As far as artifacts and lands to avoid, there's not much. I mean, as long as you guys have fun with the cards and the cube is an enjoyable experience, you're doing it right. I would caution against overdoing lands that enter the battlefield tapped though, if you want aggressive decks to be playable in more than one color.
Cheers, and happy cubing!
Well, if the card didn't perform, people wouldn't run it.
It hits hard for a 4-drop, and also helps to support a token/anthem deck if you support that package. Despite its vulnerabilities, if it isn't answered immediately, it pressures like few other 4cc cards can, and leaves something behind if it gets a couple of chances to crash in.
It's not a must-include card, but it's good at its job if you want that kind of effect.
This is my experience with it too. It's far better in a paper cube than an online cross-pod draft for exactly the reasons you mentioned.
It didn't? It's 6 years old and it's still pretty accurate, lol.
Since I made that list, we got Chandra, Torch of Defiance and Fiery Confluence (not to mention a slew of new 3-drops that outpace it for damage) and the need for Koth has lessened.
Thanks!
Angel is a beautiful card, and probably my favorite aesthetically ...but I just can't cube it, lol.
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1. Yes, red aggro is great. We win with mono red aggro and R/x aggro (boros, rakdos, and even gruul) all the time. It's one of the most played and most successful decks in the cube. All of those decks play the full suite of 2/1 creatures for 1 mana.
2. The 1-drop zombies are for black aggro and for black stax. I just went undefeated in a draft event last weekend with mono black that had both carnophage and diregraf ghoul in it. Here's a link to the deck: https://twitter.com/wtwlf123/status/1477034449447514113 . Unlike Knight, these aggro creatures can bash for 2 on their own in the early game without any additional stipulations/mana investments, and they enable gravecrawler.
I'm glad you're enjoying the cube!