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Torggo posted a message on [400ish][Unpowered] Smithy's Modern-Frame CubeCool, thanks for the updates.Posted in: Cube Lists - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Some suggestions to give the theme variety and fun:
-Scapeshift! Look at all those landfall triggers!
-Run a utility land draft during/after the main draft. Jason Waddell has written about the concept at length; search around and you'll find some info on it.
-Several of the new landfall cards, specifically the Retreats, are actually quite good. The blue retreat also makes a fun combo with KotR.
-In Blue and White, run some cards that can blink any permanent, like Kor Skyfisher and UW Venser. This lets you reset your land-creatures if you run Awaken cards, and gives you more landfall triggers!
-Molten Vortex gets better the more your cube cares about lands/has the ability to recur lands. Consider bouncelands and scrylands as possible fixing cycles to make land sequencing more of a decision point, and to give you more lands to pitch to Vortex.
-Black tends to care more about Swamps than other land types, and while that's okay, it tends to make it less of a thing in the lands theme than the other colors.
-Strongly consider breaking singleton. You could, for example, run extra copies of Awaken cards to make Halimar Tidecaller a cool package enabler; you could run an extra Life from the Loam to make land recursion decks easier; you could run a bunch of Evolving Wilds to make hitting Landfall triggers easier; etc. etc. It's best not to go crazy on singleton-breaking, but it can cement an otherwise under-supported archetype if done wisely.
-Look for other themes that your landfall theme naturally leads you to. For example, having lots of fetchlands/Wilds in your environment fuels Delve cards.
Some of these ideas are obviously rather unorthodox, but the goal of your Cube is to have fun, so do what will give you and your drafters the most fun.
EDIT: If you dig around on my CubeTutor, you'll find a couple decks that I drafted to demonstrate the Lands archetype and how varied it can be. Check those out if you fancy.
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02 Time Walk
03 Mana Drain
04 Tinker
05 Upheaval
06 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
07 Treachery
08 Vedalken Shackles
09 True-Name Nemesis
10 Tolarian Academy
11 Glen Elendra Archmage
12 Snapcaster Mage
13 Control Magic
14 Aetherling
15 Phantasmal Image
16 Vendilion Clique
17 Bribery
18 Fact or Fiction
19 Dig Through Time
20 Mulldrifter
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02 Balance
03 Mother of Runes
04 Land Tax
05 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
06 Armageddon
07 Swords to Plowshares
08 Path to Exile
09 Hero of Bladehold
10 Restoration Angel
11 Monastery Mentor
12 Reveillark
13 Wrath of God
14 Day of Judgment
15 Council's Judgment
16 Stoneforge Mystic
17 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
18 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
19 Sun Titan
20 Oblivion Ring
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