You know, because I run so much artifact ramp I suppose Temple doesn't really pull as much weight as it once did so I can try that. I do have Loam and Crucible, but neither it really strong because there are only 10 fetches in the Cube, so I really think it would be more a "one and done" effect most of the time.
Such a good comment you did it twice.
I'd argue that adding Mirrorpool would definitely give the Loam package a boost. This is where you discover why Mirrorpool comes in tapped - if it didn't, you'd essentially have 3G Dredge 3: Fork something or copy something. Every. Fricking. Turn. Imagine that in the prototypical Golgari Dredge archetype, and you're copying your black removal spells, your Titans... that's going to leave a stain, alright.
It's almost certainly going into my list, and I don't even run Loam or Dredge.
Honestly, there's a fair "F it" factor too. Like, these aren't huge things that will revolutionize the Cube and it might be kind of cool. Now, to go hunting for 20 half art Wastes.
Honestly, there's a fair "F it" factor too. Like, these aren't huge things that will revolutionize the Cube and it might be kind of cool. Now, to go hunting for 20 half art Wastes.
Yah, my problem too. And to make it worse, I've been trying to foil out my basic land section. There's no way I'm even contemplating attempting foil full-art Wastes.
Pro Tip: The blue OGW intro pack apparently has 10 half-art Wastes onboard. I could think of worse ways of getting a hold of them.
Yah, my problem too. And to make it worse, I've been trying to foil out my basic land section. There's no way I'm even contemplating attempting foil full-art Wastes.
Pro Tip: The blue OGW intro pack apparently has 10 half-art Wastes onboard. I could think of worse ways of getting a hold of them.
At least with foils you know people want them and THAT's why they are hard to get ahold of. With half art, they are $.50-$.75 each because 5 people in the world want them and they aren't really on the market. They are in boxes in 14 year old kids' houses.
It's a lot easier to get a grip of these full art lands now than back in the old zendikar days. It wasn't a hardship spending $5, getting the only 10 full art wastes I'll ever need for my cube.
At this point we are fine not adding the "colorless" option. I am sure we will revisit this as sets are released. I am enjoying where were at right now and don't want to mess up a good thing.
I've been working on a conspiracy styled cube and I was wondering what sort of archeotype I should use for Jund.
So far I have
Bant names matter (in the vanilla conspiracy there was bunch of naming matters stuff and I added creatures from origins to push this further)
Grixis spellslinger (there is no real synergy here, but grixis colors just happen to have loads of great spells)
Naya tokens
Esper voting matters
Jund ???
I've been working on a conspiracy styled cube and I was wondering what sort of archeotype I should use for Jund.
Without looking at the cards Conspiracy handed Jund, but taking your other shard choices into consideration, I'd probably go with reanimation/recursion in some form. There are so many awesome cards in those colours that enjoy either having things sitting in the yard, or enjoy fishing them back out again. Black, I probably don't need to type about. Green has Bow of Nylea, Red has Feldon of the Third Path. Conspiracy definitely gives us Deathreap Ritual as well, which is an insane card. I'd be playing around with forced creature death / group sacrifice on the black side, and have green and red playing around that theme.
Problem with reanimation is that without way to actually win the game board state becomes stagnant with everybody having massive armies and nobody being able to attack. I encountered this alot with my karador edh deck until I added an infinite combo with sun titan. Constant recursion also becomes frustrating for opponents to deal with because removal becomes pointless.
EDIT: What do you guys think of biovisionary in bant?
EDIT: What do you guys think of biovisionary in bant?
I would stay away from this card, unless you plan to hand the person that picks biovisionary 3 extra copies post-draft. It's just too likely thatless than 4 copies will show up in the draft, making it a dead pick the majority of the time. I suppose you could support it with cards like rite of replication, but then biovisionary becomes a super, super narrow combo piece (and probably not that fun to play with or against).
In light prophet of kruphix's ban in the regular commander format, I'm going to be removing her card from my cube. Fathom Mage will likely be the substitution. Do folks have any noteworthy experiences with the mage? I am optimistic she will work well with the burgeoning +1 counters themes I've been cultivating ~ hardened scales, master biomancer, gavony township, new ezuri, etc...
Fathom Mage is really cool, and I'm a big fan. It's easy to get a few cards just by playing creatures normally, and sometimes you can combo her with Newzuri or something and draw a boatload.
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Do you guys have suggestions what should I cut?
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I'm slightly confused as to what this cube is trying to do. I see a *ton* of multiples without a lot of reasoning as to how many copies there are of things. The color distribution also seems to be all over the place.
I've been working on a conspiracy styled cube and I was wondering what sort of archeotype I should use for Jund.
So far I have
Bant names matter (in the vanilla conspiracy there was bunch of naming matters stuff and I added creatures from origins to push this further)
Grixis spellslinger (there is no real synergy here, but grixis colors just happen to have loads of great spells)
Naya tokens
Esper voting matters
Jund ???
Multible copies are mainly left over a conspiracy box I drafted with friends.
In light prophet of kruphix's ban in the regular commander format, I'm going to be removing her card from my cube. Fathom Mage will likely be the substitution. Do folks have any noteworthy experiences with the mage? I am optimistic she will work well with the burgeoning +1 counters themes I've been cultivating ~ hardened scales, master biomancer, gavony township, new ezuri, etc...
I'm going with boring Tryon Predator. Plasma Capture was my other option but it wasn't very good when I had it in before. Fathom Mage seems like a fine choice.
Stupid question for edh cube owners: how many basic lands do you currently have sleeved up? I'm providing 50 of each type, but I am totally out of room in the box, and have 10 wastes incoming. Reducing the number to 45 per basic land type would probably be enough right? Has anyone almost run out of a type during the deck building phase?
I had 45 and kept running out of one each time. 50 was better but we'd run short on Islands sometimes. 55 has worked well.
Adding Wastes warranted getting a separate box for the basics now.
I had 45 and kept running out of one each time. 50 was better but we'd run short on Islands sometimes. 55 has worked well.
Adding Wastes warranted getting a separate box for the basics now.
I had the same problem so I'm up to 65 Islands and 60 of the rest. I have to support 10 man drafts sometimes so I need a bunch.
I'd say 55 Islands 50 others will cover 8 drafters.
Almost always. You get those weird drafts though where 5 people go Wxx and plains are maxed out. I just want to avoid that awkwardness if all it really costs me is a set of sleeves.
I have 40 of each and it's fine, but I'm lucky to have 6 people drafting so that's fine. Adding 20 wastes soon. (As well as finally proxying up my nonbasics so I have less terrible mana.)
As an aside, I managed to pick up two fatpacks (At MSRP which was nice and unexpected) and totally retrofit my cube with full art basics, as well as picking up the wastes I need. (It's good that they included those in the land-pack because otherwise I'd have literally only 1 waste. I've opened more Nissas than wastes. Meh)
EDIT: Galspanic I'm realizing you have Gideon, Champion of Justice in your list. How has that performed? I have him sitting in a binder right now.
Such a good comment you did it twice.
I'd argue that adding Mirrorpool would definitely give the Loam package a boost. This is where you discover why Mirrorpool comes in tapped - if it didn't, you'd essentially have 3G Dredge 3: Fork something or copy something. Every. Fricking. Turn. Imagine that in the prototypical Golgari Dredge archetype, and you're copying your black removal spells, your Titans... that's going to leave a stain, alright.
It's almost certainly going into my list, and I don't even run Loam or Dredge.
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Yah, my problem too. And to make it worse, I've been trying to foil out my basic land section. There's no way I'm even contemplating attempting foil full-art Wastes.
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At least with foils you know people want them and THAT's why they are hard to get ahold of. With half art, they are $.50-$.75 each because 5 people in the world want them and they aren't really on the market. They are in boxes in 14 year old kids' houses.
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Commanders
-Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
+Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
Ayli helps the attrition style deck W/B normally goes better than Teysa.
Cube
+Void Shatter
-Dissipate
I don't want 2 Dissipates, Void Shatter dodges Red Elemental Blast and Iona, Shield of Emeria but you can't get it with Merchant Scroll. That's an upgrade? Am I missing something?
+Goblin Dark-Dwellers
-Mindclaw Shaman
Rather cast my own spells than maybe an opponents. Much better body and a goblin is nice too.
+World Breaker
-Elemental Bond
I never liked Elemental Bond and I think I can handle another fatty.
-Ephara, God of the Polis
+Reflector Mage
Ephara didn't draw enough cards, Reflector Mage could be a good replacement. I've also though about Meddling Mage but I think the Reflector supports blink better which is what I'm pushing for Azorius.
+Seer's Lantern
-Darksteel Ingot
Seer's Lantern ramps you and gives you something to do with excess mana, Darksteel Ingot has plenty of better options already.
+Eldrazi Displacer
-Hushwing Gryff
I would rather push blink than punish it so I welcome another Mistmeadow Witch.
+Mirrorpool
-Terrain Generator
Easy cut and we'll see how Mirrorpool works out.
+Hissing Quagmire
-Tainted Wood
+Needle Spires
-Wind-Scarred Crag
+Wandering Fumarole
-Swiftwater Cliffs
Yay manlands!
So far I have
Bant names matter (in the vanilla conspiracy there was bunch of naming matters stuff and I added creatures from origins to push this further)
Grixis spellslinger (there is no real synergy here, but grixis colors just happen to have loads of great spells)
Naya tokens
Esper voting matters
Jund ???
Without looking at the cards Conspiracy handed Jund, but taking your other shard choices into consideration, I'd probably go with reanimation/recursion in some form. There are so many awesome cards in those colours that enjoy either having things sitting in the yard, or enjoy fishing them back out again. Black, I probably don't need to type about. Green has Bow of Nylea, Red has Feldon of the Third Path. Conspiracy definitely gives us Deathreap Ritual as well, which is an insane card. I'd be playing around with forced creature death / group sacrifice on the black side, and have green and red playing around that theme.
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My only concern is that there might be too many gy related shenenigans. Grixis is able to return instant and sorceries from gy (+extract from darkness), orzhov has magister of worth and for the lolz I threw in karador, ghost chieftain.
Problem with reanimation is that without way to actually win the game board state becomes stagnant with everybody having massive armies and nobody being able to attack. I encountered this alot with my karador edh deck until I added an infinite combo with sun titan. Constant recursion also becomes frustrating for opponents to deal with because removal becomes pointless.
EDIT: What do you guys think of biovisionary in bant?
I would stay away from this card, unless you plan to hand the person that picks biovisionary 3 extra copies post-draft. It's just too likely thatless than 4 copies will show up in the draft, making it a dead pick the majority of the time. I suppose you could support it with cards like rite of replication, but then biovisionary becomes a super, super narrow combo piece (and probably not that fun to play with or against).
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Do you guys have suggestions what should I cut?
I'm slightly confused as to what this cube is trying to do. I see a *ton* of multiples without a lot of reasoning as to how many copies there are of things. The color distribution also seems to be all over the place.
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"Personally I love high-riak, low-reqars gambles. Life's best with a decent amount of riak. And f*** reqars."
Adding Wastes warranted getting a separate box for the basics now.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
"Personally I love high-riak, low-reqars gambles. Life's best with a decent amount of riak. And f*** reqars."
Almost always. You get those weird drafts though where 5 people go Wxx and plains are maxed out. I just want to avoid that awkwardness if all it really costs me is a set of sleeves.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
Aside from that I'm looking at colorless mana cards I can add. I'm currently planning on New Kozilek, Endbringer, and Eldrazi Displacer. Thinking about Deceiver of Form, Deepfathom Skulker, Dread Defiler, and Mirrorpool. Is there anything else worth playing I'm missing?
As an aside, I managed to pick up two fatpacks (At MSRP which was nice and unexpected) and totally retrofit my cube with full art basics, as well as picking up the wastes I need. (It's good that they included those in the land-pack because otherwise I'd have literally only 1 waste. I've opened more Nissas than wastes. Meh)
EDIT: Galspanic I'm realizing you have Gideon, Champion of Justice in your list. How has that performed? I have him sitting in a binder right now.
Generals meant to be drafted first in a single pack of 6 cards.
And here is the actual cube, meant to be drafted in 4 regular sized packs. (60 card decks)