Card Selection Proxies: No Powered: No Portal: Yes "Un" Cards: No Functional Reprints: Yes Banned Cards for Power-Level: No Banned Cards for Time Constrains: No Banned Cards for "Fun" factor: No
Cube Design Multiplayer: No Sideboards: Yes Color Balance: Yes Gold Balance: Yes Hybrid/Split/Kicker as Gold: Yes Color Triggers as Gold: Yes Perfectly Balanced CMC: No
When Gatecrash comes out I'm probably going from 400 to 450 cards. (I just like the number 450 for cubes alot more than most others) I'm currently using 5 painlands as proxies for the missing 5 guild gates.
Niveous Wisp, Does seem weak, but it clears a blocker for a turn, doesn't cost a card, and I don't have many one drop spells at the moment.
Kor Chant is slated to be included in the next update. I'll just have to get and alter one.
Niblis of the Mist isn't that great and I could see cutting it. I want. I don't want to play Soltari Visionary due to a) wanting to keep the number of shadow dudes down and b) wanting to keep the number of non vital non-foils down.
Elgaud is a holdover from looking at Usman's list. I'll try it out, and if I don't like it, I'll cut it.
Sentinels/Nephalia both kind of function as spot removal from time to time. I'll keep them for now. But I will definilty look into getting a Fencer Clique. Not so much on the wayward soul. (stupid non foil sets)
I'll keep the bit about Ehume in mind. If no one likes it I have no problems in cutting it. I partly included it because I already had a foil one.
Rift bolt is in the cube already. I have a Foil Magma Burst sitting in my maybe box right now, I'll probably add it in the expansion.
When I go up to 450 I'm probably going to 4 cards per guild. Curse of Chains is another Drew Tucker card, so I am apt to include it.
I've been looking at Sluiceway Scorpion from RtR drafts and I like it. I also have a foil Trow in my maybe list. I think Black wants another beefy creature so Longlegs helps to fill that role.
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You have: 'Colour triggers as gold: yes.'
And yet you have shadow guildmage and wild nacatl in the mono coloured section. It may skew the numbers a bit but you could add a tri colour section with these cards and add 3 other cards representing the shards, such as Sangrite Backlash. You also include teetering peaks as red but have the cycle lands in the land section. I guess I am just nit-picking here but the cube looks very solid.
You have: 'Colour triggers as gold: yes.'
And yet you have shadow guildmage and wild nacatl in the mono coloured section. It may skew the numbers a bit but you could add a tri colour section with these cards and add 3 other cards representing the shards, such as Sangrite Backlash. You also include teetering peaks as red but have the cycle lands in the land section. I guess I am just nit-picking here but the cube looks very solid.
I'm never going to include a tri color section. But I feel the cube is stronger for having those cards and being an insignificantly small amount imbalanced towards grixis and naya than not having those cards. Since I will play Wild nacatal if I'm selesyna or gruul and will play the shadowmage if I'm only dimir or rakdos.
If I move the cycling lands from land to the proper color section I'm just going to be shrinking the land section by five and upping WUBRG by one. So it's just a difference in book keeping. Since I'm playing the entire cycle I'll just keep them where they are.
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I'm looking to increase my land section by 10 when I go up to 450 cards. (5 missing guildgates and 5 "colorless" lands) I don't know if it's possible at this point to do.
My "colorless" options for the last three lands are
Cloudpost
Command Tower
Darksteel Citadel
Glimmerpost
Oasis
Seraph Sanctuary
Shimmering Grotto
Urzatron
Seems like Shimmering Grotto is the only playable land out of the remaining options. I might just put in a playset of Terramorphic Expanse and cut them as WoTc prints more playable options. Any opinions?
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Is there any reason those slots have to be lands? You could always run more Artifacts instead. Say Scuttlemutt, Viridian Longbow and, er, Skyreach Manta? (Reaching a bit admittedly but no worse than you would be with lands.)
Nice pics.
In the increase to 450 I'm doing it by adding the following number of cards
05 White
05 Blue
05 Black
05 Red
05 Green
10 Multicolor
10 Lands
05 Artifacts
THe only Artifact I currently have set aside is Moonglow Extract.
Couple of problems with the Urza's Cycling lands
1) I would only add in the full cycle, which doesn't work when I have only 3 slots open.
2) Besides Polluted Mire there are no foils of this cycle. And adding non-foils seem less than optimal.
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Since you are having trouble trying to find extra decent lands to put in maybe shift the lands you do have (halimar depths and teetering peaks) into the land section. You could also make it a cycle if you wish with Khalani Garden and Sejiri Steppe the only problem is the black lands are pretty bad. Bojuka Bog is too narrow and Piranha Marsh is just useless. Maybe have Polluted Mire as the black card in the cycle (even though it makes no sense. Or just have a partial cycle with just halimar depths, teetering peaks and Sejiri Steppe, since it barely changes what you had anyway.
But then again, Bojuka Bog is probably more useful then half of the other lands that you could be introducing.
Transguild Prominad is in my ondeck box. And if they print a couple more playable common lands, I will add the second one. But currently we just don't have the options to expand to 10 "colorless" lands in pauper.
I currently plan on doing something like this when I get my next package in the mail.
White
+ Kitsune Blademaster
+ Kor Chant
-Niveous Wisps
- Niblis of the Mist
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Kor Chant was an oversight in my original construction.
Kitsune Blademaster is sadly from the Kamigawa block, so it inheriely sucks. But I'm hoping it will work better than Niblis of the Mist.
Blue
Prodigal Sorcerer is probably not optimal. If you knew me two years ago I kept Tim in my normal cube for WAY too long because of how much I like that bugger. I'm not sure how much cutting all these blue flash flyers will hurt the skys archetype though.
Black
Stab Wounds has been really good in RTR draft, and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. Exhume is meh.
Red
Geistflame was always meh
Multicolor
I'm unsure on the UG card to cut here.
Golgari Longlegs was never the large creature I wanted it to be.
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I'd maybe cut Oracle before Snakeform. Snakeform has the bonus of being hybrid, making it easier on colors. Plus it just allows for more interesting things to happen. Oracle isn't the kind of card that would influence me to play UG, which is what I'd look for in a multicolored card.
Goblin Arsonist is a bad Mogg Fanatic, but that still might be playable. I wish I would had thought of it yesterday before I placed my order. I'll keep it in mind for the next time around come the next set.
I knew it would either be Oracle or Snakeform that gets dropped for the Zeppelid. And while Oracle is not a card that puts you into UG (very few pauper multicolored cards are that good), I am happy to play it in any deck. It is as close as we are going to get to a Wall of Blossom. On the other hand Snakeform is just a slightly better Turn to Frog, and I'm not sure if that is worth taking my third slot. I have a feeling that in a few months I would be cutting which ever one I am keeping due to Gatecrash though.
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I knew it would either be Oracle or Snakeform that gets dropped for the Zeppelid. And while Oracle is not a card that puts you into UG (very few pauper multicolored cards are that good), I am happy to play it in any deck. It is as close as we are going to get to a Wall of Blossom. On the other hand Snakeform is just a slightly better Turn to Frog, and I'm not sure if that is worth taking my third slot. I have a feeling that in a few months I would be cutting which ever one I am keeping due to Gatecrash though.
Just wanted to say that I run Snakeform in my Peasant Cube and I'm happy with it. It's not fancy but it's easy to play, replaces itself and all around gets the job done.
You're right about Gatecrash though. I'm sure something in the set will replace it soon.
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My Black & Silver Cube [360/Peasant/Draft It! EDH Decks: - Reya Dawnbringer // - Mistform Ultimus // - Balthor the Defiled // - Urabrask the Hidden // - Mirri, Cat Warrior
Yeah, I think whatever I do, it's going to be a short lived decision. I think I might just run the Oracle because a Snake Elf Druid-Abomination against god always makes me laugh.
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Here are my planned updates for Gatecrash. I will be ordering cards in a few days so let me know if there are any cards you think my cube needs. (the most up to date list is found here, I'll update my thread when I can take pictures in my new apartment)
White
+Darking Skyjek
+Syndic of Tithes
-Order of Letibur
-Loyal Cathar
Order is just a very big mana dump. And I'm always looking for more non-foilable cards to ax.
Blue
+Hands of Binding
+Keymaster Rogue
-Opt
-Infiltrator Il-kor
I'm holding off on including the 0/1 evolver for now. Cutting Opt because Ponder/Preordain/BS are enough. You really only want to suspend Infiltrator turn 2-3. After that and you are almost better just hard casting it for 5. I've always loved the gating mechanic. Blue has quite a few ways of abusing the gate-mechanic. (man-o-war, aether adept, mist raven, mulldrifter, Aethersnope, Mnenonic wall, archaomancer, Ninja of the Deep Hours, resetting illusionary forces)
Black
+ Undertaker
- Order of the Ebon Hand
For similar reason that I cut Order of Letibur I am cutting Order of Ebon Hand. If you see a better cut let me know.
Red
+Tenement Crasher
+Goblin Arsonist
+Foundry Street Denizen
+Skinbrand Goblin
-Nearheath Stalker
-Rhystic Lightning
-Flameborn Hellion
-Intimidator Initiate
I just keep forgetting to order a foil Tenement Crasher, but I rememberd this time. So I'm doing the obvious cut. Intimidator Initiate has been meh. And I'm hopeful that Goblin Arsonist and Foundry Street Denizen help fill the one drop slot in red. Rhystic Lightning is the worst burn spell I am still playing. And I don't think anyone ever wants to play a 4/1 for 5, undying or not.
Green
+Slaughterhorn
-Yeva Forcemage
It is just my least favorite green 3 drop. But I could be talked into something else.
I'm going up 10 cards in multicolor to 4 per guild.
Multicolor
WU
+ Court Hussar
Frostburn Weird was a mistake to not include in the first place.
Wokej is an obvious addition, Reverse Agony Warp less so. I'm willing to give it a chance. I'll probably get flak for cutting Legionnaire but I've never felt like the white part of this card was relevant. And I think that RW wants a 2/2 haster on turn 2 more.
Colorless
+ Riot Gear
- Sylvok Lifestaff
I've never been that impressed with Lifestaff. The lifegain is meh. Hopefully bad-morningstar will do better.
Lands
+5 Guildgates
-5 Nothings. (I've been proxying the guildgates since RTR)
+ Viridian Longbow
- Copper Carapace
I like pingers and I want to fit longbow in. Thoughts?
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Basic Information
Cube Size: 400 Cards
Breakdown: 60 Mono Colored, 30 Multicolor, 35 Artifact, 35 Lands
Theme: Pauper
Snow Lands: No
Card Selection
Proxies: No
Powered: No
Portal: Yes
"Un" Cards: No
Functional Reprints: Yes
Banned Cards for Power-Level: No
Banned Cards for Time Constrains: No
Banned Cards for "Fun" factor: No
Cube Design
Multiplayer: No
Sideboards: Yes
Color Balance: Yes
Gold Balance: Yes
Hybrid/Split/Kicker as Gold: Yes
Color Triggers as Gold: Yes
Perfectly Balanced CMC: No
1 Akrasan Squire
1 Caravan Escort
1 Doomed Traveler
1 Gideon's Lawkeeper
1 Goldmeadow Harrier
1 Icatian Javelineers
1 Steppe Lynx
2 Ajani's Sunstriker
2 Ballynock Cohort
2 Blade of the Sixth Pride
2 Fledgling Griffin
2 Knight of Cliffhaven
2 Kor Skyfisher
2 Leonin Skyhunter
2 Lone Missionary
2 Loyal Cathar
2 Order of Leitbur
2 Soltari Trooper
2 Stormfront Pegasus
2 Youthful Knight
3 Apex Hawks
3 Attended Knight
3 Azorius Arrester
3 Burrenton Bombardier
3 Chapel Geist
3 Kor Hookmaster
3 Kor Sanctifiers
3 Nibilis of the Mist
3 Porcelain Legionnaire
3 Seraph of Dawn
3 Troubled Healer
4 Coalition Honor Guard
4 Guardian of the Guildpact
4 Heavy Ballista
4 Sunspire Griffin
4 Thraben Sentry
5 Castle Raptors
5 Plover Knights
5 Totem-Guide Hartebeest
6 Noble Templar
1 Arrest
1 Bonds of Faith
1 Cage of Hands
1 Cho-Manno's Blessing
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Hyena Umbra
1 Journey to Nowhere
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Pacifism
1 Temporal Isolation
Instant
1 Blinding Beam
1 Disenchant
1 Mana Tithe
1 Niveous Wisps
1 Prismatic Strands
1 Shelter
Sorcery
1 Breath of Life
1 Cenn's Enlistment
1 False Defeat
1 Sunlance
1 Delver of Secrets
1 Wingcrafter
2 Looter il-Kor
2 Merfolk Looter
2 Thought Courier
2 Waterfront Bouncer
2 Welkin Tern
3 Aether Adpet
3 Calcite Snapper
3 Man-o'-War
3 Pestermite
3 Sea Gate Oracle
3 Spined Thopter
3 Stitched Drake
3 Stormbound Geist
4 Archaomancer
4 Elgaud Shieldmate
4 Illusionary Forces
4 Mist Raven
4 Nephalia Seakite
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Sentinels of Glen Elendra
4 Shimmering Glasskite
4 Windrider Eel
5 Faerie Invaders
5 Infilitrator il-Kor
5 Mnemonic Wall
5 Mulldrifter
5 Spire Monitor
6 Aethersnipe
7 Errant Ephemeron
1 Flood
1 Narcolepsy
Instant
1 Brainstorm
1 Capsize
1 Condescend
1 Counterspell
1 Daze
1 Exclude
1 Force Spike
1 Frantic Search
1 Impulse
1 Into the Roil
1 Mana Leak
1 1 Memory Jar
1 Miscalculation
1 Opt
1 Ray of Command
1 Repeal
1 Repulse
1 Rushing River
1 Think Twice
1 Withdraw
1 Halimar Depths
Sorcery
1 Compulsive Research
1 Deep Analysis
1 Foresee
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Silent Departure
1 Carnophage
1 Fume Spitter
1 Shadow Guildmage
1 Vampire Lacerator
2 Blind Creeper
2 Dauthi Horror
2 Dauthi Slayer
2 Nezumi Cutthroat
2 Order of the Ebon Hand
2 Skittering Skirge
2 Surrakar Marauder
2 Vampire Interloper
2 Vault Skirge
2 Wei Ambush Force
2 Wretched Anurid
3 Cadaver Imp
3 Chittering Rats
3 Crypt Rats
3 Dauthi Marauder
3 Dead Reveler
3 Liliana's Specter
3 Phyrexian Rager
3 Ravenous Skirge
3 Skittering Horror
3 Soulcage Fiend
4 Blood Hunter Bat
4 Driver of the Dead
4 Faceless Butcher
4 Gravedigger
4 Liliana's Shade
5 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
5 Pith Driller
5 Warren Pilferers
6 Twisted Abomination
1 Dead Weight
1 Mark of the Vampire
1 Pestilence
1 Tortured Existence
Instant
1 Dark Ritual
1 Death Denied
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Disfigure
1 Doom Blade
1 Grim Harvest
1 Last Gasp
1 Nameless Inversion
1 Snuff Out
1 Terror
1 Tragic Slip
1 Vile Rebirth
Sorcery
1 Ashes to Ashes
1 Disturbed Burial
1 Duress
1 Envicar's Justice
1 Exhume
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Innocent Blood
1 Sign in Blood
1 Unearth
1 Wretched Mind
1 Goblin Patrol
1 Intimidator Initiate
1 Martyr of Ashes
1 Mogg Fanatic
2 Fireslinger
2 Goblin Shortcutter
2 Gore-House Chainwalker
2 Hearth Kami
2 Keldon Marauders
2 Kruin Striker
2 Mogg Flunkies
2 Mogg War Marshal
2 Plated Geopede
2 Pouncing Kavu
2 Skirk Marauder
2 Stingscourger
2 Torch Fiend
3 Blood Ogre
3 Fervent Cathar
3 Hanweir Lancer
3 Inner-Flame Acolyte
3 Manic Vandal
3 Splatter Thug
3 Vulshok Sorcerer
4 Gorehorn Minotaurs
4 Keldon Berserker
4 Mad Prophet
5 Gathan Raiders
5 Kuldotha Ringleader
5 Nearheath Stalker
5 Slash Panther
6 Chartooth Cougar
6 Flameborn Hellion
1 Brimstone Valley
1 Burst Lightning
1 Fireblast
1 Firebolt
1 Geist Flame
1 Lash Out
1 Lava Dart
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Rhystic Lightning
1 Searing Spear
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Staggershock
Land
1 Teetring Peaks
Sorcery
1 Aftershock
1 Arc Lightning
1 Chain Lightning
1 Faithless Looting
1 Fireball
1 Incinerate
1 Molten Rain
1 Pyrotechnics
1 Reckless Charge
1 Rift Bolt
1 Rolling Thunder
1 Searing Blaze
1 Traitorous Blood
1 Volcanic Hammer
1 Arbor Elf
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Basking Rootwalla
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Jungle Lion
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Pouncing Jaguar
1 Wild Dogs
1 Wild Nacatl
2 Ambush Viper
2 Darkthicket Wolf
2 Dawntreader Elk
2 Devoted Druid
2 Garruk's Companion
2 Kozilek's Predator
2 Mire Boa
2 River Boa
2 Sakura-Tribe Elder
2 Silhana Ledgewalker
2 Viridian Emissary
2 Wall of Roots
2 Werebear
2 Wild Mongrel
3 Borderland Ranger
3 Centaur Courser
3 Civic Wayfinder
3 Hungry Spriggan
3 Nessian Courser
3 Simian Grunts
3 Trusted Forcemage
3 Yavimaya Elder
3 Yeva's Forcemage
4 Blastoderm
4 Festerhide Boar
4 Kavu Primarch
4 Mold Shambler
4 Nantuko Vigilance
4 Nest Invader
4 Penumbra Spider
4 Primal Huntbeast
4 Wickerbough Elder
4 Wild Leotau
5 Sentinel Spider
6 Pathbreaker Wurm
6 Thundering Tanadon
7 Havenwood Wurm
7 Krosan Tusker
7 Maul Splicer
7 Wirewood Guardian
1 Arachnus Web
1 Rancor
Instant
1 Elephant Ambush
1 Harrow
1 Moment's Peace
1 Sprout Swarm
1 Vines of Vastwood
Sorcery
1 Cultivate
1 Edge of Autumn
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Prey Upon
1 Momentary Blink
1 Deft Duelist
1 Feeling of Dread
Dimir
1 Recoil
1 Probe
1 Forbidden Alchemy
Rakdos
1 Terminate
1 Rakdos Shred-Freak
1 Blightning
Gruul
1 Kird Ape
1 Scab-Clan Mauler
1 Tin Street Hooligan
1 Travel Preperations
1 Armadillo Cloak
1 Qasali Pridemage
Orzhov
1 Shrieking Grotesque
1 Blind Hunter
1 Pillory of the Sleepless
Golgari
1 Putrid Leech
1 Consume Strength
1 Golgari Longlegs
Simic
1 Coiling Oracle
1 Snakeform
1 Temporal Spring
1 Izzet Chronarch
1 Steamcore Weird
1 Jilt
Boros
1 Skyknight Legionnaire
1 Goblin Legionnaire
1 Orim's Thunder
1 Dross Golem
1 Oxidda Golem
1 Perilous Myr
1 Pilgrim's Eye
1 Razor Golem
1 Spire Golem
1 Tangle Golem
1 Ulamog's Crusher
Spells
1 Adventuring Gear
1 Armillary Sphere
1 Azorius Signet
1 Bonesplitter
1 Boros Signet
1 Copper Carapace
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Dimir Signet
1 Flayer Husk
1 Golgari Signet
1 Gruul Signet
1 Izzet Signet
1 Leonin Bola
1 Leonin Scimitar
1 Mind Stone
1 Opaline Bracers
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Prismatic Lens
1 Pristine Talisman
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Selesnya Signet
1 Serrated Arrows
1 Simic Signet
1 Sylvok Lifestaff
1 Tumble Magnet
1 Vulshok Morningstar
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Secluded Steppe
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Forgotten Cave
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Barren Moor
Panoramas
1 Esper Panorama
1 Jund Panorama
1 Grixis Panorama
1 Bant Panorama
1 Naya Panorama
Borderposts
1 Dieldmist Borderpost
1 Firewild Borderpost
1 Veinfire Borderpost
1 Mistvein Borderpost
1 Wildfield Borderpost
1 Desert
1 Rupture Spire
1 Haunted Fengraf
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
Guildgate
1 Selesnya Guildgate
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Izzet Guildgate
1 Rakdos Guildgate
1 Golgari Guildgate
Karoos
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Boros Garrison
1 Azorius Chancery
1 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Gruul Turf
1 Orzhov Basilica
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Not much to say about it. Seems solid as oak. Enjoy playing it and making changes! =D
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Niveous Wisp, Does seem weak, but it clears a blocker for a turn, doesn't cost a card, and I don't have many one drop spells at the moment.
Kor Chant is slated to be included in the next update. I'll just have to get and alter one.
Niblis of the Mist isn't that great and I could see cutting it. I want. I don't want to play Soltari Visionary due to a) wanting to keep the number of shadow dudes down and b) wanting to keep the number of non vital non-foils down.
Elgaud is a holdover from looking at Usman's list. I'll try it out, and if I don't like it, I'll cut it.
Sentinels/Nephalia both kind of function as spot removal from time to time. I'll keep them for now. But I will definilty look into getting a Fencer Clique. Not so much on the wayward soul. (stupid non foil sets)
I'll keep the bit about Ehume in mind. If no one likes it I have no problems in cutting it. I partly included it because I already had a foil one.
Rift bolt is in the cube already. I have a Foil Magma Burst sitting in my maybe box right now, I'll probably add it in the expansion.
When I go up to 450 I'm probably going to 4 cards per guild. Curse of Chains is another Drew Tucker card, so I am apt to include it.
I've been looking at Sluiceway Scorpion from RtR drafts and I like it. I also have a foil Trow in my maybe list. I think Black wants another beefy creature so Longlegs helps to fill that role.
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And yet you have shadow guildmage and wild nacatl in the mono coloured section. It may skew the numbers a bit but you could add a tri colour section with these cards and add 3 other cards representing the shards, such as Sangrite Backlash. You also include teetering peaks as red but have the cycle lands in the land section. I guess I am just nit-picking here but the cube looks very solid.
I'm never going to include a tri color section. But I feel the cube is stronger for having those cards and being an insignificantly small amount imbalanced towards grixis and naya than not having those cards. Since I will play Wild nacatal if I'm selesyna or gruul and will play the shadowmage if I'm only dimir or rakdos.
If I move the cycling lands from land to the proper color section I'm just going to be shrinking the land section by five and upping WUBRG by one. So it's just a difference in book keeping. Since I'm playing the entire cycle I'll just keep them where they are.
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So far I know 42 of my 45 slots will have
10 Guildgates
10 Bouncelands
5 Panoramas
5 Cycling Lands
5 Borderpost
1 Desert
1 Rupture Spire
1 Haunted Fengraf
1 Evoling Wilds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Quicksand
1 Transguild Paradise
1 ?
1 ?
1 ?
My "colorless" options for the last three lands are
Cloudpost
Command Tower
Darksteel Citadel
Glimmerpost
Oasis
Seraph Sanctuary
Shimmering Grotto
Urzatron
Seems like Shimmering Grotto is the only playable land out of the remaining options. I might just put in a playset of Terramorphic Expanse and cut them as WoTc prints more playable options. Any opinions?
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In the increase to 450 I'm doing it by adding the following number of cards
05 White
05 Blue
05 Black
05 Red
05 Green
10 Multicolor
10 Lands
05 Artifacts
THe only Artifact I currently have set aside is Moonglow Extract.
Couple of problems with the Urza's Cycling lands
1) I would only add in the full cycle, which doesn't work when I have only 3 slots open.
2) Besides Polluted Mire there are no foils of this cycle. And adding non-foils seem less than optimal.
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But then again, Bojuka Bog is probably more useful then half of the other lands that you could be introducing.
Ah, someone commented on my thread! Egad!
Transguild Prominad is in my ondeck box. And if they print a couple more playable common lands, I will add the second one. But currently we just don't have the options to expand to 10 "colorless" lands in pauper.
I currently plan on doing something like this when I get my next package in the mail.
White
+ Kitsune Blademaster
+ Kor Chant
-Niveous Wisps
- Niblis of the Mist
Blue
+ Prodigal Sorcerer
+ Aven Fleetwing
+ Fencer Clique
- Nephalia Seakite
- Sentinels of Glen Elendra
- Elgaud Shieldmate
Black
+ Stab Wounds
- Exhume
Red
+ Magma Burst
- Geist Flame
Multicolor
+ Curse of Chains
- Momentary Blink
+ Assault Zeppelid
- Snakeform
+ Sluiceway Scorpion
- Golgari Longlegs
Explanations
Whtie
Kor Chant was an oversight in my original construction.
Kitsune Blademaster is sadly from the Kamigawa block, so it inheriely sucks. But I'm hoping it will work better than Niblis of the Mist.
Blue
Prodigal Sorcerer is probably not optimal. If you knew me two years ago I kept Tim in my normal cube for WAY too long because of how much I like that bugger. I'm not sure how much cutting all these blue flash flyers will hurt the skys archetype though.
Black
Stab Wounds has been really good in RTR draft, and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. Exhume is meh.
Red
Geistflame was always meh
Multicolor
I'm unsure on the UG card to cut here.
Golgari Longlegs was never the large creature I wanted it to be.
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Goblin Arsonist might not be the worst, either.
I knew it would either be Oracle or Snakeform that gets dropped for the Zeppelid. And while Oracle is not a card that puts you into UG (very few pauper multicolored cards are that good), I am happy to play it in any deck. It is as close as we are going to get to a Wall of Blossom. On the other hand Snakeform is just a slightly better Turn to Frog, and I'm not sure if that is worth taking my third slot. I have a feeling that in a few months I would be cutting which ever one I am keeping due to Gatecrash though.
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Just wanted to say that I run Snakeform in my Peasant Cube and I'm happy with it. It's not fancy but it's easy to play, replaces itself and all around gets the job done.
You're right about Gatecrash though. I'm sure something in the set will replace it soon.
EDH Decks:
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvgKvEi5U6oudG1NVmdKQk5CRU1KYW5wd09mNlF1SXc
White
+Darking Skyjek
+Syndic of Tithes
-Order of Letibur
-Loyal Cathar
Order is just a very big mana dump. And I'm always looking for more non-foilable cards to ax.
Blue
+Hands of Binding
+Keymaster Rogue
-Opt
-Infiltrator Il-kor
I'm holding off on including the 0/1 evolver for now. Cutting Opt because Ponder/Preordain/BS are enough. You really only want to suspend Infiltrator turn 2-3. After that and you are almost better just hard casting it for 5. I've always loved the gating mechanic. Blue has quite a few ways of abusing the gate-mechanic. (man-o-war, aether adept, mist raven, mulldrifter, Aethersnope, Mnenonic wall, archaomancer, Ninja of the Deep Hours, resetting illusionary forces)
Black
+ Undertaker
- Order of the Ebon Hand
For similar reason that I cut Order of Letibur I am cutting Order of Ebon Hand. If you see a better cut let me know.
Red
+Tenement Crasher
+Goblin Arsonist
+Foundry Street Denizen
+Skinbrand Goblin
-Nearheath Stalker
-Rhystic Lightning
-Flameborn Hellion
-Intimidator Initiate
I just keep forgetting to order a foil Tenement Crasher, but I rememberd this time. So I'm doing the obvious cut. Intimidator Initiate has been meh. And I'm hopeful that Goblin Arsonist and Foundry Street Denizen help fill the one drop slot in red. Rhystic Lightning is the worst burn spell I am still playing. And I don't think anyone ever wants to play a 4/1 for 5, undying or not.
Green
+Slaughterhorn
-Yeva Forcemage
It is just my least favorite green 3 drop. But I could be talked into something else.
I'm going up 10 cards in multicolor to 4 per guild.
Multicolor
WU
+ Court Hussar
UB
+Agony Warp
+Deathcult Rogue
-Probe
BR
+Strangling Soot
RG
+Pit Fight
+Zhur-Taa Swine
-Tin-Streed Hooligan
GW
+ Centaur Healer
WB
+Executioner's Swing
+Kingpin's Pet
-Shrieking Grotesque
BG
+Rendclaw Trow
GU
+ Shambleshark
UR
+Frostburn Weird
RW
+Wojek Halberdiers
+Martial Glory
+Cerodon Yearling
-Orim's Thunder
-Goblin Legionnaire
Frostburn Weird was a mistake to not include in the first place.
Wokej is an obvious addition, Reverse Agony Warp less so. I'm willing to give it a chance. I'll probably get flak for cutting Legionnaire but I've never felt like the white part of this card was relevant. And I think that RW wants a 2/2 haster on turn 2 more.
Colorless
+ Riot Gear
- Sylvok Lifestaff
I've never been that impressed with Lifestaff. The lifegain is meh. Hopefully bad-morningstar will do better.
Lands
+5 Guildgates
-5 Nothings. (I've been proxying the guildgates since RTR)
+ Viridian Longbow
- Copper Carapace
I like pingers and I want to fit longbow in. Thoughts?
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If I don't like Martial Glory I'll just throw Legionaire back in.
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Any updates with Dragon's Maze, Modern Masters and Magic 2014?