Prismatic View
Land
Tap, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic View: Search your library for an basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
I mean, yeah. Not much to say about this one other than it might be the most maindeckable card in all of unpowered cube. Unless you’re a monocolored deck without graveyard/shuffle synergies or are so all-in on fixing that you can scarcely fit basics in, you’re going to play this.
Am I being stupid for not running Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds already? I feel like the colourless section is way too tight, but I obviously need to fit this badboy in.
Am I being stupid for not running Terramorphic Expanse and Evolving Wilds already? I feel like the colourless section is way too tight, but I obviously need to fit this badboy in.
I run both at 360, but one of them will probably be my cut for this.
The real question is what to cut. I think Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse, and Ash Barons won't be my cuts at 540. So am I losing a utility land, a colorless card, or just losing a card from another section?
Yea the fixing lands you mentioned aren't at risk of getting cut for me either. I feel like we could use a couple more effects like this, even on top of Prismatic Vista. I have some wiggle room in my colorless section so I'll just have to axe a random artifact or something.
I mean, this card will be better than almost anything you choose to cut for it, but man, do my playgroup and I LOVE Retrofitter Foundry. Card's been legit great.
I would suggest deciding how many 5-color fixing lands you want in your cube before you think too hard about which ones you run. If you're deciding between and individual artifact and an individual fixing land, I think you're coming at it from the wrong angle.
I'm still planning on playing all 4. Evolving wilds and terramorphic expanse have never not made main decks. I was against playing duplicate effects for a while and I get that but these are bread and butter cube cards. I would probably play ~10 at 45 if there were that many.
I like your rankings except for Expanse and Wilds. The land entering tapped is a really big deal. I think they make great budget options, but I would put it after city of brass. I have never played with paradise and gemstone so I can't comment on those.
I like your rankings except for Expanse and Wilds. The land entering tapped is a really big deal. I think they make great budget options, but I would put it after city of brass. I have never played with paradise and gemstone so I can't comment on those.
The pain from City/Confluence adds up to a real limitation in a significant number of games, but you're probably right. Conveniently for me, the top 6 (post-MH) are pretty solidly above the rest.
I think cutting a 5c land for this only makes sense if you rarely see multi-color aggressive decks. With my humans subtheme, and how black expands to R and W for aristocrat synergies, cutting a card like Gemstone Mine or Undiscovered Paradise for this takes something important from my cube infrastructure. I would rather make the strict upgrade on Evolving Wilds than cut a straight 5c untapped land. However I just plan on adding this. I've wanted exactly one more 5c land for a very long time, and this is it!
Prismatic View
Land
Tap, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic View: Search your library for an basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Snap include? Is it too much to have Ash Barrens, Terramorphic Expanse, Evolving Wilds and this in cube?
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Amazing artwork as well. So happy to include this.
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I run both at 360, but one of them will probably be my cut for this.
The real question is what to cut. I think Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse, and Ash Barons won't be my cuts at 540. So am I losing a utility land, a colorless card, or just losing a card from another section?
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Among the lands, I would rank them:
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Ash Barrens
Terramorphic Expanse / Evolving Wilds
Mana Confluence
City of Brass
Undiscovered Paradise
Gemstone Mine
I run 6, so Undiscovered Paradise gets bumped.
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Ash Barrens
Mana Confluence
City of Brass
City of Ass
Terramorphic Expanse
Evolving Wilds
I think I will cut Terramorphic Expanse for Prismatic View.
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