I'm actively maintaining a comprehensive article to help explain to new cube players how some complex vintage level cards work in a cube environment. Vintage Cube Cards Explained
My favorite cards that enable some fun red archetypes. Combine Ruby Medallion with Experimental Frenzy, Wheel, Young Pyromancer, burn. Or Ruby Medallion with Seething Song (!) and Chandra, artifact mana to ramp into Form of the Dragon or any other big red/colorless stuff you're already running. Or add Faithless Looting in with black to get access to more fast mana in Dark Ritual and reanimator/Sneak Attack fun.
My favorite cards that enable some fun red archetypes. Combine Ruby Medallion with Experimental Frenzy, Wheel, Young Pyromancer, burn. Or Ruby Medallion with Seething Song (!) and Chandra, artifact mana to ramp into Form of the Dragon or any other big red/colorless stuff you're already running. Or add Faithless Looting in with black to get access to more fast mana in Dark Ritual and reanimator/Sneak Attack fun.
I'm actively maintaining a comprehensive article to help explain to new cube players how some complex vintage level cards work in a cube environment. Vintage Cube Cards Explained
1. Inverter Combo:
Inverter of Truth
Demonic Consultation
Tainted Pact
Thassa's Oracle
Nexus of Fate
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
All fine almost playables if evaluated outside their combo potential.
2. Gitrog/ Lands Combo:
The Gitrog Monster
Titania, Protector of Argoth
With:
Rain of Filth
Squandered Resources
For:
Field of the Dead - Requires snow as Snow-Covered Forest and Forest are different lands.
Dark Depths / Thespian Stage
Felidar Retreat
Valakut Exploration
Play extra lands:
FastBond
Exploration
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
Knight of the Reliquary
Elvish Reclaimer
Oracle of Mul Daya
Mina and Denn, Wildborn
Play from top of library:
Oracle of Mul Daya
Courser of Kruphix
Radha, Heart of Keld
Play from Graveyard:
Crucible of Worlds
Life from the Loam
Wreen and Six
All in lands combo - With the traditional lands combo cards of Crucible of Words, Life from the Loam and Ramnap Execuator
Anyone got any fun ideas?
Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Here are some other articles I've written about fine tuning your cube:
1. Minimum Archetype Support
2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
Draft my Cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/d8i
Form of the Dragon
Ruby Medallion
Seething Song
Experimental Frenzy
Young Pyromancer
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Wheel of Fortune
Pyroclasm
Faithless Looting
+Artifact mana
My favorite cards that enable some fun red archetypes. Combine Ruby Medallion with Experimental Frenzy, Wheel, Young Pyromancer, burn. Or Ruby Medallion with Seething Song (!) and Chandra, artifact mana to ramp into Form of the Dragon or any other big red/colorless stuff you're already running. Or add Faithless Looting in with black to get access to more fast mana in Dark Ritual and reanimator/Sneak Attack fun.
You could also try these:
- Irencrag feat
- Generator Servant
- Vessel of volatility
- Jeska's Will - Good if you want to draw instead
To really push for turn 3-4 jump to 5-7 mana.
I have to think more about Experimental Frenzy ..
Vintage Cube Cards Explained
Here are some other articles I've written about fine tuning your cube:
1. Minimum Archetype Support
2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
5. Cube Combos (Work in Progress)
Draft my Cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/d8i