My play group has still been hateing on tokens and they want me to test out echoing truth and echoing decay.
How do folks feel about the echoing cards in cube?
Looking at your cube as it is now, I don't think it's playable.
It only has one or two friendly enchantments in each color that can target it.
I could see it working in the right cube though.
Twisted Abomination, yeah, it's fine. The threat of regeneration can be a real pain for the opponent. And the 5 power is no joke on offence or defense.
I could easily see cutting it though if I didn't push reanimate in black so much.
So, I recently had to cut Lashknife Barrier because the group I cube with kept complaining that it:
1) unfairly hosed red
2) Most supports the 2 best decks (at the time tokens, and skies)
3) Had never lost a game once resolved
I had my counter arguments, and we debated it for a few weeks, but then an amazing W/B tokens deck came together with Lashknife Barrier and there bloodlust could not be quenched.
Yeah, I don't think getting to 10 mana happens often (although my group loves control), but the G/B deck had thran dynamo and some ramp , so drained for 4.
I was testing both Vampiric Rites and Shadows of the Past
My play group felt that the decks that benefit most from Vampiric Rites tended to be B/x tokens and that tokens had too much support already.
But they liked that go long control decks or midrange could often get through a board stall with Shadows of the Past or in the case of a B/G Deck, just start draining for 4 once they got to 10 mana.
I had a similar issue of players not drafting green.
I asked my core group of drafters for suggestions on cuts & adds. Then I incorporated their suggestions (even if I disagreed with them).
This alone caused them to draft green more.
Then after a few drafts with the changes I would argue that green was still not as strong as I wanted and that some of the changes had not been good.
Some players would relook at cuts/adds, some would draft their pet cards to try and prove they were worthy, and some would identify single cards in other colors that disproportionately hurt green and argue to cut them.
It has been a few months now since the green debates, and I feel green is the third most drafted color in my CUbe (although during the geen debates it was first).
We have done a similar thing with other colors or guilds.
P.S. This is why some cards I think of as staples are not in my current iteration of the CUbe.
I have it in my cube, and it tends to play out fine for the decks that want it (usually G/U Bounce) because it works as slow semi-removal when needed, or a way to get your own ETBs again.
In other decks, it's a mostly bad crystal shard, so still fine.
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I'm glad to see it happening.
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Yeah, I had it in when I had more faries, and it still didn't do the work often enough.
How do folks feel about the echoing cards in cube?
It only has one or two friendly enchantments in each color that can target it.
I could see it working in the right cube though.
Use the Agent of Acquisitions that you kept face up from last game and take the entire pack?
I could easily see cutting it though if I didn't push reanimate in black so much.
1) unfairly hosed red
2) Most supports the 2 best decks (at the time tokens, and skies)
3) Had never lost a game once resolved
I had my counter arguments, and we debated it for a few weeks, but then an amazing W/B tokens deck came together with Lashknife Barrier and there bloodlust could not be quenched.
My play group felt that the decks that benefit most from Vampiric Rites tended to be B/x tokens and that tokens had too much support already.
But they liked that go long control decks or midrange could often get through a board stall with Shadows of the Past or in the case of a B/G Deck, just start draining for 4 once they got to 10 mana.
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heroPresident you deserve!I asked my core group of drafters for suggestions on cuts & adds. Then I incorporated their suggestions (even if I disagreed with them).
This alone caused them to draft green more.
Then after a few drafts with the changes I would argue that green was still not as strong as I wanted and that some of the changes had not been good.
Some players would relook at cuts/adds, some would draft their pet cards to try and prove they were worthy, and some would identify single cards in other colors that disproportionately hurt green and argue to cut them.
It has been a few months now since the green debates, and I feel green is the third most drafted color in my CUbe (although during the geen debates it was first).
We have done a similar thing with other colors or guilds.
P.S. This is why some cards I think of as staples are not in my current iteration of the CUbe.
In other decks, it's a mostly bad crystal shard, so still fine.