MTG Salvation

Sudden Spoiling

Polymorphist's Jest

The printing of the Jest made me wonder if this could be playable in a larger Cube as a Blue combat trick (which are otherwise hard to come by). Sudden Spoiling has existed for a long time, has a superior effect most of the time and has split second, which is quite useful on a card like this, but they obviously don't compete directly with each other.

Anytime two or more creatures are involved in combat on each side, this is going to be quite a blowout, but that situation is not particularly common in Cube.

Has anyone tried Sudden Spoiling? Any experiences to share?

I've played Sudden Spoiling. It can randomly be a blowout, but most often it's much better to play a removal spell that works outside of combat. Or something like Ashes to Ashes if you specifically want a 3cc removal spell that can kill more than 1 dude. Sudden Spoiling is a lot better than Polymorphist's Jest is, so my experiences with the one make me want to not play the other. It's arguably in a better color for the effect, but I'd say it's in a worse color for the competition. I don't want to cut any blue cards for that.

It does get untargetable creatures which is especially nice in cube. I agree that blue is THE hardest color for anything to break into, but I wouldn't fault someone running this as an answer to gods, hex proof dudes and the like. I'm considering testing it out but I am having trouble coming up with the slot myself.

I was surprised there wasnt an scd for polymorphists jest as sudden spoiling is actually quite good in my experience. I figured it must be a pet card, but what stinks is the split second on sudden spoiling was a huge boon for the black variant, 1/1s are easier to remove then 0/2s but the jest isnt a fog like its black brother.
Regeneration and firebreathing still go through the U variany which in my opinion makes it worse.

SS is the better of the two by a wide margin, I think. Split second and zero power mean a lot, and it's also a lot easier to cut a black card for this instead of a blue card for Jest.

-AA

But its much mor wanted in blue, and through experience with SS makig something a 1 toughness creature could have won me unwinnable games before. They arent as far apart as I iniially thought in power but split second is just huge especially for a card like this.
Sorry for spelling and grammar. I usually post on my phone and I have large fingers.
Second edit: is black easy to cut for you guys? In my experience cutting ease goes U B W R G, from hardest to easiest to find cuts. They vary at cmcs and card types but in general thats my order.

Black cuts are pretty agonizing too, I'll agree with you there. But I do think it's easier to find room in black than blue, fwiw.

For me, blue and then white are the hardest. Granted, all of the sections get harder to cut the longer the Magic timeline is.

-AA