I am considering adding this to my cube and am wondering if anyone has firsthand experience with it, especially in pauper cube.
What initially drew me back to sentinel dispatch is its potential to support all the sacrifice cards used by the archetype by the same name. Think about how much better every card with exploit is when you are basically guaranteed to have a fodder creature for free on board already. Think about how much better nantuko husk and ilk are when their first pump to 4/4 is essentially free. Think about how good carrion feeder is when it's guaranteed to enter the battlefield as a 2/2 instead of a 1/1. And so on.
However, what gives me pause is I'm concerned sentinel dispatch may actually be too powerful for pauper cube, or at least really unfun.
Check out this "conspiracies for pauper cube tier list" I just made up:
(so far, the only one I have used in my pauper cube is worldknit, which has been really fun and pretty much only positive)
One similarity sentinel dispatch shares with the top 3 is that its effect happens in every match, guaranteed. Unlike a lot of the conspiracies that only do something if you draw a specific card, as soon as you pull sentinel dispatch out of a booster pack, you start every game for the rest of forever with a free 1/1 defender in play. There are not many creatures left in pauper cube that would trade with a vanilla 1/1, but it' still a free chump block at worst. You basically start every game with ~23 life, and all it cost you was 1 draft pick. If you have equipment in your deck, its value increases. It speeds up any convoke spells. Always having a free hand to hold fire whip is pretty nice. It makes scion of the wild and harsh sustenance significantly more reliable. And of course if you have sacrifice cards, its value increases a whole lot.
I can definitely see players getting salty about the advantage of (what feels like) a "free" creature token appearing on their opponent's board at the start of each game. Do you think that would happen, or are there far more egregious things that typically happen in cube anyway and anyone who feels like sentinal dispatch is "cheap" is a whiny baby?
Dispatch is the only pauper legal conspiracy that doesn't suck or is absurdly variable.
It hoses aggro and helps artifact strategies, so seems good. Doesn't even go into your 40, either.
Obviously, I'm coming from the Peasant side, but I have been running most of the Conspiracies for a while because my drafters love them. Your thoughts and everybody else's are basically how I see the card play out. A large majority of the time, you just get a chump blocker out of it, which does help control against aggro quite a bit.
Also, my tier list from my Peasant experience and roughly the order I would rank them would be:
Tier 1: Double Stroke, Unexpected Potential, Backup Plan
Tier 2: Power Play, Advantageous Proclamation, Worldknit
Tier 3: Brago's Favor, Sentinel Dispatch, Immediate Action, Iterative Analysis, Muzzio's Preparations, Secrets of Paradise
So I guess if you're considering Pauper legality, I'd have it as the second best Conspiracy you could be playing.
Pauper has a cute sacrifice deck archetype, and if that deck picks up dispatch it's a lot better than a chump blocker. The value is closer to a free card.
I'm not a huge stickler on legality especially when it comes to something as goofy as conspiracies
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I never considered Muzzio's Preparations before but I've added a lot more tokens to my cube and I just realized a tokens deck would love it. Also Battle Screech, Sprout Swarm, ...
You can only name cards with Muzzio's preparations, so I don't know, how you wanna put this in a token themed deck.
@topic: I put all the pauper-legal conspiracies in my cube and I made no bad experiences. I like Sentinel dispatch. But I don't think it is overopowered. The other conspiracies are good for upgrading your other cards, if you're facing a pack, with in it for your deck or only "bad" (cards that don't fit your strategy).
I am considering adding this to my cube and am wondering if anyone has firsthand experience with it, especially in pauper cube.
What initially drew me back to sentinel dispatch is its potential to support all the sacrifice cards used by the archetype by the same name. Think about how much better every card with exploit is when you are basically guaranteed to have a fodder creature for free on board already. Think about how much better nantuko husk and ilk are when their first pump to 4/4 is essentially free. Think about how good carrion feeder is when it's guaranteed to enter the battlefield as a 2/2 instead of a 1/1. And so on.
However, what gives me pause is I'm concerned sentinel dispatch may actually be too powerful for pauper cube, or at least really unfun.
Check out this "conspiracies for pauper cube tier list" I just made up:
CLEARLY BROKEN, ALWAYS TOO POWERFUL: advantageous proclamation, backup plan, power play
REQUIRES YOU TO DRAW A SPECIFIC CARD BUT WHEN YOU DO IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR: double stroke
FAIRLY BENIGN, INTERESTING DECKBUILDING IMPLICATIONS: worldknit, unexpected potential, brago's favor
MINOR, NON-OPPRESSIVE EFFECT WITH POSSIBLE ARCHETYPE SUPPORT: muzzio's preparations, immediate action, secrets of paradise
NOT SURE: sentinel dispatch, iterative analysis
USELESS UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES: secret summoning
(so far, the only one I have used in my pauper cube is worldknit, which has been really fun and pretty much only positive)
One similarity sentinel dispatch shares with the top 3 is that its effect happens in every match, guaranteed. Unlike a lot of the conspiracies that only do something if you draw a specific card, as soon as you pull sentinel dispatch out of a booster pack, you start every game for the rest of forever with a free 1/1 defender in play. There are not many creatures left in pauper cube that would trade with a vanilla 1/1, but it' still a free chump block at worst. You basically start every game with ~23 life, and all it cost you was 1 draft pick. If you have equipment in your deck, its value increases. It speeds up any convoke spells. Always having a free hand to hold fire whip is pretty nice. It makes scion of the wild and harsh sustenance significantly more reliable. And of course if you have sacrifice cards, its value increases a whole lot.
I can definitely see players getting salty about the advantage of (what feels like) a "free" creature token appearing on their opponent's board at the start of each game. Do you think that would happen, or are there far more egregious things that typically happen in cube anyway and anyone who feels like sentinal dispatch is "cheap" is a whiny baby?
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It hoses aggro and helps artifact strategies, so seems good. Doesn't even go into your 40, either.
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Also, my tier list from my Peasant experience and roughly the order I would rank them would be:
Tier 1: Double Stroke, Unexpected Potential, Backup Plan
Tier 2: Power Play, Advantageous Proclamation, Worldknit
Tier 3: Brago's Favor, Sentinel Dispatch, Immediate Action, Iterative Analysis, Muzzio's Preparations, Secrets of Paradise
So I guess if you're considering Pauper legality, I'd have it as the second best Conspiracy you could be playing.
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I'm not a huge stickler on legality especially when it comes to something as goofy as conspiracies
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check out my EDH and Pauper EDH decks here
@topic: I put all the pauper-legal conspiracies in my cube and I made no bad experiences. I like Sentinel dispatch. But I don't think it is overopowered. The other conspiracies are good for upgrading your other cards, if you're facing a pack, with in it for your deck or only "bad" (cards that don't fit your strategy).
Or are you interested in a Fiora flavor cube? Conspire and win!
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I thought you'd be all over this for the potential synergy/cuteness
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