I definitely want to expand the number of hybrid cards in my cube, but cutting monocolored, not gold.
Just don't forget that by swapping out a mono-colored card instead of a gold card, you are making your cube more awkward/narrow instead of more flexible. Proceed with care.
In my bigger cube, the reanimator deck isn't that scary because the it rarely comes together completely. On the rare occasion it does, it's more like, yay awesome, it worked, smash face and enjoy it! My cube doesn't need more hosers.
Just don't forget that by swapping out a mono-colored card instead of a gold card, you are making your cube more awkward/narrow instead of more flexible. Proceed with care.
I might be a bit off here, but this card surprisingly doesn't really interest me all that much. Even considering it's going to be significantly worse in my larger cube than a smaller cube due to the mana acceleration ability being FAR less consistent, I still don't like it over most of the other BG cards in consideration for slots. I guess we'll have to see how it plays out, but for now consider me skeptical.
I have very high hopes for this guy because I'd been wanting more graveyard hate that gives value and this guy is exactly that. The only downside is that he is in G/B the colors that most abuse the GY in the first place so he does loose some points because of that but still, so much incidental value to be had. Exile a Bloodghast here, blank the snapcaster mage in their hand there, laugh at Genesis, turn that firebolt into a bad shock, the list goes on and on. Really looking forward to changing the way my opponents play with this guy. Plus gaining life and draining their life and even a little bit of ramp.
Well, i'm upping the count on multicolor at my new 450 size. 5 multicolor + 4 Lands/manafixers. He seems great along side Troll, Deed, Decay, and Pulse .
At 500, I'm also running 5 per pair, and my group wanted to cube Vraska in that #5 slot (alongside those other for cards you mentioned) after playtesting both of them. I thought it was pretty close, but my group really wanted the 'walker more.
I think the walker is significantly better. Are you looking to go up above 500 any time soon? So many options at larger cube sizes, I really like the variance involved too.
I'm not looking to go above 500, really. If I had 8 drafters every single time we sat down, I might look towards 540, but I don't think I'd ever go above that.
I think this guy gets better the smaller your cube is, much like Ranger of Eos where the quality of targets show up in enough frequency to really make a difference in performance consistency.
Maybe, I'm definitely eyeing him (her? haven't seen the art yet) up at 320. Maybe in black if not in the 3 card gold section; it can use the very rare ramp, and the black ability is a lot more useful.
I'm not looking to go above 500, really. If I had 8 drafters every single time we sat down, I might look towards 540, but I don't think I'd ever go above that.
Im with you, i run about 550, always have 6-8 drafters. I do not want to go higher, I have to cut at this point.
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I think the walker is significantly better. Are you looking to go up above 500 any time soon? So many options at larger cube sizes, I really like the variance involved too.
The walker was very very mediocre in testing so far. It normally vindicated something then was completely ignored while the opponent smashed the players face in. If you ever use the -3 the other two abilities are moot. It was great on a nearly open board, but hell, what PW isn't. I've yet to see it go ult but I can't really see it winning any prizes even if it does. Those three guys are not all that scary frankly, they don't even have deathtouch. Maybe if they had haste.
You sure about that? Sacrificing a land like Windswept Heath or Strip Mine is part of the cost so your opponent can respond to the fetch or destroy target land trigger by exiling it before you can replay the land. I'm not a rules connoisseur but i'm pretty sure that's how it works. Or are you talking about something else?
You sure about that? Sacrificing a land like Windswept Heath or Strip Mine is part of the cost so your opponent can respond to the fetch or destroy target land trigger by exiling it before you can replay the land. I'm not a rules connoisseur but i'm pretty sure that's how it works. Or are you talking about something else?
Added Shaman after completely bashing a RTR sealed release queue on MTGO in which I had two of them. It's extremely versatile and playable in both colors. I actually am classifying it as a black card. Black is a color that will go to great lengths to get extra mana early, and acting as a pseudo-unblockable dude in the mid-to-late game is a nice bonus.
Added Shaman after completely bashing a RTR sealed release queue on MTGO in which I had two of them. It's extremely versatile and playable in both colors. I actually am classifying it as a black card. Black is a color that will go to great lengths to get extra mana early, and acting as a pseudo-unblockable dude in the mid-to-late game is a nice bonus.
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Deathrite Shaman isn't making it into my stacked GB section, but I wouldn't mind getting him in my black section. Is he powerful enough in an aggro deck?
He's been pretty good so far. I had to put it in the black section which I wasn't entirely happy about, but it's pulling its weight so far - the ability to fix any colour off a fetch is great. The black cost ability is a reasonable unblockable damage source and the green one was even relevant in one matchup, where City of Brass provided the splash in a very fast U/B aggro deck running the Shaman.
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He's saying that taking out a gold card for it instead makes for a bigger difference in flexibility than removing a mono-colored one does.
10% -----> 70% instead of 40% -----> 70%.
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This. Cutting a mono-colored card and adding a gold card would amount to the same thing, hence less flexible.
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Im with you, i run about 550, always have 6-8 drafters. I do not want to go higher, I have to cut at this point.
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The walker was very very mediocre in testing so far. It normally vindicated something then was completely ignored while the opponent smashed the players face in. If you ever use the -3 the other two abilities are moot. It was great on a nearly open board, but hell, what PW isn't. I've yet to see it go ult but I can't really see it winning any prizes even if it does. Those three guys are not all that scary frankly, they don't even have deathtouch. Maybe if they had haste.
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This does work the way you think
You can also remove a land when they target it with Life from the Loam, giving them only 2 possible cards back in their hand.
I have been impressed with it so far, and will be adding it to my Cube once I get a foil one.
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