I've never had or heard of people having tons of problems with the blink cards or Sphinx's Tutelage, but both can definitely be incredibly oppressive against a deck that doesn't have a focused plan.[/quote]
My experience with Sphinx's tutelage was that it created matchup problems. Decks that lacked reach or enchantment removal had a hard time racing this plus card draw spells, and in control mirrors this card was actually unbeatable. The blue white blink archetype won 4 drafts in a row when we added it. Souldherder demolishes green decks that lack removal (plus it grows out of removal range very fast) and ephemerate paired so well with mulldrifter, cloudblazer, riftwing cloudskate, etc. that those combinations ran away with games. This archetype had an inevitability feeling that we decided to do away with rather quickly, and replace with a blue white control archetype instead.
The Monarch mechanic is incredibly busted. Mechanics meant for multiplayer gameplay can be pretty messed up in 1v1 games. Feast of succession and Palace Jailer are especially guilty of this. There is this odd balance between wanting to add more monarch cards so you can become the monarch without combat, but by increasing the number of monarch cards in the cube you increase the number of games where this will be involved.
Longtime peasant cuber here and I think this is an awesome project. I have a 450 peasant cube with rare lands (10 pain lands, 10 shock lands). In playing we have found a pretty extensive number of cards that lead to pretty miserable games so I notably exclude things like overrun, soulherder, ephemerate, sphinx's tutelage, propaganda, shrine of loyal legions, ghostly flicker. Has anyone else had the same experience with a lot of these cards? I feel like Palace Jailer, Feast of Succession, Loxodon Warhammer and Maze of Ith are all pretty close to being bannable also.
Hey JustThisandThat. I love this list. Long time peasant cuber. My group gets together once a week to do 8 man drafts and I'm always looking for ways to keep the format fresh with new cards and archetypes. How has the blink archetype treated you? I've gone back and forth on this one as ephemerate, ghostly flicker and soulherder have been just insane and often unbeatable in a halfway decent deck. Has this been the case for you?
My experience with Sphinx's tutelage was that it created matchup problems. Decks that lacked reach or enchantment removal had a hard time racing this plus card draw spells, and in control mirrors this card was actually unbeatable. The blue white blink archetype won 4 drafts in a row when we added it. Souldherder demolishes green decks that lack removal (plus it grows out of removal range very fast) and ephemerate paired so well with mulldrifter, cloudblazer, riftwing cloudskate, etc. that those combinations ran away with games. This archetype had an inevitability feeling that we decided to do away with rather quickly, and replace with a blue white control archetype instead.
The Monarch mechanic is incredibly busted. Mechanics meant for multiplayer gameplay can be pretty messed up in 1v1 games. Feast of succession and Palace Jailer are especially guilty of this. There is this odd balance between wanting to add more monarch cards so you can become the monarch without combat, but by increasing the number of monarch cards in the cube you increase the number of games where this will be involved.
Anyway here is my cube list - https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/5ff38025407a6f105e92eeb2