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Quote from Crocodile »

How is this a card "Win-More" if its at its best when you're behind? Win-More cards are only good or at their best when you're ahead. That's like the opposite of this card.

You are correct. I screwed that up pretty savagely. Regardless of my poor phrasing and use of "win more", the rest of my post still stands. I only want this card when I'm behind and there are cards at 6+ mana that I'd rather have when I'm behind than this one.

This thread never gave us great testing results or a conclusion to the merits of this card. I'm fishing for thoughts from people who have Cubed with Linvala. My Cube is large, so the competition isn't great for a slot like this.

If you have a free slot, it's probably fine. But I never actively look to draft it when I'm playing cubes that include it.

Quote from Patrunkenphat7 »

This thread never gave us great testing results or a conclusion to the merits of this card. I'm fishing for thoughts from people who have Cubed with Linvala. My Cube is large, so the competition isn't great for a slot like this.

I haven't cubed with linvala, but she was a bit weaker than I (and most) expected in both limited and in constructed.
Doesn't bode well for her cube viability

She is my favorite white six drop for control decks. She fits poorly midrange, ramp or any sort of cheating.

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

I play her in my underpowered 720 cube as one of White's bigger bombs. Wx control decks love her, she's essentially a beefy Timely Reinforcements and makes for great comebacks.

any feedback on this in cube? yay or nay??

Depends on the size of your cube. I think Linvala makes sense at about the 540-630 range. I don't think she makes the cut in anything smaller.

I ran it for a bit at 465, and it never impressed. It was fine, but you almost never got both, if you got neither it was miserable, and I think it REALLY needed to be a 5 mana 4/4 to make it. Getting to 6 is not a guarantee in a lot of cube games and decks. If you need another big white creature, it's fine, but never more than fine.

Also a narrow card - bad when accelerated into, cheated or reanimated.

Just cut it at 540. Would rather run infinite 5-drops & Sun Titan/Elesh Norn as my top-end creatures in white.

Linvala was a bit of a pet card of mine, but she's been on borrowed time for 2 years now.

I could see her back if there was another Reanimate variant, but its unlikely.