When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
A trickier version of the same question: I am pushing tokens (particularly GW), and am ALSO experimenting with increasing the number of morphs in the cube. In green, I now have Hystrodon and Nantuko Vigilante. Would Thelonite be playable in this situation?
I love morphs, and I cut Hermit for being very mediocre years ago. It was always awkward, and the addition of blink effects in Cube has made Deranged even better.
Thanks for putting this thread up! I have some burning questions on a couple comparisons and this helps me greatly.
The hermit isn't particularly good even for morph support (I think about two per color is fine until 600+). If you want to enable tokens at that cost, maybe Ant Queen or Centaur Glade?
Another round of multicolor cuts. Pick one of each to remove:
I would cut Spitting Image (too slow), Creakwood Liege (at least Death can be a reanimation enabler) and Agony Warp (Recoil is good tempo + and answer to noncreature threats).
I guess that we can all agree that you should cut Creakwood Liege.
Well, back in the day when I had it in my cube, it was a very high pick. That was because of the Worms 2 worm tokens, but still something to consider. I actually like the card, and if you include support for heavy green and heavy black and tokens and Braids/Smokestack, it seems like it has a lot of applications.
Recoil is also a good card and more unique than Agony Warp, but both are good and neither is essential.
What about Snakeform as UG card? I don't like the two you suggest much, I played with Voidslime for quite some time and it was very rare that it was any better than Cancel.
I play Spitting Image over Voidslime. It's not the most powerful card, but it makes a lot of fun situations happen.
I don't run Life&Death or Creakwood Liege, but I'd say it's pretty close. I think Life and Death wins for its versatility, bringing back a utility creature or adding 5 or 6 damage to a late game alpha strike can both be pretty handy.
I run Recoil over Agony Warp. Both are good, but Recoil is more fun, in my opinion, for the times when you catch an opponent empty handed and get to remove a permanent for good.
What about Snakeform as UG card? I don't like the two you suggest much, I played with Voidslime for quite some time and it was very rare that it was any better than Cancel.
I highly support this. Snakeform is incredible. It's my 5th Simic card. I run it over both Voidslime and Spitting Image, and I'm SOOO glad I do. This effect comes out of nowhere most of the time and is almost always impactful.
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As for the famous vindicate test, deranged still leaves you with 4 1/1s, while the other hermit just dies.
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The hermit isn't particularly good even for morph support (I think about two per color is fine until 600+). If you want to enable tokens at that cost, maybe Ant Queen or Centaur Glade?
Another round of multicolor cuts. Pick one of each to remove:
Voidslime vs Spitting Image
Life//Death vs Creakwood Liege
Agony Warp vs Recoil
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Personally, I'd cut Spitting Image and Agony Warp. I once ran all 3 of what you're asking about and I don't mind that they're gone.
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Recoil is also a good card and more unique than Agony Warp, but both are good and neither is essential.
What about Snakeform as UG card? I don't like the two you suggest much, I played with Voidslime for quite some time and it was very rare that it was any better than Cancel.
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I don't run Life&Death or Creakwood Liege, but I'd say it's pretty close. I think Life and Death wins for its versatility, bringing back a utility creature or adding 5 or 6 damage to a late game alpha strike can both be pretty handy.
I run Recoil over Agony Warp. Both are good, but Recoil is more fun, in my opinion, for the times when you catch an opponent empty handed and get to remove a permanent for good.
I highly support this. Snakeform is incredible. It's my 5th Simic card. I run it over both Voidslime and Spitting Image, and I'm SOOO glad I do. This effect comes out of nowhere most of the time and is almost always impactful.
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Vorapede. Blasto is cool, but Voradpede is insane.
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Vorapede just does so much more stuff than Blastoderm. You get offense and defense, in a 2-for-1 creature package. Insane.
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The other one is much closer. I still like Blastoderm at 450, but Vorapade has been playing really well so far.
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