MTG Salvation

I cut him for a while but am thinking about bringing him back now that we got the new nightpack ambusher, and if you are into it wicked wolf

cool cards. giant is good. might test over green warden for a bit

so far for me:

Golden Goose: playing better than expected but I thought it was complete trash to begin with. I think its middle of the road at best. would look at it in larger cubes.

Stonecoil Serpent: Has been pretty good. Nice to always have a trampling threat and it always catches people off guard with its reach.

Oko: Very hard to deal with if ramped into and pongifying threats as a +1 is pretty sweet. The trading also comes up fairly often for a smaller utility guy. solid role playing for simic.

Garruk: Not as good as I initially thought but just straight up makes the opponent scoop against some decks. which is too high variance for me personally

Blacklance Paragon: Worse than anticipated and I was never that high on it before.

Wicked Wolf: Has been about as good as expected. Nice to have this effect in green and could be worth a slot.

Questing Beast: As good as anticipated. haste, vigilance, and deathtouch is great.

Once upon a time: Been solid in testing. its floor as 2 mana instant hasnt even felt that bad.

All good! I know some of my lists were a bit wacky! Had a lot of discussions on discord with steveman and others about how my lists were shaking out lol.

I think the biggest issue was we just didnt get the participation on the same consistent level this year. seems like overall MTGS has slowed down a lot.

Its unfortunate that some people were turned off participating potentially in part because of my voting system. That wasn't the intention.

It was great fun and it was interesting for me to personally look at my cube from these measurements. Next time we do it maybe i will go a more traditional route. Lol I am just about to cut my number 1 black card vraska's contempt for murderous rider anyways so we dont have to worry about contempt messing up the rankings anymore at least! haha

Thanks again for all the work. I wonder if there is a way to branch out and get more results compiles from somewhere like discord or something.

I think this year with the criteria there was a real rift between "Power Rankings" and "Performance Rankings". Maindeckability is more of a cube performance rating. I think a lot of people cut cards based off of how often they see something in the sideboard. Something can be super powerful but if it isnt being maindecked as much it isnt performing its job well in a cube environment.

I'm not sure if I am the one with consistently different lists, but I think my lists were often much different because they were curated strictly from the data on my cube without personal opinion. With winning % and main deck % weighted equally i ranked my list and thats what I put up for my rankings. Theres definitely times where I was like dang how is this card ranked above this? But thats what the data said.

FWIW I like the criteria the way it was set up, but I dont think people had the ability to follow it very well because most people just dont track any stats for their cubes. so at best they only have a general feel of one of the major criteria for the rankings which is how many times something is sideboarded vs maindecked.

I think my lists, while different, provided an interesting contrast of personal opinion vs how cards have actually performed in my cube.

It's all for fun anyways. Part of the reason I felt comfortable posting lists that were a little bit different is because of the fact I knew the majority people would have the standard list and in the end my ranking would mean very little to the outcome.

I apologize BlackWaltz if my rating system skewed the results in a direction away from the intended results. I love these kinds of things, I just thought i would take a bit of a different approach this year since I actually have a data set for maindeckability and importance to winning from my cube.

im cutting grand coliseum for fabled passage

just a little bit of a bump for one of my pet cards Briarhorn has some of the best blowout stories from all my cube experiences.

Great flexible cost with evoke for getting through the last few damage on attack, or just taking down a unsuspecting Titan as a defensive play.

Great for death triggers for cards like meren of clan nel toth if you are into that kind of thing.

one of the best ways to get a combat trick into cube which is always difficult.

not sure if its been done already but i'm looking at embereth shieldbreaker vs goblin cratermaker

I like that cratermaker can take down eldrazi, but i also like that sieldbreaker is only 1 mana to get rid of an artifact and the removal isnt telegraphed like with cratermaker.

If you sink three mana into shieldbreaker you are left with a 2/1 body behind. if you sink the full three mana into cratermaker you are left with nothing.

I feel like i only have room for one of these effects at 360 and a little bit torn.

Im going to test over glint sleeve siphoner for a bit and see how it does.

Good card. I would never cut city of brass but i am eyeing grand coliseum

Direfleet hasnt done much for me. I think I only want one of these effects so i figure i'll test this one and can always go back if it doesnt pan out.

On the play you should be able to get 2 cards exiled fairly consistently. I like that you can split the mana costs over multiple turns with this even if it means attacking into a blocker. bitterblossom will make me some nice rogues to get the card late game haha

I run one colour alligned utility land per colour and Im thinking about testing over stronghold. Stronghold hasnt been doing much in my cube lately. Its currently the lowest ranked utility land in my cube with only a 44% main deck and 48% win percentage. I think this one is at least worth a test. plus it gets me closer to fully foiled modern frame so thats an added bonus!

I think this might be the best Red aligned utility land ahead of Hanweir Battlements which is what I will test this over.

I will miss melding battlements with garrison but I think this does more for red overall.