I would evaluate how strong a fatty in cube is how well it performs in these 7 categories for cheat into play:
- Tinker/ Welder/ Tolarian/ Mishra's Workshop
- Natural Order
- Oath/ Show and tell/ Eureka
- Flash/ Sneak Attack/ Breach
- Instant Speed Reanimation
- Hard Cast
- Reanimation
As you mentioned, its good in Tinker + Sneak Attack, but suffers in the other categories. If the vigilance was a Lifelink instead, it can pass the instant speed reanimation test, but as of right now, this is likely on the bench.
It is a very cool card. I could see this making it into the cube if there were more welder/ flash redundancies.
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Always looking for more good fatties, and this one can be reanimated, Tinkered, Channeled, Sneak Attacked, Oath of Druids-ed, and lastly cast in ramp decks. Card looks a little worse than Ancient Stone Idol, but that card is awesome so I can't wait to try this. Seems like a snap inclusion imo
Yah, this is no Myr Battlesphere/ Wurmcoil Engine.
I would evaluate how strong a fatty in cube is how well it performs in these 7 categories for cheat into play:
- Tinker/ Welder/ Tolarian/ Mishra's Workshop
- Natural Order
- Oath/ Show and tell/ Eureka
- Flash/ Sneak Attack/ Breach
- Instant Speed Reanimation
- Hard Cast
- Reanimation
As you mentioned, its good in Tinker + Sneak Attack, but suffers in the other categories. If the vigilance was a Lifelink instead, it can pass the instant speed reanimation test, but as of right now, this is likely on the bench.
It is a very cool card. I could see this making it into the cube if there were more welder/ flash redundancies.
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