Well this guy is way better since it's cheaper, colorless, and semi blanks some removal. Now, that doesn't make it cube worthy, but I think this is something I will need to test to know for sure. Mainly it seems to poke the eye of aggro since it's a big blocker that keeps coming back, but being dealt with (albeit temporarily) by splittable burn is definitely a big downside. Going to test.
I realize fully that Reckless Waif should be my cut for this new kid on the block. That said, I'll be cutting the pup just because one of my players hates it with the fury of a thousand suns. Even after I've played it successfully against him he will admit it's good and just go back to hating it. The look on his face when I tell him I'm cutting it will make all the work I do on my cube worth it.
I think I go Relentless dead unless you are running a lot of planeswalkers, or not a lot of zombies, and I think I like Priest a bit more because of synergies with black saccing.
I brought this up as a selling point to running Crumbling Vestige and its ilk as much as to complain about telegraphing info. For some cube managers this will be more relevant a topic. I don't run Sol Ring, Mana Crypt or Mana vault and there are other colorless producers that make some lists and not others. I hope we prompt thought about how relying on Wastes for colorless mana may be detrimental, even if in a small way, to gameplay. As I said before, I'm going to try City of Traitors and a few other cards like it when I add in the colorless matters stuff.
When I'm splashing a Mind Twist into a deck that is otherwise without black, I don't want Swamps in my final 40 any more than I want Wastes to justify a C splash.
This. Excellent comparison.
Except that in my 540, if you drop a swamp or black multi land when playing a red green ramp deck, there are more than 70 possible cards you might have splashed for. Yes, I might have seen the Twist go around the table, but you may gave first picked it just as easily. When an out of place colorless source comes out, there are less than 10 cards I need to answer/play around. I don't think the comparison is apt because the scale is so different. Wtwlf's morph comparison is closer and I know there are people who chafe at the fact that there aren't enough 'good' morphs to make the hidden info.... hidden. As I said before, I'm going to run these and play it for myself before I judge, and hopefully Wizards puts out more of these as the years roll on until it isn't an issue at all.
It's not going to stop me from trying these new cards out, but I am certainly going to switch out some of my rainbow land and artifact sources for all the playable non basics.
I'm running A. Tomb in my 540 and it is fine. Haven't gotten the colorless matters cards in yet but they only strengthen its position. I'm getting a City via Pucatrade to test out once Mirrorpool, Kozi, etc. find their way into the cube. Has anyone found that having wastes, or other 'new' colorless sources is tipping hands? It seems lame if I play a waste for my opponent to know I have one of three or four cards they need to play around.
If you went the optional play/access all route, I think the card is a reasonable pick with control and maybe some ramp decks willing to play this and 3-5 of the gates. If the environment is a low powered, bigger cube maybe, just maybe you'd occasionally see someone run it as an alt win con. I'm about to reintroduce the best Conspiracy draft interaction cards, but I've never tried the one card accesses a group. Anyone else done it? Liked it?
Still running it in my 540. We find it often getting played when in the draft pool and doing good work. Can't speak for lists smaller than mine, but I don't see cutting it anytime soon.
If price were no object, because $30 for a single card can be a steep price to pay, would you run this? Avalanche Riders seems to get lots of love in the red 4 drop discussions and this seems almost exactly analogous. Yes it doesn't have haste and it's only 1/1, but it is easier to abuse via blink because it doesn't have echo.
I ran it in an early set up of my cube. It never really seemed to have a big impact on games. It was used occasionally in control or UG ramp decks, but got side boarded a lot so I eventually cut it.
All these lands are sweet if they dont come with much opportunity cost. EDH and kitchen table casual decks will love these, and Ill be running lots of them, but they dont deserve a precious slot in a cube.
Cut one for Spell Pierce:
Repeal
Exclude
Rushing River
Except that in my 540, if you drop a swamp or black multi land when playing a red green ramp deck, there are more than 70 possible cards you might have splashed for. Yes, I might have seen the Twist go around the table, but you may gave first picked it just as easily. When an out of place colorless source comes out, there are less than 10 cards I need to answer/play around. I don't think the comparison is apt because the scale is so different. Wtwlf's morph comparison is closer and I know there are people who chafe at the fact that there aren't enough 'good' morphs to make the hidden info.... hidden. As I said before, I'm going to run these and play it for myself before I judge, and hopefully Wizards puts out more of these as the years roll on until it isn't an issue at all.
I'm pondering both Meren and running the full man land cycle. If I do both I think this might be an add worth considering.
Goblin Settler
If price were no object, because $30 for a single card can be a steep price to pay, would you run this? Avalanche Riders seems to get lots of love in the red 4 drop discussions and this seems almost exactly analogous. Yes it doesn't have haste and it's only 1/1, but it is easier to abuse via blink because it doesn't have echo.