I know some people are considering cutting the conclave for the new sac land, but I think conclave is a pretty important tempo card. Plus the Standstill dream...That said though, the land is fantastic. Im running the cycling lands, so Ill probably cut those for the cycle.
It's better in that it provides a defense against an aggro rush while being an evasive threat once you have control of the board. A Horned Turtle that cycles you into free Triton Shorestalker when you need it. I think Elusive Krasis does this a bit better, but obviously there's a big difference between mono and multicolored cards.
Yeah this set has some really awful and parasitic mechanics and cards, but I don't think the set as a whole is that much worse than usual. Those parasitic cards would have just been other uncubeable junk anyway. We've got about 4ish solid cards to consider which is more than I expect from any set and we don't even have the full spoiler.
Yeah I think they showed their hand with the awakens they already revealed. Unless we get a card like burst lightning, which is our best shot. Multicolor doesn't excite me so converge is dead for me and landfall is a mixed bag but considering balance concerns with fetches I doubt we'll get one. My hope lies in 6+ drops still.
I don't remember the order of spoilers from Theros, but I guess they randomly threw in a sweet little Leafcrown Dryad among every other fairly crappy over-costed option so there's still some hope.
I actually like what I've seen -- in theory -- from some of the Converge cards, would love like a 2G 1/1 with Converge for X +1/+1 counters
Every set has its low-end limited fodder to pad the set's size. I think C/Ubes have just been spoiled the last couple sets with more playables than usual.
Part of the problem this time around is that Ingest (and cards that care about exiled cards) are fairly unplayable in cube environments because they don't work well without enough Ingest-ing to support them.
If we got some sort of uncommon land recursion, I'd be a happy fellow. Something better than tilling treefolk and groundskeeper
Woooo! There's two of us now. I personally would love to see it aggressively costed at like 1GG, but honestly all I really want for Christmas is to try and draft a Naya Lightning Storm deck.
I may not be particularly fond of edicts in general but this one will be included since I was intending to go up to 390 in any case with the release of BFZ, and not requiring a card in the traditional sense really makes it good. The fact that these utility lands also enter play untapped is a big plus, even if they do not provide coloured mana. I have my hopes up for the rest, although the green one is likely a giant growth, the red one burn to face and the white one life gain. I hope I am wrong, though.
A Disenchant land would be amazing, hopefully it isn't overcosted. I'm not sure what else it could be, given that we already have a token making land this set. Also possible that we get a naturalize land instead.
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article
My Peasant-Cube-in-Progress http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/15395
Definitely not great, but I am excited about the small handful of cards that are cube worthy.
I don't think it's that much better than the 1 drop unlockable guy from a couple core sets ago.
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article
Faerie conclave is way better than the blue draw land. I'm planning to cube both.
My Peasant Cube thread !!! (380 cards)
Draft my Peasant Cube on Cube Cobra !!!
Draft it on Cubetutor here, and CubeCobra here.
Treasure Cruise did nothing wrong.
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article
I actually like what I've seen -- in theory -- from some of the Converge cards, would love like a 2G 1/1 with Converge for X +1/+1 counters
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article
Part of the problem this time around is that Ingest (and cards that care about exiled cards) are fairly unplayable in cube environments because they don't work well without enough Ingest-ing to support them.
[Developing] 430+ Peasant Cube Thread --- [and on Cube Cobra]
Woooo! There's two of us now. I personally would love to see it aggressively costed at like 1GG, but honestly all I really want for Christmas is to try and draft a Naya Lightning Storm deck.
Draft it on Cubetutor here, and CubeCobra here.
Treasure Cruise did nothing wrong.
My C/Ube on Cube Cobra
My C/Ube on Cube Cobra
Modern
Value Town
Amulet Titan
Legacy
4C Loam
My Peasant Cube
http://cubetutor.com/viewcube/11667