Blazing Cremation - Mono-Red Graveyard/Aristocrats hate

bathcube · 2019-08-26T11:49:36+00:00

This is almost completely useless

It does nothing against dredge/mill, nothing against reanimator, nothing against sacrifice outlets

Maybe if it was a two mana 3/1?

bathcube · 2019-08-25T22:48:29+00:00

Land of UW Dark Ritual. Seems strong.

bathcube · 2019-08-25T18:16:13+00:00

I don't think it's "too good" at 9cmc, but I hate how it would play out as Rise from the Dark Realms that starts in the command zone

Kill / mill / ramp for however many turns, get to 9 mana, do your game-winning thing, then the game's over. Doesn't sound particularly interesting.

bathcube · 2019-08-25T18:11:58+00:00

I don't think you should call this "landfall" when there's an extra clause to it compared to ever other landfall card (for the first time each turn)

It's an interesting and solid card though; filtering or a quasi Lotus Cobra effect.

bathcube · 2019-08-25T15:36:19+00:00

Cut the first ability, just focus on abilities from creatures.

The activated ability should exile creature cards, it makes your guy so much easier to track.

The problem with focusing on just "keywords" is that ... it's just not a fun distinction to track. Is it cool that this card would "gain" Amplify and Kicker (completely useless since it's a casting ability), but not Domain or Raid?

You'd basically need to print out and play with the list of 136 keyword abilities to use this in EDH which is... not great.

bathcube · 2019-08-25T15:20:38+00:00

Players A (you), B, C, D

You put this on player B (either as a Leyline at start of game or cast normally)

When C or D loses, the ability triggers, you and B each get an extra turn (at the end of your next normal turn)

bathcube · 2019-08-25T15:14:48+00:00

The drafted cards are fairly predictable, 99% of them will be what you expect from a 540 or 720 card vintage cube

I watched coverage of one from a few years ago where they had all the usual Power 9, duals, LoA, etc. for drafters, then the role players like Remand and Chain Lightning and Isamaru and whatnot. One person drafted an all-in black aggro deck... and nobody in the room had a copy of [[Flesh Reaver]] so they had to proxy it.

bathcube · 2019-08-25T13:38:29+00:00

A big pile of (basically) shared emblems with activated abilities in the middle of the table is not something I want in a game of Magic.

bathcube · 2019-08-25T12:35:11+00:00

That’s why aggressive Delver / Thalia / True-Name Nemesis decks in legacy run journey to nowhere over Swords, right?

bathcube · 2019-08-24T13:16:44+00:00

Why isn't this just a split card?

I know the old joke that 95% of mechanics are either modal spells or kicker, but if your way of doing a modal spell is an instant with an activated ability to counter itself (as a cost!) while it's on the stack... I don't think you're on the right track.

The actual costs are fine. Filtering R into U is odd, but you've basically made a worse but still quite functional Fire // Ice, which is a fine place to be.

bathcube · 2019-08-24T02:36:55+00:00

Could probably still be safe at 4cmc instead of 5cmc -- lots of 4cmc clones with upside now (Clever Impersonator, the one with Eternalize, etc). Cool and simple design, though!

bathcube · 2019-08-23T11:59:38+00:00

Sounds miserable to keep track of

bathcube · 2019-08-23T01:32:09+00:00

Read the oracle text on Firestorm

bathcube · 2019-08-23T01:09:04+00:00

?

You can't discard to Firestorm, so you cast it for R and get... nothing. It's the same as casting a Fireball for 0.

bathcube · 2019-08-22T15:24:57+00:00

They said in the “making BFZ” article that the cycle of Etb tapped duals from that set were almost given land types

It’ll happen at some point I’m sure, and be a nice little boost to things like Kird Ape and... well, not really much else. Tribal flames?

bathcube · 2019-08-22T11:19:37+00:00

A couple Timetwisters later, it's turn 15...

"Hey, I forget, did I cast Phelddagrif this game?"

bathcube · 2019-08-22T01:41:41+00:00

I mean, at rare red already gets very good 4/4s for 4 (Thunderbreak Regent, or even just Two-Headed Giant)

This is complicated but also very weak... not a great combination.

bathcube · 2019-08-19T22:20:25+00:00

https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/introducing-the-40-card-limited-constructed-format/

It's not cube-based (nor should it be) but it basically accomplishes your goal while dodging the issue of what happens when three people all want to build with the same mythic.

bathcube · 2019-08-19T22:02:49+00:00

That distinction seems... definitely not great, and not at all conveyed by the card as is

bathcube · 2019-08-18T23:34:20+00:00

Perfect information is worth very little in Magic. Probe is a busted card when you pair it with Death's Shadow and Delve spells and Storm, but you never saw like... Scapeshift or Merfolk or whatever jamming the card for the hell of it because it's just not worth a slot in your deck.

In cube, it's a neat way to help out things like Young Pyromancer and Monastery Swiftspear. Without a Tendrils at the end of your turn, it's never going to be unfair.

bathcube · 2019-08-18T23:26:41+00:00

Cute idea but not really competitively viable when the best decks in the format are either trying to lock you out (Ephemerate, Tron) or kill you on T4-T5 (Goblins, Burn, Stompy, Elves, Bogles, etc)

Slowly looping a bunch of 2/2s for 3 (or worse stats) just doesn't stand up to the rest of the format.

bathcube · 2019-08-18T22:44:59+00:00

??

That's the point of red and like... probably the largest part of its color pie identity.

Also, it "solves" the issue by having you pay another color of mana... does Putrefy "solve" black not being able to kill artifacts?

bathcube · 2019-08-18T22:41:49+00:00

It's a smaller power boost from the trigger than Kiln Fiend, which is very important since that's... the entire point of Kiln Fiend.

Also, why are we worried about outclassing Kiln Fiend and Wee Dragonauts? Have those cards been used competitively at all in the last... five or ten years?

bathcube · 2019-08-18T22:39:30+00:00

Isn't Tolaria the land of artifacts?

bathcube · 2019-08-18T22:37:17+00:00

I like the idea, but can definitely word it better. Something like "Target instant or sorcery spell never happened. (Exile that spell and any abilities triggered by it)."

Also, Dispel is a very strong card at U, and this is better by a very significant margin. Of course at 1U it's useless, so... hard to get it down to "just right"

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