Malefic Scythe 1B
Artifact - Equipment
Malefic Scythe enters the battlefield with a soul counter on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each soul counter on Malefic Scythe.
Whenever equipped creature dies, put a soul counter on Malefic Scythe.
Equip 1
I think this card could use a thread for those supporting black aggro.
I am probably overrating it, but I can see this really helping that deck out quite a bit. Only having an activation cost of 1 is a really big deal
Combo's well with the recursive creatures, Woe Strider, Ophiomancer all pretty well in black, or any of the rabblemasters by making it pretty awkward to try and chump / kill the tokens. if your cube supports 2 color aggro decks, Dauntless bodyguard or any of the white creatures that can sacrifice themselves can activate it. Getting even 1 trigger on it and getting any one of your creatures +2/+2 can be a pretty big deal or even having this in play and casting lingering souls and swinging in with buffed flyer can probably end a lot of games unless your opponents can race / or have a sweeper. It might allow some of the artifact decks to have a few more aggressive lines.
I'll be watching this card. Its definitely interesting, but I feel there might just be too many equipment in cube at this point with the 7 swords.
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1B
Artifact - Equipment
Malefic Scythe enters the battlefield with a soul counter on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each soul counter on Malefic Scythe.
Whenever equipped creature dies, put a soul counter on Malefic Scythe.
Equip 1
I think this card could use a thread for those supporting black aggro.
I am probably overrating it, but I can see this really helping that deck out quite a bit. Only having an activation cost of 1 is a really big deal
Combo's well with the recursive creatures, Woe Strider, Ophiomancer all pretty well in black, or any of the rabblemasters by making it pretty awkward to try and chump / kill the tokens. if your cube supports 2 color aggro decks, Dauntless bodyguard or any of the white creatures that can sacrifice themselves can activate it. Getting even 1 trigger on it and getting any one of your creatures +2/+2 can be a pretty big deal or even having this in play and casting lingering souls and swinging in with buffed flyer can probably end a lot of games unless your opponents can race / or have a sweeper. It might allow some of the artifact decks to have a few more aggressive lines.
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