Is Skymarcher Aspirant better than any of my current non-top tier white 1-drops?
Nah on bodyguard.
Yeah on Woe-Reaper.
Yeah on Soldier.
Probably on Student?
Your aggro decks would likely be better served by taking out Accorder Paladin than any of the 1-drops, though. (and I personally rate Lone Missionary here, FWIW, else I'd just snap-recommend that.)
Accorder Paladin is a tier 1 white aggro 2-drop creature in my book, it pushes a lot of damage through and makes it harder for midrange decks to block a 2/1 profitably with an X/3.
Accorder Paladin is a tier 1 white aggro 2-drop creature in my book, it pushes a lot of damage through and makes it harder for midrange decks to block a 2/1 profitably with an X/3.
Yeah I can't imagine cutting Paladin at this point, I don't think white decks are lacking to any degree for 1 drops. With an 8 mana draft you're often the only one who wants the specific white 1 drops when playing white aggro and if you happen to be fighting over them it's not like you're both typically trying to go mono white like how that can happen with red aggro. I honestly can't remember the last time during a draft that some number of white 1s didn't wheel at the end of packs, and it's mostly because you can often guarantee nabbing them over better options like removal or bombs or etc. and not because players are in desperate need of them. I also think you don't need a million 1s in mono white--you want some, but you're often closer to a midrange deck than aggro, or a slower-aggro/faster midrange deck.
More decks want 2 drops vs 1s too (at least with what's available at what costs), and Paladin is a 2 that fits in a couple archetypes. I'm playing Paladin in tokens or maybe some other midrange builds trying to go wide, whereas Soldier of the Pantheon would be a disastrous card #23/#24 in those decks.
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Probably The Scarab God, if not for any other reason than it's a 5cc creature that can finish the game; something that's scarce between those 2 colors.
Both those dimir cards are in my top 3
If I had to pick, id pick scarab god, but I've had a recent run of variance where scarab god has clunked up my hand along with other expensive spells and hostage taker caused a couple blow outs.. So starting to question my stance a bit.
My pick is hostage taker. I can follow wtwlf's way of thinking too, but the blow outs with hostage taker really make it for me.
That being said, I wouldn't say anyone is wrong for playing SG over HT, and the only reason I play the taker over SG is because I believe Taker adds more to the cube and the color pair than SG does.
I like Scarab God more because of what wtwlf said, and also because Hostage Taker's effect is very similar to all the 187-creatures and Palace Jailer that are already very prevalent in cubes.
Thinking of replacing Parallax Wave with Elspeth, Sun's Champion. I am worried that I am giving control too many toys. This would also be white's 4th planeswalker not including Kyteon. Any opinions on this?
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I think that would be a great change. Wave is good, but the competition at the 4cc spell slot is insane. Elspeth is a bomb, and is one of the few playable cards at her CMC. Easy change, IMHO.
Agree with wtwlf. As long as aggro is healthy overall, Elspeth won't make a huge difference in the meta. She's easily in the top 20 for white and I wouldn't cube without her.
Thinking of replacing Parallax Wave with Elspeth, Sun's Champion. I am worried that I am giving control too many toys. This would also be white's 4th planeswalker not including Kyteon. Any opinions on this?
I am a huge parallax wave fan but I would definitely cube elspeth suns champion over it.
I LOVE parralax wave and i see it as on par with the best white Agro curve toppers, but there’s so many good ones that losing one is not the end of the world.
Personally would try to get both cards in there at any size >= 360.
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Nah on bodyguard.
Yeah on Woe-Reaper.
Yeah on Soldier.
Probably on Student?
Your aggro decks would likely be better served by taking out Accorder Paladin than any of the 1-drops, though. (and I personally rate Lone Missionary here, FWIW, else I'd just snap-recommend that.)
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Yeah I can't imagine cutting Paladin at this point, I don't think white decks are lacking to any degree for 1 drops. With an 8 mana draft you're often the only one who wants the specific white 1 drops when playing white aggro and if you happen to be fighting over them it's not like you're both typically trying to go mono white like how that can happen with red aggro. I honestly can't remember the last time during a draft that some number of white 1s didn't wheel at the end of packs, and it's mostly because you can often guarantee nabbing them over better options like removal or bombs or etc. and not because players are in desperate need of them. I also think you don't need a million 1s in mono white--you want some, but you're often closer to a midrange deck than aggro, or a slower-aggro/faster midrange deck.
More decks want 2 drops vs 1s too (at least with what's available at what costs), and Paladin is a 2 that fits in a couple archetypes. I'm playing Paladin in tokens or maybe some other midrange builds trying to go wide, whereas Soldier of the Pantheon would be a disastrous card #23/#24 in those decks.
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Both those dimir cards are in my top 3
If I had to pick, id pick scarab god, but I've had a recent run of variance where scarab god has clunked up my hand along with other expensive spells and hostage taker caused a couple blow outs.. So starting to question my stance a bit.
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That being said, I wouldn't say anyone is wrong for playing SG over HT, and the only reason I play the taker over SG is because I believe Taker adds more to the cube and the color pair than SG does.
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I am a huge parallax wave fan but I would definitely cube elspeth suns champion over it.
I LOVE parralax wave and i see it as on par with the best white Agro curve toppers, but there’s so many good ones that losing one is not the end of the world.
Personally would try to get both cards in there at any size >= 360.
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