My question tonight is "can infect be supported in a 450 Peasant Cube?"
I am currently switching up my 450 Pauper Cube to a 450 Peasant Cube as I want to give my friends access to stronger archetypes and (in some cases) more powerful cards. I am thinking of adding cards to support infect in the cube. We currently do not have a peasant cube in our meta and without experience in the format, I am worried that infect will be either A) to hard to draft effectively or B) to overpowered if a drafter can assemble the pieces.
too parasitic. nobody will want any of the cards in non-infect decks (other than maybe viridian corrupter). you also need to stack up your colourless section with some of the infect artifacts, which aren't realistically colourless since they're only playable in one colour combination. two people drafting infect would also be a train wreck for both of them i think.
though in saying that, i absolutely love playing with rot wolf, and blightwidow is an extremely powerful card. in some ways i'm sad it's so parasitic.
I believe not one player has real life experience with it since it is indeed such an obviously parasitic mechanic (which is bad for the reasons palingensia mentioned). Were one to attempt a recreation of the Return to Mirrodin block, it might work - when cards are available in multiples.
Were I to introduce infect into a Cube, it would be as a finisher for control. You know, as a win-condition that ends the game fast once on the board. And there do not really exist that many cards which fit this criterion. Chained Throatseeker requires other sources of poison despite being big enough (albeit without evasion). Corrupted Conscience might work, albeit it is often reliant on your opponent's board. It can be played as a bad Phyresis, however. Grafted Exoskeleton is actually quite nice, I suppose, because it keeps the poison coming despite creatures dying. Of course, removing it from the field results in utter blow-outs. The rest basically consists of Phyrexian Juggernaut (no evasion), Toxic Nim (questionable) and Triumph of the Hordes (would rather play Overrun or Tromp the Domains).
I am currently switching up my 450 Pauper Cube to a 450 Peasant Cube as I want to give my friends access to stronger archetypes and (in some cases) more powerful cards. I am thinking of adding cards to support infect in the cube. We currently do not have a peasant cube in our meta and without experience in the format, I am worried that infect will be either A) to hard to draft effectively or B) to overpowered if a drafter can assemble the pieces.
I am considering, Berserk, Blighted Agent, Glistener Elf, Grafted Exoskeleton, Become Immense, Ichorclaw Myr and the usual green pumps in the cube.
Can someone give me some real world experience with this archetype in Peasant? Any help is welcome.
Thanks.
though in saying that, i absolutely love playing with rot wolf, and blightwidow is an extremely powerful card. in some ways i'm sad it's so parasitic.
Were I to introduce infect into a Cube, it would be as a finisher for control. You know, as a win-condition that ends the game fast once on the board. And there do not really exist that many cards which fit this criterion. Chained Throatseeker requires other sources of poison despite being big enough (albeit without evasion). Corrupted Conscience might work, albeit it is often reliant on your opponent's board. It can be played as a bad Phyresis, however. Grafted Exoskeleton is actually quite nice, I suppose, because it keeps the poison coming despite creatures dying. Of course, removing it from the field results in utter blow-outs. The rest basically consists of Phyrexian Juggernaut (no evasion), Toxic Nim (questionable) and Triumph of the Hordes (would rather play Overrun or Tromp the Domains).
T2 powpercube Value https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/37t