Finished My Cube, and now it's up.
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Posted on Feb. 1, 2016, 12:06 a.m. by JWiley129
So I just finished my Cube, it's both here at Jwileys-360 and up at CubeTutor.com for those who want to look at it.
It's still a work in progress, so I'm looking for cards that might be off the beaten path that should be in. You can also suggest cards like Cryptic Command or Emrakul, the Aeons Torn that I've not included for a variety of reasons, but I'm mainly using this thread as a way to log what cards I need to acquire down the line.
NOTE This Cube is supposed to be unpowered so no Power 9 plox.
RoarMaster says... #3
With 36 artifacts and only a handful of artifact creatures, do you think it is really worth running cranial plating?
February 1, 2016 1:31 a.m.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #4
I'll draft it a couple times today and get back to you.
February 1, 2016 10:40 a.m.
brokendwarf says... #5
Drafted it twice so far, I'm a fan of BUG.
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight doesn't seem to fit the Boros section with her 8 CMC. Lightning Helix maybe?
February 1, 2016 1:19 p.m. Edited.
buildingadeck - It's very hard to build a "good stuff" cube and not have Blue be the best color. I could try to balance it that way, but that would involve me taking out some of the good blue cards to make blue weaker overall.
RoarMaster - I know that Cranial Plating is a bit out of place here. I may swap it out later on once I get some of the other artifacts/colorless cards that I want to include. If I do swap it out, I'd be looking for a 2-drop artifact to replace it with. Any suggestions?
brokendwarf - I like Gisela, Blade of Goldnight personally, but I can agree that it might be out of place. I'm thinking about expanding the Cube further to 540-ish, and Lightning Helix is definitely on my short-list there.
February 1, 2016 2:33 p.m.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #7
I've drafted it via cubetutor 4 times now.
SO
MANY
WALKERS
Granted I only run 12 or so in my Cube, but with that much power just sitting there, it's hard to make aggro feel viable. Control especially feels loved here.
Other than blue (little op), the only color that seems like the odd man out is White. Nothing really seemed to grab my interest there. I'm going to do a couple more drafts and force it, see how it feels specifically.
February 1, 2016 3:58 p.m.
I find that a little disconcerting Karns_Pyromancer since I am trying to enable Green and Black aggro. Plus I made sure that White and Red have their aggro cards, while Blue contains a good number of tempo creatures.
And I'm looking to increase the size of the cube, so maybe if I don't add so many planeswalker in the next updates they will be diluted a bit.
February 1, 2016 5:24 p.m.
Karns_Pyromancer says... #9
After forcing White a couple times, it seems to fit into Control or Aggro. In other terms, cheap removal and beefy finishers or small, semi-fast creatures. Not much depth to it, I think.
You could use things like Restoration Angel/Glimmerpoint Stag to encourage flicker decks. Or Kemba, Kha Regent/Nahiri, the Lithomancer to encourage artifacts a bit more. Thraben Doomsayer is amazing for token decks, I've found.
Mogis's Marauder is great for Black Aggro, if that's what you want to push. In my Cube, I found it too difficult to be really worth the hassle and gave Black a bit more removal and reanimation to help it out.
February 1, 2016 9:15 p.m.
I'm thinking about doing more blink shenanigans, so Resto is definitely on my short list to get up to 540. And Mogis's Marauder is a card I should probably include.
I just added a Karn Liberated b/c he's definitely Cube worthy. But I'm still looking for some other cards that might have sneaked past the radar.
February 2, 2016 2 a.m.
RoarMaster says... #11
Scroll Rack Is a nice 2 drop artifact to replace the cranial with.
buildingadeck says... #2
The blue cards in this cube are FAR stronger than the rest of the field, in my opinion. I think some of the other colors might be brought up a bit to match it in power level, or you could reduce the number of amazing blue can-trips.
February 1, 2016 12:33 a.m.