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Artifact Mutation
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Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that artifact's converted mana cost/mana value.






trippy_mcfly on
Cumly Cube
2 weeks ago
Introducing Cumly Cube 1.4! Two months ago, Cumly Cube was updated to Cumly Cube 1.3, which was touted as balanced and without any notable flaws. There is no more insidious poison than hubris! Many cards remained that were too strong, or close to unplayable. Many archetypes existed in the cube but had too little support to ever be worth drafting. Many cards failed to fit the ethos of Cumly Cube. With 89 more cuts and adds, I am now pleased to announce that, this time, Cumly Cube has reached a final form! Perhaps a few cards are still too strong, too weak, or out of place, but the vast majority of the draft pool is now in an acceptable state. Any further changes to Cumly Cube 1 will exist as minor updates, swapping out only a few cards at a time. This means that there will never be a Cumly Cube 1.5, only 1.4.1, 1.4.2, etc.
Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:
REMOVED:
ARTIFACT
- Basilisk Collar: equipment is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Hedron Archive
: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Diamond: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Opal: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Mox Tantalite: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Sensei's Divining Top:cut to weaken the artifact archetype
CREATURE
- Academy Manufactor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Archfiend of Spite: madness is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Arsenal Thresher: too weak
- Augmenting Automaton: too weak
- Autonomous Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Baleful Force: too weak
- Battleground Geist: cut for a better Spirit card
- Belligerent Hatchling: too weak
- Bloodpyre Elemental: too generic of a red card
- Bloom Hulk: there are better proliferate engines available in Cumly Cube
- Copperhorn Scout: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Crosis, the Purger: too annoying to play against
- Deathrite Shaman: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Deus of Calamity: too weak
- Dutiful Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Dwynen's Elite: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Emperor's Vanguard: cut to weaken green
- Farhaven Elf: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Fear of Exposure: cut to weaken green
- Fertilid: cut to weaken green
- Galazeth Prismari: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Geyserfield Stalker: too weak
- Greater Gargadon: suspend is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Hallowed Priest: cut for an identical card to support the Cat creature type
- Heedless One: cut for a similar card to better support the Elf creature type
- Hematite Golem: too weak
- Hunted Horror: too weak
- Impetuous Devils: too generic of a red card
- Jeskai Student: too weak
- Junktroller: too weak
- Lashweed Lurker: emerge is not part of Cumly Cube 1
- Llanowar Visionary: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Lodestone Golem: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
- Lunar Avenger: too weak
- Maze Behemoth: cut to weaken green
- Mishra's Self-Replicator: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Morselhoarder: too weak
- Night Incarnate: too generic of a black card
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil: cut to weaken the Elemental creature type
- Phantom Nishoba: too weak
- Quirion Ranger: cut to weaken the Elf creature type
- Scalding Devil: cut to make room for more interesting Devil creatures
- Self-Assembler: Assembly-Workers have been cut from Cumly Cube 1
- Seton, Krosan Protector: cut to weaken green
- Soul of Zendikar: cut to weaken green
- Teferi's Sentinel: too weak
- Thought Monitor: cut to weaken the artifact archetype
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell: too generic of a red card
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre: cut to make room for more balanced Eldrazi creatures
- Walking Ballista: cut to remove an infinite combo payoff accessible from the Cumly Zone
ENCHANTMENT
- Aura Shards: too powerful
- Blood Moon: we have seen enough of this card in other formats
- Impending Disaster: too weak
- In Bolas's Clutches: cut for a similar but more expensive version of this effect
- Night Soil: cut due to the presence of two other very similar cards
- Revel in Riches: too powerful
- Urban Utopia: cut to weaken green
LAND
- Ancient Tomb: too powerful
- Flagstones of Trokair: too weak
- Mishra's Workshop: too powerful
- Urza's Saga: too powerful
INSTANT
- Accelerate: too generic of a red card
- Bedevil: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Fading Hope: too generic of a blue card
- Fissure: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Fracture: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Frazzle: too generic of a blue card
- Inside Out: too weak
- Lens Flare: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Schismotivate: too weak
- Seize the Initiative: too weak
- Volt Charge: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
PLANESWALKER
- Karn Liberated: too generic and powerful of a draft pick
- Nissa of Shadowed Boughs: animating lands is not part of Cumly Cube 1
SORCERY
- Broken Bond: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Chain Reaction: too generic of a red card
- False Dawn: too weak
- Grim Tutor: too powerful
- Ice Storm: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Lava Flow: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Sinkhole: spot removal has been removed in favor of removal found in commands, charms, and confluences
- Tezzeret's Gambit: too powerful
- Wildfire: too generic of a red card
ADDED:
ARTIFACT
- Banner of Kinship: encourages building around creature types
- Conduit of Worlds: supports graveyard synergies
- Pillar of Origins: encourages building around creature types
CREATURE
- Aetherjacket: supports the Thopter creature type
- Ajani's Pridemate: replaces Hallowed Priest to support the Cat creature type and lifegain synergies
- Akroan Conscriptor: supports spellslinger synergies
- Alibou, Ancient Witness: supports the Golem creature type and other artifact decks
- Ancient Cellarspawn: supports the Demon, Horror, and Nightmare creature types
- Angelic Aberration: supports the Angel and Eldrazi creature types
- Axgard Artisan: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Bloodwater Entity: supports spellslinger synergies
- Brass Herald: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
- Campus Guide: supports the Golem creature type
- Chief of the Foundry: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks
- Chrome Courier: supports the Thopter creature type
- Cursed Wombat: supports the Nightmare creature type and +1/+1 counter decks
- Darksteel Colossus: supports the Golem creature type
- Duergar Hedge-Mage: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Eidolon of Blossoms: supports the enchantment archetype
- Endbringer: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Essence Depleter: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Gimli, Mournful Avenger: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Gishath, Sun's Avatar: supports the Dinosaur creature type
- Herald of Slaanesh: supports the Demon creature type
- Hunting Velociraptor: supports the Dinosaur creature type
- Immaculate Magistrate: replaces Heedless One to support the Elf creature type
- It That Heralds the End: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Kozilek's Channeler: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Mayhem Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Patrician Geist: replaces Battleground Geist to support the Spirit creature type
- Petravark: supports the Beast creature type
- Pillardrop Warden: supports the Dwarf and Spirit creature types
- Precursor Golem: supports the Golem creature type
- Prosperous Pirates: supports the Pirate creature type
- Quandrix Pledgemage: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Roaming Throne: supports the Golem creature type and encourages building around creature types
- Rootwater Hunter: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Shambling Suit: supports the Construct creature type and other artifact decks as well as enchantment decks
- Shantotto, Tactician Magician: supports the Dwarf creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Smokebraider: supports the Elemental creature type
- Solarion: supports the Construct creature type
- Species Specialist: encourages building around creature types
- Squealing Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Tayam, Luminous Enigma: supports the Beast and Nightmare creature types
- The Balrog of Moria: supports the Demon creature type
- The Lady of Otaria: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Three Tree Mascot: adds mana fixing and encourages building around creature types
- Titans' Vanguard: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Torch Fiend: supports the Devil creature type
- Ulamog's Dreadsire: supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Vengeful Devil: supports the Devil creature type
- Venomcrawler: supports the Demon creature type
- Wavecrash Triton: supports the Merfolk creature type and spellslinger synergies
- Zara, Renegade Recruiter: supports the Pirate creature type
ENCHANTMENT
- Destructive Flow: offers a land destruction engine that can provide a large advantage in some decks
- Efficient Construction: supports the Thopter creature type
- Keldon Twilight: offers a creature destruction engine for aggressive decks
- Lay Claim: replaces In Bolas's Clutches as a more expensive control spell
- Might Makes Right: encourages large creatures and can be used in conjunction with sacrifice synergies as a creature destruction engine
- Porphyry Nodes: offers a creature destruction engine for slower decks
- Retreat to Kazandu: supports landfall synergies
- Shivan Harvest: offers a land destruction engine and supports sacrifice synergies
- Sunken Hope: offers a creature bounce engine for slower decks
- Whirlwind of Thought: supports spellslinger synergies
LAND
- Foundry of the Consuls: supports the Thopter creature type
INSTANT
- Atarka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Aura Mutation: quite similar to Artifact Mutation
- Brokers Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Cabaretti Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Dromoka's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Kolaghan's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Lorehold Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Maestros Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Maestros Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Obscura Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Obscura Confluence: confluences have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Ojutai's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Pulse of the Fields: supports lifegain synergies
- Quandrix Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Riveteers Charm: rounding out the charms in Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Silumgar's Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Silverquill Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
- Siren's Ruse: supports the Pirate creature type and blink synergies
PLANESWALKER
- Saheeli, Filigree Master: supports the Thopter creature type
- Vraska, Golgari Queen: supports sacrifice synergies
SORCERY
- Renegade Tactics: replaces Accelerate as a less typical red card
- Roar of the Crowd: encourages building around creature types
- Temporary Insanity: stealing creatures is a small but important part of Cumly Cube
- Witherbloom Command: commands have been added to Cumly Cube to provide interaction and versatility
trippy_mcfly on
Cumly Cube
2 months ago
Introducing Cumly Cube 1.3! Two years ago, Cumly Cube was updated to Cumly Cube 1.2, creating a balanced cube and wonderful play experience for all involved. Despite these changes, there remained some minor flaws in the card pool. I am now pleased to announce that, after extensive research and design, Cumly Cube has reached a final form. No card is too powerful. No card is too weak. Synergy is abundant. Both the draft and play experiences are dynamic, exciting, and new. There will be no more major updates to Cumly Cube 1.
120 cards have been removed, and 120 cards have been added. Here are the changes, provided with brief justifications:
REMOVED:
ARTIFACT
- Everflowing Chalice: mana rocks should cost 3 or have a drawback
- Glass of the Guildpact: too weak
- Heraldic Banner: encouraged mono-colored decks
- Illuminated Folio: too weak
- Jayemdae Tome: too weak
- Loreseeker's Stone: too weak
- Mind Stone: mana rocks should cost 3 or have a drawback
- Null Rod: too much of a hate card
- Pithing Needle: too powerful with Urza's Saga
- Pyromancer's Goggles: too narrow
- Retrofitter Foundry: too powerful with Urza's Saga
CREATURE
- Bomat Courier: too powerful against slow starts
- Deathpact Angel: creates a Cleric token, not a supported creature type
- Dimir Cutpurse: too powerful
- Elves of Deep Shadow: too obvious of a choice as a cumly
- Golos, Tireless Pilgrim: too powerful
- Hostage Taker: too powerful
- Kalamax, the Stormsire: too powerful
- Loyal Retainers: too obvious of a choice as a cumly
- Monastery Mentor: too powerful
- Moonveil Dragon: pumping the team makes for anticlimactic endings
- Murktide Regent: we’ve seen enough of this card already in other formats
- Ornithopter of Paradise: too obvious of a choice as a cumly
- Phantom Tiger: too weak
- Risen Reef: too powerful
- Shadrix Silverquill: creates Inkling tokens, not a supported creature type
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid: too powerful
- Thraben Inspector: we’ve seen enough of this card already in other formats
- Toxrill, the Corrosive: creates Slug tokens, not a supported creature type
ENCHANTMENT
- Alpha Authority: hexproof makes for less interesting games
- Favorable Winds: too weak
- Offspring's Revenge: too narrow
- Pernicious Deed: too powerful of a board wipe
- Rally the Ranks: too weak
- Song of Freyalise: too typical a card for green
LAND (types are grouped together in this list)
- Tolarian Academy: too powerful
- Arid Mesa: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Bloodstained Mire: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Flooded Strand: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Marsh Flats: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Misty Rainforest: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Polluted Delta: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Scalding Tarn: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Verdant Catacombs: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Windswept Heath: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Wooded Foothills: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Badlands: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Bayou: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Plateau: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Savannah: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Scrubland: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Taiga: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Tropical Island: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Tundra: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Underground Sea: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Volcanic Island: mana-fixing should not be so easy in Cumly Cube
- Hissing Quagmire: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
- Lavaclaw Reaches: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
- Lumbering Falls: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
- Shambling Vent: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
- Needle Spires: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
- Raging Ravine: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
- Stirring Wildwood: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
- Wandering Fumarole: creature lands are too versatile and discourage disciplined drafting
INSTANT
- Abnormal Endurance: too typical a card for black
- Aerial Predation: too narrow
- Alchemist's Gift: too weak
- Arbor Armament: too weak
- Autumn's Veil: too narrow
- Betrayal of Flesh: too weak
- Bladebrand: too typical a card for black
- Brainstorm: we’ve seen enough of this card already in other formats
- Cathartic Pyre: too much utility for an instant
- Comet Storm: one-sided board wipes need to be focused on creature type
- Consider: too typical a card for blue
- Crippling Chill: too typical a card for blue
- Crush: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Dawn Charm: other cards in Cumly Cube fill this role better
- Dive Down: hexproof makes for less interesting games
- Divine Offering: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Dragon's Fire: too typical a card for red
- Electrify: too typical a card for red
- Fell the Pheasant: too narrow
- Gainsay: too narrow
- Gut Shot: too weak
- Heroic Intervention: other cards in Cumly Cube fill this role better
- Hold the Line: too narrow
- Into the Core: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Lash of Thorns: too weak
- Make Your Mark: too weak
- Opt: too typical a card for blue
- Overload: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Pitfall Trap: too narrow
- Repulse: too typical a card for blue
- Scrap: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Seedtime: too narrow
- Shatter: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Smash: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Smashing Success: spot artifact removal is not to be part of Cumly Cube
- Smite: too narrow
- Turn to Frog: turns a creature into a Frog, not a supported creature type
- Unsummon: other cards in Cumly Cube fill this role better
SORCERY
- Blasphemous Act: too typical a card for red
- Chart a Course: too much utility
- Cleansing Wildfire: too much utility
- Cultivate: too typical a card for green
- Disentomb: too typical a card for black
- From the Ashes: too narrow
- Funeral Rites: too much utility
- Gitaxian Probe: too typical a card for blue
- Necromantic Summons: too typical a card for black
- Nighthaze: other cards in Cumly Cube fill this role better
- Persist: too typical a card for black
- Pirate's Prize: too much utility
- Ponder: too much utility
- Reanimate: too typical a card for black
- Recover: other cards in Cumly Cube fill this role better
- Serum Visions: too typical a card for blue
- Spitting Earth: too typical a card for red
- Thoughtcast: too typical a card for blue
ADDED:
ARTIFACT
- Coat of Arms: encourages building around creature types
- Patchwork Banner: encourages building around creature types
CREATURE
- Arahbo, the First Fang: supports the Avatar and Cat creature types
- Avatar of the Resolute: supports the Avatar creature type
- Autonomous Assembler: supports the Assembly-worker creature type
- Bag End Porter: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Breya, Etherium Shaper: supports the Human and Thopter creature types
- Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider: supports the Human and Pirate creature types
- Captivating Unicorn: supports the Unicorn creature type and supports enchantment decks
- Centaur Battlemaster: supports the Centaur creature type and functions as a strong payoff for prowess decks
- Chronicler of Heroes: supports the Centaur creature type
- Conclave Cavalier: supports the Centaur and Elf creature types
- Conclave Mentor: supports the Centaur creature type
- Crosis, the Purger: supports the Dragon creature type
- Fear of Exposure: supports the Nightmare creature type and supports enchantment decks
- Ghostly Changeling: supports all creature synergy decks
- Gimli of the Glittering Caves: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Glissa Sunseeker: supports the Elf creature type
- Graveshifter: supports all creature synergy decks
- Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea: supports the Elf creature type
- Haunt of the Dead Marshes: supports the Elf and Nightmare creature types
- He Who Hungers: supports the Spirit creature type
- Heedless One: supports the Avatar and Elf creature types
- Jungle Creeper: supports the Elemental creature type
- Jungle Delver: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Kataki, War's Wage: supports the Spirit creature type and functions as artifact hate
- Keiga, the Tide Star: supports the Dragon and Spirit creature types
- Kiora's Follower: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Lagonna-Band Trailblazer: supports the Centaur creature type
- Marwyn, the Nurturer: supports the Elf creature type
- Master Skald: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Mine Layer: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Neighborhood Guardian: supports the Unicorn creature type
- Promised Kannushi: supports the Human and Spirit creature types
- Realmwalker: supports all creature synergy decks
- Reveka, Wizard Savant: supports the Dwarf creature type
- Seraphic Steed: supports the Angel and Unicorn creature types
- Soul of Zendikar: supports the Avatar and Beast creature types
- Steadfast Unicorn: supports the Unicorn creature type
- Stingmoggie: supports the Elemental creature type and functions as artifact hate
- Sygg, River Cutthroat: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Vineshaper Mystic: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Wistful Selkie: supports the Merfolk creature type
- Yargle and Multani: supports the Elemental and Spirit creature types
- Zacama, Primal Calamity: supports the Dinosaur creature type
ENCHANTMENT
- Aura of Silence: functions as artifact and enchantment hate
- Aura Shards: functions as artifact and enchantment hate
- Blessed Sanctuary: supports the Unicorn creature type
- Corrosion: functions as artifact hate
- Embargo: interesting prison piece for stasis decks
- Font of Fortunes: card advantage at a fair price for Cumly Cube
- Gate to Phyrexia: functions as artifact hate and supports the niche but possible sacrifice deck
- Impending Disaster: a useful piece for aggressive decks or niche graveyard decks
- Shared Animosity: supports all creature synergy decks
LAND (types are grouped together in this list)
- Drowned Catacomb: completing the full set of check lands
- Glacial Fortress: completing the full set of check lands
- Hinterland Harbor: completing the full set of check lands
- Sulfur Falls: completing the full set of check lands
- Cascade Bluffs: completing the full set of filter lands
- Graven Cairns: completing the full set of filter lands
- Mystic Gate: completing the full set of filter lands
- Sunken Ruins: completing the full set of filter lands
- Wooded Bastion: completing the full set of filter lands
- Darkwater Catacombs: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Desolate Mire: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Ferrous Lake: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Fire-Lit Thicket: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Flooded Grove: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Overflowing Basin: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Skycloud Expanse: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Sunscorched Divide: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
- Viridescent Bog: completing the full set of Odyssey filter lands
INSTANT
- Accelerate: supports prowess decks
- And They Shall Know No Fear: supports all creature synergy decks
- Artifact Mutation: functions as artifact hate and supports the Saproling creature type
- Bandage: supports prowess decks and is also funny
- Brokers Charm: charms are an important part of Cumly Cube
- Charge Through: supports prowess decks
- Cremate: supports prowess decks
- Mirrodin Avenged: supports prowess decks
- Poison the Blade: supports prowess decks and offers deathtouch in green instead of its typical color, black
- Pressure Point: supportsli prowess decks and offers tapping in white instead of its typical color, blue
- Steady Progress: supports prowess decks as well as slower proliferate decks
- Sugar Rush: supports prowess decks and offers power boost in black instead of its typical color, red
- Treacherous Greed: supports the niche but possible sacrifice deck
- Turf Wound: a strange tempo card that fits the ethos of Cumly Cube
- Warriors' Lesson: supports prowess decks and might end up as green Ancestral Recall
SORCERY
- Altar of Bone: supports the niche but possible sacrifice deck
- Aphetto Dredging: supports all creature synergy decks
- Apocalypse: total game resets are an important part of Cumly Cube, because you end up playing more Cumly Cube!
- Ashen Powder: a more situational and odd piece for reanimator decks
- Blood for Bones: a more situational and odd piece for reanimator decks
- Breath of Life: offers reanimation in white instead of its typical color, black
- Broken Bond: functions as artifact and enchantment hate yet also ramps
- Channel the Suns: a strange yet useful mana-fixer. Out with fetch lands, in with sorcery WUBRG!
- Cloak of Feathers: supports prowess decks
- Crippling Fear: supports all creature synergy decks
- False Dawn: supports prowess decks and might offer mana-fixing in niche situations? Even if this card is pretty useless, it screams Cumly Cube
- Grim Tutor: tutoring is a small part of Cumly Cube but very important in the right decks
- Growth Spasm: offers ramp, mana-fixing, and supports the Eldrazi creature type
- Hymn of Rebirth: offers reanimation in green and white instead of its typical color, black
- Ice Storm: land destruction is a small part of Cumly Cube but a necessary balance, and not usually in green
- Jace's Triumph: there are Jace planeswalkers in Cumly Cube
- Mana Vapors: a strange tempo card that fits the ethos of Cumly Cube
- Many Partings: offers mana-fixing and food
- Migratory Route: offers mana-fixing and supports the Bird creature type
- Obzedat's Aid: offers reanimation in black and white
- Ordered Migration: supports the Bird creature type
- Raise the Palisade: supports all creature synergy decks
- Resourceful Return: a more situational and odd piece for black graveyard decks and artifact decks
- Ribbons of Night: offers direct damage in black instead of its typical color, red
- Rise of the Witch-king: a more situational and odd piece for reanimator decks
- Riveteers Confluence: similar to a charm
- Safewright Quest: offers slight mana-fixing in green and white
- Solve the Equation: tutoring is a small part of Cumly Cube but very important in the right decks
- Sweep the Skies: supports the Thopter creature type
- Temporal Machinations: supports artifact decks
- Unnatural Restoration: supports proliferate decks
- Urborg Repossession: a more situational and odd piece for black graveyard decks
capwner on
Group hug but snake, so Boa Constrictor
9 months ago
Looks like a sweet list, right mix of power and fun. Xyris is super strong. I feel like Battle Hymn is underplayed and goes crazy in here. Artifact Mutation is a personal fav of mine as well, good picks. I like the omission of Narset, seems like a conscious choice to keep the deck fair and fun. I don't have too many recs, stuff that comes to mind would be Earthcraft but it's pretty expensive. And Purph but I'm sure you've thought about him. +1
DemonDragonJ on Eislinda and Vernalia
1 year ago
I have designed my own character inspired by the Snow Queen from Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale of the same name, a rival for her, as well as several cards associated with each of them. I assure the users here that my posting of an ice queen shortly after WotC revealed theirs is pure coincidence, as I had this idea in my head for some time, but simply never had sufficient free time to post it, before now, so here is what I have produced.
Eislinda, the Ice Queen Show
Eislinda represents calm logic and deliberate, methodical action, as evidenced by how her ability is an activated ability, and her name contains the word "eis," which is German for "ice."
Eislinda's Disdain Show
This card is a smaller version of Punish Ignorance in the same way that Countersquall is a smaller version of Undermine.
Icy Rebuke Show
I modeled this card after non-blue counterspells, such as Dawn Charm and Rebuff the Wicked, because I found those spells to be too limited but I do not believe that this spell is too powerful or a color pie break, since it still is fairly limited in what it can do.
Eisheim, the Frozen Palace Show
Most utility lands do not produce colored mana, so I wished to make one that did, and I ensured that it also had an ability for each color of mana that it could produce. I hope that this land is not too powerful, but, if it is, I certainly would appreciate feedback on how to better balance it.
Now that I have displayed Eislinda and cards associated with her, I shall introduce her rival.
Vernalia, Herald of Spring Show
Vernalia is the opposite of Eislinda; she represents growth, rebirth, and passion, while Eislinda represent death, darkness, and apathy, but she also represents instinct, intuition, and unconscious action, as demonstrated by her abilities being triggered abilities, while Eislinda's abilities are activated abilities. Her name contains the word "vernal," which is Latin for "of, or relating to, Spring."
Vernalia's Grasp Show
I am very surprised that WotC has not yet printed a card that combines Artifact Mutation and Aura Mutation, so I have made such a card, and I feel that it is perfectly balanced at costing 3 mana, while the other two cards have a combined mana value of 4.
Grunwald, Cradle of Spring Show
I had contemplated having the green ability put a +1/+1 counter on a creature, but that would require that there be a creature on the battlefield, so I changed it to always be useful. "Grunwald" is German for "green forest," which, I suppose, is somewhat redundant, in the context of this game.
What does everyone else say about these cards? I spend a great amount of time and effort designing them, so I welcome any feedback that anyone has to offer!
Kinz on
Chishiro
2 years ago
Creature removal: Beast Within, Decimate, Kenrith's Command, Mawloc, Domri's Ambush, Ground Assault, Clan Defiance, Pit Fight, Ram Through, Inscription of Abundance, Ulvenwald Tracker, Lignify, Prizefight, Cosmic Hunger, Tail Swipe, Bite Down, Rabid Bite, Master's Rebuke, Devouring Tendrils, Warbriar Blessing, Epic Confrontation, Tandem Takedown, Chaos Warp, Vow of Lightning, Meteor Swarm, Volcanic Salvo, Arni Slays the Troll
Artifact/Enchantment removal: Migloz, Maze Crusher, Hull Breach, Kogla and Yidaro, Klauth's Will, Artifact Mutation, Cindervines, Vithian Renegades, Reclamation Sage, Tranquil Frillback, Kogla, the Titan Ape, Manglehorn, Masked Vandal, Titan of Industry, Woodfall Primus, Wickerbough Elder, Vandalblast, Abrade, Fall of the Hammer
Board wipes x3: Chain Reaction, Starstorm, Blasphemous Act, Anger of the Gods, Brotherhood's End, Chandra's Ignition, Klauth's Will, Monstrous Onslaught, Mizzium Mortars
Ramp: Goblin Anarchomancer, Incubation Druid, Springbloom Druid, Sanctum Weaver, Gyre Sage, Fertilid, Kami of Whispered Hopes, Biophagus, Wolfwillow Haven, Klothys, God of Destiny, Gift of Paradise, Font of Fertility, Dawntreader Elk, Omen of the Hunt, New Horizons, Blighted Burgeoning
We'll check these out next time.
eliakimras on
Jund Dragons
2 years ago
Forgot to say what to take out for the three cards above: Green Sun's Twilight, Hull Breach, Lukka, Bound to Ruin. The Twilight is unrealiable until you spend a lot of mana into it. The Breach is sorcery-speed. The planeswalker does not do much here.
Now some small upgrades you can make:
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Assassin's Trophy and Tear Asunder are more versatile than Artifact Mutation and Putrefy.
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If graveyard decks are rampant on your playgroup, Baleful Mastery works better than Terminate.
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If you run fetchable lands (Ziatora's Proving Ground, Blood Crypt, Stomping Ground, Overgrown Tomb, Canyon Slough, Woodland Chasm, Sulfurous Mire, Highland Forest, Haunted Mire, Geothermal Bog, Wooded Ridgeline), consider running Three Visits, Farseek, Into the North and Skyshroud Claim instead of Sakura-Tribe Elder, Rampant Growth, Explosive Vegetation and Thran Dynamo.
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Since you run Crux of Fate, it might be better not depend on non-dragon creature ramp: Courser of Kruphix, Shaman of Forgotten Ways and Solemn Simulacrum could instead be Scaled Nurturer, Fellwar Stone and Coalition Relic.
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Garruk, Primal Hunter and Return of the Wildspeaker draw way more cards than Read the Bones and Dragonmaster Outcast (this last one is too slow to get going).
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You probably want to run Ash Barrens, Blighted Woodland and Myriad Landscape for more fixing and ramp. Exotic Orchard and Secluded Courtyard wouldn't hurt, either.
jarncards on
hasteland
2 years ago
For global haste you can use Fires of Yavimaya, Concordant Crossroads, Mass Hysteria, and Urabrask the Hidden who will also conveniently turn off other people's haste. Anger and Barbarian Class also give haste after more effort.
Ant Queen, Artifact Mutation, Battle Hymn, Circle of Dreams Druid, Dragon Broodmother, Pest Infestation, Scute Swarm, Tempt with Vengeance, Sylvan Offering, Termagant Swarm are all useful if you can give haste to all of them.
Birds of Paradise is just the best mana dork.
You have green, so you might as well use the standard ramp package with Cultivate , Kodama's Reach, Explore , Farseek, , Rampant Growth, Three Visits and Nature's Lore. Probably ignore most mana rocks, because people are going to want to vandalblast you just because of the treasures.
Relentless Assault, Scourge of the Throne, Combat Celebrant, Hexplate Wallbreaker, World at War grant extra combats, with Hellkite Charger and Aggravated Assault potentially going infinite.
Vandalblast goes in every red deck. Even though youll have a ton of treasures i'd still run Brotherhood's End too
For draw spells consider Scroll Rack, Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, Soul's Majesty, Furious Rise, Rishkar's Expertise, Beast Whisperer, Shamanic Revelation, Disciple of Bolas, Pact of the Serpent, Painful Truths, Harmonize, Sign in Blood, Night's Whisper, Read the Bones, Ambition's Cost, Ancient Craving, Damnable Pact, Commune with Lava, Lifeblood Hydra, or maybe Necropotence although the color restricion on necro is tough, treasures should take care of it.
Fable of the Mirror-Breaker Flip, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer , The Reaver Cleaver , Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge , Ancient Copper Dragon , Old Gnawbone Ziatora, the Incinerator for more treasure makers. Pyrohemia and Pestilence could be fun with the extra mana. Awaken the Woods is an amazing x spell too, but wont appreciate the two aforementioned cards.
If you're using magda the deck will benefit from dragons and expensive artifacts. throw in Imperial Recruiter and Worldly Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Demonic Tutor all go in your colors. so you can get her more consistently. Darksteel Forge and Gate to Phyrexia can be tutored into play with her for five treasure.
If you use dragons, you could add Dragonstorm, but you should carefully consider how many cheap spells you expect to be able to cast if you arent building specifically towards this card. Chatterstorm, Empty the Warrens, Yawgmoth's Will, Jeska's Will, Mana Geyser, and Manamorphose, Past in Flames are all good on their own and would add synergy.
If it ends up dragon tribal, cards like Crippling Fear , Kindred Dominance, Crux of Fate
Swashbuckler Extraordinaire is a very good payoff for using treasures if you dont use certain other nightmarish dragons like Atarka, World Render, Blast-Furnace Hellkite, Terror of Mount Velus, Thrakkus the Butcher
thefiresoflurve on
Naya Populate True
2 years ago
Welcome to big board state club! (I used to run G/W populate back in the day).
Disclaimer: not sure what your budget is for recommendations, so I'm going to go by what I see here (Dockside, Smothering Tithe, Parallel Lives level of cost for individual recommendations).
I think Ghired, Conclave Exile would make a better commander here than Palladia-Mors, unless you're tied to the latter for sentimentality/flavor/etc.
Next, land base. The single best thing I did for my Esper deck was upgrading my land base. You don't have to go super hard here to see results, but I would put together a list like: 1x Cabaretti Courtyard 1x Command Tower 1x Jungle Shrine 1x Sungrass Prairie 1x Rockfall Vale 1x Branchloft Pathway Flip 1x Needleverge Pathway Flip 1x Rogue's Passage 1x Kessig Wolf Run 1x Gavony Township. If you like this route, there are even more cheaper dual lands you can add in like the Temple of Triumph and friends.
There are a few cuts or substitutions that I think the main deck could make really easily:
Ultramarines Honour Guard -> Caller of the Pack. If Ghired attacks with a creature that has Myriad, he can populate the token that Myriad creates, but the Populated token forgets about the exile clause. Thus, you can end up with a theoretically infinite horde of creatures. It's fantastic. :D
Going off that last bit... Wayfaring Temple -> Treasure. Basically a great card in commander anyway, here it's a free win if you manage to clone it.
Growing Ranks is an easy cut. It's way too slow for EDH (compare it to Parallel Lives...) Could replace it with a Talisman of Conviction or friends to help you ramp faster.
I would replace Momentous Fall with Teferi's Protection or Akroma's Will or Grand Crescendo - some extra source of board wipe dodging. I don't think your creatures are really big enough to warrant a momentous fall.
I would also replace Druid's Deliverance with one of the aforementioned board wipe dodges. There are also some cheaper options like Your Temple is Under Attack, Unbreakable Formation, Make a Stand. Reasoning being: you should have enough board state to block things that want to hurt you, as long as you keep your board alive.
As far as making tokens sooner: well, if you want to do that, you're going to have to run some cheaper creatures.... or ramp faster. I'd probably opt for ramping faster, TBH, since your creatures are really cool. If you add the entire Gruul Signet and friends, along with the Talismans I mentioned earlier, that should get you to the minimum ramp package in tricolor EDH to make sure you can play quickly.
Naya Charm -> Artifact Mutation can help make some earlier tokens.
Brindle Shoat and Call of the Conclave are some decent options for turn 3 tokens you might consider, as well. But adding those would also require cutting other stuff.... horrible choice I don't envy you : P
Sorry for the wall of text...Hope that helps, and happy building!
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