One of my cube sideboards went awol recently. Sad that I lost the cards, but also enlightening because several of the cards in the board were very much often bench sitters.
One of them, of course, was Sphinx of the Steel Wind.
Now of course I know he's a fine tinker and reanimator target, but I've played my cube now pretty much once a week for the past year and a half and I can't recall Sphinx ever hitting the board other than those two ways.
I'm just thinking, are there any other sweet little esper cards out there that might be compelling enough?
Merieke Ri Berit comes to mind, but I was wondering if anyone had tried anything else out and what the results were.
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I run Sen Triplets, although it is nowhere near good enough on power level alone. Still, the effect is fun and unique enough that people do try it out.
Since the arrival of Myr Battleball and Wurmcoil Engine, Sphinx of the Steel Wind has seemed unnecessary as a Tinker/Reanimate target. Cutting the 5 shard cards made my cube much better.
I used to run Sharuum the Hegemon as an additional graveyard enabler. It was a good card when it worked, but the effect combined with being three colour made it too narrow.
My Myrball and Wurmcoil were both from Secret Santa. We so need to do that again.
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At least for my cube, I have two players who are pretty reliable 3 and 4 color drafters (base bant and U/R/x respectively) so it's not like my 3 color cards aren't good enough, I see nactl, war monk, Sidraxis specter, and broodmate dragon (dragon is hard cast, reanimated, and natural ordered up.)
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I'm not that big of a fan of War Monk, Specter and Dragon anymore. If I had one slot for each of those tri-color cards, I don't think I'd use those ones.
One of them, of course, was Sphinx of the Steel Wind.
Now of course I know he's a fine tinker and reanimator target, but I've played my cube now pretty much once a week for the past year and a half and I can't recall Sphinx ever hitting the board other than those two ways.
I'm just thinking, are there any other sweet little esper cards out there that might be compelling enough?
Merieke Ri Berit comes to mind, but I was wondering if anyone had tried anything else out and what the results were.
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I used to run Sharuum the Hegemon as an additional graveyard enabler. It was a good card when it worked, but the effect combined with being three colour made it too narrow.
My Myrball and Wurmcoil were both from Secret Santa. We so need to do that again.
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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." -Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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