The one where I've had cards set aside forever is Thelon of Havenwood. Seems like a fun deck, but it just wouldn't be any good. Way too fair.
Lately I've wanted to build Hokori, Dust Drinker. The idea would be to play cube-style white aggro, as in all the 2 power 1 drops, disruptive 2s, and powerful attacking 3s and 4s, then lock opponents out with Hokori / Winter Orb / Armageddon. A real, actual aggressive deck in EDH seems pretty rare, and can you really complain about MLD if you're being beaten down with 2/1s?
The best cards in green-based aggro in my super limited experience are Warden of the First Tree, which plays nicely with two colors you can easily pair with green, and Plow Under, which serves as top-end disruption. Mana elves are actually pretty cool too, since you can play a little bigger than your typical white, red, or black-based aggro decks on the same turn. I also like Garruk Wildspeaker's ultimate as a coffin nail, and that also plays nicely with elves.
I ran it at 360 for a while but after a draft where a guy suffered Sundering Titan and Wildfire in round 1, Geddon and Port in round 2, and Molten Rain, Riders, and Plow Under in round 3, I cut back on a few LD effects, and this and Pillage were the victims. I've got one player who hates LD but the rest of us like it so whatever.
Whatever colors she is, I just hope she's as pushed as Dack Fayden was. My primary concern is cube these days, so I hope like hell she isn't Esper or some other uncastable combination.
I don't see a huge problem if the new planeswalker is BW, given how much they pushed the planeswalker in the first Conspiracy. Not sure what it would look like. That said, I'd have preferred a powerful UG, GW, or BG planeswalker, roughly in that order.
I hope it isn't Esper or any other 3 color combination, since that would all but rule it out for lots of cubes and cut down severely on playability in every format.
Also to be fair, most other cube locations think we are a bunch of psychos when it comes to our lists.
Whenever I read riptide lab posts, I'm baffled. Then I realized that most of what I've learned about cube I've learned from this place, and this place has a very laissez-faire attitude about cards. The folks at riptide are always talking about how blowing up lands isn't fun, how such and such a card is 'overpowered,' etc. It's the worst parts of EDH and Standard combined into one: players complaining about plays they don't like, and a bunch of 3-5 mana creatures slugging it out in a midrange fest. No thanks.
I don't run Deathrite Shaman. My Golgari section right now is Troll, Deed, and Creakwood Liege, though that's getting swapped for Abrupt Decay. DRS is cool but I don't have fetches in the cube yet, and it seems way worse without them.
I don't have a Demonic Tutor, but it's one of those $20 cards I'm keeping an eye out for, looking for the right deal. It'll only be an old white-bordered version with the art that looks like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
I'm going to necrobump this and ask that Wizards print us a good UG card worth playing in Conspiracy 2 or Kaladesh, something that is great for Simic like Dack Fayden is good for Izzet. I run Edric, Mystic Snake, and Kiora 1.0, and none of them save Edric really pulls you into something. Mystic Snake is slow and Kiora hasn't been very effective for us so far.
I tried him and didn't like it. My other black 5 at 365 us Grey Merchant, which is way more on an interesting effect. Someday we'll get a sweet black 5 drop.
I'm at a point in my cubing where lots of my expensive cards came from old finds. I'm in the process of turning some that are irrelevant for cubing into things that are good for cube, like Dark Depths for Sneak Attack and Natural Order and whatnot. Is Ancestral Vision something I could feasibly do that with? We've only drafted maybe half a dozen times and I'm not sure I've ever seen it cast. I run Dig and Cruise, too. I'd love to trade a $50 card if the effect is sufficiently replaceable by other cards. Plus I'm sure it'll get reprinted in MM3.
Lately I've wanted to build Hokori, Dust Drinker. The idea would be to play cube-style white aggro, as in all the 2 power 1 drops, disruptive 2s, and powerful attacking 3s and 4s, then lock opponents out with Hokori / Winter Orb / Armageddon. A real, actual aggressive deck in EDH seems pretty rare, and can you really complain about MLD if you're being beaten down with 2/1s?
I want to play it with Sneak Attack and get Woodfall or Griseldad twice.
If I could get anything in a vat, it'd be a couple hundred gallons of Bell's Two-Hearted Ale.
I hope it isn't Esper or any other 3 color combination, since that would all but rule it out for lots of cubes and cut down severely on playability in every format.
Whenever I read riptide lab posts, I'm baffled. Then I realized that most of what I've learned about cube I've learned from this place, and this place has a very laissez-faire attitude about cards. The folks at riptide are always talking about how blowing up lands isn't fun, how such and such a card is 'overpowered,' etc. It's the worst parts of EDH and Standard combined into one: players complaining about plays they don't like, and a bunch of 3-5 mana creatures slugging it out in a midrange fest. No thanks.
I don't run Deathrite Shaman. My Golgari section right now is Troll, Deed, and Creakwood Liege, though that's getting swapped for Abrupt Decay. DRS is cool but I don't have fetches in the cube yet, and it seems way worse without them.