power play is a cool card and a good effect. I think the reason why I don't care to much for conspiracy cards is the fact they are always on. it's almost like breaking singleton in cube except you don't have to run 4 of a card, you just run 1 of them and you always draw it.
Power Play just seems unfun to me. Passing who goes first is just part of the game; not doing it isn't fun or interesting. There are much more interesting conspiricies.
Questions:
-Probably been asked before, but: do you run conspiracies? Do you run this one?
Yes, and no.
-Are you a fan of hockey?
Not really, but its not too bad to watch. I occasionally work at ice hockey games at out local stadium, GO BELFAST GIANTS!
-How do you determine who goes first? If it's a dice roll, how many/which dice do you throw?
Roll dice or flip a coin. Dealers choice, I usually roll 1d6 but my friend goes 3d6 or d20. I used to keep a big coin with my cube but coins have replaced it.
I would probably play this if I played conspiracies. It's not the most interesting, but it's super powerful.
I grew up in Michigan in the 90s during the Yzerman and Russian Five era. That was fun. I graduated high school with Justin Abdelkader, who now plays for the Wings, so that's cool. He was a decent dude, too. But my hockey fandom is basically nonexistent these days. I think if I followed a sport other than baseball, it'd be hockey, but I've got limited free time and books are still a thing.
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I am a huge hockey fan although I cant play at all. I have been a Vancouver Canucks fan since the Pavel Bure days. Played volleyball with Lanny MacDonald's son which was pretty cool.
I thought about having a separate hybrid section, but it's not evenly distributed, and would have forced some bad cards onto the list. Instead I just put them on their guild's list.
Militant's great. The disruption doesn't make a difference the vast majority of the time, but when it does, it draws a groan.
It's a fine card, but a 2-power one-drop doesn't thrill me like it does the rest of the cube community. Sure, it goes in aggro, but loads of cards do. Aggro has been a playable deck in basically every format ever, after all. Dryad Militant is better than most of pile of 2/1s by virtue of being hybrid mana. Still, I never opened a copy, and I never bothered to hunt one down, nor do I feel the loss for it.
Terese Nielsen has what very few MTG artists have anymore: a recognizable style. I'm really glad the community has embraced her art. Hers is generally the better version of a given card, and all the better when it's the pack art.
I like this card quite a bit.
I run 4 hybrid cards and on cube tutor I keep them in there respective guild, but for accounting purposes i think of them as 1/2 a card in each of there respective colors but because I run 4 of them = 1 card for there color". I don't mind that it offsets things a little bit.
I wish they would do hybrid mana again though, It has been a while since we have seen it.
Dryad Militant is one of the best one drop aggro dorks available. Being hybrid puts it in so many decks.
I don't have a dedicated hybrid section. I put them in their respective guilds. Even the one drop hybrid cards are at their best when both of their colors are represented. I do agree with allred123, though, that it'd be nice we'd see hybrid again sometime soon. It has been a while.
Never tested Gelectrode, but I do like Prodigal Sorcerer variants. I may run Razorfin Hunter before this, but I may be underestimating the untap trigger. Does Keranos count? If not Keranos, my favorite may be Razorfin Hunter just for being a Merfolk Goblin.
Gelectrode is pretty popular here in the low power list, but he doesn't make the cut in the powered cube. Dack's Duplicate might be the best Izzet creature, but I don't think Gelectrode is too far behind.
Geoelectrode is a cool card, but for cube it needs haste. 3 mana for a creature that does nothing for a turn is bad. With haste you could at least get a pink in to shoot down an annoying creature etc.
I thnk it was the best creature in my cube when I was running a peasant list. I was at the Saturation point of X/1s, where Plague spitter and Ancient Hydra were bombs, Flame JabDarkblast, Zealous Persecution and Golgari Charm were early picks, and Gelectrode represented a hard-lock. I think we have significantly more good 2+ toughness creatures now.
At a powered or even "Legacy" cube, I don't think it does anything.
I don't know why I'm not running Dryad Militant over Soldier of the Pantheon. Human tribal is relevant in my cube, but I've been convinced to make that shift to support the Nacatl/Warden/Pridemate deck.
Murderous Cut is very good. Delve is a powerful mechanic that rewards deck building choices. I'm a pretty big fan and think it's plain great in cube. Murderous Cut is often terminate for 1B and can sometimes be cast late for B. Even at 2B, it's good value being instant and very splashable. Not being able to cast it early is a drawback, but it's a nice design for more midrange focused lists FWIW. I'm not running it in my combo list at present but it's a card that I've considered putting in there and might after I so some more testing. Art on it is pretty sweet too (IMO anyway - I know art is very subjective).
As I've maintained mostly retro oriented lists, I've not had to cut nearly as many sacred cows as others have. If I ever did make a fully modernized cube, the hardest cut for me would probably be Genesis. I love that card to pieces and it's too slow for higher powered lists now.
I'm a fan of Murderous Cut, though I often wind up cutting it as one of my final cards out if the deck is pretty good. Can't see dropping it from the cube anytime soon though.
I really agonized over dropping Phyrexian Obliterator and Necropotence from the cube, as they've both won me many a game off an early Dark Ritual or Black Lotus. It just became harder and harder to justify supporting a monoblack deck, and if you didn't grab these cards right away, you probably couldn't switch into them later.
Cut is fine, but so many decks are looking to use graveyards as a resource that the delve can often be a liability. And, there are better Delve cards that can compete with Cut for deck slots, and those other ones are better.
Contagion was/is such a hard cut. I imagine it'll be making a reappearance at some point.
I don't care for the card myself. I like delve as a mechanic though tasigur, the golden fang being one of my favorite (albeit not in cube).
As far as removal goes for cube though I would rather run the new walk the plank. Not that I think I will be running that either.
for a card to be a single creature removal in cube has to have really high standards since cards like toxic deluge exist at 3 and straight board wipes exist at 4 mana, and white has path and swords at 1 mana.
I guess the problem with cube is it set's a high standard for what can fit.
I agree with malicious affliction as well, just using walk the plank as an example of where i would rank things. For me black might be the overall tughtest color to try and break into though.
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Questions:
-Probably been asked before, but: do you run conspiracies? Do you run this one?
Yes, and no.
-Are you a fan of hockey?
Not really, but its not too bad to watch. I occasionally work at ice hockey games at out local stadium, GO BELFAST GIANTS!
-How do you determine who goes first? If it's a dice roll, how many/which dice do you throw?
Roll dice or flip a coin. Dealers choice, I usually roll 1d6 but my friend goes 3d6 or d20. I used to keep a big coin with my cube but coins have replaced it.
I grew up in Michigan in the 90s during the Yzerman and Russian Five era. That was fun. I graduated high school with Justin Abdelkader, who now plays for the Wings, so that's cool. He was a decent dude, too. But my hockey fandom is basically nonexistent these days. I think if I followed a sport other than baseball, it'd be hockey, but I've got limited free time and books are still a thing.
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I am a huge hockey fan although I cant play at all. I have been a Vancouver Canucks fan since the Pavel Bure days. Played volleyball with Lanny MacDonald's son which was pretty cool.
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I don't have a dedicated hybrid section. And I much prefer the Terese Nielsen art.
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Militant's great. The disruption doesn't make a difference the vast majority of the time, but when it does, it draws a groan.
Terese Nielsen has what very few MTG artists have anymore: a recognizable style. I'm really glad the community has embraced her art. Hers is generally the better version of a given card, and all the better when it's the pack art.
It never would have occurred to me to have and actual hybrid section, but I do have at least one split card in each color: tops are Godhead of Awe, Ghastlord of Fugue (kinda mediocre), Rakdos Cackler (similar to Dryad Militant), Manamorphose, Kitchen Finks, Deathbringer Liege, Sapling of Colfenor, Spitting Image, Dominus of Fealty, and Spitemare (I never needed Boros Reckoner).
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I run 4 hybrid cards and on cube tutor I keep them in there respective guild, but for accounting purposes i think of them as 1/2 a card in each of there respective colors but because I run 4 of them = 1 card for there color". I don't mind that it offsets things a little bit.
I wish they would do hybrid mana again though, It has been a while since we have seen it.
http://www.cubetutor.com/cubeblog/63569
I don't have a dedicated hybrid section. I put them in their respective guilds. Even the one drop hybrid cards are at their best when both of their colors are represented. I do agree with allred123, though, that it'd be nice we'd see hybrid again sometime soon. It has been a while.
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If it's not Gelectrode, my favorite UR creature would have to be Etherium-Horn Sorcerer. But it's probably Gelectrode.
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At a powered or even "Legacy" cube, I don't think it does anything.
I don't know why I'm not running Dryad Militant over Soldier of the Pantheon. Human tribal is relevant in my cube, but I've been convinced to make that shift to support the Nacatl/Warden/Pridemate deck.
Bonus Question: What's a card that was very painful to cut from your cube?
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As I've maintained mostly retro oriented lists, I've not had to cut nearly as many sacred cows as others have. If I ever did make a fully modernized cube, the hardest cut for me would probably be Genesis. I love that card to pieces and it's too slow for higher powered lists now.
http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/modular-cube-5-colors.800/
Retro combo cube thread
http://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/retro-combo-cube.1454/
I really agonized over dropping Phyrexian Obliterator and Necropotence from the cube, as they've both won me many a game off an early Dark Ritual or Black Lotus. It just became harder and harder to justify supporting a monoblack deck, and if you didn't grab these cards right away, you probably couldn't switch into them later.
Contagion was/is such a hard cut. I imagine it'll be making a reappearance at some point.
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As far as removal goes for cube though I would rather run the new walk the plank. Not that I think I will be running that either.
for a card to be a single creature removal in cube has to have really high standards since cards like toxic deluge exist at 3 and straight board wipes exist at 4 mana, and white has path and swords at 1 mana.
I guess the problem with cube is it set's a high standard for what can fit.
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