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ER is a masterful god who cannot be beaten in any endeavour.
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I just try to pick the best card left undrafted each pick. It just so happens that they are usually blue cards....
And there's a sharp dropoff in card quality here, so the early picks in this draft are *much* more important than in a powered cube.
Well I think Upheaval.dec is strong in this meta, there are a lot of manafacts, that will go latish picks and you dont really even need the on colour ones either. And there is a few very strong blue control cards, Gifts Given is as crazy as Un-cards get, even in an un-powered environ.
Strange but not a single red card has been picked so far, does red look like that poor of a colour choice in this meta for everyone else?
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Heh I was considering picking a cheap red card to scare people off - But I dunno how viable I think aggro is. I can only find 4 1-drops combined in red & black that I'd want to run, & there's no Black Vice / Grafted Wargear / Tangle Wire to provide the unfair starts you need to succeed.
Suiblack was my initial plan before I took a closer look at the list though, I'll give you that much info!
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carnophage, sarcomancy, jackal pup, grim lavamancer was the 4 I had in mind.
Didn't count spells but some of those are obvious inclusions if I want to go an aggro route yes.
dark ritual is a 1-drop for most intents and purposes. it powers out negator, hippie, etc. on T1.
and laccolith whelp is a hell of a lot better than it looks. Its "super first strike" screws with combat math a lot (not to mention shooting a guy not even in combat). especially in a format like this with a much higher number of 1-toughness guys than most.
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ExpiredRascals you sir are a god-like hero.
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dark ritual is a 1-drop for most intents and purposes. it powers out negator, hippie, etc. on T1.
and laccolith whelp is a hell of a lot better than it looks. Its "super first strike" screws with combat math a lot (not to mention shooting a guy not even in combat). especially in a format like this with a much higher number of 1-toughness guys than most.
Karplusan Wolverine is just so much better though. And most people don't even consider that, wrongly or rightly.
Asking out a girl is like trying to cast a first turn Necropotence. Sometimes the other player will have the Force of Will to say no. You shouldn't let that stop you from trying it.
Just got to say, you've definitely earned distinction as an MTGS hero
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ExpiredRascals you sir are a god-like hero.
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I don't see how Contract From Below was picked second. The card provides three times more card advantage than Ancestral Recall. The ante thing will never matter because you can't lose after casting it.
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Oh no Im not, Expired Rascals!! Witness is a solid chioce, nothing personal. (I was tempted to go into blue, but as the forth blue drafter, Idk about the viability).
Also yeah Ill chime in and say that Lasserini has The deck to beat. (So if I am going to cut cards from anyones deck, Ill say this now, it will be to reduce Lasserini's draft pool.)
The Squee pick should let me late pick some solid cards that dont get picked by other drafters, that I will be happy playing in my final forty.
And not picking anything red, because their is not any competition yet. But yeah am going into one of your colours Expired Rascal. Sorry but we should have colluded or something, to be in seperate colours maybre?
Oh no Im not, Expired Rascals!! Witness is a solid chioce, nothing personal. (I was tempted to go into blue, but as the forth blue drafter, Idk about the viability).
Also yeah Ill chime in and say that Lasserini has The deck to beat. (So if I am going to cut cards from anyones deck, Ill say this now, it will be to reduce Lasserini's draft pool.)
The Squee pick should let me late pick some solid cards that dont get picked by other drafters, that I will be happy playing in my final forty.
And not picking anything red, because their is not any competition yet. But yeah am going into one of your colours Expired Rascal. Sorry but we should have colluded or something, to be in seperate colours maybre?
haha, don't sweat it. I'm just giving you a hard time for snagging each core piece of my archetype before I get another pick.
Just got to say, you've definitely earned distinction as an MTGS hero
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Because he's the hero MTGS deserves, and the one it needs right now. So we'll global him. Because he can take it. Because he's not just our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. An expired rascal.
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ExpiredRascals you sir are a god-like hero.
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ER is a masterful god who cannot be beaten in any endeavour.
Just got to say, you've definitely earned distinction as an MTGS hero
Quote from Stardust »
Because he's the hero MTGS deserves, and the one it needs right now. So we'll global him. Because he can take it. Because he's not just our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. An expired rascal.
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ExpiredRascals you sir are a god-like hero.
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ER is a masterful god who cannot be beaten in any endeavour.
Oh cheers ExpiredRascals, thanks for the link. I wasnt playing MtG circa '01, I had stopped playing by then, and only started playing again during Ravnica, so Im not familiar with a lot of the deck archetypes.
Thinking about it, it makes sense, it is another way to rort in a high CC creature via re-animation.
Can I ask in your Cube is their any cards that counter Contract from Below play? Other than blues counter-spells?
I don't see how Contract From Below was picked second. The card provides three times more card advantage than Ancestral Recall. The ante thing will never matter because you can't lose after casting it.
I'm curious - how is the ante rule applied during a cube draft? Do you just mill/exile the card that would be anted?
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eh, i'm still pretty happy with my first two
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Upheaval two drafts in a row magicmerl? I am not surprised.
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And there's a sharp dropoff in card quality here, so the early picks in this draft are *much* more important than in a powered cube.
we demand our bloodsport!
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I would be more than happy to engage in a steel cage match with Phantizle for the blue cards.
Well I think Upheaval.dec is strong in this meta, there are a lot of manafacts, that will go latish picks and you dont really even need the on colour ones either. And there is a few very strong blue control cards, Gifts Given is as crazy as Un-cards get, even in an un-powered environ.
Strange but not a single red card has been picked so far, does red look like that poor of a colour choice in this meta for everyone else?
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uncontested you have a pretty strong shot.
1CMC: lightning bolt, chain lightning, lava spike, duress, dark ritual, carnophage, sarcomancy, jackal pup, mogg fanatic, grim lavamancer, cursed scroll, booster tutor, ghastly demise
that's just a really quick survey.
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dark ritual is a 1-drop for most intents and purposes. it powers out negator, hippie, etc. on T1.
and laccolith whelp is a hell of a lot better than it looks. Its "super first strike" screws with combat math a lot (not to mention shooting a guy not even in combat). especially in a format like this with a much higher number of 1-toughness guys than most.
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Karplusan Wolverine is just so much better though. And most people don't even consider that, wrongly or rightly.
Draft it on Cubetutor!
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Oh no Im not, Expired Rascals!! Witness is a solid chioce, nothing personal. (I was tempted to go into blue, but as the forth blue drafter, Idk about the viability).
Also yeah Ill chime in and say that Lasserini has The deck to beat. (So if I am going to cut cards from anyones deck, Ill say this now, it will be to reduce Lasserini's draft pool.)
The Squee pick should let me late pick some solid cards that dont get picked by other drafters, that I will be happy playing in my final forty.
And not picking anything red, because their is not any competition yet. But yeah am going into one of your colours Expired Rascal. Sorry but we should have colluded or something, to be in seperate colours maybre?
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haha, don't sweat it. I'm just giving you a hard time for snagging each core piece of my archetype before I get another pick.
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Is Survival of the Fittest; Recurring Nightmare; a single archetype, or two archetypes with strong synergy?
Oh and fwiw, I dont think Ill be going into green/ black.
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RecSur is a pretty strong archetype from Standard/Block/Extended past.
EDIT: here's an old T1.5 list from pre-mirrodin
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/2290_RecSur_In_Type_15_Quarterfinals.html
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Oh cheers ExpiredRascals, thanks for the link. I wasnt playing MtG circa '01, I had stopped playing by then, and only started playing again during Ravnica, so Im not familiar with a lot of the deck archetypes.
Thinking about it, it makes sense, it is another way to rort in a high CC creature via re-animation.
Can I ask in your Cube is their any cards that counter Contract from Below play? Other than blues counter-spells?
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I'm curious - how is the ante rule applied during a cube draft? Do you just mill/exile the card that would be anted?
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