Well... only three cards for Born of the Gods. That's OK the wallet needs a rest I'm still really torn on the Kiora change. I love her, but I hate losing Simic Sky Swallower. At least I have her now and I can see how she plays.
With the cut of Simic Sky Swallower, I'd consider adding another fatty to green to give Natural Order and reanimator another good target. Hornet Queen doesn't have a foil yet, but Terastodon does. Or you could replace Knight of the Reliquary with Armada Wurm or add Hellkite Overlord as a miscellaneous card. Good update no matter what.
I feel like that at 450 I'm closing in on Maximum Planeswalker Saturation, but they are so fun! I think I count 19, so maybe not so bad. Ral will probably go if another great Izzet card rears its head. Until then that color pair just gets two
NOTE: Cube Tutor is out of date until they update for Conspiracy!
These M15 Upgrades continue my quest to push underperforming cards out of the cube with some exceptions.
I made the switch to Ajani Steadfast and pulled Ajani Goldmane. Goldmane is totally a cubable card but I am trying to keep the Plainswalkers down to a reasonable number and White is stacked in that regard. If Goldmane turns out to be stronger he is only over in my on-deck binder. I like the fact Steadfast is splashable and he just seems like a card with a little more depth and complexity. We will see what the group thinks.
In a similar vein Garruk, Primal Hunter is a cubable card as well, but I just love the new Nissa, Worldwaker and she plays well with my super ramp package.
The rest of these changes seem to me to be pretty uncontroversial, but some may disagree with Hornet Nest. I think this card is under-rated so it gets a spot for now and honestly no one was playing Noxious Revival anyway.
My favorite card of M15 is Goblin Rabblemaster. I love him so much I squeezed him in my 180 as well.
Hornet Queen can finally go into the cube now that she printed in foil
As I looked at my land package I realized that most of my dual lands came into play tapped (especially since I don't run the ABUR duals). Since I was replacing some of the lesser duals (see below), I completed this cycle and removed the M10 Tap lands.
These guys did not come cheap in foil. I now have ½ a set of fetches. I am currently pairing them with the Man Lands, but if they ever reprint the other five I will most likely remove the vivids to complete the fetch cycle. I seriously have no idea why Wizards hasn't found a way to reprint these. I know they work years in advance, but man the others are crazy money. Until then five fetches are better than zero.
From the Vault: Annihilation update! First time in foil for these two! Trying to decide whether I want Cataclysm in the cube or not.... Also I'm switching back to Goldmane. He just plays better.
So here is how this update worked. I swapped out one card out of every color for the Moxen, three additional blue cards, one artifact and one land to cover the power 10. That was pretty straight forward. Here's where it gets confusing. I have been running 3½ cycles of Mana fixing. I needed to add the ABU dual lands and the 5 Khans fetches (which are already pre-ordered) so I needed to change out 15 slots. To make this work I removed the 5 Vivid Lands, one additional card from each color and 5 of the pain lands (the color combos that have a Man Land).
These look so much better in real life. The lighting sucks in my living room and when you combined that with foils its problematic at best. I also double sleeved the cube this weekend prepping for all this, so now it has twice the plastic to reflect a light
My best blue update ever!
Artifact Update
ABU Full Art Duals
The other stuff I proxied
Here's My new Cube Vault that came in the mail today as well (dark green box with green felt)!!
Finally a pic of my real power cards that I store in the Cube Vault.
U
Ætherling -----> Mahamoti Djinn
BG
Pernicious Deed -----> Putrefy
On spoiled card wishlisting and 'should-have-had'-isms:
Consecrated Sphinx -----> Sphinx of Jwar Isle
X
Chrome Mox -----> Memory Jar
T
Grand Coliseum -----> Vesuva
IN -----> OUT
W
Brimaz, King of Oreskos [BNG] -----> Knight of Glory
G
Courser of Kruphix -----> Great Sable Stag
UG
Kiora, the Crashing Wave [BNG] -----> Simic Sky Swallower
Cheers,
rant
My Cube
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Cube Tutor: http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/1963
G
Terastodon -----> Channel
As always Rant, great advice! No one was really drafting Channel anyway
U
Inkwell Leviathan -----> Fog Bank
G
Yavimaya Elder -----> Ohran Viper
GW
Voice of Resurgence -----> Knight of the Reliquary
U
Spellskite -----> Sea Gate Oracle
Dark Confidant -----> Knight of Imfamy
Woo Hoo! Foil with the original Bob art!
IN -----> OUT
W
Banishing Light -----> Seal of Cleansing
B
Gnarled Scarhide -----> Guul Draz Assassin
Master of the Feast -----> Fleshbag Marauder
R
Prophetic Flamespeaker -----> Hell's Thunder
T
Mana Confluence -----> Reflecting Pool
IN -----> OUT
Bane of the Living -----> Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
Cheers,
rant
My Cube
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Cube Tutor: http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/1963
IN -----> OUT
RG
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden -----> Blightning
UR
Dack Fayden -----> Electrolyze
Dack's Duplicate ----->Fire//Ice
I feel like that at 450 I'm closing in on Maximum Planeswalker Saturation, but they are so fun! I think I count 19, so maybe not so bad. Ral will probably go if another great Izzet card rears its head. Until then that color pair just gets two
NOTE: Cube Tutor is out of date until they update for Conspiracy!
IN -----> OUT
T
Yavimaya Coast -----> Simic Growth Chamber
Shivan Reef -----> Izzet Boilerworks
IN -----> OUT
M15 Changes
W
Ajani Steadfast -----> Ajani Goldmane
R
Borderland Marauder -----> Gore-House Chainwalker
Generator Servant -----> Kargan Dragonlord
Goblin Rabblemaster -----> Zo-Zu the Punisher
G
Hornet Nest -----> Noxious Revival
Hornet Queen -----> Vinelasher Kudzu
Nissa, Worldwaker -----> Garruk, Primal Hunter
Reclamation Sage -----> Viridian Shaman
These M15 Upgrades continue my quest to push underperforming cards out of the cube with some exceptions.
I made the switch to Ajani Steadfast and pulled Ajani Goldmane. Goldmane is totally a cubable card but I am trying to keep the Plainswalkers down to a reasonable number and White is stacked in that regard. If Goldmane turns out to be stronger he is only over in my on-deck binder. I like the fact Steadfast is splashable and he just seems like a card with a little more depth and complexity. We will see what the group thinks.
In a similar vein Garruk, Primal Hunter is a cubable card as well, but I just love the new Nissa, Worldwaker and she plays well with my super ramp package.
The rest of these changes seem to me to be pretty uncontroversial, but some may disagree with Hornet Nest. I think this card is under-rated so it gets a spot for now and honestly no one was playing Noxious Revival anyway.
My favorite card of M15 is Goblin Rabblemaster. I love him so much I squeezed him in my 180 as well.
Hornet Queen can finally go into the cube now that she printed in foil
T Pain Lands T
Adarkar Wastes -----> Glacial Fortress
Brushland -----> Sunpetal Grove
Karpulsan Forest -----> Rootbound Crag
Shivan Reef -----> Izzet Boilerworks
Sulfurous Spring -----> Dragonskull Summit
Underground River -----> Drowned Catacomb
Yavimaya Coast -----> Simic Growth Chamber
As I looked at my land package I realized that most of my dual lands came into play tapped (especially since I don't run the ABUR duals). Since I was replacing some of the lesser duals (see below), I completed this cycle and removed the M10 Tap lands.
T Fetch Lands T
Arid Mesa -----> Clifftop Retreat
Marsh Flats -----> Isolated Chapel
Misty Rainforest -----> Hinterland Harbor
Scalding Tarn -----> Sulfur Falls
Verdant Catacombs -----> Woodland Cemetery
These guys did not come cheap in foil. I now have ½ a set of fetches. I am currently pairing them with the Man Lands, but if they ever reprint the other five I will most likely remove the vivids to complete the fetch cycle. I seriously have no idea why Wizards hasn't found a way to reprint these. I know they work years in advance, but man the others are crazy money. Until then five fetches are better than zero.
IN -----> OUT
W
Ajani Goldmane -----> Ajani Steadfast
R
Burning of Xinye -----> Shivan Dragon
X
Smokestack -----> Powder Keg
Good changes.
Cheers,
rant
My Cube
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Cube Tutor: http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/1963
U
Chasm Skulker -----> Dungeon Geists
R
Rolling Earthquake -----> Devil's Play
UR
Electrolyze -----> Ral Zarek
X
Scuttling Doom Engine -----> Triskelion
So I finally have some really nice foil proxies for the "Power 10" (9 + Library of Alexandria) as well as the ABU Dual Lands. I also scored foil Proxies of Recurring Nightmare, Control Magic and Force of Will.
So here is how this update worked. I swapped out one card out of every color for the Moxen, three additional blue cards, one artifact and one land to cover the power 10. That was pretty straight forward. Here's where it gets confusing. I have been running 3½ cycles of Mana fixing. I needed to add the ABU dual lands and the 5 Khans fetches (which are already pre-ordered) so I needed to change out 15 slots. To make this work I removed the 5 Vivid Lands, one additional card from each color and 5 of the pain lands (the color combos that have a Man Land).
That puts my 4 cycles at the following:
ABU Dual Lands
RTR Shock Lands
ZEN+KTK Fetch Lands
MANLANDS (w/Pain Placeholders).
Here are the changes with pictures below!
[The Power 9+1]
Ancestral Recall -----> Ancestral Vision
Time Walk -----> Mental Misstep
Timetwister -----> Coastal Piracy
Mox Pearl -----> Resurrection
Mox Sapphire -----> Gush
Mox Jet -----> Diabolic Servitude
Mox Ruby -----> Mogg War Marshal
Mox Emerald -----> Harmonize
Black Lotus -----> Isochron Scepter
Library of Alexandria -----> Shelldock Isle
[ABU Dual Lands]
Badlands -----> Vivid Marsh
Bayou -----> Overwhelming Stampede
Plateau -----> Silverblade Paladin
Savannah -----> Vivid Meadow
Scrubland -----> Nantuko Shade
Taiga -----> Vivid Grove
Tropical Island -----> Keiga, the Tide Star
Tundra -----> Vivid Crag
Underground Sea -----> Vivid Creek
Volcanic Island -----> Shrine of Burning Rage
[Complete Fetch Cycle]
Flooded Strand -----> Adarkar Wastes
Polluted Delta -----> Underground River
Bloodstained Mire -----> Sulfurous Springs
Wooded Foothills -----> Karpulsian Forest
Windswept Heath ----->Brushland
[Other]
Recurring Nightmare -----> Despise
Control Magic -----> Mind Control
Force of Will -----> Capsize
Now for some pictures!
These look so much better in real life. The lighting sucks in my living room and when you combined that with foils its problematic at best. I also double sleeved the cube this weekend prepping for all this, so now it has twice the plastic to reflect a light
My best blue update ever!
Artifact Update
ABU Full Art Duals
The other stuff I proxied
Here's My new Cube Vault that came in the mail today as well (dark green box with green felt)!!
Finally a pic of my real power cards that I store in the Cube Vault.
Thanks for reading this far
Cheers,
rant
My Cube
CubeCobra: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/5f5d0310ed602310515d4c32
Cube Tutor: http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/1963
IN -----> OUT
B
Bloodsoaked Champion -----> Vampire Lacerator
U
Clever Impersonator -----> Willbender
Dig Through Time -----> Exclude
R
Arc Lightning (New Art)
Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker -----> Chandra Nalaar
Fetches went in with the power update, but technically they are KTK
I also bought a War-Name Aspirant, but I have no idea what to take out, so she may just go into the On Deck binder
Some more proxy goodies came in!
W
Moat -----> Ranger of Eos
B
Pox -----> Bane of the Living