Comments on: Conflux + Alara Reborn Cube Update

By: Brodie

Brodie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:58:03 +0000

Taking out morphling is pretty tricky, even under the new rules changes he is still an 0/x flying shroud wall that deals with alot of problems.

Kitaki is a poor addition IMO.

One card that has been kicking around my play area that seems to be an absolute house is Wash Out, maybe give that a try and see if you like how it plays.

Your cube is still awesome (and my stores default proxy cube)

By: Rachael

Rachael — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:27:20 +0000

Nice updates for the most part. Could you post a draft walkthrough? There aren’t really any available online.

By: sum1unopk

sum1unopk — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:30:33 +0000

An idea for RW, as my play group disagrees with Bull Ceredon’s addition…
Razia’s Purification.
It’s awesome as an additional balance effect, and can often be crippling to the opponent.

By: pablo

pablo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:29:03 +0000

I dropped demonfire for banefire a looooong time ago.

By: arosine

arosine — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:43:51 +0000

No Banefire addition? Blasphemy in the name of red!

By: zocktol

zocktol — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:43:53 +0000

HI guys,

i’m not a cube expert but wouldn’t Throat Slitter be a good card for the cube.

It’s really strong in a deck that relies on CiP-Effects and is removal.

By: fan

fan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:15:26 +0000

thanks a lot evan! your work hardly goes unnoticed. the little things you do like the mouse-over card images are fantastic, and your game coverage videos are amazing. it’s so helpful to not have to click away and search for a card, and the way you display the cards in the videos as the game proceeds is that much greater.

i won’t post my personal remarks about your card choices (except that Morphling should stay =P) but i will say that many of the hybrid cards are not nearly as good as some gold or even monocoloured cards out there, so merging the hybrid and gold sections while dropping the suboptimal hybrids seems like a good move to me.

happy drafting!

By: Kenny Mayer

Kenny Mayer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:38:43 +0000

I think Future Sight probably has a place, but it’s definitely not strictly better than Honden. Many times Future Sight has sat in the board due to it’s fairly harsh mana requirements while the simple U required in the Honden makes it far less taxing on the mana. You get what you pay for, as Future Sight will generally be a more powerful effect, but it will also fit in fewer decks as well.

By: argus

argus — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:49:41 +0000

one more thing: where’s future sight? its better than a honden since it wins games on its own

By: Tyrael

Tyrael — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:15:58 +0000

I just use 25 hybrids, and the color combo is 2 or 3 each, according to how deep each one is. A one-card difference in a couple colors isn’t a big deal, and keeps out “color-requirement only” chaff. I would much rather have a slight color imbalance than open a 14-card pack (Worm Harvest? Really?). Besides, WotC doesn’t balance colors perfectly and that doesn’t seem to make limited environments unplayable.

I’d take out some hybrid- the HHH costs make them essentially gold cards requiring two color decks, as others have said. The point of hybrid is to make the cards playable in any deck that shares one of its colors, not both exact colors. They’re supposed to be playable in more decks than a one-color card, not fewer. The more things people can pick per pack, the better. That’s one of my favorite parts of the cube- each pick presents far more options than a regular draft.

If you must keep every gold and hybrid color combination exactly equal (just because it looks prettier??) then cut the chaff, even at the expense of good cards in other color combos. If you cut 5 chaff hybrids and 5 good ones, the cube goes from 5/555 crap cards to 0/545 crap cards. I’d rather lose 5 good cards than have 5 crappy ones floating around. 0% crap is far better than 1% crap- and isn’t the point of the cube to “draft the most powerful cards ever”, as opposed to “draft the most powerful cards ever plus some bad ones that nobody uses”?

I guess that’s another of the cube’s wonders, though- to each his own.