It's still a solid card, but it's not a staple. A lot has changed since 2013.
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Magic related though, Selesnya has not exactly seen a bunch of cube staples printed that would replace Voice of Resurgance! For me, the top 6 in no particular order would be:
Qasali Pridemage
Voice of Resurgence
Kitchen Finks
Knight of Autumn
Knight of the Reliquary
Nature's Chant (tossed into White section for me)
I still think Voice of Resurgence is still quite a rewarding card to pull players into GW, especially if you run go-wide strategies. Its a decent impression of Teferi, Time Raveler, punishing players from playing cards EOT or at instant speed, and demands a response before many decks can get back to their gameplan. I also love the fact that is resistant to Wraths, and the lightweight body means it can be recurred with fun cards such as Reveillark, Sun Titan, or even Birthing Pod (if you run it).
The last cube draft we ran, I was up against a well built GWReveillark deck, featuring cards such as Deranged Hermit, Angel of Invention, Earl of Squirrel, etc. I took out their early Voice and unfortunately ignored the token until it was too late, at which point I had to prioritize removing the Angel.
I would rank Voice #2 behind Knight of Autumn (out of sheer efficiency/modularity), but ahead of everything else (Nature's Chant tossed into either W or G).
It's a great card, but it just doesn't make my top 5 Selesnya cards. I rank Militant, Knight of Autumn, Finks, Pridemage, and Chant above it (although, you likely don't need both Chant and Pridemage in a small to middle sized cube). If you push a lands matter theme, Knight of the Reliquary is more important. So while VoR is awesome, I can see lots of cubes just not having the space for it.
It's a great card, but it just doesn't make my top 5 Selesnya cards. I rank Militant, Knight of Autumn, Finks, Pridemage, and Chant above it (although, you likely don't need both Chant and Pridemage in a small to middle sized cube). If you push a lands matter theme, Knight of the Reliquary is more important. So while VoR is awesome, I can see lots of cubes just not having the space for it.
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Whoops! Totally forgot about Militant and Finks - I moved both of them to the G and W slots a while ago, so I was comparing VoR to other gold GW cards (ex. Knight of Autumn, Mirari's Wake, Pridemage, etc.). But if you're still running the hybrid cards in your gold section, I definitely think Finks wins out! But I still like VOR over the rest of them
It's a great card, but it just doesn't make my top 5 Selesnya cards. I rank Militant, Knight of Autumn, Finks, Pridemage, and Chant above it (although, you likely don't need both Chant and Pridemage in a small to middle sized cube). If you push a lands matter theme, Knight of the Reliquary is more important. So while VoR is awesome, I can see lots of cubes just not having the space for it.
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I am surprised that Dryad Militant is so highly regarded. To me it is a bland 2/1 1-drop that is outclassed by any other 1 drop that would be ran in the decks that might want it (white or green).
It's a great card, but it just doesn't make my top 5 Selesnya cards. I rank Militant, Knight of Autumn, Finks, Pridemage, and Chant above it (although, you likely don't need both Chant and Pridemage in a small to middle sized cube). If you push a lands matter theme, Knight of the Reliquary is more important. So while VoR is awesome, I can see lots of cubes just not having the space for it.
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I am surprised that Dryad Militant is so highly regarded. To me it is a bland 2/1 1-drop that is outclassed by any other 1 drop that would be ran in the decks that might want it (white or green).
I don't support green aggro, so I play Dryad Militant as a white Savannah Lions with upside. I think its upside matters more than cards like Dragon Hunter, Skymarcher Aspirant, or Venerable Knight, for example.
Militant is great. It's better than most 2-power 1-drops in either of its respective colors, and the hybrid mana cost is a HUGE deal. Card's fantastic.
Dryad Militant is fantastic - but some points on those other cards listed... The upside on Skymarcher Aspirant is non-trivial and wins games in our group. Also the "upside" of Dragon Hunter for our list is primarily that it's both a human and a warrior which are both relevant.
Militant is great. It's better than most 2-power 1-drops in either of its respective colors, and the hybrid mana cost is a HUGE deal. Card's fantastic.
Is it really better? My green 1 drops are mostly about ramping (mana dorks), but let's look at the options in white:
Dauntless Bodyguard (better than dryad militant IMO)
Isamaru, Hound of Konda (better than dryad militant IMO)
Kytheon, Hero of Akros (better than dryad militant IMO)
Mardu Woe-Reaper (better than dryad militant IMO)
Skymarcher Aspirant (better than dryad militant IMO)
Soldier of the Pantheon (better than dryad militant IMO)
Student of Warfare (not a 2/1 but better by turn 2 than dryad militant IMO)
I don't think it's a BAD card, probably #6 or #7 in Selesnya IMO, but I just think there are more interesting options in GW, such as:
Qasali Pridemage
Voice of Resurgence
Kitchen Finks
Knight of Autumn
Knight of the Reliquary
Kytheon is better, and Bodyguard is better in some decks. Student has the edge over it in mono white. Militant is better than all of those other cards though IMO ...even when the green mana is irrelevant. Which it's not, because in every deck that has access to both green and white mana, Militant is better than every card on that list and by a significant margin too. The spell disruption is a big deal when applicable. It injures combo decks, weakens cards like Snappy, Gearhulk, and Jace, makes the opponent's delve cards less consistent, kills all flashback spells ...that's a lot of disruptive utility to strap to a 2-power creature for 1 mana. Far more relevant than protection from multicolored, for example.
Finks and maybe Knight of Autumn are the only two cards on that list I would include ahead of Militant on the list you posted.
I think Militant is only okay. I play it as a white card only, as green is not capable of being aggressive in my cube. In that light, the only relevant upside is the ability, which in my experience backfires more often than it helps, especially with Grim Lavamancer and Firebolt.
I rank it below all seven cards listed above, and also rank several other cards above it. It is on the chopping block for me, and was even cut before in favor of humans when I tried that package.
If you do support some green aggression, the card becomes much better. If you support proper green aggro it is probably one of the best one drops.
Kytheon is better, and Bodyguard is better in some decks. Student has the edge over it in mono white. Militant is better than all of those other cards though IMO ...even when the green mana is irrelevant. Which it's not, because in every deck that has access to both green and white mana, Militant is better than every card on that list and by a significant margin too. The spell disruption is a big deal when applicable. It injures combo decks, weakens cards like Snappy, Gearhulk, and Jace, makes the opponent's delve cards less consistent, kills all flashback spells ...that's a lot of disruptive utility to strap to a 2-power creature for 1 mana. Far more relevant than protection from multicolored, for example.
Finks and maybe Knight of Autumn are the only two cards on that list I would include ahead of Militant on the list you posted.
Militant gets marginally better in a GW deck but it's not very significant. Being able to cast it turn one with either color is..nice..but what hands are you ever keeping that you can't cast it turn 1 in any deck? You're not going to win too often color screwing yourself..
Militant is great. It's better than most 2-power 1-drops in either of its respective colors, and the hybrid mana cost is a HUGE deal. Card's fantastic.
Is it really better? My green 1 drops are mostly about ramping (mana dorks), but let's look at the options in white:
Dauntless Bodyguard (better than dryad militant IMO)
Isamaru, Hound of Konda (better than dryad militant IMO)
Kytheon, Hero of Akros (better than dryad militant IMO)
Mardu Woe-Reaper (better than dryad militant IMO)
Skymarcher Aspirant (better than dryad militant IMO)
Soldier of the Pantheon (better than dryad militant IMO)
Student of Warfare (not a 2/1 but better by turn 2 than dryad militant IMO)
I don't think it's a BAD card, probably #6 or #7 in Selesnya IMO, but I just think there are more interesting options in GW, such as:
Qasali Pridemage
Voice of Resurgence
Kitchen Finks
Knight of Autumn
Knight of the Reliquary
To your larger point, I have no idea why anyone would classify Dryad Militant as Selesnya in the first place. In many cubes it is mono-W and even in those that it isn't you could just count Militant+Finks as 1 white card and 1 green card. I've noticed some Cube owners are doctrinaire about strict color balance but then try to pretend that hybrid cards are gold cards which they decidedly are NOT in many cases.
If you do support some green aggression, the card becomes much better. If you support proper green aggro it is probably one of the best one drops.
More like, "if you support green aggro, it gets a little better". It can be a nice piece of disruption but even in the most favorable (combo?) Cubes it is still a 2/1 with a double-edged marginal ability a huge percent of the time. Hardly close to the best one drops.
Cube owners are doctrinaire about strict color balance but then try to pretend that hybrid cards are gold cards
Literally nobody is doing this. You know about the difference between a guild section and a gold section, you're just ignoring those long-documented advantages and justifications to either be combative or just to troll.
Kytheon is better, and Bodyguard is better in some decks. Student has the edge over it in mono white. Militant is better than all of those other cards though IMO ...even when the green mana is irrelevant. Which it's not, because in every deck that has access to both green and white mana, Militant is better than every card on that list and by a significant margin too. The spell disruption is a big deal when applicable. It injures combo decks, weakens cards like Snappy, Gearhulk, and Jace, makes the opponent's delve cards less consistent, kills all flashback spells ...that's a lot of disruptive utility to strap to a 2-power creature for 1 mana. Far more relevant than protection from multicolored, for example.
Finks and maybe Knight of Autumn are the only two cards on that list I would include ahead of Militant on the list you posted.
I think we just have to agree to disagree. I don't run planeswalkers so Jace is not a consideration for me, but even still, the reach of Militant's ability would be so insignificant that it's hard to imagine it being viewed as anymore than a 2/1 for 1. Is Militant really going to survive to the point where he is impacting the game against your opponent's Jace, Gearhulk, Delve, flashback cards anyway? He's a pretty easy kill in a variety of ways and in an aggro deck will be attacking and dying fairly quickly I imagine...
Seems like his ability is being severely overhyped, but I'd be curious to hear if people really have that positive of experience with him in practice. For us he was super vanilla and boring and an easy cut compared to the other Selesnya cards mentioned.
More like, "if you support green aggro, it gets a little better". It can be a nice piece of disruption but even in the most favorable (combo?) Cubes it is still a 2/1 with a double-edged marginal ability a huge percent of the time. Hardly close to the best one drops.
The disruption will likely never be too relevant. Being an easier to cast card in Selesnya decks specifically is also marginal. But being playable in almost twice as many decks is very desirable, like Rakdos Cackler. It is much less likely to go unplayed in the draft, it is space efficient as one card plugging a hole for several archetypes etc.
Is Militant really going to survive to the point where he is impacting the game against your opponent's Jace, Gearhulk, Delve, flashback cards anyway?
Any time you exile a single spell, you're effecting the quality of their Snappy/Delve/Etc. kinds of cards ...you don't have to shut them off completely for it to still have made a positive impact on the game. But we're talking about a marginal upside on a flexible 2-power 1-drop. Rarely do any of these abilities come up on any of these creatures. The point was to measure how effective they are when they do come up. And the spell disruption is relevant when it does show up, even if it's not all that often. It matters a lot more than protection from multicolor or pro dragons or any of those other fringe abilities. Particularly against spell-based combo decks that are already going to be light on removal. Needing to aim a kill spell at a 1-drop because it's invalidating your Yawgmoth's Will or Past in Flames is a more significant upside than whatever the other fringe 1-drops bring to the table.
But that's all besides the point. The important upside is the hybrid mana cost. That's the big factor that separates the card from the pack. In any deck utilizing both of its colors of mana, it's a tremendous boon. Enough so to catapult it into being one of the best 2-power 1-drop in its respective colors. I think it's dramatically undervalued here how much better that casting cost actually is in a selesnya, naya or abzan aggro deck. Not to mention that it's also playable in green decks without white! Like Metamind says above, that increases the total number of decks that can play the card, which is a significant advantage.
I think Dryad Militant is better than this card...
However, I’m a big fan of Voice! It’s solid against both aggro and control, and it’s in a guild that benefits tremendously from its effect since you don’t have countermagic or discard to disrupt your opponent.
I want more GOOD disruptive bears in green and/or white. The recent white printings have been too low-impact (planeswalker tax Eidolon, instant tax Syndicate). Voice has a significant punishment for your opponent’s counters while doubling as wrath insurance.
Is Militant really going to survive to the point where he is impacting the game against your opponent's Jace, Gearhulk, Delve, flashback cards anyway?
Any time you exile a single spell, you're effecting the quality of their Snappy/Delve/Etc. kinds of cards ...you don't have to shut them off completely for it to still have made a positive impact on the game. But we're talking about a marginal upside on a flexible 2-power 1-drop. Rarely do any of these abilities come up on any of these creatures. The point was to measure how effective they are when they do come up. And the spell disruption is relevant when it does show up, even if it's not all that often. It matters a lot more than protection from multicolor or pro dragons or any of those other fringe abilities. Particularly against spell-based combo decks that are already going to be light on removal. Needing to aim a kill spell at a 1-drop because it's invalidating your Yawgmoth's Will or Past in Flames is a more significant upside than whatever the other fringe 1-drops bring to the table.
But that's all besides the point. The important upside is the hybrid mana cost. That's the big factor that separates the card from the pack. In any deck utilizing both of its colors of mana, it's a tremendous boon. Enough so to catapult it into being one of the best 2-power 1-drop in its respective colors. I think it's dramatically undervalued here how much better that casting cost actually is in a selesnya, naya or abzan aggro deck. Not to mention that it's also playable in green decks without white! Like Metamind says above, that increases the total number of decks that can play the card, which is a significant advantage.
Thank you for the thoughtful responses and discussion. It is awesome to have a game like Magic that can allow for such complex discussions and the disagreements are what help make each person's cube their own experience in the end. Will definitely take it into consideration, but I still at this time do not believe I can find a spot for Militant without cutting something that would hurt more to be without.
Valuable discussions that are formed around differing opinions... the basis for good cube discussion for the past 15 years! Always happy to talk all things cube at any time. Thanks for the discussion!
I feel like Voice of Resurgence doesn't get talked about enough and is a very underrated multicolored card. I've been playing it for years and I feel like it's only gotten better over time since there's more way to go wide to make its token bigger and there's more instants / cards with flash to generate more tokens. Voice of Resurgence has put up good numbers in my 3-0 archive (175 drafts since the release of NEO), equal to that of Knight of Autumn and in the same ballpark of a good amount of cube allstars. Unless I'm missing something, I think that Knight of Autumn / Voice of Resurgence / Chaos Defiler are tied as the 2nd most represented multicolored card from this time period, 2nd (and massively dwarfed) by Minsc & Boo. Naya has gotten a big jolt in the arm since initiative / M&B.
I feel like Voice of Resurgence doesn't get talked about enough and is a very underrated multicolored card. I've been playing it for years and I feel like it's only gotten better over time since there's more way to go wide to make its token bigger and there's more instants / cards with flash to generate more tokens. Voice of Resurgence has put up good numbers in my 3-0 archive (175 drafts since the release of NEO), equal to that of Knight of Autumn and in the same ballpark of a good amount of cube allstars. Unless I'm missing something, I think that Knight of Autumn / Voice of Resurgence / Chaos Defiler are tied as the 2nd most represented multicolored card from this time period, 2nd (and massively dwarfed) by Minsc & Boo. Naya has gotten a big jolt in the arm since initiative / M&B.
I think its a great card, but competition in Selesyna is a bit too steep. I feel the argument needs to be its stronger than one of the other options that's in the list.
- I run Persist Combo so Kitchen Finks/ Safehold Elite isn't really up for discussion
- I'm a huge fan of Knight of the Reliquary - Its ability to ramp, tutor up lands, especially Dark Depths if you're lucky to draft it, has been incredible.
I could be open to discussing potentially cutting Dryad Militant as the bar for 1-drops has been incredibly high in recent years I feel 1 mana 2/1 really doesn't cut it.
I've found that most aggressive decks are fine with hitting their density of artifacts, and if the density isn't there, I'm fine with cutting them as I often have more playables and aggressive decks I've found don't really need the density of 8 1-drops to get underneath, its fine with playing as low as 6 1-drops and playing a slightly longer game.
The second card I be open to discussing is cutting Knight of Autumn, maybe a mono color reclamation sage variant might be better. My Green-White decks are more heavily creature combo based aren't too fair compared to other cubes.
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Well, let's not get too political on here!
Magic related though, Selesnya has not exactly seen a bunch of cube staples printed that would replace Voice of Resurgance! For me, the top 6 in no particular order would be:
Qasali Pridemage
Voice of Resurgence
Kitchen Finks
Knight of Autumn
Knight of the Reliquary
Nature's Chant (tossed into White section for me)
The last cube draft we ran, I was up against a well built GW Reveillark deck, featuring cards such as Deranged Hermit, Angel of Invention, Earl of Squirrel, etc. I took out their early Voice and unfortunately ignored the token until it was too late, at which point I had to prioritize removing the Angel.
I would rank Voice #2 behind Knight of Autumn (out of sheer efficiency/modularity), but ahead of everything else (Nature's Chant tossed into either W or G).
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Whoops! Totally forgot about Militant and Finks - I moved both of them to the G and W slots a while ago, so I was comparing VoR to other gold GW cards (ex. Knight of Autumn, Mirari's Wake, Pridemage, etc.). But if you're still running the hybrid cards in your gold section, I definitely think Finks wins out! But I still like VOR over the rest of them
I am surprised that Dryad Militant is so highly regarded. To me it is a bland 2/1 1-drop that is outclassed by any other 1 drop that would be ran in the decks that might want it (white or green).
I don't support green aggro, so I play Dryad Militant as a white Savannah Lions with upside. I think its upside matters more than cards like Dragon Hunter, Skymarcher Aspirant, or Venerable Knight, for example.
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Is it really better? My green 1 drops are mostly about ramping (mana dorks), but let's look at the options in white:
Dauntless Bodyguard (better than dryad militant IMO)
Isamaru, Hound of Konda (better than dryad militant IMO)
Kytheon, Hero of Akros (better than dryad militant IMO)
Mardu Woe-Reaper (better than dryad militant IMO)
Skymarcher Aspirant (better than dryad militant IMO)
Soldier of the Pantheon (better than dryad militant IMO)
Student of Warfare (not a 2/1 but better by turn 2 than dryad militant IMO)
I don't think it's a BAD card, probably #6 or #7 in Selesnya IMO, but I just think there are more interesting options in GW, such as:
Qasali Pridemage
Voice of Resurgence
Kitchen Finks
Knight of Autumn
Knight of the Reliquary
Than most of the cards you just listed? Yes.
Kytheon is better, and Bodyguard is better in some decks. Student has the edge over it in mono white. Militant is better than all of those other cards though IMO ...even when the green mana is irrelevant. Which it's not, because in every deck that has access to both green and white mana, Militant is better than every card on that list and by a significant margin too. The spell disruption is a big deal when applicable. It injures combo decks, weakens cards like Snappy, Gearhulk, and Jace, makes the opponent's delve cards less consistent, kills all flashback spells ...that's a lot of disruptive utility to strap to a 2-power creature for 1 mana. Far more relevant than protection from multicolored, for example.
Finks and maybe Knight of Autumn are the only two cards on that list I would include ahead of Militant on the list you posted.
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I rank it below all seven cards listed above, and also rank several other cards above it. It is on the chopping block for me, and was even cut before in favor of humans when I tried that package.
If you do support some green aggression, the card becomes much better. If you support proper green aggro it is probably one of the best one drops.
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Militant gets marginally better in a GW deck but it's not very significant. Being able to cast it turn one with either color is..nice..but what hands are you ever keeping that you can't cast it turn 1 in any deck? You're not going to win too often color screwing yourself..
To your larger point, I have no idea why anyone would classify Dryad Militant as Selesnya in the first place. In many cubes it is mono-W and even in those that it isn't you could just count Militant+Finks as 1 white card and 1 green card. I've noticed some Cube owners are doctrinaire about strict color balance but then try to pretend that hybrid cards are gold cards which they decidedly are NOT in many cases.
More like, "if you support green aggro, it gets a little better". It can be a nice piece of disruption but even in the most favorable (combo?) Cubes it is still a 2/1 with a double-edged marginal ability a huge percent of the time. Hardly close to the best one drops.
Literally nobody is doing this. You know about the difference between a guild section and a gold section, you're just ignoring those long-documented advantages and justifications to either be combative or just to troll.
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I think we just have to agree to disagree. I don't run planeswalkers so Jace is not a consideration for me, but even still, the reach of Militant's ability would be so insignificant that it's hard to imagine it being viewed as anymore than a 2/1 for 1. Is Militant really going to survive to the point where he is impacting the game against your opponent's Jace, Gearhulk, Delve, flashback cards anyway? He's a pretty easy kill in a variety of ways and in an aggro deck will be attacking and dying fairly quickly I imagine...
Seems like his ability is being severely overhyped, but I'd be curious to hear if people really have that positive of experience with him in practice. For us he was super vanilla and boring and an easy cut compared to the other Selesnya cards mentioned.
The disruption will likely never be too relevant. Being an easier to cast card in Selesnya decks specifically is also marginal. But being playable in almost twice as many decks is very desirable, like Rakdos Cackler. It is much less likely to go unplayed in the draft, it is space efficient as one card plugging a hole for several archetypes etc.
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Any time you exile a single spell, you're effecting the quality of their Snappy/Delve/Etc. kinds of cards ...you don't have to shut them off completely for it to still have made a positive impact on the game. But we're talking about a marginal upside on a flexible 2-power 1-drop. Rarely do any of these abilities come up on any of these creatures. The point was to measure how effective they are when they do come up. And the spell disruption is relevant when it does show up, even if it's not all that often. It matters a lot more than protection from multicolor or pro dragons or any of those other fringe abilities. Particularly against spell-based combo decks that are already going to be light on removal. Needing to aim a kill spell at a 1-drop because it's invalidating your Yawgmoth's Will or Past in Flames is a more significant upside than whatever the other fringe 1-drops bring to the table.
But that's all besides the point. The important upside is the hybrid mana cost. That's the big factor that separates the card from the pack. In any deck utilizing both of its colors of mana, it's a tremendous boon. Enough so to catapult it into being one of the best 2-power 1-drop in its respective colors. I think it's dramatically undervalued here how much better that casting cost actually is in a selesnya, naya or abzan aggro deck. Not to mention that it's also playable in green decks without white! Like Metamind says above, that increases the total number of decks that can play the card, which is a significant advantage.
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However, I’m a big fan of Voice! It’s solid against both aggro and control, and it’s in a guild that benefits tremendously from its effect since you don’t have countermagic or discard to disrupt your opponent.
I want more GOOD disruptive bears in green and/or white. The recent white printings have been too low-impact (planeswalker tax Eidolon, instant tax Syndicate). Voice has a significant punishment for your opponent’s counters while doubling as wrath insurance.
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I think its a great card, but competition in Selesyna is a bit too steep. I feel the argument needs to be its stronger than one of the other options that's in the list.
- I run Persist Combo so Kitchen Finks/ Safehold Elite isn't really up for discussion
- I'm a huge fan of Knight of the Reliquary - Its ability to ramp, tutor up lands, especially Dark Depths if you're lucky to draft it, has been incredible.
I could be open to discussing potentially cutting Dryad Militant as the bar for 1-drops has been incredibly high in recent years I feel 1 mana 2/1 really doesn't cut it.
I've opted to play a semi artifact aggro package consisting of:
- Dragon's Rage Channeler - easier to trigger delirium
- Toolcraft Exemplar
- Teething Wurmlet
I've found that most aggressive decks are fine with hitting their density of artifacts, and if the density isn't there, I'm fine with cutting them as I often have more playables and aggressive decks I've found don't really need the density of 8 1-drops to get underneath, its fine with playing as low as 6 1-drops and playing a slightly longer game.
The second card I be open to discussing is cutting Knight of Autumn, maybe a mono color reclamation sage variant might be better. My Green-White decks are more heavily creature combo based aren't too fair compared to other cubes.
IMO, Selesnya is probably the shallowest guild in terms of competition when you're not supporting Persist combo.
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