This is absolutely brilliant. I don't know if I'll cut Looter il-Kor - I'm sure there's a better cut elsewhere. Both of these will make it in a lot of decks.
Scaleable Goblin Dark-Dwellers. A 2/2 with haste is a damn good floor, and is generally more aggressive than Dire Fleet Daredevil, not to mention it doesn't rely on your opponent's graveyard. I'll probably replace DFD with this.
Yep, and GDD is a very decent card. I ran it for quite a while. Cube has a bunch of very broken targets. It worked as a part-time mid curve creature for spells matter too - perhaps Adversary could do the same as well as being an aggro guy.
Definitely an easy-to-include 1 drop. Being able to cash itself in is an interesting late-game bonus without other Vamps around, and it's another Warrior for Najeela. Feels much less insular than Falkenrath Gorger did, ironically though it makes him better.
It's a cool Persist enabler, perhaps as a replacement for Rhythm of the Wild or Grumgully, the Generous in that slot. That might be enough mileage to see some cube play.
I'm only really confident about Portable Hole sticking around long term. But Wight has been really nice so far. It's easy to replace itself and then that's a huge amount of power for 2 mana. It can get chumped by bigger creatures but that's the case for most 2 drops. Even then there are removal/burn tricks to get a free 2/2 after the fact. Zombie typing is nice. It's no Dauthi Voidwalker, but not much is...
Ebondeath is interesting as an unusually fast clock on a 4 drop that is somewhat resilient, but expect may fall short eventually.
Nalaar is probably the best feature of the dungeon mechanic and I'll be testing him out too. As you say there are a lot of lines of play. I hope to see the mechanic revisited with new dungeons and cards in the future.
I am not super excited about any of the Manlands, of course they are going to be decent at worst!
Here's an example RB delirium deck I drafted that I think would perform very well in cube.
Note that I am able to play Lurrus as a companion in the SB, which is very powerful.
The curve is extremely low and disruptive, similar to current modern Rakdos decks.
Hence, why I consider this a potentially very viable archetype.
Nice deck, love a low curve rakdos or mardu aggro deck. But would have thought you could cut 1 or 2 lands, no?
Yeah the Black Lotus and Mishra's Bauble in the 0 slot with the lands may be confusing - I moved those.
it's actually 15 lands plus a Chrome Mox and 2 of those lands are Strip Mine and Shatterskull Smashing which can be used for non land purposes. So I think it's pretty reasonable. Having Lurrus of the Dream-Den as a companion also provides you flood insurance as it gives you a late game card advantage engine to fall back on, also you do want to be able to get to 4 lands to kick Tourach, Dread Cantor and escape Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger.
Here's an example RB delirium deck I drafted that I think would perform very well in cube.
Note that I am able to play Lurrus as a companion in the SB, which is very powerful.
The curve is extremely low and disruptive, similar to current modern Rakdos decks.
Hence, why I consider this a potentially very viable archetype.
I like Nadaar quite a bit with the various lines of play available, and his absolute floor of a 3/3 vigilance that does something minor on ETB on something else on every swing is pretty acceptable. I think the venture mechanic will play well but need some testing. He's a nice blink target too - I may replace the recently added Elite Spellbinder.
Out of the four, I think I like Steel and Sinew the most. Removal is always good, especially when you don't waste swings on opposing PWs. Body and Mind is also very good obviously. I like Feast and Famine the least for sure. The discard is nice but most decks running the Sword and connecting with it weren't positioned to take a lot of advantage from the untap.
Actually I went down to two swords myself recently (S&S and F&I, which I think is the best one by a fair bit), I assumed everyone else was still running 4 or 5 but there is usually a glut of 3 drops in the decks running swords and they can clog up the board a bit. I feel a bit equipment light now and might end up cutting Stoneforge Mystic.
Probably Bone Shards even without reanimate support ( ) or aristocrats.
I guess Dancing Sword seems OK, kinda?
I prefer Kefnet, then Iymrith, but maybe you need a 4/5 drop in particular. I didn't run Meloku for years, it was getting too slow, but it still has its fans.
Duskwatch Recruiter was a recent cut and I liked it quite a bit, I think I may prefer it to Ranger Class but the latter was only just revealed so nobody tested it yet.
W: Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Intrepid Adversary, Fateful Absence
U: Suspicious Stowaway
B: nada
R: Falkenrath Pit Fighter, Cathartic Pyre
G: Tovolar's Huntmaster
Have an eye on Moonveil Regent and Cathar Commando too.
I'm working on a Curse deck with Ghen, Arcanum Weaver, where this would have been great...
Yep, and GDD is a very decent card. I ran it for quite a while. Cube has a bunch of very broken targets. It worked as a part-time mid curve creature for spells matter too - perhaps Adversary could do the same as well as being an aggro guy.
I'm only really confident about Portable Hole sticking around long term. But Wight has been really nice so far. It's easy to replace itself and then that's a huge amount of power for 2 mana. It can get chumped by bigger creatures but that's the case for most 2 drops. Even then there are removal/burn tricks to get a free 2/2 after the fact. Zombie typing is nice. It's no Dauthi Voidwalker, but not much is...
Ebondeath is interesting as an unusually fast clock on a 4 drop that is somewhat resilient, but expect may fall short eventually.
Nalaar is probably the best feature of the dungeon mechanic and I'll be testing him out too. As you say there are a lot of lines of play. I hope to see the mechanic revisited with new dungeons and cards in the future.
I am not super excited about any of the Manlands, of course they are going to be decent at worst!
Missed the Lotus/Bauble, yeah this seems reasonable actually, though being greedy I may have gone for 14 lands...
I am going to give DRC a shot over Akoum Hellhound and see how he does.
Nice deck, love a low curve rakdos or mardu aggro deck. But would have thought you could cut 1 or 2 lands, no?
Also will give some of the fast manlands a run out.
Actually I went down to two swords myself recently (S&S and F&I, which I think is the best one by a fair bit), I assumed everyone else was still running 4 or 5 but there is usually a glut of 3 drops in the decks running swords and they can clog up the board a bit. I feel a bit equipment light now and might end up cutting Stoneforge Mystic.
Nice pull though!
I guess Dancing Sword seems OK, kinda?
I prefer Kefnet, then Iymrith, but maybe you need a 4/5 drop in particular. I didn't run Meloku for years, it was getting too slow, but it still has its fans.
Duskwatch Recruiter was a recent cut and I liked it quite a bit, I think I may prefer it to Ranger Class but the latter was only just revealed so nobody tested it yet.