Quick shoutout to Carrion Grub, one of the few black creatures that survives Feast and has just generally been an solid performer. I don’t think it got enough love when M21 first rolled through.
Doesn't this card just average out as like a 4 mana 3/5 that mills you for 4? With the upside of being like a 4/5 and the downside of occasionally being a 0/5?
Maybe I'm undervaluing the wrath on Feast of Succession itself, but betting on your opponent to not have even 10% of the cube by t6+ doesn't feel like good odds to me. Obviously this isn't the full story (holding up removal, using x/5s yourself, haste creatures played beforehand, death triggers, flash, etc.), but if a average deck has 2 ways to get the monarch immediately, they are 55% to have drawn 1 by t6.
Well, you said it already: if it's a haste creature you're worried about, they need to have not already played it by now. so that 55% is not remotely useful as a benchmark.
But, ultimately, I hate monarch. The game is suddenly a home-rules version of magic and it leads to some pretty crazy snowballing.
I also think that I agree with the assessment of the saddlebrute being 4th after those three. Garbage elemental d is almost in my cube and this new creature's haste-granting is only really mouth-watering paired with green's 7 drops.
Haha, I must say all these different ways to boost Alena make me like the card more. I wouldn't cube the card now, but I like the idea. Trumpeting Herd gives +3 mana on the Rebound. Bonesplitter ramps any creature +1. Ephemerate rituals hard.
We're going to play her on 5, trumpeting herd on 6, and then on 7 ramp by 3 mana? Hard pass, please
Doesn't this card just average out as like a 4 mana 3/5 that mills you for 4? With the upside of being like a 4/5 and the downside of occasionally being a 0/5?
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 CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article
Well, you said it already: if it's a haste creature you're worried about, they need to have not already played it by now. so that 55% is not remotely useful as a benchmark.
But, ultimately, I hate monarch. The game is suddenly a home-rules version of magic and it leads to some pretty crazy snowballing.
I also think that I agree with the assessment of the saddlebrute being 4th after those three. Garbage elemental d is almost in my cube and this new creature's haste-granting is only really mouth-watering paired with green's 7 drops.
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
We're going to play her on 5, trumpeting herd on 6, and then on 7 ramp by 3 mana? Hard pass, please
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