MTG Salvation

If you've been paying attention, this isn't new to you, and it never garnered any attention before, but I thought I'd bring it up as RUWGB options are scant.

As far as I can tell, the best we've got are Cromat, Maelstrom Archangel, Child of Alara, and... Genju of the Realm. I play Chromanticore with some success, and this seems at least as good as most of these.

Five-color is a good deck in my cube. Is anybody else waiting for the perfect rainbow card?

I'd rather run Progenitus than any of those cards... Or even Door to Nothingness.

Depends on the cube probably. Progenitus is the most powerful, but hard to cast.
Among the easier to cast tier, nothing really stands out.

Personally I like Maelstrom Archangel because of the free spells. Works so well with Wildfire and Armageddon strategies.
That said, I am not putting a 5 color card in my cube simply because it is not supported.

Fair enough. O-Kagachi is fine, but is fourth place or so in a weak section that nobody cares about anyway.

To be fair, I think Progenitus is an awful card for cube: it's nigh impossible to hard-cast, it's narrow to cheat, and if it ever hits the battlefield, it's completely non-interactive. The strongest cubes have better options, and weaker cubes don't like untargetable, unblockable creatures.

I'll keep waiting for a great five-color card. So far, the best one is Scuttlemutt.

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To be fair, I think Progenitus is an awful card for cube: it's nigh impossible to hard-cast, it's narrow to cheat, and if it ever hits the battlefield, it's completely non-interactive. The strongest cubes have better options, and weaker cubes don't like untargetable, unblockable creatures.

Yup. And it's still the best 5-color option. Which is kinda our point.

Scuttlemutt isn't really a 5-color card. If you're classifying things that way, just put something like Coalition Relic in that slot. Or a card that actually cares about colors, like Engineered Explosives or even Crystalline Crawler...

I would classify Engineered Explosives as a 5 color card long before I classified Scuttlemutt as one.

O-Kagachi is OK, but if I saw it in a pack it wouldn't make me interested in going 5-color. It's less impressive than something like Grave Titan and that's only one color at the same cc. I think Progenitus is the best 5 color card we have, although it plays more like a colorless fatty you cheat out.

Cheers,
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Is it even OK? It seems pretty bad considering I need literal 5 colors to cast it and there's still a clause to its ability activating. How many decks can realistically cast this on t6, nevertheless any turn after that? There really aren't that many cube-worthy true-5-color cards outside of progenitus, which I concede is still a stretch to call cube worthy. (even if I love it.)

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To be fair, I think Progenitus is an awful card for cube: it's nigh impossible to hard-cast, it's narrow to cheat, and if it ever hits the battlefield, it's completely non-interactive. The strongest cubes have better options, and weaker cubes don't like untargetable, unblockable creatures.

Yup. And it's still the best 5-color option. Which is kinda our point.

Scuttlemutt isn't really a 5-color card. If you're classifying things that way, just put something like Coalition Relic in that slot. Or a card that actually cares about colors, like Engineered Explosives or even Crystalline Crawler...

Progenitus isn't really a 5 color card either, though. It's a green or blue card.