Martyr's Souldoes look interesting. It will likely prove to be too awkward to cast in a timely fashion in most formats, but the upside is ridiculously high.
Savage Swipe might be decent. It's at least better than Prey Upon (which has been outclassed), but the difference might not come up often enough for it to warrant a slot over any of the newer/better fight cards.
For me personally, I'm very much interested in the changelings for my peasant tribal cube. Also, Martyr's Soul is perfect for the same cube combining Soldier, Spirit and +1/+1 counters.
Martyr's soul is definitely a cool design, I think it might not be quite good enough though - a big part of the power of convoke is being able to play creatures and then immediately tap them for mana, which doesn't really work for this guy's ability.
Goblin War Party is actually a bit intriguing to me. It might be a bit too expensive, but it's not THAT much worse than Beetleback Chief or Hordeling Outburst, and the potential to be a Heroic Reinforcements with a bonus guy late game is powerful. It's just slightly too expensive in each mode, and I'm not sure if the flexibility makes up for it, but I'm considering it at least.
Maybe not the perfect card for burn or aggro decks, but this is good in mid game (T4) and awesome in late game (T7) for midrange decks. Something like Aristocrats, Tokens or Tribal decks can make good use of this cards with one or both modes. You don't need to choose to create the tokens, you could use it only to play an expensive pump spell if your board is good enough yet.
Undead Augur seems sweet. It's quite close to being just good enough completely on its own, and I incidentally run several other zombies and zombie creators that I think are enough to push it into solid territory. I don't even think you necessarily need to actively support tribal for him to be good.
Fists of Flame is a cool card. Chain a couple of cantrips and you're up to something like four mana, draw three, give a creature +4/+0 and trample, plus potentially prowess(-like) triggers. Even on its own it's always going to be +2/+0, trample and a card for two mana on your turn, so not totally useless if you can't combo.
There aren't enough targets for Savage Swipe in green for me to be interested. I feel like there would be more trades than I would like too.
Martyr's Soul taking away 3 attackers/blockers makes it hard for me to imagine it being super worthwhile even if you can trigger it.
Undead Augur is probably just good enough on its own with incidental zombies. Only issue is it's a CC 2 drop in a colour that already has a really good one.
Fists of Flame is really efficient for a cantripping pseudo-burn spell. Works insanely well with Kiln Fiend too.
My cube is modern only so getting Fact or Fiction is good for me.
I also like Goblin War Party despite the inefficiency.
I don't think I have enough draw fuel for Fists of Flame I also prefer pumps on toughness as well as combat tricks
Pondering Mage is interesting. Steep mana cost, but decent body and an amazing ETB effect for those who like to abuse them... Might trade out Tandem Lookout for it.
Dislike Undead Augur, as stated above CC is a hard price to pay and I already have CC black cards. Also, not enough Zombies in my cube to make the incidental additional trigger(s) happen enough.
Goblin War Party is an add for me, not super exciting, but good enough imo
Martyr's Soul could be good enough, will test for sure
Fists of Flame could also be good enough, might replace some bad small burn spell for it
If anyone else is running snow basics (and now may the best time to get some), Abominable Treefolk is a real good card. It is highly improbable for this to be worse than a 2/2 when it is cast (one snow basic + itself) and reasonably a 4/4 or larger upon casting (at least three snow basics and itself) with potential to grow huge in either case. Considering the size and the ETB ability, this feels like a very strong creature whenever it is cast. For me, Abominable Treefolk is definitely the top card spoiled to date.
Pondering Mage is interesting. Steep mana cost, but decent body and an amazing ETB effect for those who like to abuse them... Might trade out Tandem Lookout for it.
i'm not that interested in it tbh, pondering at five mana is pretty bad considering we have stuff like mulldrifter and murder of crows available at the same mana cost. the 3/4 body is actually reasonable in blue but i think tandem lookout is a crazy cut for it. but i'm a massive fan of lookout so.
treefolk does look like it will be busted af in its limited environment, and the monstrosity caterpillar seems pretty decent as well honestly. if you can afford snow basics instead of normal basics, treefolk looks like a pretty strong contender for the #1 simic card.
Fists of Flame is a cool card. Chain a couple of cantrips and you're up to something like four mana, draw three, give a creature +4/+0 and trample, plus potentially prowess(-like) triggers. Even on its own it's always going to be +2/+0, trample and a card for two mana on your turn, so not totally useless if you can't combo.
Plus, that piece of art is sweet!
It wouldnt be four mana to draw three, it would be closer to four mana to draw 3 and discard two (the other cantrips).
I dont think 2 mana, +2/+0 and trample, with cantrip, is a card anyone would play. And this card isnt even always as good as that.
I dont think 2 mana, +2/+0 and trample, with cantrip, is a card anyone would play. And this card isnt even always as good as that.
I was pointing out it's a combo piece that can actually be useful on its own, which makes it a lot easier to cube. I was not claiming it's good on its own.
I dont think 2 mana, +2/+0 and trample, with cantrip, is a card anyone would play. And this card isnt even always as good as that.
I was pointing out it's a combo piece that can actually be useful on its own, which makes it a lot easier to cube. I was not claiming it's good on its own.
Uh, what's the combo? "It gets better when you have Sylvan Library" isn't really what I'd call a combo because it's still a pretty mediocre effect, has little or no redundancy (there's Faithless Looting, Brainstorm, and...?), and as Leelue said above the baseline +2/+0 is not at all acceptable
Well, specifically with sylvan library it'd be possibly worth a conversation (+4/0 and trample, draw a card for 2), but even if you always guaranteed they were in the same deck you're not getting the cards together enough to be worth the below mediocre side.
Once you start having to pay extra mana this turn for more pumping, we start re-entering "meh" territory again.
I like Scale Up. It can make for a really aggressive early punch to the face and scales up for late-game with Overload. Or use it on a flyer to punch extra damage through whenever. I definitely need to test this one.
Also, yay for modern-framed Crypt Rats; I'll be swapping it in for my old one.
plus reprints of lava dart and choking tethers.
personally, martyr's soul looks awesome to me. potentially free 5/4 is something that sounds like good value.
Savage Swipe might be decent. It's at least better than Prey Upon (which has been outclassed), but the difference might not come up often enough for it to warrant a slot over any of the newer/better fight cards.
For me personally, I'm very much interested in the changelings for my peasant tribal cube. Also, Martyr's Soul is perfect for the same cube combining Soldier, Spirit and +1/+1 counters.
My Cubes:
Peasant Travel Cube on CubeCobra (180 cards, modern frames) (mtgsalvation thread can be found here)
I had a blog for a while @ peasant-cube.blogspot.com where I may or may not post again, lol
Goblin War Party is actually a bit intriguing to me. It might be a bit too expensive, but it's not THAT much worse than Beetleback Chief or Hordeling Outburst, and the potential to be a Heroic Reinforcements with a bonus guy late game is powerful. It's just slightly too expensive in each mode, and I'm not sure if the flexibility makes up for it, but I'm considering it at least.
Maybe not the perfect card for burn or aggro decks, but this is good in mid game (T4) and awesome in late game (T7) for midrange decks. Something like Aristocrats, Tokens or Tribal decks can make good use of this cards with one or both modes. You don't need to choose to create the tokens, you could use it only to play an expensive pump spell if your board is good enough yet.
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I have high hopes for this set for cube. Hopefully the power level is there on the cool/interesting cards.
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anyone run zombie tribal? cos this card seems spicy as hell for it.
Undead Augur - BB
Creature - Zombie Wizard
Whenever ~ or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
2/2
also there was a basic only fetchland spoiled but it's rare. ;_;
1R
Instant
Draw a card. Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +1/+0 for each card you've drawn this turn
Looks like a cool combo card
Plus, that piece of art is sweet!
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Martyr's Soul taking away 3 attackers/blockers makes it hard for me to imagine it being super worthwhile even if you can trigger it.
Undead Augur is probably just good enough on its own with incidental zombies. Only issue is it's a CC 2 drop in a colour that already has a really good one.
Fists of Flame is really efficient for a cantripping pseudo-burn spell. Works insanely well with Kiln Fiend too.
I also like Goblin War Party despite the inefficiency.
I don't think I have enough draw fuel for Fists of Flame I also prefer pumps on toughness as well as combat tricks
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Draft it on Cubetutor here, and CubeCobra here.
Treasure Cruise did nothing wrong.
Dislike Undead Augur, as stated above CC is a hard price to pay and I already have CC black cards. Also, not enough Zombies in my cube to make the incidental additional trigger(s) happen enough.
Goblin War Party is an add for me, not super exciting, but good enough imo
Martyr's Soul could be good enough, will test for sure
Fists of Flame could also be good enough, might replace some bad small burn spell for it
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i'm not that interested in it tbh, pondering at five mana is pretty bad considering we have stuff like mulldrifter and murder of crows available at the same mana cost. the 3/4 body is actually reasonable in blue but i think tandem lookout is a crazy cut for it. but i'm a massive fan of lookout so.
treefolk does look like it will be busted af in its limited environment, and the monstrosity caterpillar seems pretty decent as well honestly. if you can afford snow basics instead of normal basics, treefolk looks like a pretty strong contender for the #1 simic card.
It wouldnt be four mana to draw three, it would be closer to four mana to draw 3 and discard two (the other cantrips).
I dont think 2 mana, +2/+0 and trample, with cantrip, is a card anyone would play. And this card isnt even always as good as that.
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
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I was pointing out it's a combo piece that can actually be useful on its own, which makes it a lot easier to cube. I was not claiming it's good on its own.
Not when I could play Deep Analysis instead.
Draft it on Cubetutor here, and CubeCobra here.
Treasure Cruise did nothing wrong.
Uh, what's the combo? "It gets better when you have Sylvan Library" isn't really what I'd call a combo because it's still a pretty mediocre effect, has little or no redundancy (there's Faithless Looting, Brainstorm, and...?), and as Leelue said above the baseline +2/+0 is not at all acceptable
Once you start having to pay extra mana this turn for more pumping, we start re-entering "meh" territory again.
My CubeCobra (draft 20 card packs, 2 packs.)
430, Peasant, Very Unpowered
Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
Manamath Article
Also, yay for modern-framed Crypt Rats; I'll be swapping it in for my old one.
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