Definitely agree with the one hundred and twenty-third white wolf. It isn't necessary to dilute the cube to support blue tempo decks. The cards are all very sweet, cubeable cards that have uses outside of blue tempo.
But if you want to support blue tempo, you can only do it by including a critical density of these specific good cards, at the expense of other good cards.
We have no problem paring down the number of totally sweet 5+ drops in other colors to support non-control applications of those colors, so supporting blue tempo is mostly just a matter of applying that same thinking to your blue section. Blue tempo doesn't have enough redundancy to reliably start the show with a 1-drop every game, but it isn't that far off from the other colors despite that.
Good catch on Phantasmal Bear, Phantizle. Going to need to give him another look and see if blue wants the 1-drop badly enough. He's not totally synergistic with the rest of the color, but might be undercosted enough to get in there anyway.
One of the things I like the most about blue tempo is the way you can get out a cheap/utility flier and slap equipment on him. There actually aren't many flying creatures in most colors that can block them before you get into angel/dragon territory.
One of the things I like the most about blue tempo is the way you can get out a cheap/utility flier and slap equipment on him. There actually aren't many flying creatures in most colors that can block them before you get into angel/dragon territory.
Phantasmal Bear can't wear equipment.
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