Thanks for the write up. This is actually bad news not good news because I'll have to try to make room for - Suspicious Stowaway, Brutal cathar in addition to the 5-6 cards on bench right now.
I'm not surprised about Brutal cathar - The part I dislike about it is how Fiend Hunter can setup flicker shenanigans, but does Brutal Cathar work with Sun Titan/ Reveliark with a sacrifice outlet for infinite sacrifice/ ETB?
Suspicious Stowaway/ Consider both seem really good, but blue cards are too difficult for me right now.
I am happy angur of autumn worked out - I love this type of effect. It helps to prevent flood, helps with a lands archetype etc.
You really find those flicker shenanigan's with fiend hunter come up often? While it's very powerful when it does, I believe it's so rare that it doesn't affect it's average case performance much. And without that rare scenario, fiend hunter and brutal cathar aren't in the same league. 1WW vs 2W matters a lot too.
It doesn't come up much nor the Mimic Vat interaction - which is why Fiend Hunter was cut. But this is also the reason why i play cube - i think its really exciting when these interactions show up once in a while.
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I'm actively maintaining a comprehensive article to help explain to new cube players how some complex vintage level cards work in a cube environment. Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Thanks for the write up. This is actually bad news not good news because I'll have to try to make room for - Suspicious Stowaway, Brutal cathar in addition to the 5-6 cards on bench right now.
I'm not surprised about Brutal cathar - The part I dislike about it is how Fiend Hunter can setup flicker shenanigans, but does Brutal Cathar work with Sun Titan/ Reveliark with a sacrifice outlet for infinite sacrifice/ ETB?
Suspicious Stowaway/ Consider both seem really good, but blue cards are too difficult for me right now.
I am happy angur of autumn worked out - I love this type of effect. It helps to prevent flood, helps with a lands archetype etc.
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I'm actively maintaining a comprehensive article to help explain to new cube players how some complex vintage level cards work in a cube environment. Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Watching:
Consider, Light up the Night, Primal Adversary, Cathartic Pyre, Outland Liberator, Suspicious Stowaway, Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
There are a lot of fine cards on the watch list from this set and previous sets that I just do not have room in 720. I have a new policy for updates; The card must be of one of three categories - 1) Must be a strict upgrades for an existing card 2) Decent playable, enabler for an existing combo that struggles with consistency 3) Must be a significantly better than 50-60% of the cards in its CMC slot/ functionality (Cannot be a card that might be good enough to be slightly better than the worst existing red 3 drop CMC. This is ensure I don't spend excessive amount of time testing cards in my cube that will likely be rotated out in 1-2 years anyways given the power creep in the last few years).
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I'm actively maintaining a comprehensive article to help explain to new cube players how some complex vintage level cards work in a cube environment. Vintage Cube Cards Explained
It doesn't come up much nor the Mimic Vat interaction - which is why Fiend Hunter was cut. But this is also the reason why i play cube - i think its really exciting when these interactions show up once in a while.
Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Here are some other articles I've written about fine tuning your cube:
1. Minimum Archetype Support
2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
Draft my Cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/d8i
I'm not surprised about Brutal cathar - The part I dislike about it is how Fiend Hunter can setup flicker shenanigans, but does Brutal Cathar work with Sun Titan/ Reveliark with a sacrifice outlet for infinite sacrifice/ ETB?
Suspicious Stowaway/ Consider both seem really good, but blue cards are too difficult for me right now.
I am happy angur of autumn worked out - I love this type of effect. It helps to prevent flood, helps with a lands archetype etc.
Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Here are some other articles I've written about fine tuning your cube:
1. Minimum Archetype Support
2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
Draft my Cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/d8i
- Augur of Autumn
- Intrepid Adversary
- Fateful Absence
- Borrowed Time
- Arlinn, the Pack's Hope
- Bloodthirsty Adversary
- Falkenrath Pit Fighter
Watching:
Consider, Light up the Night, Primal Adversary, Cathartic Pyre, Outland Liberator, Suspicious Stowaway, Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
There are a lot of fine cards on the watch list from this set and previous sets that I just do not have room in 720. I have a new policy for updates; The card must be of one of three categories - 1) Must be a strict upgrades for an existing card 2) Decent playable, enabler for an existing combo that struggles with consistency 3) Must be a significantly better than 50-60% of the cards in its CMC slot/ functionality (Cannot be a card that might be good enough to be slightly better than the worst existing red 3 drop CMC. This is ensure I don't spend excessive amount of time testing cards in my cube that will likely be rotated out in 1-2 years anyways given the power creep in the last few years).
Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Here are some other articles I've written about fine tuning your cube:
1. Minimum Archetype Support
2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
Draft my Cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/d8i