MTG Salvation

Nothing much to say about Barin > Man o War, but he is the only include for me in 450.

Surprised Heartfire Immolator is so low. I’ll test him over Harsh Mentor. Though honestly I will not play cube this year at all.

While I only get top 1 or 3 normally, I read through the top 20, quite interesting to see what larger cubes use.

Thanks again for the article! I have said this before, this is the cherry on top of each spoiler season for me!

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Okay, this is a really nice idea!

That HAS to be a cycle, right?

Seems to be a Thriving Cycle

Mist Syndicate Naga -> Barrin
Harsh Mentor -> Hearthfire Immolator

Sad that Man O War is finally leaving cube, but this is super slam dunk. PW removal / PW reset is great.

Plus bouncing any creature you have with ETB is serious card advantage.

Meloku says hi, too.

Sort of like Grandeur design space.

Seems like a good limited card assuming a sac-recur-morbid theme in green-(likely) black.

Makes it intuitive that it becomes a trigger than a replacement. Opens design space as well.

Putting him in my Artifact Cube!! Love that it synergizes with sac effects and rewards you for killing opponent’s creatures

This provides 252 options, not just 31

Good product actually.
1) the best Chandra
2) 3 cube (pimp) cards
3) 4 Storm spells
Odd that there is no burn spell bit its fine.
Decent value but will probably just get singles for my mono red storm once the prices drop.

So weird to have multiple bannings and even functional power level errata this early in the release. I mean, did they even test these?

I think the new ability is fair. Call it the companion tax. Still playable if the opportunity cost is low. It’s just so bad now compared to what it was before.

I wonder how the players would have reacted if this was the ability to begin with. We’ll never know.

New Companion Rule:

Once per game, any time you could cast a sorcery (during your main phase when the stack is empty), you can pay 3 generic mana to put your companion from your sideboard into your hand. This is a special action, not an activated ability.

Will likely not play this with the companion clause anyway. Unlike Lutri, this is still playable in the main deck. Hopefully the price drops and this is much affordable now.

New Companion Rule:

Once per game, any time you could cast a sorcery (during your main phase when the stack is empty), you can pay 3 generic mana to put your companion from your sideboard into your hand. This is a special action, not an activated ability.

So is this still cubable? I’m thinking not anymore.

These are expensive considering everybody had bolts already and textless versions are better if you want max pimpage.

I guess this is for the alter aficionado. I would rather have Kaladesh Masterpiece art for the Ballista.

As a cube owner, this does not fit my tastes, I think this goes over the MTG genre. It feels too out of place in MtG. To each his/her own, I guess.