I was cleaning out my boxes of magic cards today and I found a box with all the old proxies I had from when I had a 720 card cube. It got me to thinking about all the cards I had to cut that I miss playing now.
A short list
Crovax, Ascendant Hero
Galepoweder Mage
Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon"
Pristine Angel (always loved the art on this one)
Samurai of the Pale Curtain
Seht's Tiger
Wake Thrasher
Voidmage Apprentice (I was trying to push morph)
Riftwing Cloudskate
Mischeavous Quanar
Logic Knot (Often enough it played as UU, exile your graveyard. Counter target spell)
Tinket Mage
Executioner's Capsual (trinket mage could fetch it!)
Diabolic Servitude (who has the room for this now adays?)
Living Death
Persecute
Small Pox
Stupor
Fledgling Dragon (I cubed with this?!?)
Ancient Hydra (everyone use to play this card)
Kikijiki
Taurean Mauler (I had a friend who that this thing was so broken, can you believe that, Taurean Mauler?)
Sneak Attack
Verdant Force (remember when this was played in type 1?)
Seedborn Muse
Kavu Titan (People complimented me for playing this when I posted my first list)
Hystrodon
Giant Growth (I hate when I cut cards from alpha)s
Squirrel Nest/Earthcraft (When I first started playing this and worldgorger dragon were the scariest decks in our play group)
Mirri's Guile
Holistic Wisdom (one of my favorite arts in the game, I love me a good Alphonse Mucha ripoff)
Moroii (I love how simple this guy's design was. Too bad he never saw any real play)
Fires of Yavimaya (I think everyone put this in the first draft ofthere cubes way back when)
Selesnya Guildmage
Firemane Angel (the first legacy tourney I won had four Firemane Angels in it)
Coiling Oracle (back when I was a kid we were happy to have our Snake Elf Druid!)
Bouncelands (still my favorite cycle of dual lands)
A few of the highpoints of some of the cards I miss.
Mischievous Quanar: This happened in the first draft I got 8 players to draft with. It was awesome. Back then I played 91 cards in each color section. 45 creatures/45 Spells/1 Planeswalker. Didn't matter the color. So blue had a ton of bad but tricky creatures.
It was round 2 and I had this Blue black deck with a ton of creatures (my theory was, if I had a ton of creatures my opponent couldn't deal with all of them.) I had to face down creatures. On my opponents turn my opponent plays Ancestral Recall targeting himself. I unmorph willbender and draw three cards. On my opponents next turn he plays Beacon of Unrest targeting some fatty. I unmorph Mischevious Quanar, copy the beacon, target the creature he was targeting so his spell would fissel. And to add insult to injury he couldn't shuffle thte beacon back in his decks. I think that was the turn I really fell in love with the cube.
Stupor:
When I first made my cube, I proxied anything I didn't have/couldn't find. Stupor was a random card I knew I had but just couldn't locate. I ended up proxying it with MSE. I found out a game in that my proxy for Stupor was missing the 2 in it's mana cost. Yeah Stupor for B. That card was stupid.
Kiki-jiki
We had a friend who would pick this card no matter what. One draft he splashed red just for KIkijiki. He had a signet, a dual land, and a city of brass. He hard casted that damn goblin turn 4-6 every game.
Sneak Attack
The card I made this post about. The draft before I took it out of my cube I remember the last deck it got played in. My friend would sneak attack an avalanche riders into play,s wing for 2, then crystal shard it back to his hand. That deck was stupid good. Glad the card got a good send off.
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Please link your cards Pringles, I don't know most of those cards!
Kamahl, Pit Fighter - The first rare I ever opened. I think the child in me cried a little when I cut this one.
Devastating Summons - won plenty of games with 'wow!' moments but sadly a dead card too often.
Squirrel Nest - The armies of squirrels the card promises just never happened. It is a cute card but way too slow to take seriously.
Soul Snuffers - Much better that it looks. Shrinks the board and gives you a 2/2. I've bounced this guy in and out of play so many times it would make your head spin.
Agree on Kamahl. I love that guy and was so excited to open him in Odyssey limited. He never lived up to the hype in standard though.
I still run Trinket Mage, Stupor, Galepowder Mage and Smallpox. They're great cards still. I'm not sure Stupor should be cut from 450 Cubes, it's spaslable discard - a rarity. Mage could be on the way out, but I'm trying to support blink and he has good stats for his cost, and is therefore OK on his own.
I'd also love an excuse to play Sneak Attack. Problem is a deck built well around it can't play without it.
Actually the card I missed the most is Korlash, Heir to Blackblade. He's one of my favourite cards, and Grandeur is an awesome mechanic for a legend to have. I'm debating running a card in each colour that can come with buddies when you draft your deck. That would let me run awesomeness like Korlash, Squadron Hawk, Tarox Bladewing (deadly finisher!) and green could have Nesting Wurm as it needs a 6 drop removal resistant finisher and it might be better than Nissa, who's the other option. Linessa, Zephyr Mage seems decent in Blue for tempo. That could be an interesting exercise and I get to play with Korlash midrange again
@ Goodking and others who have run Smallpox with success - could you illustrate what kind of decks it saw action in? We impulsively tossed it in our cube in our last update, but I'm not too sure how it should be played optimally. I initially saw it primarily as an additional disruption card, but does it see play in other decks? Straight-forward aggro? Control? It's such a brutal effect but it seems hard to break the symmetry.
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For Smallpox, basically you want to maximize the discard and the creature aspect of it. For creature, play it in a deck that has either creatures you don't want later on, or a creature-light deck.
To maximize the discard, run the card with more discard effects. Discard effects are excellent in multiples, as they let you get past the initial "I can afford to discard a land". Following Smallpox up with, say, Hymn, can be a huge beating.
And of course Flagstones of Troikair is good for the land part, but that card doesn't really cut it in cube.
My first draft with my cube (then, extremely bad) played Deep-Sea Kraken. Good times.
I love that dude! I think I played him in the first draft of my janky budget Dralnu deck way back when.
I feel like a lot of cool legendary dudes have fallen out of cubes in the last few years, I guess as Wizards has maybe downplayed legends a bit in favor of planeswalkers? Just in red I can think of Jaya, Kumano, Kiki-Jiki, Zo-Zu, Rorix, Jeska... I love those guys! Maybe with Commander being the big deal lately they'll push legendary creatures a bit more and we can get a few more in cube lists.
I love that dude! I think I played him in the first draft of my janky budget Dralnu deck way back when.
I feel like a lot of cool legendary dudes have fallen out of cubes in the last few years, I guess as Wizards has maybe downplayed legends a bit in favor of planeswalkers? Just in red I can think of Jaya, Kumano, Kiki-Jiki, Zo-Zu, Rorix, Jeska... I love those guys! Maybe with Commander being the big deal lately they'll push legendary creatures a bit more and we can get a few more in cube lists.
Just got to say, you've definitely earned distinction as an MTGS hero
Quote from Stardust »
Because he's the hero MTGS deserves, and the one it needs right now. So we'll global him. Because he can take it. Because he's not just our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. An expired rascal.
Quote from LuckNorris »
ExpiredRascals you sir are a god-like hero.
Quote from Lanxal »
ER is a masterful god who cannot be beaten in any endeavour.
@ Goodking and other who have run Smallpox with success - could you illustrate what kind of decks it saw action in? We impulsively tossed it in our cube in our last update, but I'm not too sure how it should be played optimally. I initially saw it primarily as an additional disruption card, but does it see play in other decks? Straight-forward aggro? Control? It's such a brutal effect but it seems hard to break the symmetry.
Thanks.
I run it in aggro to remove the first creature played on the other side that outclasses my own, or that has spot removal protection. The land sacrifice is also welcome in that deck, as is the one life loss. The discard is sometimes relevant too.
@ Goodking and other who have run Smallpox with success - could you illustrate what kind of decks it saw action in? We impulsively tossed it in our cube in our last update, but I'm not too sure how it should be played optimally. I initially saw it primarily as an additional disruption card, but does it see play in other decks? Straight-forward aggro? Control? It's such a brutal effect but it seems hard to break the symmetry.
Thanks.
Firstly its versatile. It can be Sinkhole; Innocent Blood; discard; a madness/ sacrifice/ discard outlet; the last one damage. It can often be the niche card you need but couldnt use a spot on.
It attacks on multiple paralles, and you only need to create advantage in one of the four parallels of disruption. And it has other opportunities to create advantage, asymetrical board-states, and rorts.
Madness is the easiest way to get advantage, when otherwise it would be a neutral outcome. This is the strongest intrinsic synergy with Smallpox. Re-Animate; Dredge; Flashback; et al have the same type of synergy. You want these cards, and to keep your opponent from playing these, as they can 241 you pretty easy if unexpected. Black has a lot of permission elements, so a timely Duress or Dispise should see if this is coming, and some colours dont really have much in this effects. Obstinate Baloth and Dodecapod are the natural enemies of this card, because often the discard is secondary. But against Capsize etc, the discard can be the most relevant aspect.
Deals one damage. Helpful is some strategies.
Land, you should be playing +0.50 land in your deck, its going to take the land you least want, so a colourless land or a land that has used its EtBF effects. Sometimes its easier to get a card from GY to hand, than play to hand. Playing this the turn after playing a ramp/ mana source card, can often leave you at two relevant mana, and their plays might have been two shocklands, disrupting a very good card. Anytime they miss the third land drop, and you have game, destroy their board, just do it, take them to one land, and watch them rely on mise and topdeck.
[This often means Smallpox takes up two card places]
Creatures, this is not Innocent Blood, if you are using it as such be aware that they might have the Obsinate Baloth or Vengvine to convert. If its needed to disrupt their Tinker play, then yes, losing a life, and a card, and a creature to kill their turn two Tinker, well thats Ok cause you have to sometimes do those things. Any creature that you have that is recursive is gold, Bloodghast; Persist; Reassembling Skeletons; Or you know just playing out mana sources, if their first play is going to be a finisher that they have had to put significant investement into, such as Black Lotus or Tinker, then making sure you can recover from the loss of mana is going to be the biggest worry because you will often get four or five card advantage on this kind of play.
Ok, so how to attack on multiple parralels:
So I want to take a land, so if thier poorest option is still good, well thats great. Such as they play two duals, you play two swamps. Disrupting their mana cant come at disrupting your own. Mana is the most fundament resource, so keeping them off mana, is often the game. late game, this becomes of little relevence, so its Ok beause its at least not a worry to you.
Any thing that rorts the discard is going to give you a lot of advantage, Deep Analysis; Life of the Loam; Squee; Madness gives immediate effect, such as Rootwala. Its easy to priotize these cards during draft, you are going to want at least three or so in your deck. This is the simplest way to assure advantage also. If you play Smallpox with no card in hand, and they do, then this is adavntage also.
Waiting for them to have only one card in hand, it can often be their finisher they were building up to.
Play the control and play mana to their creatures, you dont lose a creature, and you have concetrated on mana.
Or play the aggressive role and lose a creature that is not wanted or needed, Abyssal Persecutor; a token; Bloodghast; etc.
The top of my list would be Void. It's still great, but BR has enough really good cards that Void isn't even in it's top 5 or 6 anymore. I'll never forget the day I was facing down Qasali Pridemage and an Umezawa's Jitte-equipped Soltari Priest. I drew Void, played it naming 2. I wiped the board and my opponent was forced to discard Balance. It's just outclassed now but I still love it.
nemesis of reason. most don't have room for it but i still think it's a great card. it's in an iffy spot on the curve to be unprotected, but being black and having 7 toughness makes up for that to a degree. i just love milling and the nemesis was the most straightforward and reliable path to it in my cube.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
I miss playing this "heavenly incarnation" in my MWS Cube, it makes me love her even more in my cardboard Cube. Favorite Win-Con since I started playing (~95), mainly cause she doesnt need to turn sideways to do her thing.
It is an aged beauty's jealousy that I have for Baneslayer Angel.
I miss all sorts of cards- in fact, I just started making a stack consisting of cards that have been kicked out of my cube. I don't know how much it will be played, but it somehow makes the cuts sting less. Scout's Warning FTW!
nemesis of reason. most don't have room for it but i still think it's a great card. it's in an iffy spot on the curve to be unprotected, but being black and having 7 toughness makes up for that to a degree. i just love milling and the nemesis was the most straightforward and reliable path to it in my cube.
Nemesis of Reason is high on my list of missed cards too. It is such a beast.
Our playgroup is a fan of Nemesis of Reason. The most unusual and most criticized part of our cube is the UB section... almost everyone outside of our playgroup hates on it and just quickly dismiss its effectiveness... until they lose to mill.dec.
Yes I know what Shadowmage Infiltrator does, and I know what a Psychatog is (I played tog in constructed when it was in t2). I also know that glimpse doesn't have an impact on the board and leads to card disadvantage. But results speak for themselves. I know it sounds unthinkable and unreasonable but mill is a very real strategy in our cube thanks to the trio listed above.
Ooooh to stay on topic... One of the cards from the very first cube we had was Helm of Obedience. I kinda miss that card. It'd be a helluva lot sweeter if you didn't have to sac it.
A short list
Crovax, Ascendant Hero
Galepoweder Mage
Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon"
Pristine Angel (always loved the art on this one)
Samurai of the Pale Curtain
Seht's Tiger
Wake Thrasher
Voidmage Apprentice (I was trying to push morph)
Riftwing Cloudskate
Mischeavous Quanar
Logic Knot (Often enough it played as UU, exile your graveyard. Counter target spell)
Tinket Mage
Executioner's Capsual (trinket mage could fetch it!)
Diabolic Servitude (who has the room for this now adays?)
Living Death
Persecute
Small Pox
Stupor
Fledgling Dragon (I cubed with this?!?)
Ancient Hydra (everyone use to play this card)
Kikijiki
Taurean Mauler (I had a friend who that this thing was so broken, can you believe that, Taurean Mauler?)
Sneak Attack
Verdant Force (remember when this was played in type 1?)
Seedborn Muse
Kavu Titan (People complimented me for playing this when I posted my first list)
Hystrodon
Giant Growth (I hate when I cut cards from alpha)s
Squirrel Nest/Earthcraft (When I first started playing this and worldgorger dragon were the scariest decks in our play group)
Mirri's Guile
Holistic Wisdom (one of my favorite arts in the game, I love me a good Alphonse Mucha ripoff)
Moroii (I love how simple this guy's design was. Too bad he never saw any real play)
Fires of Yavimaya (I think everyone put this in the first draft ofthere cubes way back when)
Selesnya Guildmage
Firemane Angel (the first legacy tourney I won had four Firemane Angels in it)
Coiling Oracle (back when I was a kid we were happy to have our Snake Elf Druid!)
Bouncelands (still my favorite cycle of dual lands)
A few of the highpoints of some of the cards I miss.
Mischievous Quanar: This happened in the first draft I got 8 players to draft with. It was awesome. Back then I played 91 cards in each color section. 45 creatures/45 Spells/1 Planeswalker. Didn't matter the color. So blue had a ton of bad but tricky creatures.
It was round 2 and I had this Blue black deck with a ton of creatures (my theory was, if I had a ton of creatures my opponent couldn't deal with all of them.) I had to face down creatures. On my opponents turn my opponent plays Ancestral Recall targeting himself. I unmorph willbender and draw three cards. On my opponents next turn he plays Beacon of Unrest targeting some fatty. I unmorph Mischevious Quanar, copy the beacon, target the creature he was targeting so his spell would fissel. And to add insult to injury he couldn't shuffle thte beacon back in his decks. I think that was the turn I really fell in love with the cube.
Stupor:
When I first made my cube, I proxied anything I didn't have/couldn't find. Stupor was a random card I knew I had but just couldn't locate. I ended up proxying it with MSE. I found out a game in that my proxy for Stupor was missing the 2 in it's mana cost. Yeah Stupor for B. That card was stupid.
Kiki-jiki
We had a friend who would pick this card no matter what. One draft he splashed red just for KIkijiki. He had a signet, a dual land, and a city of brass. He hard casted that damn goblin turn 4-6 every game.
Sneak Attack
The card I made this post about. The draft before I took it out of my cube I remember the last deck it got played in. My friend would sneak attack an avalanche riders into play,s wing for 2, then crystal shard it back to his hand. That deck was stupid good. Glad the card got a good send off.
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Kamahl, Pit Fighter - The first rare I ever opened. I think the child in me cried a little when I cut this one.
Devastating Summons - won plenty of games with 'wow!' moments but sadly a dead card too often.
Squirrel Nest - The armies of squirrels the card promises just never happened. It is a cute card but way too slow to take seriously.
Soul Snuffers - Much better that it looks. Shrinks the board and gives you a 2/2. I've bounced this guy in and out of play so many times it would make your head spin.
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UG Madness GU
W Stonehewer Equipment W
WU Millfolk UW
B Necroskitter (FFA) B
WU Multi-Kicker (FFA) UW
BW Near-Death Experience (FFA) WB
I still run Trinket Mage, Stupor, Galepowder Mage and Smallpox. They're great cards still. I'm not sure Stupor should be cut from 450 Cubes, it's spaslable discard - a rarity. Mage could be on the way out, but I'm trying to support blink and he has good stats for his cost, and is therefore OK on his own.
I'd also love an excuse to play Sneak Attack. Problem is a deck built well around it can't play without it.
Actually the card I missed the most is Korlash, Heir to Blackblade. He's one of my favourite cards, and Grandeur is an awesome mechanic for a legend to have. I'm debating running a card in each colour that can come with buddies when you draft your deck. That would let me run awesomeness like Korlash, Squadron Hawk, Tarox Bladewing (deadly finisher!) and green could have Nesting Wurm as it needs a 6 drop removal resistant finisher and it might be better than Nissa, who's the other option. Linessa, Zephyr Mage seems decent in Blue for tempo. That could be an interesting exercise and I get to play with Korlash midrange again
On spoiled card wishlisting and 'should-have-had'-isms:
For me those cards are
Ink Eyes, Servant of Oni
Kagemaro, First to Suffer
Godo, Bandit Warlord (which I also still run)
@ Goodking and others who have run Smallpox with success - could you illustrate what kind of decks it saw action in? We impulsively tossed it in our cube in our last update, but I'm not too sure how it should be played optimally. I initially saw it primarily as an additional disruption card, but does it see play in other decks? Straight-forward aggro? Control? It's such a brutal effect but it seems hard to break the symmetry.
Thanks.
That is without a doubt the WEIRDEST magic card I've ever seen. The art doesn't make it look like a magic card at all...
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To maximize the discard, run the card with more discard effects. Discard effects are excellent in multiples, as they let you get past the initial "I can afford to discard a land". Following Smallpox up with, say, Hymn, can be a huge beating.
And of course Flagstones of Troikair is good for the land part, but that card doesn't really cut it in cube.
I love that dude! I think I played him in the first draft of my janky budget Dralnu deck way back when.
I feel like a lot of cool legendary dudes have fallen out of cubes in the last few years, I guess as Wizards has maybe downplayed legends a bit in favor of planeswalkers? Just in red I can think of Jaya, Kumano, Kiki-Jiki, Zo-Zu, Rorix, Jeska... I love those guys! Maybe with Commander being the big deal lately they'll push legendary creatures a bit more and we can get a few more in cube lists.
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Jeska is a beast. I still run her
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I run it in aggro to remove the first creature played on the other side that outclasses my own, or that has spot removal protection. The land sacrifice is also welcome in that deck, as is the one life loss. The discard is sometimes relevant too.
On spoiled card wishlisting and 'should-have-had'-isms:
Firstly its versatile. It can be Sinkhole; Innocent Blood; discard; a madness/ sacrifice/ discard outlet; the last one damage. It can often be the niche card you need but couldnt use a spot on.
It attacks on multiple paralles, and you only need to create advantage in one of the four parallels of disruption. And it has other opportunities to create advantage, asymetrical board-states, and rorts.
Madness is the easiest way to get advantage, when otherwise it would be a neutral outcome. This is the strongest intrinsic synergy with Smallpox. Re-Animate; Dredge; Flashback; et al have the same type of synergy. You want these cards, and to keep your opponent from playing these, as they can 241 you pretty easy if unexpected. Black has a lot of permission elements, so a timely Duress or Dispise should see if this is coming, and some colours dont really have much in this effects. Obstinate Baloth and Dodecapod are the natural enemies of this card, because often the discard is secondary. But against Capsize etc, the discard can be the most relevant aspect.
Deals one damage. Helpful is some strategies.
Land, you should be playing +0.50 land in your deck, its going to take the land you least want, so a colourless land or a land that has used its EtBF effects. Sometimes its easier to get a card from GY to hand, than play to hand. Playing this the turn after playing a ramp/ mana source card, can often leave you at two relevant mana, and their plays might have been two shocklands, disrupting a very good card. Anytime they miss the third land drop, and you have game, destroy their board, just do it, take them to one land, and watch them rely on mise and topdeck.
[This often means Smallpox takes up two card places]
Creatures, this is not Innocent Blood, if you are using it as such be aware that they might have the Obsinate Baloth or Vengvine to convert. If its needed to disrupt their Tinker play, then yes, losing a life, and a card, and a creature to kill their turn two Tinker, well thats Ok cause you have to sometimes do those things. Any creature that you have that is recursive is gold, Bloodghast; Persist; Reassembling Skeletons; Or you know just playing out mana sources, if their first play is going to be a finisher that they have had to put significant investement into, such as Black Lotus or Tinker, then making sure you can recover from the loss of mana is going to be the biggest worry because you will often get four or five card advantage on this kind of play.
Ok, so how to attack on multiple parralels:
So I want to take a land, so if thier poorest option is still good, well thats great. Such as they play two duals, you play two swamps. Disrupting their mana cant come at disrupting your own. Mana is the most fundament resource, so keeping them off mana, is often the game. late game, this becomes of little relevence, so its Ok beause its at least not a worry to you.
Any thing that rorts the discard is going to give you a lot of advantage, Deep Analysis; Life of the Loam; Squee; Madness gives immediate effect, such as Rootwala. Its easy to priotize these cards during draft, you are going to want at least three or so in your deck. This is the simplest way to assure advantage also. If you play Smallpox with no card in hand, and they do, then this is adavntage also.
Waiting for them to have only one card in hand, it can often be their finisher they were building up to.
Play the control and play mana to their creatures, you dont lose a creature, and you have concetrated on mana.
Or play the aggressive role and lose a creature that is not wanted or needed, Abyssal Persecutor; a token; Bloodghast; etc.
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It is an aged beauty's jealousy that I have for Baneslayer Angel.
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Yes I know what Shadowmage Infiltrator does, and I know what a Psychatog is (I played tog in constructed when it was in t2). I also know that glimpse doesn't have an impact on the board and leads to card disadvantage. But results speak for themselves. I know it sounds unthinkable and unreasonable but mill is a very real strategy in our cube thanks to the trio listed above.
Ooooh to stay on topic... One of the cards from the very first cube we had was Helm of Obedience. I kinda miss that card. It'd be a helluva lot sweeter if you didn't have to sac it.