Graceful Cat is a decent and simple design but conditional Coursers are not really a thing, as izor said. I would have considered it if it was a 2/1 for 1W. However, the zombie minotaur is badass and will likely be a strong contender. None of the others jump out for me. Embalm can be a strong addition to cube if it's appropriately costed - the closest equivalent I see is RtR's scavenge mechanic, but that one was both overcosted and required you to already have a board in order to benefit
i like the mummy. i always want to include a discard theme, but the problem is, it kinda sucks in cube.
you cant build a deck that abuses discard in your favor like madness, because your opponent is likely to have the same positive outcome. and often enough players will just discard exessive lands.
besides a few staples the mechanic wont make the cut.
chain lightning isn the only masterpiece, there also is counterspell and daze amd dark ritual
if you want to pimp your cube, thats the way to go lol.
Too bad they look pretty awful, and that there's sometimes a phallic looking object pointing left in the title, D's look like B's, and takes me upwards of a second to recognize what the card is, opposed to the fraction of a fraction of a second for regular looking cards.
Is there an existing pauper cube thread where people talk about which pimp versions of each card they're chosen to include? I always try to get the FMN versions if they exist. Excited to maybe be able to add a masterpiece or two to the cube.
None I know of. I usually use the Aesthetics Thread in the Cube forum or the general Pauper Cube discussion thread. I also use the FNM promos or the gateway promos, if available. I don't know yet, if I want to cube an Invocation. They are quite pricy at the moment.
Unwavering Initiate
2W
Creature - Human Warrior
Vigilance
Embalm 4W (4W, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Warrior with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
3/2
I really like this as a solid sealed card. Also, making a token interacts with Selsnaya cards.
I'm not sure, if I want the Unwavering Initiate over dauntless cathar. I'm not sure, if the vigilance and the bigger body of the token is worth the losing of flying.
the 3/2 its not bad, but its not good either. it has some nice gy synergies with selfmill effects, but as said, 3/2 arent the greatest stats, especially after turn 5+
Call of the Herd is cheaper and gives 3/3s which is much better and peasant has way deeper gy archetypes running.
Vigilance on front end and back end might put it over the top of Dauntless Cathar. The problem for me, as with Humphrey, is that the Initiate trades down too easily. The second problem is that the embalm cost means you're probably taking off a full turn of late-game in order to play something that will trade down to an early drop (three is the magic number for toughness). It depends how you want to balance your value vs tempo dynamic. You can take out two bears/coursers with one card, but as a tempo play you can fall very far behind if your opponent can use his mana more efficiently. I think it's certainly worth testing
Yes, I like to include the Cartouche. Also interesting for swarm is our first token payoff:
Anointer Priest
1W
Creature - Human Cleric
Whenever a creature token enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Embalm 3W (3W, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
1/3
and the next is interesting, but I think not good enough:
In Oketra's Name
1W
Instant
Zombies you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Yes, I like to include the Cartouche. Also interesting for swarm is our first token payoff:
Anointer Priest
1W
Creature - Human Cleric
Whenever a creature token enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Embalm 3W (3W, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
1/3
Getting the body twice isn't bad, but it seems slightly worse than Temple Acolyte - I'd rather have the lifegain up front. How often is this going to be better than Acolyte in terms of value? I think it'll struggle just to match it
The Anointer starts lower, but has a much higher potential upside in the right deck and it has extra value from the graveyard. I'd be interested to hear how it goes, but I'm not planning to add it at this point.
Played on turn two then followed by a creature and then a battle screech, you are looking at +5 life
Sacred Cat gives you two 1/1 bodies with lifelink for WW. Tis a shame they can't both be on the board at the same time.
Annointer Priest is cute, but we all know how bad lifegain is on power1 dudes.
Cartouche of Solidarity seems really strong. too bad it creates a warrior. it would be tier1 for me if it created a soldier. as is solid addition to the swarm AND the enchantment theme in my tier2
1B
Creature - Insect
1/4
Cursed Minotaur
2B
Creature - Zombie Minotaur
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
3/2
Hyena Pack
2RR
Creature - Hyena
3/4
Cursed Minotaur looks like black powercreep to me.
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powerlevel seems core setish this time. giant spider and some other reprints.
on the new cards, i like the beetle. good addition to the control shell if i find a cut.
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1B
Creature - Zombie Jackal
When Miasma Mummy enters the battlefield, each player discards a card.
2/2
And I guess, we can put now a masterpiece in our pauper cube, because Chain Lightning: Chain Lightning
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you cant build a deck that abuses discard in your favor like madness, because your opponent is likely to have the same positive outcome. and often enough players will just discard exessive lands.
besides a few staples the mechanic wont make the cut.
chain lightning isn the only masterpiece, there also is counterspell and daze amd dark ritual
if you want to pimp your cube, thats the way to go lol.
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2W
Creature - Human Warrior
Vigilance
Embalm 4W (4W, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Warrior with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
3/2
I really like this as a solid sealed card. Also, making a token interacts with Selsnaya cards.
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Call of the Herd is cheaper and gives 3/3s which is much better and peasant has way deeper gy archetypes running.
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5 to make a 3/2 is probably just useless to all but the grindy-est of decks
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Djeru's Resolve a cheap utility card that can be used to save a creature or trap an enemy attacker. Doesn't really get you too excited though.
I'd love to see a couple more graveyard payoff cards in this set.
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Anointer Priest
1W
Creature - Human Cleric
Whenever a creature token enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Embalm 3W (3W, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
1/3
and the next is interesting, but I think not good enough:
In Oketra's Name
1W
Instant
Zombies you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
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I'm gonna change my way of dealing with the Pauper cube forum; from now on, I'm gonna post the list of cards I'm interested in (like I used to do) in the sub-forum from the set, but as oof now, I'm gonna ask in my Cube sub-forum inputs for what to cut/include. So feel free to give some input! Then I'll make apparent the changes made in the changelog post.
Reason behind that is that I don't have as much time as I used to and less folks cubing, so I'm in need for discussion over picks! So don't be shy, I won't bite (hard)!
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Getting the body twice isn't bad, but it seems slightly worse than Temple Acolyte - I'd rather have the lifegain up front. How often is this going to be better than Acolyte in terms of value? I think it'll struggle just to match it
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Played on turn two then followed by a creature and then a battle screech, you are looking at +5 life
Sacred Cat gives you two 1/1 bodies with lifelink for WW. Tis a shame they can't both be on the board at the same time.
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Cartouche of Solidarity seems really strong. too bad it creates a warrior. it would be tier1 for me if it created a soldier. as is solid addition to the swarm AND the enchantment theme in my tier2
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