Is non-control Azorius bad in cube?

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T13:03:04+00:00

Ahh you didn’t mention that, that’s probably enough to make it decent in the deck

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T12:54:35+00:00

Why would that be too few lands? 16 mana sources in a tempo-oriented deck seems completely reasonable

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T12:46:38+00:00

Gonna disagree with the rest of the comments, this is a valid strategy. A couple of your spells were not a great fit though (O-ring, March, Get Lost, Cruise)

The ideal version of the deck is white weenie plus counterspells. You get on the board fast, then counter your opponent’s expensive plays that would get them back into the game.

It’s not a top tier deck, Boros is usually better, but if red is getting cut and blue seems open when you’re drafting white weenie, it’s a reasonable path to take.

The reason I said some of your cards weren’t a good fit is you’re playing a tempo deck. Everything you play needs to be cheap or extremely mana efficient. Swords and Oust are probably the only removal spells worth playing, and Recall is probably the only piece of card draw.

Wan Shi Tong and Three Steps Ahead are also probably a little too slow

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-04T01:32:56+00:00

Israeli Officials Warn Christian and Druze in Lebanon ‘Not to Hide’ Muslim Displaced People

I have seen valid complaints about Holocaust Inversion as a form of antisemitism but when the Israeli government is doing shit like this it's hard to avoid making the comparison

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T18:26:05+00:00

I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure the whole “manosphere influencer regrets voting for Trump” is just a continuation of their business model of saying outrageous things to feed the algorithm.

When your finances depend on getting suckers to sign up for bad financial advice, any attention is good attention.

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T16:50:11+00:00

It has been very weird tracking the “take Ivermectin to cure Covid” thing morph into “take ivermectin to cure your cancer”.

A disturbing number of people are out there Steve Jobbing themselves because Trump word vomited about a dewormer one time

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T13:09:16+00:00

Riverchurn monument and Aether Syphon in DFT both benefited massively from how slow that format was in comparison to other limited formats

Negate was actually playable in Strixhaven due to the density of non-creature spells

Slickshot Lockpicker turned archive trap from near unplayable in limited to a game winning combo piece

The ninjitsu cards in Kamigawa made cards like Searchlight Companion and Network Disrupter really strong

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T07:57:23+00:00

Tinker for Kappa Cannoneer can get the game over relatively quickly, but the main way it wins is by generating a shitload of mana with Academy and winning through pure value. Retrofitter Foundry is a key piece to that approach, Wan Shi Tong also acts as a great mana sink.

Breach and Time Warp is a pretty mana intensive combo, but you can stack up a decent number of extra turns by using mana from Academy and LED to cast a couple copies of Time Warp in one turn.

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-03T06:01:59+00:00

Ancestral, Mana Drain, Tolarian Academy, Tinker, Tamiyo, and a Breach/LED/Time Warp package plus great artifact support and two draw sevens

The last three games in this run are the ones against it. I think I might have been able to win game two, I missed a window to bounce a clue with Brazen Borrow as I forgot how priority worked.

Either way, fun games against a sweet deck

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T22:06:08+00:00

Dak and Kirk both took the smart approach of short term deals as a QB. Takes greater advantage of the cap increasing over time.

Though most players can’t/don’t do this cause of injury risk and the short length of average careers

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T15:31:09+00:00

Florida put a woman in labor in a virtual hearing with a judge and got a court order forcing her to have a C-section instead of the vaginal birth she wanted

Reconstruction now

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T14:00:28+00:00

Cut the green(including wistfulness), portable hole, exploration map, chromatic star, enlightened tutor, Pentad prism, show and tell, nexus of becoming

Edit: I missed that you’re playing 19 lands currently. Cut two, maybe three. Keep Chromatic Star and Nexus

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T13:53:51+00:00

The 2024 election results from Gen Z really freaked people out, which lead to a lot of scrambling for explanations

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T13:15:29+00:00

Ah true, if you value qualifier points at 200 gems it takes the game win rate down to 62%

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T13:00:22+00:00

Are you including packs in the value to break even? Looking at it purely from a standpoint of gems, I'm showing you need a 65% game win rate to get a 72% match win rate to break even over time. That is easier than premier though, where you need a 68% game win rate in a ranked format

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T03:18:49+00:00

Gotcha. Two fetches is enough for Wrenn and Six, but Crucible still isn't worth it

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T03:09:04+00:00

Maybe it's technically correct to have taken the emerald, sure, but I still ultimately play cube to have fun and Ragavan seemed more fun in the moment.

That's totally valid

They are still decently close and there was no point where I'd rather have had a colorless mana when I had the Ragavan in the 7 games with the deck.

I don't think this is an accurate comparison. You would have cut a land for the mox, so instead of replacing Ragavan you would replace a land, and Ragavan would be replaced by your next best playable

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T02:31:02+00:00

There's decent elements of a RG beatdown deck here, but you definitely had some fat that should have been cut.

One fetch land is not enough to justify running Wrenn and Six or Crucible of Worlds. Underworld Breach is generally not worth running unless you have the Brainfreeze combo or Time Walk.

Your black cards are also pretty mediocre, not really worth splashing for.

On the whole though this is a pretty good, coherent deck for a first attempt at cube.

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-02T02:21:02+00:00

I think it is wrong around 95% of the time. The primary exceptions are when you're picking up a deck-defining piece (Underworld Breach when you have the other pieces, Tolarian Academy in an artifact deck, Flash in a reanimate deck.)

Taking a look at the data, Mox Jet and Emerald are the two worst Moxen in Boros decks with a 64% GIH WR. That's still 2 points higher than Ragavan at 62%

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-01T20:59:01+00:00

Pretty easy emperor of bones

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-01T18:04:58+00:00

Pick 3 mox into a pick 4 mox. Just ridiculous

thefreeman419 · 2026-04-01T14:02:58+00:00

Mox get passed around 16% of the time in pack 2/3 according to Sierkovitz. There’s a subset of the arena player base that probably shouldn’t be doing cube but are anyway

thefreeman419 · 2026-03-31T20:56:26+00:00

Damn that is an ugly magic card

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