Amadeus8574 - I'm a fan of this idea. My ultimate goal is to fold my EDH collection into my peasant cube and make an unpowered traditional cube. I've already added pain lands for fixing, and am considering adding a mix of buddy lands and scars lands as well. Ideally I'd like to have 2 lands for each guild... the Zendikar Refuges kind of suck. I also run Savanah Lions at Uncommon. The only other rare I have included is Call of the Herd because green lacks aggresive 3 drops.
My only beef with peasant is that occasionally games get to a spot where boards gets uber cluttered and drag on into eternity. If I were to add more rares the inclusions would not only be to fill natural holes that develop in the peasant environment, but also to break up cluttered board states. I haven't put too much thought into this but off the top of my head I would probably include:
Colorless: Cool cards like Mindless Automaton that aren't Wurmcoil haha.
I have a fetish for "build around me" cards so I would probably look to add a few of those as well. Ultimately I think it would be cool and lead to some crazier games. You have opened a can of worms that I would love to dig into deeper. Amadeus8574, feel free to PM me if you want to discuss this further, or we can keep this discussion going on the boards.
My only beef with peasant is that occasionally games get to a spot where boards gets uber cluttered and drag on into eternity. If I were to add more rares the inclusions would not only be to fill natural holes that develop in the peasant environment, but also to break up cluttered board states. I haven't put too much thought into this but off the top of my head I would probably include:
White: Day of Judgement (or more expensive sweeper)
Blue: Cryptic Command, a decent 4 drop finisher a la Dungeon Geists.
Black: Life's Finale? Maybe Nantuko Shade.
Green: Another overrun effect and another good 3 drop (Troll Ascetic?) And a solid 6 drop fattie. That new 6 drop Soul of the Harvest could be cool.
Red: More awesome 1 drops and maybe a couple 2 drops. That dragon bear is pretty cool.
Lands: Already discussed above
Guild: Maybe one good card per color pair, stuff that makes people want to splash, for example:
U/G - Mystic Snake
R/W - Figure of Destiny
U/B - Shadowmage Infiltrator
U/R - Prophetic Bolt
Colorless: Cool cards like Mindless Automaton that aren't Wurmcoil haha.
I have a fetish for "build around me" cards so I would probably look to add a few of those as well. Ultimately I think it would be cool and lead to some crazier games. You have opened a can of worms that I would love to dig into deeper. Amadeus8574, feel free to PM me if you want to discuss this further, or we can keep this discussion going on the boards.
Mmmmm. Food for thought.