MTG Salvation

Ram Through

I feel like this card may have been looked over during Spoiler Season. In addition to being a great card in retail limited, I think it's worth discussion for cube. Unless I'm forgetting a card, this is the best fight effect not stapled to a creature. Early game, it can allow your Llanowar Elves to kill a Dark Confidant, and late game, it can turn Primeval Titan into a burn spell. Has anyone tested this card, or given it any thought?

The main problem is still the 2-for-1 if they remove your creature in response to the Ram Through. I think it's mostly lackluster.

That's a good point. I was thinking about how it wasn't fight, so you wouldn't be 2-for-1ing yourself if your 2/2 fought their 2/2, but forgot about if they use their removal in response to Ram Through.

I much prefer the new fight spell primal might to this in cube.

1 vs 2 mana is huge, there's not THAT much trample and primal might isn't dead in any matchup

One of the things that really had me considering Ram Through was that it's an instant, so it's able to disrupt creature based combos.

I personally don't think fight spells are worthy of Cube environments unless it is a rather low power environment. Higher power cubes tend to milk advantages in cards and often times fight spells are thick with disadvantages.

I still think Dromoka's Command is the better version of this. I don't see a need for Green to have this type of ability outside of a Green-White deck, as Green - black and Green - Red would be filled with Removal.

White is loaded with great removal. Defeats the purpose of needing fight-based removal when you strap a non-green color to it, IMO. If I'm playing white mana to be able to cast the Command, I can get better removal from the mono-colored spells in white. Command is a cool spell and the +1/+1 counter + fight can make complicated combat a complete nightmare for the opponent, but as a straight fight effect, I'm not interested once I'm forced to play a color that's loaded with great creature removal options.

tl;dr - Command is a better effect, but I lose the incentive to play fight-based removal once I'm forced to play white to have access to it.

It gives green some good game. The extra mana to make it an instant is worth it. Styling on them using it on a trample creature will make a funny story