There are a lot of snow matter cards that you can center a theme around for lower powered cubes to build an archetype around... to say otherwise, kind of suggests you are a cube owner not particularly a cube designer.
As for just changing your basics to snow basics, I don't have an issue with that. But even then, these cards don't cut the mustard for most average Cubes.
I don't know what you are meaning by the difference between cube owner and designer. I assume that everyone who has a cube, does modifications on their own which makes every cube owner a designer. I highly doubt that people copy a cube online and leave it like that forever.
The snow matters theme only works for low-low power, you are right. This is the reason why it is not interesting for standard nonpower vintage cube, which is still the most popular cube. Of course, you can also include Snowbasics in your draft picks, but that is obviously no option for standard nonpower vintage cube. In addition, some Snow cards are way to powerful for midpower cube, like Icefang Coatl, Astrolabe, Dead of Winter, Skred, etc. even Blood on the Snow (of course unless you don't play Snowbasics instead of basics).
It is pretty clear that you just play Snow basics if you want to play Snow cards in vintage cube and that you will have to do something more elaborate if you want a real snow theme which would imply drafting Snowlands because it is pointless otherwise.
Snow is not really a real theme, you just decide that you run Snow basics and you can then play these cards with maximal upside.
That being said, if you like particular cards that are snow-related, just errata your basics to snow. I went snow just for four cards because these fit well into my cube. In Kaldheim, there are a few that are also playable and I will include them.
I don't really understand this bad sentiment towards snow and whether or not to "support" it. It is trivial to support and there is a small payoff to it. It is just about whether you like it or not, because there is not question to snow offering very powerful tools.
I've never liked doing snow in cubes and honestly think it just looks quite messy design wise. Snow cards are designed to be in limited environments where you are supposed to need to draft the snow lands, and it really shows. It's a "critical mass" kind of design. I think it worked really well in Modern Horizons for example, which I personally found to be a great limited format. When people play things like Ice-Fang Coatl in cube it's basically like you replace every instance of "Snow" on the card with "Basic". Feels like using custom cards to me.
If I wanted to build a snow theme it would probably be in a Desert-style cube where all lands needs to be drafted, where some lands could be normal basics, some non-basics and some snow-basics perhaps.
With that said, I don't think any of these cards are terribly exciting to begin with. Also, calling Boreal Outrider a "mono-green Good-Fortune Unicorn" is a big exaggeration. You briefly mention it not working in persist combo, which is the main reason the unicorn is played, but it also doesn't work with tokens, which is another major downside.
I don't understand what you mean by "custom"? If I play Snow basics instead of Basics, then that is just the way it is like in any other format. In addition, I really like that cards like Coatl, Dead of Winter, etc. exactly lead players to play more (Snow) Basics.
That idea with the Desert Cube sounds awesome. We were also thinking about that, as one could add Wasted too. With the few cards that generate Snow and Waste mana, it could become interesting.
That being said, the Snow cards spoiled so far are disappointing. But that was ptedictable as they can't make cards like in MH1, because they would break standard. The black 6 mana board wipe sounds like the most promising card but we already have Dead of Winter.
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I don't know what you are meaning by the difference between cube owner and designer. I assume that everyone who has a cube, does modifications on their own which makes every cube owner a designer. I highly doubt that people copy a cube online and leave it like that forever.
The snow matters theme only works for low-low power, you are right. This is the reason why it is not interesting for standard nonpower vintage cube, which is still the most popular cube. Of course, you can also include Snowbasics in your draft picks, but that is obviously no option for standard nonpower vintage cube. In addition, some Snow cards are way to powerful for midpower cube, like Icefang Coatl, Astrolabe, Dead of Winter, Skred, etc. even Blood on the Snow (of course unless you don't play Snowbasics instead of basics).
It is pretty clear that you just play Snow basics if you want to play Snow cards in vintage cube and that you will have to do something more elaborate if you want a real snow theme which would imply drafting Snowlands because it is pointless otherwise.
That being said, if you like particular cards that are snow-related, just errata your basics to snow. I went snow just for four cards because these fit well into my cube. In Kaldheim, there are a few that are also playable and I will include them.
I don't really understand this bad sentiment towards snow and whether or not to "support" it. It is trivial to support and there is a small payoff to it. It is just about whether you like it or not, because there is not question to snow offering very powerful tools.
I don't understand what you mean by "custom"? If I play Snow basics instead of Basics, then that is just the way it is like in any other format. In addition, I really like that cards like Coatl, Dead of Winter, etc. exactly lead players to play more (Snow) Basics.
That idea with the Desert Cube sounds awesome. We were also thinking about that, as one could add Wasted too. With the few cards that generate Snow and Waste mana, it could become interesting.
That being said, the Snow cards spoiled so far are disappointing. But that was ptedictable as they can't make cards like in MH1, because they would break standard. The black 6 mana board wipe sounds like the most promising card but we already have Dead of Winter.