I wonder if having a recognizeable name behind the peasant cube would've made a difference. The first thing I thought was:
- Guillaume "World Champ 2010 / almost poy 2010 with that weird tie-breaker final thing against Brad Nelson / suspended for leaking New Phyrexia" Matignon
- Erik "godfather of altering cards and one of the most well-known cubers" Klug
- Timothee "Topdeck Bonfire vs USA to become team World Champ / GP winner" Simonot
- Who?
Thing was rigged against us, I tell you
I think there were a couple fairly large issues with the voting process:
1.) Should have been blind - no names, just lists.
2.) Shouldn't have been on twitter. Should have been tied to DCI #/MTGO Account Ownership. The fact that people who have never played magic could vote really invalidates the results of this. In theory a cube could win that got 100% of its votes from non-players and a cube with 100% votes from players could get crushed. I'm not saying that happened but just that it is possible I think shows that the twitter vote is a garbage way of doing this.
3.) I think you only had 3 options. PTrash Cube, Peasant Cube, Weird Cube because 1 of the cubes is just a Worse Weird Cube. Should have picked something instead of Guillaume's imo.
This has become a recurring theme with me lately but the more I deal with/see/whatever WoTC the more I become solidly convinced that everybody outside creative/R&D is incompetent. This is one more datapoint that outside of making magic cards they are a complete joke as a company. Everybody in creative/R&D deserves a raise, they carry everybody else.
Void Grafter is kinda like a more limited/easier to cast Mystic Snake I guess. I like it. A situational counterspell with value or a slightly overcosted flash threat.
As an aside, are you going to get the peasant drafts back up running?
Yeah. Organizing and trading are a huge pain. Right now I'm in the process of getting 8 modo accounts each with a copy of my cube and basics so I dont need to deal with trading. Between work, school, and other stuff im pretty busy atm. Being an adult sucks sometimes.
Hey, haven't posted here in forever but they just announced the finalists for the magic online you make the cube contest and one of them is a peasant cube. Going around drumming up support (votes) for that entry.
If you're interested lemme know on here and sign up on the challonge page above. We draft on tappedout.net and play (swiss, 3 rounds) on magic online.
Haven't done one in a while due to the vintage cube being online causing a lack of interest (and general holiday stuff I suppose) which honestly isn't the worst thing ever.
Aside from the Briarbros, I'm not that fond of the above cards. Grizzly fate can steal some games though, especially if you can end up in board stalls.
I like carven caryatid quite a bit more than I thought I would. Gets you to land drops and stuffs all grounded aggro.
Blastoderm (which I assume you run) stuffs control pretty hard. The other "obvious" cards I'd asssume you're running are kitchen finks and Kor sanctifiers.
I've been pretty happy with the Bouncy Kitty. Crystal Shard.dek is a solid deck in my cube so having a second copy of that around is fine. He's also good in a Gx midrange deck where you can just pickup a random elf or something in the mid/late game.
The cards are printed both in paper and online. The rarities aren't the same though. There are paper uncommons that are rare online and paper rares that are uncommon online.
Funnily enough, I run snow cards, but I'm not particularly into Ironfoot. I think a 3/4 for 3 is not so far above the curve to warrant the drawback. Not to get too into "This or That" in this thread, but who would you pick:
I think there were a couple fairly large issues with the voting process:
1.) Should have been blind - no names, just lists.
2.) Shouldn't have been on twitter. Should have been tied to DCI #/MTGO Account Ownership. The fact that people who have never played magic could vote really invalidates the results of this. In theory a cube could win that got 100% of its votes from non-players and a cube with 100% votes from players could get crushed. I'm not saying that happened but just that it is possible I think shows that the twitter vote is a garbage way of doing this.
3.) I think you only had 3 options. PTrash Cube, Peasant Cube, Weird Cube because 1 of the cubes is just a Worse Weird Cube. Should have picked something instead of Guillaume's imo.
This has become a recurring theme with me lately but the more I deal with/see/whatever WoTC the more I become solidly convinced that everybody outside creative/R&D is incompetent. This is one more datapoint that outside of making magic cards they are a complete joke as a company. Everybody in creative/R&D deserves a raise, they carry everybody else.
This list is not posted on or from mtgsalvation as far as I know.
Yeah. Organizing and trading are a huge pain. Right now I'm in the process of getting 8 modo accounts each with a copy of my cube and basics so I dont need to deal with trading. Between work, school, and other stuff im pretty busy atm. Being an adult sucks sometimes.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/MTGO/articles/archive/magic-online/you-make-cube-voting-2016-10-17
^ Sign Ups
If you're interested lemme know on here and sign up on the challonge page above. We draft on tappedout.net and play (swiss, 3 rounds) on magic online.
Haven't done one in a while due to the vintage cube being online causing a lack of interest (and general holiday stuff I suppose) which honestly isn't the worst thing ever.
You cray cray. Grizzly fate is nothing short of the most savagest of most savagerest beatings around here.
Abzan Beastmaster, dude is busted if he isn't killed.
Briarhorn/Briarpack Alpha, 'the green shriekmaw'
Bestial Menace/Grizzly Fate/Brood Monitor, dat value doe
If it ends up working out that way I'll cut it.
I plan to run it too. I think there is a fair chance it falls into Timely Reinforcements territory and is just busted good against aggro.
I like Cathodion the best but Chimeric Idol gets a bump up if you have a ton of sorcery speed removal running around.