MTG Salvation

Thalia's Lieutenant 1W
Creature - Human Soldier
When Thalia's Lieutenant enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Human you control.
Whenever another Human enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Thalia's Lieutenant.

Is this one gonna stick? (That's a comment on the thread as much as the card.)

I might be a little more bullish on this card than most, as I've been nursing the GW Humans subtheme in my cube from all the way back when Innistrad 1.0 came out. In my experience, humans are the one tribal subtheme that can be organically woven into a non-tribal cube list without much effort.

If you actively support a human subtheme, it's probably fine. Otherwise, I think it's a safe pass.

The pure-human deck isn't really there yet, and this guy isn't that great outside of that deck as you can't buff random cats or spirits or whatever. Also kinda *****ty that you need a human to make it more than a 1/1, really wish he was a 2/2.

Should add a [CUBE] and [SOI] tag to the thread title to keep future discussion on point.

Champion of the Parish is a top 1-drop in our cube and we get a lot of mileage out of the day side of Mayor of Avabruck, so we will probably test this card.

It would be pretty tempting if it got the counter itself as well. As is it's a little too reliant for a 2 mana card for my liking.

Obviously this card is a powerhouse in the modern humans deck atm, but has anyone had any resounding success with this in cube? I guess this query could be about the humans archetype in general. Is it worth supporting yet?

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Obviously this card is a powerhouse in the modern humans deck atm, but has anyone had any resounding success with this in cube? I guess this query could be about the humans archetype in general. Is it worth supporting yet?

It requires supporting a human archetype (something I am currently doing, but not sure it's viable with the singleton restriction)... good fixing is important. In a deck with a lot of creatures and say 2/3+ of your deck is humans, card is great. If all the creatures in your deck is humans, it's busted.

I really doubt you could organically put it into a random cube and have it be good.

I think if your cube is a bit smaller, add champion of the parish, thalia's lieutenent, mayor of avabruk, collected company, cavern of souls (helps with fixing) and replace some mid-tier agro 1/2/3 drops with slightly worse but comparable humans... You could make a human archetype in a singleton cube and have it be very competitive.