MTG Salvation

Wheee more solid monarch cards.
Removal + body is a good combination for a monarch enabler, but 5 mana is a lot of mana.
I like that the floor is a good card and it has micro, accidental human synergies.

Among the more "fair" options for monarch enablers

I'm a bit split if I want Humans tribal to be a thing in Cube - I just do not want to add logistics concerns for people that haven't played my cube before. For this reason, I didn't add Heirloom blade into my cube.

I also feel FTK/ Custodi Lich are a bit weak and for these reasons I don't think this is going to cut it, especially with Forth Eorlingas, I feel finding the space for 2 boros cards is going to be hard.

I think this might be one of the biggest sleepers of all time on the forum. We tested this card yesterday and it performed incredibly well. It won 2 games basically by itself, killing Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes and drawing multiple cards. I didn't add any humans to support this (except Forth Eorlingas!) and it still got at least a counter in every game it was cast. I have 23 RW Humans/Human token makers in my 400 card cube and apparently it's plenty enough for this to shine. If your format is slow enough for your RW aggro decks to be in the market for a 5-drop, this might be the best Boros card ever after Forth Eorlingas, which honestly might be the only reason why this won't see more cube play.

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I think this might be one of the biggest sleepers of all time on the forum. We tested this card yesterday and it performed incredibly well. It won 2 games basically by itself, killing Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes and drawing multiple cards. I didn't add any humans to support this (except Forth Eorlingas!) and it still got at least a counter in every game it was cast. I have 23 RW Humans/Human token makers in my 400 card cube and apparently it's plenty enough for this to shine. If your format is slow enough for your RW aggro decks to be in the market for a 5-drop, this might be the best Boros card ever after Forth Eorlingas, which honestly might be the only reason why this won't see more cube play.

I'm not surprised - This is a good card. This follows the template of Custodi Lich[/card / Palace Jailer which are both pretty cool cards. I'm just not sure what to cut for it at this moment.

I think this is significantly better than both FTK and Custodi Lich (removes planeswalkers, deals damage to face, insane with equipment, much better with flicker effects) but a fair bit worse than Palace Jailer. I just wish it were 1 mana cheaper and it had a smaller body because any good aggro deck should not play 5 drops imo. For the record I'm considering cutting Nahiri for this .

Yah Nahiri hasn't aged very well.

Freshening up my Boros section and adding this guy. How is he playing for others?

How often is he just hitting the field as a 2/2, and is he still good enough when that happens?

I think it depends on how the matchups between your various archetypes line up against each other.

I've recently been drafting the Arena Cube/ my cube is that one matchup I firmly hate playing is the red-x aggressive deck against a green-x based creature deck. This matchup is historically VERY unfun - Your creatures will quickly get brick walled/ your burn spells will quickly get out of range.

I could definitely see this as an option to try to improve that matchup.

FYI, this card's cracked. So much board impact and value rolled up into one package.

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I think this might be one of the biggest sleepers of all time on the forum.

I think you may be right here.

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...this might be the best Boros card ever after Forth Eorlingas! , which honestly might be the only reason why this won't see more cube play.

I'm starting to think this as well.

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FYI, this card's cracked. So much board impact and value rolled up into one package.

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I think this might be one of the biggest sleepers of all time on the forum.

I think you may be right here.

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...this might be the best Boros card ever after Forth Eorlingas! , which honestly might be the only reason why this won't see more cube play.

I'm starting to think this as well.

Is it better than Comet, Stellar Pup? I think I have that one as the 2nd best Boros card after Forth Eorlingas! personally. I think eomer might be 3rd, but Figure of Destiny provides some more diversity so Boros isn't all midrange threats.

I like it more than Comet, personally. Comet is a better generic goodstuff card, but Eomer actually does what I want it to do instead of doing its own thing.

I'm glad you pinged this one - I remember being curious about it when it came out. We never ran it b/c we went with Otharri, Suns' Glory instead, which has been pretty solid - folks feel like this guy is better?

TBH I think Rip Apart is the cut - The sorcery speed/ mana cost has been problematic.

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I'm glad you pinged this one - I remember being curious about it when it came out. We never ran it b/c we went with Otharri, Suns' Glory instead, which has been pretty solid - folks feel like this guy is better?

I do, ya. Otharri is quite solid, but I think Eomer is pretty beastly.

I was planning on adding Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon but I guess I'll try this instead.

Cheers
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Was thinking about trying him for a while, and I got a very cheap copy in silver foil (a really cool treatment) from the Holiday Release, so I guess it was meant to be.