MTG Salvation

Decent addition / supplement to AKH cycling duals since these are the first fetchable TRI-lands.

In before quad-lands!

Going infinite with Basalt Monolith is cool, but I don't like how this doesn't do much by itself.

Strong curve topper and absolutely disgusting curving Rabblemaster / Legion Warboss into this. Will probably give this one a test to spice up Boros a bit.

Quote from opterown »

I wonder how many targets this hits/misses compared to Go For the Throat and its brethren

Assuming I counted everything from my cube right...

36 artifact creatures (18 artifact creatures + 18 cards that either produce or turn into an artifact creature)

30-ish that can put a counter on themselves or other creatures? It's a bit hard to narrow it down even using CubeTutor filters since there's a lot of different verbage and sometimes it catches reminder text, sometimes it doesn't? Granted, a lot of times it won't start off with a +1/+1 counter.

Best Doom Blade variant we've seen since Go for the Throat. Can also kill Walking Ballista / Hangarback Walker most of the time probably?

While similar, I think Slippery Bogbonder and Thrun play very different roles:

- Thrun is an ace against blue control decks / removal in general

- Slippery Bogbonder is a combat trick / counterspell / random counters matters card?

I think Bogbonder is pretty solid, but the role of cards like Thrun / Carnage Tyrant are more important to me. Thrun being a 4/4 with regeneration makes bigger / stickier threat both on offense and defense.

Episode 4: Budget Options and Alternatives

https://theartofcube.podbean.com/e/episode-4-budget-options-and-alternatives/

Updated through Theros Beyond Death:

WHITE
- Charming Prince
- Elspeth, Sun's Nemesis
- Shatter the Sky

BLUE
- Nadir Kraken

BLACK
- Murderous Rider
- Woe Strider
- Agonizing Remorse

RED
- Embereth Shieldbreaker
- Bonecrusher Giant
- Phoenix of Ash
- Storm's Wrath
- Purphoros's Intervention

GREEN
- Gilded Goose
- Once Upon a Time

COLORLESS
- Ash Barrens (re-added)
- Stonecoil Serpent

WATCHLIST
- Robber of the Rich (watchlist)

Quote from wtwlf123 »

This card does not look good to me. In both the mono red mode and as a card with a WURR cost, it feels super underwhelming. Needed to hit players if it's going to cost 4 mana in the cube.

This. You'll probably get a lot more mileage out of Collective Defiance.

Cycling is nice, but being able to only burn flyers is far too narrow.

Pretty good value creature. I like how it's titan-esque with both an ETB and attack trigger, but differentiates itself by having those be separate effects.

The lack of trample puts this below the other green 6-drops for me, at least behind Primeval Titan / Carnage Tyrant. Also has to compete with the Overrun giant, and GoG has Kiki-twin applications. Might give this a test if I can find a slot for 6-cmc creature #3. Would love to combo King Kong with Palace Jailer.

Fundamentally broken in a sense that it's a guaranteed card in your hand. The fact that it's hybrid is what makes it obnoxious to me. Wouldn't be so bad if there was a decent restriction to casting it, but the fact that mono red can just play this and always have it in their hand makes me want to puke.

Assuming this works online, I'll probably at least test it to see how broken it is. I've never had to ban a new card that's Vintage legal, but this will probably be banned in my cube. Although I've never done it, I've always said if something does come along, I'd at least test it before concluding it's ban worthy.

I think cubes that think 3/3 elk's are broken, will not want this

Definitely agree with this

for cubes that want to play Oko, Thief of Crowns, they will also to play this.

I don't think this is going to be the case even for most powered cubes given how polarizing the free card in your hand is. Also, it's pretty logistically annoying seeing how many EDH players accidentally shuffle their commanders into their decks.

Episode 3: Multicolored Madness (Part 2)

https://theartofcube.podbean.com/e/episode-3-multicolored-madness-part-2/

Quote from BlackWaltz3 »

Having only one copy of this in your deck when he is the linchpin for the strategy is a bummer.

I don't agree with this statement at all. Creatures are their own win condition and don't need Purphoros at all. I cut Purphoros from my cube for the very reason that Purphoros needs creatures / tokens, but going wide is a payoff on its own even without Big Papa Purph.

Episode 2: Multicolored Madness (Part 1)

https://theartofcube.podbean.com/e/episode-2-multicolored-madness-part-1/

- Now available on iTunes!

- Got a Blue Yeti Nano microphone, so the audio quality is vastly improved from episode 1

- Still haven't gotten a response back from GooglePlay / Stitcher / Spotify