This seems like a neat card. Extreme floor is a black Mistral Charger, but it also plays a bit in the aristocrats space, lets you rummage, and can occasionally flip and become a serious threat. The last part isn't likely to be that relevant in cube, but a 2/1 flying for 1B with incremental value seems worth testing on its own to me.
I don't think this will flip that often - especially given the "non-token clause".
I made a post a few days back saying I feel Vengevine might be able to make an appearance in my cube given the number of incidental discard outlets that have been printed over the last 2-3 years.
I would play this if had more bloodghast/ Kroxa style creatures, but I feel this isn't strong enough to cut it - especially given how competitive black 2 CMC has gotten.
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Black Mistral Charger ain't a bad floor, but I don't think it gets there. The aristocrats support is pretty poor, and it's a very slow discard outlet. Might have some Stax applications if you have a lot of vampires I guess. Transforming it can be pretty difficult, and seems pretty win-more to me based on how many hoops you have to jump through.
Barring niche archetype synergies, I can't see myself playing this over Bearer of Silence / Order of Midnight, both which are on the outside looking into my cube.
I remember when Vampire Interloper was good enough to make at least medium sized lists. Now we have Interloper but it can block and it gives us a rummaging token to use whenever it or another non-token creature dies and it's probably still not good enough.
I love the designs in this set. Not all the cards will make it over the threshold, but I just enjoy that they exist.
This card might have some application in Stax. Braids, Cabal Minion and Smokestack each can sac blood tokens generated from binning your Bloodghast or something, and the creature itself can continue pushing evasive damage. But that's kind of a narrow perspective on the card; more broadly I think it underperforms. The decks that would most like the blood tokens probably don't need a 2/1 flyer, and vice versa.
I really want to fit this card in but black has gotten a lot of good two drops over the last 2ish years. In 2018 or 2019 I would have slammed this card.
This seems like a neat card. Extreme floor is a black Mistral Charger, but it also plays a bit in the aristocrats space, lets you rummage, and can occasionally flip and become a serious threat. The last part isn't likely to be that relevant in cube, but a 2/1 flying for 1B with incremental value seems worth testing on its own to me.
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I made a post a few days back saying I feel Vengevine might be able to make an appearance in my cube given the number of incidental discard outlets that have been printed over the last 2-3 years.
I would play this if had more bloodghast/ Kroxa style creatures, but I feel this isn't strong enough to cut it - especially given how competitive black 2 CMC has gotten.
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2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
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Barring niche archetype synergies, I can't see myself playing this over Bearer of Silence / Order of Midnight, both which are on the outside looking into my cube.
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This could be ok if you have use for
Blood tokens. However, even in my artifact cube, I’d rather have Treaure token makers that Black and Red have.
This card might have some application in Stax. Braids, Cabal Minion and Smokestack each can sac blood tokens generated from binning your Bloodghast or something, and the creature itself can continue pushing evasive damage. But that's kind of a narrow perspective on the card; more broadly I think it underperforms. The decks that would most like the blood tokens probably don't need a 2/1 flyer, and vice versa.