I like the Nissa + Maniac configuration better. I think you should be including Captive if you support green aggro though (depending on your cube size).
It seems like I'm the only one, but I actually like Arlinn more than Xenagos and Sarkhan.
Sure, sometimes the sequencing of her abilities can be a bit awkward, but both of her side almost always have a relevant effect on the board and both sides protect her.
I would rate them:
Huntmaster > Arlinn > Sarkhan >= Xenagos
Lone Missionary is great card for control decks against aggro decks or aggro mirrors. It basically negates an attacking creature an one of their burn spells. However, outside of this use, Lone Missionary does not seem to do much. Control decks often wants to hold up two mana for instant spells or use them for ramp. Many cubes do not include many blink effects to abuse the life gain trigger, but even if they did, card and board control is often more important than life gain.
In our playgroup, Lone Missionary has never been picked since I started registering our draft decks in January this year (data currently includes 21 drafts or 93 decks in total).
No love for Birds of Paradise?
For me it's between BoP, Liliana and Monastery Mentor. I'd probably end up taking Mentor though. It sets up nicely for a spells matter deck.
This deck came together on our latest cube session - and it pretty much went all in on the lands theme.
I think the archetype is deep enough to support with some crossover with ramp, stax and reanimate.
I will try to test Worm Harvest which would have been pretty good in this deck and help the crossover with stax.
Nothing really speaks to me in this pack.
I'd either pick Kiki-Jiki for the combo or more likely, pick Wooded Foothills and look for some aggro cards in the next pack (hopefully wheeling Helix, Wire or Purphoros).
Lands Matter is often a green deck with some number of big creatures to copy with Image. Lands matter is more a sub-theme / sub-archetype where Worm Harvest is only really playable in a very synergistic deck.
That was why I was considering the copy effect over Harvest.
It's interesting, but I don't think it is good. Regrowth exists?
Defiance > Staggershock > Firecraft
Sinkhole > Whisper > Buried
Grenzo = Vial-Smasher > Angrath (I wish it had a more impactful +1)
Meren > Vraska
Sure, sometimes the sequencing of her abilities can be a bit awkward, but both of her side almost always have a relevant effect on the board and both sides protect her.
I would rate them:
Huntmaster > Arlinn > Sarkhan >= Xenagos
Probably Visitor > Heir > Siphoner for me.
Lone Missionary is great card for control decks against aggro decks or aggro mirrors. It basically negates an attacking creature an one of their burn spells. However, outside of this use, Lone Missionary does not seem to do much. Control decks often wants to hold up two mana for instant spells or use them for ramp. Many cubes do not include many blink effects to abuse the life gain trigger, but even if they did, card and board control is often more important than life gain.
In our playgroup, Lone Missionary has never been picked since I started registering our draft decks in January this year (data currently includes 21 drafts or 93 decks in total).
I am thinking about cutting it, probably for a more beatdown oriented card like Adanto Vanguard, Relic Seeker or Hidden Dragonslayer.
What do you guys think of Missionary? Is it still an important piece for cubes in 2017?
For aggro, I like Mongrel most, then Branchwalker and then Mayor.
Meren > Vraska
For me it's between BoP, Liliana and Monastery Mentor. I'd probably end up taking Mentor though. It sets up nicely for a spells matter deck.
I think the archetype is deep enough to support with some crossover with ramp, stax and reanimate.
I will try to test Worm Harvest which would have been pretty good in this deck and help the crossover with stax.
6 Forest
1 Wastes
1 Carnage Tyrant
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Mox Emerald
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Thought-Knot Seer
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Wasteland
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Duskwatch Recruiter
1 Regrowth
1 Fastbond
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Treetop Village
1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 City of Brass
1 Vinelasher Kudzu
1 Mox Diamond
1 Wall of Roots
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Taiga
1 Smuggler's Copter
1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
1 Deranged Hermit
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Terramorphic Expanse
I'd either pick Kiki-Jiki for the combo or more likely, pick Wooded Foothills and look for some aggro cards in the next pack (hopefully wheeling Helix, Wire or Purphoros).
That was why I was considering the copy effect over Harvest.