Silundi Visions 2U
Instant (Uncommon)
Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest into the bottom of your library in a random order.
"Do you notice the current? Turbulent seas await us."
—Jori En, expedition leader
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Silundi Island
Land
Silundi Island enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add U.
"From the hedron fields of Agadeem to the faduuns of Jwar Island, the islands of the Silundi Sea hold mystery after mystery."
—Jori En, expedition leader
Good for spells matter decks and usually worth the mana at instant speed. Gosh, all these MDFCs are fun to ponder about.
I was hoping the blue rare one was going to be a 2UImpulse // Tapland ...I guess that dream's gone.
Yeah that card would have been a lock. This one I have to think about. It's still good and I love reactive/spells decks but finding room is hard in blue. Still very interesting in the rare, guessing it is a 3 mana counterspell.
I didn't mean to hijack the thread ...that was just the first thing that came to mind.
This one's going to be a miss for me though. Being limited to grabbing instants/sorceries means that this has a ~15% chance of completely whiffing ...even in a deck starting with 10 instants/sorceries in it. And even in that same 10-spell deck, the odds of actually being able to choose a card from more than one option are under 50%. A slight miss for me.
Agreed. This is an easy pass in the strongest cube color even at 720 imho. 3 mana impulse or counterspell would have gotten there in 540+, maybe even 450+.
Blue needs something really incredible to make it into 360 powered though.
Even noncreature/nonland would've been enough, I think. A lot more decks would've been able to use it as a true card selection spell instead of a cantrip if that were the case.
I still think this card is good, and it'll probably see lots of constructed play. It's just the slightest of misses for me in the cube right now, based on the math behind it.
Unfortunately, this card is going to be a pass for me.
Instant or Sorcery tutor is just too restrictive.
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Instant (Uncommon)
Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest into the bottom of your library in a random order.
"Do you notice the current? Turbulent seas await us."
—Jori En, expedition leader
//
Silundi Island
Land
Silundi Island enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add U.
"From the hedron fields of Agadeem to the faduuns of Jwar Island, the islands of the Silundi Sea hold mystery after mystery."
—Jori En, expedition leader
Good for spells matter decks and usually worth the mana at instant speed. Gosh, all these MDFCs are fun to ponder about.
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Yeah that card would have been a lock. This one I have to think about. It's still good and I love reactive/spells decks but finding room is hard in blue. Still very interesting in the rare, guessing it is a 3 mana counterspell.
This one's going to be a miss for me though. Being limited to grabbing instants/sorceries means that this has a ~15% chance of completely whiffing ...even in a deck starting with 10 instants/sorceries in it. And even in that same 10-spell deck, the odds of actually being able to choose a card from more than one option are under 50%. A slight miss for me.
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My Article - "Cube Design Philosophy"
My Article - "Mana Short: A study in limited resource management."
My 50th Set (P)review - Discusses my top 20 Cube cards from OTJ!
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Blue needs something really incredible to make it into 360 powered though.
360 card powered Chicago cube:
https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/e7r
2020 Numerical Power Rankings:
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/the-cube-forum/cube-card-and-archetype/817969-2020-numerical-cube-power-rankings
2018 CubeTutor Power Rankings:
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/the-cube-forum/cube-card-and-archetype/803301-cubetutor-power-rankings-2018-by-color-and-cmc
I still think this card is good, and it'll probably see lots of constructed play. It's just the slightest of misses for me in the cube right now, based on the math behind it.
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My Article - "Cube Design Philosophy"
My Article - "Mana Short: A study in limited resource management."
My 50th Set (P)review - Discusses my top 20 Cube cards from OTJ!
Instant or Sorcery tutor is just too restrictive.
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)
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