Good Fortune Unicorn vs Juniper Order Ranger
Pros: Two mana cheaper
Cons: Two less toughness, doesn't pump itself
Unicorn comes out a lot faster, but it also dies to a lot more. I doubt I'd want to swap it, but maybe I could run both?
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.
Oh I mean I get that it becomes good with Sylvan, but that's one other card in the whole cube and the net result is your combat trick is now like a B+, not exactly like assembling Thopter-Sword or various Persist combos.
Good Fortune Unicorn vs Juniper Order Ranger
Pros: Two mana cheaper
Cons: Two less toughness, doesn't pump itself
Unicorn comes out a lot faster, but it also dies to a lot more. I doubt I'd want to swap it, but maybe I could run both?
Remember that this Good-Fortune Unicorn enables the Murderous Redcap and Kitchen Finks combo, too, so the cmc matters is a good reason for this swap, I think.
Scale Up seems nice for stompy and tokens decks. Good on T2 and awesome on T6 with the overload cost. Sorcery speed is disgusting, too.
I also like the possibility to cast Scale Up on a Devoted Druid to build an awesome mana dork that gives you 4-5 mana on a single turn to cast your big creatures on T3.
Good-Fortune Unicorn is just too small to do anything in combat and dies to almost everything. Juniper Order Ranger may be more expensive, but it can make reasonable blocks the turn it comes down and it gets to an unreasonable size pretty quickly. Unicorn is probably better if you're solely trying to combo though.
I like Scale Up, but I'm not confident how good it is. It's an interesting enough take on a Overrun variant that I'll test it, but it doesn't work too well with that much inside green.
I think I would be willing to play a 2 mana +3/+0 and trample with cantrip (it's just so much damage), which Fist of Flame is moderately close to; I played Invigorated Rampage for a while and was reasonably pleased with it. I'm probably not testing it since it kinda needs to be in UR, but it's reasonably close.
Why play crypt rats when we have pestilence? Pestilence too annoying?
I've always had a soft spot for Crypt Rats, especially combined with Touch of Moonglove. I've built constructed decks with both Rats and Pestilence, and overall, I prefer Rats. I'd say Pestilence is harder to remove as a noncreature, but it has its own removal clause.
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Good-Fortune Unicorn: Yep absolutely replacing the juniper order ranger. yeah, my cube has a very big aggro bent so faster is better because you could have exhausted your hand by the time you get to Ranger.
Crypt Rats: The black mana clause is awkward but I have a slot at 3 mana wrath spot I can slot this into (- Plague Mare)
I sadly don't need Man'o war because I already have two bounce creatures.
Why play crypt rats when we have pestilence? Pestilence too annoying?
I play in my Cube Undying Evil and this card has sinergy with Crypt Rats (and any aristocrats deck ready to sacrifice). Teferi's Time Twist is also nice with Rats. Sweep the board, return rats to the battlefield, with a +1/+1 counter, and then, you can sweep for 1 every enemy creature and the opponent, with the rats surviving to the ping.
Why play crypt rats when we have pestilence? Pestilence too annoying?
I play in my Cube Undying Evil and this card has sinergy with Crypt Rats
How so? If you squeeze in an Undying Evil before the first activated ability resolves on the stack it'd surely just come back as a 2/2 and then die again after two more abilities resolved? If you don't mean that it can survive a 2-dmg blast and then keep killing off x/1 critters,which is kind of meh for a 2-card combination requiring a lot of black mana.
More on point tho:
I really like Good-Fortune Unicorn. I'll definitely make room for it, and I am considering giving Conclave Cavalier the boot rather than Juniper Order Ranger because at 600, I like the redundant support for the Persist-combo. People seem hesitant to draft the cavalier because of the mana cost. Anyone else have the same experience so far?
Also probably testing Scale Up due to it being more interesting than Overrun, which i currently run.
Think I'll pass on Ravenous Giant. I like the reference to old cards, but I don't really think my red section wants it. Too slow for Rakdos, too meh for Gruul - we already have Blastoderm which is better and more interesting imho. Not sure, but I feel pretty happy with my red 4cmc creatures, and I know that no-one would jump through the ceiling with excitement if I included the giant.
I like it. Seems like it could definitely find a home. I think the floor is decent at least. The splice mode makes it seem like it should be able to shine in a control deck or perhaps some sort of Selesnya or Boros pump-spell deck to get extra value out of low-cmc instants and sorceries.
I like the splice spell. It basically gives all your instants and sorceries kicker 3w, create a 3/3, which seems like huge value to me. Imagine a Brainstorm, Lightning Bolt or something like that with this.
Mother Bear seems pretty good, too. I mean... It sorta reminds me of that Saproling spell from Dominaria in that it represents 2 or 4 power in different stages of the game.
Why play crypt rats when we have pestilence? Pestilence too annoying?
I play in my Cube Undying Evil and this card has sinergy with Crypt Rats
How so? If you squeeze in an Undying Evil before the first activated ability resolves on the stack it'd surely just come back as a 2/2 and then die again after two more abilities resolved? If you don't mean that it can survive a 2-dmg blast and then keep killing off x/1 critters,which is kind of meh for a 2-card combination requiring a lot of black mana.
Pestilence is a bunch of individual activations; Crypt Rats is not. Sure, you could activate it for X=1 over and over, but why not just activate it for X=5? Or give it Deathtouch and do X=1? (Also fun with Lifelink). Either way, it kills everything, including itself, and then Undying Evil brings it back to do it all another turn.
Unless you convoke your meager 1/1 who can't get through, then its a 5/5 flyer for 5. In an aristocrats deck (what I assume the angel is played in most times) it can gain some value and be an imitation venerated loxodon. The counters are more permanent, but it isn't a sac outlet like the angel is.
I'd say its worth testing, but the flexibility of sac outlets are pretty important to the combo decks in my cube
Mother Bear
I think the comparison with Saproling Migration is quite good. I like Migration but I am not sure I want two of those effects. Not sure which I like more. Bear is more value overall but Migration can be 4 power instantly once you reach 5 mana and you draw it.
Scale Up
Interesting card. Wondering how it will work in practice. It's probably as good as giving your creatures +2/+2 on average depending on the deck maybe +3/+2? It has versatility compared to Overrun but I am not sure how often you want to cast this card with only one target.
Thundering Djinn
I was surprised to see no discussing about this card. My cube has only three 4/4 flyers so in most cases it will at least be an Air Elemental but with a much higher ceiling. Am I missing something here?
You should replace Exclusion with Man-o-War, unless you play Adeliz, for example. The option to bounce your own creatures to generate more value with their etb's is always nice.
I could replace Vulturous Aven, maybe, for this demon. This or Sultai Scavenger, but the scavenger can be a 3/3 for B, you only have to play to delve later.
Pestilence is a bunch of individual activations; Crypt Rats is not. Sure, you could activate it for X=1 over and over, but why not just activate it for X=5? Or give it Deathtouch and do X=1? (Also fun with Lifelink). Either way, it kills everything, including itself, and then Undying Evil brings it back to do it all another turn.
You are right and I am wrong. Was sure the rats utilized the same mechanic as Pestilence. I can definitely see the appeal.
Thundering Djinn
I was surprised to see no discussing about this card. My cube has only three 4/4 flyers so in most cases it will at least be an Air Elemental but with a much higher ceiling. Am I missing something here?
Guild cuts diz'n'dat? Personally I like my gold bordered cards to be something else than a beefy flier, and I like my spellslinger effects to trigger without having to spend mana during my turn. And UR is a hard guild to wedge something into. Might test it though, if no-one in my playgroup likes the recently-added League Guildmage.
Pros: Two mana cheaper
Cons: Two less toughness, doesn't pump itself
Unicorn comes out a lot faster, but it also dies to a lot more. I doubt I'd want to swap it, but maybe I could run both?
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Oh I mean I get that it becomes good with Sylvan, but that's one other card in the whole cube and the net result is your combat trick is now like a B+, not exactly like assembling Thopter-Sword or various Persist combos.
Definitely Good Fortune Unicorn over Juniper Order Ranger for me... the problem I always run into with Juniper Order Ranger is the card is so damn slow it never makes an impact.
Remember that this Good-Fortune Unicorn enables the Murderous Redcap and Kitchen Finks combo, too, so the cmc matters is a good reason for this swap, I think.
Scale Up seems nice for stompy and tokens decks. Good on T2 and awesome on T6 with the overload cost. Sorcery speed is disgusting, too.
I also like the possibility to cast Scale Up on a Devoted Druid to build an awesome mana dork that gives you 4-5 mana on a single turn to cast your big creatures on T3.
I like these kind of spells to also combo with Devoted Druid: Vines of Vastwood, Blossoming Defense, Mutagenic Growth or even Become Immense.
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I like Scale Up, but I'm not confident how good it is. It's an interesting enough take on a Overrun variant that I'll test it, but it doesn't work too well with that much inside green.
I think I would be willing to play a 2 mana +3/+0 and trample with cantrip (it's just so much damage), which Fist of Flame is moderately close to; I played Invigorated Rampage for a while and was reasonably pleased with it. I'm probably not testing it since it kinda needs to be in UR, but it's reasonably close.
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Good-Fortune Unicorn: Yep absolutely replacing the juniper order ranger. yeah, my cube has a very big aggro bent so faster is better because you could have exhausted your hand by the time you get to Ranger.
Crypt Rats: The black mana clause is awkward but I have a slot at 3 mana wrath spot I can slot this into (- Plague Mare)
I sadly don't need Man'o war because I already have two bounce creatures.
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I play in my Cube Undying Evil and this card has sinergy with Crypt Rats (and any aristocrats deck ready to sacrifice). Teferi's Time Twist is also nice with Rats. Sweep the board, return rats to the battlefield, with a +1/+1 counter, and then, you can sweep for 1 every enemy creature and the opponent, with the rats surviving to the ping.
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How so? If you squeeze in an Undying Evil before the first activated ability resolves on the stack it'd surely just come back as a 2/2 and then die again after two more abilities resolved? If you don't mean that it can survive a 2-dmg blast and then keep killing off x/1 critters,which is kind of meh for a 2-card combination requiring a lot of black mana.
More on point tho:
I really like Good-Fortune Unicorn. I'll definitely make room for it, and I am considering giving Conclave Cavalier the boot rather than Juniper Order Ranger because at 600, I like the redundant support for the Persist-combo. People seem hesitant to draft the cavalier because of the mana cost. Anyone else have the same experience so far?
Also probably testing Scale Up due to it being more interesting than Overrun, which i currently run.
Think I'll pass on Ravenous Giant. I like the reference to old cards, but I don't really think my red section wants it. Too slow for Rakdos, too meh for Gruul - we already have Blastoderm which is better and more interesting imho. Not sure, but I feel pretty happy with my red 4cmc creatures, and I know that no-one would jump through the ceiling with excitement if I included the giant.
I like it. Seems like it could definitely find a home. I think the floor is decent at least. The splice mode makes it seem like it should be able to shine in a control deck or perhaps some sort of Selesnya or Boros pump-spell deck to get extra value out of low-cmc instants and sorceries.
Mother Bear seems pretty good, too. I mean... It sorta reminds me of that Saproling spell from Dominaria in that it represents 2 or 4 power in different stages of the game.
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Narvuntien, what are your manowars such that you dont need or prefer manowar?
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One sacrifice is still a bad baseline (5/5 flier for 6), and after one or two more youre in overkill territory.
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I'd say its worth testing, but the flexibility of sac outlets are pretty important to the combo decks in my cube
I do kind of like the Big dumb giant but not sure what to cut ... maybe Smoldering Werewolf just having more Beef for red might be nice.
Splicer's skill is cute but seems a bit too mana intensive, the kind of thing thats better in blue and red.
I also like mother bear but I am too attached to my current 2 drops.
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Probably going to test this if I find a spot but I don't have high hopes.
Ravenous Giant
Swapping Smoldering Werewolf for this seems like a good idea.
Mother Bear
I think the comparison with Saproling Migration is quite good. I like Migration but I am not sure I want two of those effects. Not sure which I like more. Bear is more value overall but Migration can be 4 power instantly once you reach 5 mana and you draw it.
Scale Up
Interesting card. Wondering how it will work in practice. It's probably as good as giving your creatures +2/+2 on average depending on the deck maybe +3/+2? It has versatility compared to Overrun but I am not sure how often you want to cast this card with only one target.
Good-Fortune Unicorn
Definitely testing this. Juniper Order Ranger was in my cube a long time ago beacuse I like the effect but it was way too slow.
Thundering Djinn
I was surprised to see no discussing about this card. My cube has only three 4/4 flyers so in most cases it will at least be an Air Elemental but with a much higher ceiling. Am I missing something here?
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You should replace Exclusion with Man-o-War, unless you play Adeliz, for example. The option to bounce your own creatures to generate more value with their etb's is always nice.
I really like the Feaster of Fools. Sweep your bord to generate a big creature is bad, but this is an aristocrats card, even for tokens too. Sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton, Perilous Myr, or Pawn of Ulamog's tokens to get a "free" trade.
I could replace Vulturous Aven, maybe, for this demon. This or Sultai Scavenger, but the scavenger can be a 3/3 for B, you only have to play to delve later.
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You are right and I am wrong. Was sure the rats utilized the same mechanic as Pestilence. I can definitely see the appeal.
Guild cuts diz'n'dat? Personally I like my gold bordered cards to be something else than a beefy flier, and I like my spellslinger effects to trigger without having to spend mana during my turn. And UR is a hard guild to wedge something into. Might test it though, if no-one in my playgroup likes the recently-added League Guildmage.
Br is goblins in my cube - I am thinking why not both