MTG Salvation

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Drannith Magistrate
Rest in Peace
Stony Silence
Torpor Orb
Suppression field
Blind Obedence
Meekstone
Confounding Conundrum
Damping Sphere

You can have all the lands you like you just can't do anything meaningful with them, there is no fun allowed you will play fair.

I play Dragonlord Ojutai as my commander so I actually have a way to win but if you aren't interested in that GAAIV is a nastier commander.

The full set gallery is officially out we can take a full look.

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Barbed Batterfist out Keldon Mauraders out. Much more permanent.
Cacophony Scamp out Fireblade Charger same card bigger upside
Chimney Rabble out not sure.. maybe Burning Prophet I have too many spells cards. beetleback chief is not in modern
Cankerbloom out Outland Liberator
Atraxa's Skitterfang out Towashi Guide-Bot

Maybe
Swooping Lookout v Battlefield Raptor I think first strike is better but being an artifact creature is relevant for me. Very close maybe.
Hexgold Halberd
Bladehold War-Whip good card but I don't think I have enough equipment

The wording on Phyrexian Dragon Engine says "your graveyard" so if I give it to an opponent with The Beamtown Bullies (or an opponent reanimates it from my graveyard) it doesn't trigger? correct?

Atraxas Skitterfang one of the leaked cards seems quite good 2/2 for 3 is a little weak but it can just give keywords to any creature.

I do run battlefield raptor it gets nasty once you start pumping it, The advantage for Swooping Lookout is that it works with my artifact aggro cards.

I think that the Bladehold War-Whip is nuts 3 mana 2/2 doublestrike but not enough for me to want to change up my RW cards to be more equipment focused atm it's a bunch of random cards and not really what that colour combo is about.

Mostly a bit disappointing so far, cards seem too niche I don't want to add toxic to my cube.

The card you are all taking about doesn't appear to be officially spoiled yet so I haven't seen it.

I am thinking about Vazi, Keen Negotiator or the beamtown bullies atm.
The bullies can always pull out leveler on people.
Most Vazi decks I see are group slug trying to ping people to death but I feel like that isn't going to be that effective. I want to lay low before winding up the haymaker. I am considering just using X spells, the most meme-worthy being Release the Gremlins/ Pest Infestation since giving treasures to others gives me more targets and Torment of Hailfire

I like building different archetypes for each of my commander decks and overlapping as little as possible. How do group hug decks usually win?
I give everyone lots of resources and free cards, but then I have to work out how to stop people from combing out and then winning myself.

It's game day this weekend I didn't have a standard deck so I decided to make the cheapest deck I could, they felt like it wasn't just a downside of some other deck.



Some of the lands are expensive but everything else is common or uncommon. What is better Rob the archives or Reckless Impulse?

I don't know what to have for the rest of my sideboard because I have only been playing Bo1 arena. my LGS didn't have any fading hope and it will take a month to get anything online any ideas for what I can replace it with?

Thanks a ton.
Cuts it down to
Mire Triton or Harsh Scrutiny I'll have a think about it.

Gruesome Realization replaced two black cards in my cube read the bones and Drown in Sorrow so now I have an extra slot for controlling black cards.

I cut back on removal as it has become so much more indiscriminate.

I have a modern Peasant cube so I don't have access to a lot of the typical Black controlling cards like Hymn to torach, the cheap reanimation spells or Feast of succession. So if I poke my head into other people's cubes it's not been as helpful as I would have liked.

Thoughts.
Mire Triton
Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
Whispers of Emrakul
Wrench Mind
Any of the 1 mana discard.
Corpse Churn
Macabre Waltz
Or should I just put removal back in?
List

I have nightclubber already

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Recruitment Officer - Dauntless Bodyguard
Zephyr Sentinel - omenspeaker I had wizards in here for Adelize but she was replaced by Balmor
Gruesome Realization - Both Drown in Sorrow and Read the bones and I get another black card
Horned Stoneseeker - War-name Aspirant evasive 2/2 that ramps.
Obstinate Baloth - Acidic Slime other than hitting lands its really outclassed these days.
Levitating Statue - Mortarpod is kind of obsolete now, also I like flying artifacts and +1/+1 artifacts.

Maybe
Recommission
Thopter Mechanic
Gnawing Vermin
Scrapwork Mutt
Bushwhack
Tocasia's Dig Site

edit: I forgot Arbalest Engineers

1 card in each colour, this set is very specific in its design which makes it not a good fit for generic cubes. But still some useful cards. I prefer my artifact creatures have evasion, so even the value creatures just seem too small as 1/1s

Obstinate Baloth isn't actually very good I don't think, although I might just cut my worst green card since it does have a very high floor.

Gruesome Realization is the perfect card for my cube with its millions of tokens. drown in sorrow is just not good and the fact this doesn't hit your own stuff is insanely good.

Zephyr Sentinel seems great, the 1 toughness is an issue since I have a lot of spirit tokens but I also have a lot of soldiers in white, the most value being Traben inspector. The more flyiers the better.

Ah! I misread it. I wish there was a mono black Notion Rain, I want to dump 2 cards into the grave and draw two cards

Discerning Taste somehow I missed this card does anyone have an opinion on it. I have Read the bones and I am pretty sure this is just better.

→ Cult Conscript > Vampire Lacerator
→ Phoenix Chick > Grim initiate
→ Garna, Bloodfist of Keld > Bituminous Blast
→ Phyrexian Missionary > Sunscourge Champion
→ Twinferno > Temur battle rage
→ Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim > Corpse Knight
→ Impulse > Watcher for tomorrow
→ Knight of Dusk's Shadow > Grimdancer
→ Electrostatic Infantry > Burning-Fist Minotaur
→ Yavimaya Iconoclast > Masked Vandal
→ Balmor, Battlemage Captain > Adeliz, the cinder wind

Others I like
Automatic Librarian
Llanowar Stalker
Yavimaya Steelcrusher
Sprouting Goblin
Runic Shot
Resolute Reinforcements