MTG Salvation

I'm kinda feelin' the simic bird.

Reinforcements seems very bad, like 30th playable for most Boros decks unless you're in an absolute trainwreck of a draft

It brings the floor up considerably for an Overrun-type effect, but it's worse at doing its main job (top of the curve for a tokens deck) than the unplayably crappy Inspired Charge

Like, with three dudes already on board (a moderate/safe estimation of when you'd be casting this), what's better

Two vanilla 2/2s
Those three guys with +1/+1

or

Those three guys with +2/+1

The Reinforcements route is more raw power by one point, but not really worth a damn in the face of, like, 2/3 blockers.

Then you realize Inspired Charge is an instant, still unplayably bad, and you could get like... Great Teacher's Decree instead?

Nahhhhhhh

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I'm kinda feelin' the simic bird.

2/3 body for 4 is a super rough pill to swallow

Shapers of Nature is probably the mana sink you want in Simic (or, you know, Jade / Azure Mage)

Thoughts on Psychic Symbiont? Looks like a sweet 3 for 1 in Dimir.

Stitcher's Supplier probably doesn't have enough payoff to be worth cubing, but is incredibly efficient at what it does. I wouldn't be too surprised if I was playing it happily a couple years down the line.

I think Heroic Reinforcements is fine, though probably a bit underpowered. It's pretty bad as a finisher compared to stuff like Great Teacher's Decree, but the two soldiers probably get in and stick around for the next turn, making future pumps better. Hasting a 1 or 2 drop isn't irrelevant either. I would be all over it if it was monocoloured, but guild slots, even Boros ones, are harder to break into.

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Thoughts on Psychic Symbiont? Looks like a sweet 3 for 1 in Dimir.

Sweet art, solid card

Discard-1 in the late game is a whiff fairly often (but also sometimes just absurd)

Pretty sure I’d always want Dinrova Horror over this to start a draft, but in some settings the new 6 can definitely do work

A little disappointed on the the new multi coloured cards just one too much mana, competition for those guildslots are tight.

I do kind of like Suspicious Bookcase, a wall that does something, lets those cranial plating equipped creatures through to kill.

Rogue's Passage already exists. It doesn't cost mana, it produces mana, it is much harder to remove and nobody plays it as far as I'm aware.

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Rogue's Passage already exists. It doesn't cost mana, it produces mana, it is much harder to remove and nobody plays it as far as I'm aware.

I play it.

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Quote from guitarspider »

Rogue's Passage already exists. It doesn't cost mana, it produces mana, it is much harder to remove and nobody plays it as far as I'm aware.

I play it.

As do I. I'm not as keen on the Bookshelf, though. As an artifact creature, it dies to an awful lot of removal, and it has to deal with summoning sickness. I think I'll stick with Rogue's Passage.

I see the idea behind Stitcher's Supplier but, just.... no, no, no, oh my god no, kill it with fire.

A blind mill-3 on an otherwise irrelevant body is way too bad given the density of "graveyard" themes in a typical cube deck, even at the like 95th percentile of decks that might want the effect.

Like, it's probably in a better color for the effect, but what you're actually doing with the card is just worse than casting Tome Scour on yourself in most situations.

Well, obviousl you're not playing this card in a typical cube deck or even a typical cube.

It's delayed, but the body is enough for a chump block and then you've milled six. So I don't think it's necessarily worse than Tome Scour.

I'm pretty sure every card mentioned on this page isn't going to make it past testing.

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Wont testing for most people be like.. in 6 months cuz they dont cube more than twice a year?

Why do you have to cut so deep?

Pelakka is rare now, yikes.

Technically, you'd expect the next testing session in 3 months, lf

Full spoiler is up!

To me, from the last batch only Talons of Wildwood and Inferno Hellion seem close to playable.

Cards I am considering:

• Cavalry Drillmaster
  
• Militia Bugler
  
• Departed Deckhand
  
• Exclusion Mage
  
• Mirror Image
  
• Viashino Pyromancer
  
• Heroic Reinforcements

But none of them seem like definite includes. Will definitely need to look at what I would be cutting and make some tough evaluations.

Gallant Cavalry may be a fringe card, it's not a bad blink target. Other than that I don't see anything noteworthy from the last two days.

Most of the cards I am considering are blue 3 drops :'(

White
Militia Bugler
Blue (3 drop)
Aven Wind Mage
Aviation Pioneer
Exclusion Mage
Mirror Image
Black
Plague Mare
Vampire Sovereign
Red
Goblin Motivator
Goblin Instigator
Green
Vine Mare
Multi: none
Colourless: Skyscanner

The only card I'm fairly certain I will add is Mirror Image.
Other than that, there's a handful that I might try but wish were just a bit better:
Militia Bugler
Viashino Pyromancer
Poison-Tip Archer

I will probably do something along the following lines...

Kor Bladewhirl -> Cavalry Drillmaster
Emissary of Sunrise -> Militia Bugler
Quickling -> Departed Deckhand
Jhessian Thief -> Mirror Image
Reckless Waif -> Goblin Motivator
(Altac Bloodseeker -> Viashano Pyromancer)?
(??? -> Talons of Wildwood)?
Bomat Bazaar Barge -> Skyscanner

The only card I'm reasonably sure I'll have my cube in a year's time is Departed Deckhand -- it's just amazing for a blue tempo/aggro deck, should be a staple if you're at all interested in that type of deck (and currently playing any Welkin Tern-type cards as blue 2-drops).

Okay in a cube with Departed Deckhand and 8(9) spirit cards (many that make many tokens). my welkin tern card is skyship plunderer is it better than that?

This set is hell on my blue section I swear.