Interesting.
It requires some build or setup to activate... it cost a colored mana to activate... and after that I feel the PW side is just kinda of OK but not stellar.
Was about to post it, thanks!
Being able to grab Palace Jailer / Elspeth / Parallax Wave HELLO! and friends is super strong. Pretty nice with blink shells too.
The Encore mechanic appears first as not that relevant as you probably only have one opponent... However I read it as: "Stall game? pay 8, deal 5, win 5, get back parallax wave and win"
Will try it for sure. I cut Sun Titan 2 years ago; not sure what to cut but I will make some cut!
Yeah at first I read as it was sacrificing itself and thought it was curious for a mythic card. Felt too close to a flametongue kavu.
I found it really interesting since we got plenty of cards creating tokens (Ragavan, thraben, staff of storyteller etc). Gonna test it for sure as my cube support artifact strategies too.
I'm glad to see some love for WGD. It's my pet card. I also play it a lot in Legacy.
Surveil land helps it a lot to go off in Legacy, and would of course helps a lot in Cube if you have space to includes surveil lands. I would not bother count as WGD as part of your red section, as it is only for combos and nobody should really wants to hardcast it... So you can consider WGD as a parasitic card, but at least not in the red area IMO.
Got my foil extended Leovold alter back today! Commissioned to Shivan Alter, I asked her a redo of a classical painting of Napoleon. As a frenchie it will probably be the signature card of my Vintage powered cube!
Well... After some time I put this card in my cube and it was a blast. Target any graveyard + initiative + escape is really good.
Not so many people talked about it but I think it's a really strong card that can stay for quite some time in my cube.
Letting opponent having the choice is not that great indeed. There's tons of scenarios where oppo would just let you have a 1/1 token if it means they can: reanimates, tinker, storm, cheat a fatty, cast craterhoof, slamming a minsc & boo etc etc.
I think the card is good, but Thalia at least disrupt tons of control & cantrip plays.
I think it's probably one of the strongest card revealed for cube in this set, yet.
Big fatty? Check. ETB big cascade? Check. Uncounterable spell that hits creature or PW? Check.
I'm all in for it. I guess this where I cut Inferno Titan.
I don't support Aristocrat in my cube but I feel it's a Carrion Feeder that doesn't come on turn 1 and need two colors to be cast.
On the upper side it can block, got a slighly better stat line and mostly it can sac artifact. I think being able to sac artifact tokens helps a bit, however there's better cards in the Orzhov section imo.
If your cube is not power and you support aristocrat I think it can be somewhat good?
It's a good man-land for sure. The art is great too!
But as you said Colonnade is better for tempo (which Azorius is most of the time) and being a win con / good blocker & finisher is what makes it interesting.
This one doesn't survive to bolt. It would have been awesome if it creates Map token when it animates to gain instant value.
It requires some build or setup to activate... it cost a colored mana to activate... and after that I feel the PW side is just kinda of OK but not stellar.
Not sure I will test it.
Being able to grab Palace Jailer / Elspeth / Parallax Wave HELLO! and friends is super strong. Pretty nice with blink shells too.
The Encore mechanic appears first as not that relevant as you probably only have one opponent... However I read it as: "Stall game? pay 8, deal 5, win 5, get back parallax wave and win"
Will try it for sure. I cut Sun Titan 2 years ago; not sure what to cut but I will make some cut!
I found it really interesting since we got plenty of cards creating tokens (Ragavan, thraben, staff of storyteller etc). Gonna test it for sure as my cube support artifact strategies too.
Surveil land helps it a lot to go off in Legacy, and would of course helps a lot in Cube if you have space to includes surveil lands. I would not bother count as WGD as part of your red section, as it is only for combos and nobody should really wants to hardcast it... So you can consider WGD as a parasitic card, but at least not in the red area IMO.
Not so many people talked about it but I think it's a really strong card that can stay for quite some time in my cube.
I think the card is good, but Thalia at least disrupt tons of control & cantrip plays.
Big fatty? Check. ETB big cascade? Check. Uncounterable spell that hits creature or PW? Check.
I'm all in for it. I guess this where I cut Inferno Titan.
I don't see 3CMC green creatures to cut for it, but I could see myself cutting a bigger creature or a non creature spell to test it out.
On the upper side it can block, got a slighly better stat line and mostly it can sac artifact. I think being able to sac artifact tokens helps a bit, however there's better cards in the Orzhov section imo.
If your cube is not power and you support aristocrat I think it can be somewhat good?
But as you said Colonnade is better for tempo (which Azorius is most of the time) and being a win con / good blocker & finisher is what makes it interesting.
This one doesn't survive to bolt. It would have been awesome if it creates Map token when it animates to gain instant value.
Amazing two drops that helps aggro, midrange and reanimator. Count me in! Time to cut a 2 drop red creature!