While I am high on the card... I’m quite sure the gulf in power between knight of the Ebon legion and a tormented hero or a vampire lacerater are smaller in cube than in standard.
Standard vampires run both knight of the Ebon legion and Skymarcher aspirant. In that environment, knight is so much better that it’s a joke of a comparison.
Cube is a faster format than standard. This makes knight’s activated ability and ability to spiral with the game, harder to utilize...In standard there is more creature combat in the early turns that can invalidate savannah lion type cards.
In standard, there's a lot of resource trading. When two players are trading resources back and forth, a 1 drop that can single handedly take over the game in top deck mode is huge.
Agro decks in a high powered cube environment are more concerned with having as fast a clock as possible, with some disruption.
However, not all cube matches are goldfish busted combo matches. There are fairer battles and creature combat. In those situations knight of ebon legion really shines and laughs at a generic 2/2 for 1. Similar to a card like figure of destiny.
With that being said, given HOW MUCH better knight is than aspirant in standard, it makes me reasonably confident (95%) it will at least be a little better in cube. It's goldfish clock is close to a 2/2 and it's just so much better in creature combat or as a top deck.
Am messing around with standard vampires on arena and this guy has massively overpeformed.
Different environments blah blah, but seeing why he's been so good has got me hyped.
In an agro deck, doing 4 damage by turn 3 is trivial and once the counters start to spiral, you don't even need the activated ability before he becomes much better than a generic 2/1.
Once you factor in the activated ability he becomes near unblockable and can occasionally do crazy amounts of damage by himself when you are hellbent and nothing better to do with your mana. Also awsome on defense in removal light situations.
Something particular in cube, but black has a lot of ways to do itself damage. A shock land + a vamp tutor, or a dismember and you trigger his ability to grow without doing 4 damage to them. In standard, I grow the knight by self activate adanto vanguard's indestructable a lot EOT to do extra damage or play around cry of the carnarium.
He's impressed me so much that I'm already 95% confident he's better than the worst black agro 1 drop everyone here is playing. Not going to be a cube all-star or anything, but the bar he's trying to climb is one set by vampire lacerator. Is he better? I'd wager quite a lot the answer is yes.
He also is reasonable in an agressive midrange deck, something that can't be said for many other black 1 drops. So even if he's 99% as good in agro, being playable in more archtypes would make me want to cube him.
Standard vampires run both knight of the Ebon legion and Skymarcher aspirant. In that environment, knight is so much better that it’s a joke of a comparison.
Cube is a faster format than standard. This makes knight’s activated ability and ability to spiral with the game, harder to utilize...In standard there is more creature combat in the early turns that can invalidate savannah lion type cards.
In standard, there's a lot of resource trading. When two players are trading resources back and forth, a 1 drop that can single handedly take over the game in top deck mode is huge.
Agro decks in a high powered cube environment are more concerned with having as fast a clock as possible, with some disruption.
However, not all cube matches are goldfish busted combo matches. There are fairer battles and creature combat. In those situations knight of ebon legion really shines and laughs at a generic 2/2 for 1. Similar to a card like figure of destiny.
With that being said, given HOW MUCH better knight is than aspirant in standard, it makes me reasonably confident (95%) it will at least be a little better in cube. It's goldfish clock is close to a 2/2 and it's just so much better in creature combat or as a top deck.
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Different environments blah blah, but seeing why he's been so good has got me hyped.
In an agro deck, doing 4 damage by turn 3 is trivial and once the counters start to spiral, you don't even need the activated ability before he becomes much better than a generic 2/1.
Once you factor in the activated ability he becomes near unblockable and can occasionally do crazy amounts of damage by himself when you are hellbent and nothing better to do with your mana. Also awsome on defense in removal light situations.
Something particular in cube, but black has a lot of ways to do itself damage. A shock land + a vamp tutor, or a dismember and you trigger his ability to grow without doing 4 damage to them. In standard, I grow the knight by self activate adanto vanguard's indestructable a lot EOT to do extra damage or play around cry of the carnarium.
He's impressed me so much that I'm already 95% confident he's better than the worst black agro 1 drop everyone here is playing. Not going to be a cube all-star or anything, but the bar he's trying to climb is one set by vampire lacerator. Is he better? I'd wager quite a lot the answer is yes.
He also is reasonable in an agressive midrange deck, something that can't be said for many other black 1 drops. So even if he's 99% as good in agro, being playable in more archtypes would make me want to cube him.
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if you have nothing else to do with your mana, it’s a solid threat.
If you have other things to do with your mana , but can deal considerable damage than it still grows into a big threat for its cost.
The activations also stack so once you get to six mana, it almost has to be killed.
It’s the type of card that you don’t want too many of in an Agro deck, but a couple seem pretty good.
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