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Quote from Breathe1234 »I think we should look into the cheap threaten effects. Act of Aggression - Excited about this card, Phyrexian Mana allows you to EOT gain control of creature then Polymorph. I could be interesting for Aristocrats deck to remove a hard to deal with blocker/ steal creature for sacrifice. I also would like to see this card in aggressive archetypes as an "answer" to the Polymorph/ reanimator decks themselves. The card could also be incredible for Stax decks. The Phyrexian mana could allow this card to be played in any archetype. This is a card I strongly recommend. Claim the Firstborn/ Wrangle/ Act of Treason - This card has been pretty good in the Rakdos/ Jund Sacrifice deck for Standard. I will give this card a try to temporarily help out the Aristocrats deck, but most likely this is going to come out after a short experiment. I will likely test out one of these three, I think Wrangle might be a good card for its mana cost/ damage. The problem is this isn't instant speed. This could definitely be useful for the Polymorph deck. Word of Seizing - I'm not too excited about this card, especially given this card's converted mana cost for the Polymorph deck. But what I do like about this card is that it could be a good "answer" to planeswalkers allow you to steal them before they ultimate. I'm not going to add this into my cube, but it definitely a possibility if Planeswalkers get out of control + the previous two cards have strong performances. Grab the Reins - I really want another Act of Aggression that is instant speed at 3 CMC. This is unfortunately the next closest card. The saving grace for this card is its second effect, sacrifice the creature to deal damage - this could be nice to help land the final damage with a Aristocrats build I'm going to give Act of Aggression, Wrangle and Grab the Reins a try. I'm not sure how many of these effects will stay in the cube.
Quote from steve_man »Quote from N1ghtKn1ght »You should do more of these fella. They're entertaining. A co-host would be sweet, maybe wtwlf123.....? Lets go bois. Thanks! All my spare time has been going to a start-up idea I've been working on. I'm going to try and do some one-off episodes here and there, but I can't commit to the weekly consistency that I was doing when I first started.
Quote from N1ghtKn1ght »You should do more of these fella. They're entertaining. A co-host would be sweet, maybe wtwlf123.....? Lets go bois.
Quote from happyjosiah »Show and Tell is good. It's cheaper than the other cards mentioned. It's about as "fair" as Exhume in my opinion.
Quote from asmallcat »Quote from calibretto » If I go turn three Show and Tell and put in any 6+ casting cost creature from the cube, that will almost assuredly win me the game Maybe it's the group I play with but this is not remotely my experience with the card. You play your fatty, they play an o-ring or man o' war or shriekmaw and laugh at you. Or they just play their 5-drop curve topper 2 turns early for free, untap and kill your fatty. Or they play a mana rock, untap and wrath. Or you ARE against the other deck playing fatties and they get first crack. Everyone in my group agreed show and tell was bad and we should cut it. I dunno if it's confirmation bias my way, confirmation bias by people who love the card, different experiences with size of draft pool (we almost always have 8 or 6 so there's a good chance at least one other drafter is doing something with fatties - I imagine this is far less likely if the average group size is 5 or less), a difference in cube size (at 465 there's almost always the pieces for at least one big deck, usually two), or a little bit of all of this, but it's fascinating how different our experiences with the card were. This makes me wish both that MTGO cube draft was still in pods (although I understand why almost all players enjoy leagues - it seems like such a better experience time wise) and that WOTC hadn't decided to hide much of the data from MTGO. It used to be that you could get basically all the data you wanted and I remember articles talking about win rates after casting certain cards in various draft formats. I'd love to see that for cube, but that data is no longer accessible AFAIK.
Quote from calibretto » If I go turn three Show and Tell and put in any 6+ casting cost creature from the cube, that will almost assuredly win me the game
Quote from rantipole »Agree with steve_man. Hydroid Krasis vs. Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath? Cheers, rant
Quote from Red13th »Gideon of the Trials or Gideon Blackblade?