MTG Salvation

Click Here for the current list of my cube (in googledoc format). I've found this is a much, much easier way to keep track of my cube, and will only be updating this from now on.

Cube Information
Cube Size - 360 Cards
Breakdown - 55 WUBRG, 35 Colorless, 50 Guild
Standard or Theme Cube: Standard

Design Restrictions:
Powered?: No
Vintage Legal?: Yes
Singleton Legal?: Yes
Banned Cards: Ante cards, Dexterity cards, Un-Cards
Color Balance?: Yes
Guild Balance?: Yes
"Gold" Classification?: Not Sure Yet.

Really tight list. A few things i'd take out in a cube of this size:

Whispersilk Cloak and Strider Harness for anything
Izzet Cronarch for Steamcore Wierd.
Lapse of Certainty and Carom for anything. Fortify is (much, IMO) worse than Marshalling Cry.

I'll have more of a look later, but a really nice list.

Quote from Rubin

Really tight list. A few things i'd take out in a cube of this size:

Whispersilk Cloak and Strider Harness for anything
Izzet Cronarch for Steamcore Wierd.
Lapse of Certainty and Carom for anything. Fortify is (much, IMO) worse than Marshalling Cry.

I'll have more of a look later, but a really nice list.

Out: 1 Fortify

In: 1 Marshalling Cry

-1 Mogg Flunkies
+1 Ashmouth Hound

Major update - 420 cards now. I'd like some more feedback from the prominent commons cubers around, if possible.

PURGED to 367. Decided I wanted a tighter format, cut a lot of cards. Check it out!

New cards included:

• Trusted Forcemage
  
• Rightous Blow
  
• Seraph of Dawn
  
• Mist Raven
  
• Dangerous Wager
  
• Kruin Striker

Cards I cut:

• Raise the Alarm
  
• Cloud Crusader
  
• Shade of Trokair
  
• Castle Raptors
  
• Totem-Guide Hartebeest
  
• Lapse of Certainty
  
• Bonds of Faith
  
• Veteran Armorer
  
• Opal Gargoyle
  
• Benevolent Bodyguard
  
• Mysteries of the Deep
  
• Helium Squirter
  
• Spire Monitor
  
• Pestermite
  
• Welkin Tern
  
• Spined Thopter
  
• Phantasmal Bear
  
• Grasp of Darkness
  
• Victim of Night
  
• Vendetta
  
• Ostracize
  
• Skinthinner
  
• Ravenous Skirge
  
• Child of Night
  
• Molten Rain
  
• Stone Rain
  
• Dead/Gone
  
• Viashino Fangtail
  
• Skirk Marauder
  
• Hearth Kami
  
• Utopia Sprawl
  
• Arachnus Web
  
• Mutagenic Growth
  
• Young Wolf
  
• Festerhide Boar
  
• Dawntreader Elk
  
• Khalni Garden
  
• Curse of Chains
  
• Probe
  
• Goblin Deathraiders
  
• Scuzzback Marauders
  
• Steward of Valeron
  
• Shrieking Grotesque
  
• Razorfin Hunter
  
• Shambling Shell
  
• Goblin Legionnaire
  
• Assault Zeppelid
  
• Moonglove Extract
  
• Whispersilk Cloak
  
• Strider Harness
  
• Wall of Tanglecord
  
• Phyrexian Hulk
  
• Ur-Golem's Eye
  
• Onslaught Cycle Lands

I always feel Copper Carapace is very awkwardly costed to equip and as such isn't that good in aggressive decks, what do you think about Leonin Scimitar in that slot?

I'm not against testing it, but I like Copper Carapace more with evasive dudes; Turn 1 Copper Carapace into Turn two shadow/flying dude into turn three equip is a fine opening for some decks.

Update! Finally got down to 360. Looked at 6 other 360 Pauper lists, and made lots of cuts and put good stuff in. Specifically Izor, MagicFever, Runner5678, BrownBeard, Lanxal and xerent's lists assisted me greatly.

I like it a lot!

I'll give it a try in the future and build something like this

Quote from mrmaul558

Update! Finally got down to 360. Looked at 6 other 360 Pauper lists, and made lots of cuts and put good stuff in. Specifically Izor, MagicFever, Runner5678, BrownBeard, Lanxal and xerent's lists assisted me greatly.

You're quite welcome. And the list looks pretty good overall.

The only suggestion I can make at this time is to swap out Coiling Oracle for Assault Zeppelid. I used to run the Oracle myself and found him very underwhelming; I get the feeling he's much better in Constructed or block Limited where you can pick up multiple copies. But the Zeppelid is a nice fat flyer, and fat flyers win games.

I actually made the conscious decision to play Oracle over the 4/4 flyer - You all seem to forget the times when Coiling Oracle gets you a land into play. I think its upside of putting a land into play off the top (can even be set up with something like Ponder) outweighs the times that it is just an Elvish Visionary (which is generally not bad in the GU decks either).

I've updated the OP with a link to the googledoc containing my list; I'll be updating that from now on.

Haven't cubed this baby in far too long, as as such, lost touch with the general design and cards in it. My solution has been to build Lanxal's exact list (minus one card, which I will talk about in a sec), and jam that a bunch of times until I decide to make it my own.

The only difference is where he has Wild Nacatl, I have Rogue Elephant. The main reason for this is because of how much of a stickler I am for classifying cards; Wild Nacatl is a Naya card, and as such does not fit into my cube currently without a shard section.

I will most likely end up cutting Avacyn's Pilgrim for Boreal Druid for this same reason.

A lot of the problems I see people having with Rogue Elephant is that they think of him like a traditional 1-drop, a guy you want on Turn 1 and usually isn't too relevant later in the game.

Rogue Elephant is the opposite.

Obviously (unless you have a specific game plan already in hand), you don't want to be playing him on turn 1. But on turns 3-5, when you can drop him with another creature (consider Rogue Elephant + Trusted Forcemage on turn 4, or turn 3 after a mana-dork) his value rises a ton. You sacrifice a little board position, but waiting until turn 3-5 when the land isn't really setting you back that much since you've already got a board position in place makes the 3/3 for G very worth the drawback.

Also yes, very excited for Llanowar Elves #3.

I cut Predator's Strike for Moldervine Cloak on the suggestion of Lanxal.

What other Modern Master's Uncommon --> Common cards are you guys playing?

Avacyn's Pilgrim --> Elvish Mystic
Festerhide Boar --> Imperiosaur
Tangle Hulk --> Walker of the Grove

This cube has undergone some massive updates since I last posted about it. Take a look at the list and tell me what you think!