Concerning hybrid vs gold I see them as opposites (when it's one hybrid mana cards like this anyway). And thus I don't think it's always healthy to cut multi to add hybrid cards. It's healthy for the cube to have some restrictive cards that's only good in certain decks. Not all cards need to be open and able to be used in all decks.
The perfect cards to compare are Nature's Chant and Qasali Pridemage. Both cards cost 2 mana, but one is very restrictive and the other is very easy to cast. If you were guaranteed to cast both cards at all times most people would agree that the pridemage is better (i hope). But because of the casting cost you would never play Pridemage in a Gruul deck, but you could play the Chant almost as easy as in a Selesnya deck.
Where I think it's healthy to have some multi cards is that Pridemage is better than Chant in a Selesnya deck, and thus fits better in the Selesnya section of my cube.
If I don't have room for a hybrid card in the multi section I see if it fits one of the colors better. For instance Dryad Militant is in my White section - I don't support green aggro, so it fits perfectly as a white card, with a random ability that says it can be played with G as well.
At the risk of starting a hot-button topic, I've started the process of removing Terese Nielsen arts from my cube, of which there were 9. Some don't really have multiple other options, but I figured I'd check for others' opinions on choices (even if they may not align with my preferences/what I've already purchased).
Ugh. A little late to the party here. I didn't know any of this until i read this post.
I will not remove already existing art in my cube. But even though I like Therese Nielsens art, I will definitely think about it in the future if I have options to add other art. I will just vote with my own wallet and support other artists instead. I won't own any play mat with her art. I won't own any prints, etc. It probably won't make a difference, but whatever little helps.
I hoped for some spicy Gruul stuff. Ravager Wurm is the only that comes close and that's not really a slam dunk. :/
For me Gutterbones is really the only super interesting card. Spawn of Mayhem is probably also good, but a bit boring. I try to spicy up my black with more recursion/graveyard stuff these days to make the color a bit funnier to draft.
At the multicolored section I’ll add alot. Primarily because I’ll have a multicolor theme in my cube as long as we stay on ravnica, as I have done the other two times we visited. That means 6 cards per guild, 5 lands and a mana stone. From my usual setup that means two more cards per guild, so I have plenty of room to try out various stuff and decide what to keep in 6-9 months time.
I know it's not entirely about your cube, but if you have time I would appreciate if you took a look at our cube differences. My main cube have a similar size to yours (it's 520 right now waiting for Ravnica block and my usual minimulticolor theme during that block). I have some similar themes though not green aggro. Further more I have chosen not to run Show and Tell and Eureka.
What I want you to do is to suggest the top 5 cards from your cube, that aren't in mine, that you would suggest me to add. Not counting Tezzeret, Artifice Master and Liliana, the Last Hope, that are on their way to me.
Nice, where can I read about that?
Buuhhh! This is the best set since Zendikar. I need your review.
Will you not create a top 20 this time around?
The perfect cards to compare are Nature's Chant and Qasali Pridemage. Both cards cost 2 mana, but one is very restrictive and the other is very easy to cast. If you were guaranteed to cast both cards at all times most people would agree that the pridemage is better (i hope). But because of the casting cost you would never play Pridemage in a Gruul deck, but you could play the Chant almost as easy as in a Selesnya deck.
Where I think it's healthy to have some multi cards is that Pridemage is better than Chant in a Selesnya deck, and thus fits better in the Selesnya section of my cube.
If I don't have room for a hybrid card in the multi section I see if it fits one of the colors better. For instance Dryad Militant is in my White section - I don't support green aggro, so it fits perfectly as a white card, with a random ability that says it can be played with G as well.
Ugh. A little late to the party here. I didn't know any of this until i read this post.
I will not remove already existing art in my cube. But even though I like Therese Nielsens art, I will definitely think about it in the future if I have options to add other art. I will just vote with my own wallet and support other artists instead. I won't own any play mat with her art. I won't own any prints, etc. It probably won't make a difference, but whatever little helps.
Usually it means from your drafted sideboard.
For me Gutterbones is really the only super interesting card. Spawn of Mayhem is probably also good, but a bit boring. I try to spicy up my black with more recursion/graveyard stuff these days to make the color a bit funnier to draft.
As one that remembers the discussion fondly, and was in the Absorb-love camp back then.
I’ll tey some more cards, but don’t think they’ll stay for long.
Doom Whisperer
The 2 Gobbos
Nullhide Ferox
At the multicolored section I’ll add alot. Primarily because I’ll have a multicolor theme in my cube as long as we stay on ravnica, as I have done the other two times we visited. That means 6 cards per guild, 5 lands and a mana stone. From my usual setup that means two more cards per guild, so I have plenty of room to try out various stuff and decide what to keep in 6-9 months time.
It's both fun, and worked very well in my skullclamp deck (I know skullclamp is good with many cards...).
Thanks.
I chose to remove Force Spike over Daze. And we didn't have great results with Aetherling - Blue is so hard to cut cards from...
I'll definately look in to trying out Dragonlord and Abrupt decay as these two sections in my cube are a bit lacking anyway.
What I want you to do is to suggest the top 5 cards from your cube, that aren't in mine, that you would suggest me to add. Not counting Tezzeret, Artifice Master and Liliana, the Last Hope, that are on their way to me.
http://www.cubetutor.com/comparecubes/37/170