1st - City of Brass or Etched Oracle (I'd take Etched Oracle in my own cube, because I stuffed it with fixings up the wazoo, so Sunbursting for 4 isn't hard to do at all). In a weak pack, always go for the mana fixing.
2nd - Stomphowler. A bit early for him, but in this pack, I wouldn't mind a second pick Stomphowler. The thing with things like Stomphowler and Viridian Shaman, etc, are that they will always have a target. And occasionally, they can shut down that annoying Recurring Nightmare/Ghostly Prison/Parallax Wave.
Last - Dryad Sophisticate or Necro.
I've tried on numerous occasions to draft around Necropotence and Yawgmoth's Bargain. But without cards like Corrupt, Consume Spirit and Drain Life, you can't really utilize Necro well. Something like Skeletal Scrying is actually better in a cube, considering not all Drain Life variant will make it in. The heavy black requirement is another restriction that's not that easy to fill. It is really hard to play Necro outside of a near mono black deck, and you will almost never get enough cards synergisticly sound to make a mono black deck. We've had Necros tabling in many games, and it often ends up as the last pick.
Though I could see that in a cube that promotes monocoloured strategies, Necro could be a first pick.
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I agree this cube seems pretty casual but it is still a cube after all. As for the 3 picks order I would go with birds of paradise, city of brass and hymn to Tourach.
1st pick: Welder. Weld out a signet for Platinum Angel? Talisman for Razormane Masticore? Heck, you can even weld out your opponent's Darksteel Colossus for a Wayfarer's Bauble. The potential is very high with welder, and it gets better the earlier you can get ahold of one.
2nd pick: Orzhov Basilica or Steam Vents. Steam Vents has R in it, a great splash colour with all the X spells. Basilica is a bounce land, and with enough, you can play like 15 lands and get away with it no problem. The rest of the pack just isn't strong enough for me to commit to any specific colour combination.
Last pick: Granite Shard. This card is way too weak to even make it into a cube.
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Recurring damage source is great, if it did a bit more than 1 and for a bit less than a card. This is the reason that Prodigal Sorcerer variants don't make it into cubes.
Ghost-lit Raider is a great recurring damage source, because he always did 2 damage. Cursed Scroll is a good recurring damage source, because it also did more than 1. Grim Lavamancer is great, he also deals 2 damage. Those are what your recurring damage sources should look like. Granite Shard costs R or 3 to activate, and it does what, 1 damage? Way too weak for a cube.
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2nd - Stomphowler. A bit early for him, but in this pack, I wouldn't mind a second pick Stomphowler. The thing with things like Stomphowler and Viridian Shaman, etc, are that they will always have a target. And occasionally, they can shut down that annoying Recurring Nightmare/Ghostly Prison/Parallax Wave.
Last - Dryad Sophisticate or Necro.
I've tried on numerous occasions to draft around Necropotence and Yawgmoth's Bargain. But without cards like Corrupt, Consume Spirit and Drain Life, you can't really utilize Necro well. Something like Skeletal Scrying is actually better in a cube, considering not all Drain Life variant will make it in. The heavy black requirement is another restriction that's not that easy to fill. It is really hard to play Necro outside of a near mono black deck, and you will almost never get enough cards synergisticly sound to make a mono black deck. We've had Necros tabling in many games, and it often ends up as the last pick.
Though I could see that in a cube that promotes monocoloured strategies, Necro could be a first pick.
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What would you pick first? Second? What's going to get picked last? Thanks.
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2nd pick: Orzhov Basilica or Steam Vents. Steam Vents has R in it, a great splash colour with all the X spells. Basilica is a bounce land, and with enough, you can play like 15 lands and get away with it no problem. The rest of the pack just isn't strong enough for me to commit to any specific colour combination.
Last pick: Granite Shard. This card is way too weak to even make it into a cube.
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Really? I thought recurring damage would be great in the Cube. Can you explain? Thanks.
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Ghost-lit Raider is a great recurring damage source, because he always did 2 damage. Cursed Scroll is a good recurring damage source, because it also did more than 1. Grim Lavamancer is great, he also deals 2 damage. Those are what your recurring damage sources should look like. Granite Shard costs R or 3 to activate, and it does what, 1 damage? Way too weak for a cube.
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second : Welder, see Apex ;-)
last : Zuran Orb
The orb just isn't good enough imo.
Granite Shard can only kill 1/1's. Most of the time you'll be pinging the opponent for one, but there are better cards to be doing that.
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