyss, invoke prejudice, chains of mephistopheles).
So i was curious... does anyone have experience with ante cards? i wanna throw in everything, from rebirth through to contract from below and even stuff like jeweled bird. It'd make an actual tournament of the cube a bit more interesting, and it's not like you're gonna "lose" any of the cards (since they're all mine anyways). Any advice?
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom
[180 classic cube]
This virus thing is a bit of a pain though; it's been making cube-testing harder to come by.
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom