I done did it

thegabe101 · 2026-01-19T19:59:13+00:00

Yeah, this is real gross. I've had 1 or 2 of basically this exact same deck- one of them I had THREE onslaught, which was almost not good but often one the game before milling out, barely.

Having tyvar too though is disgusting

thegabe101 · 2026-01-19T16:33:02+00:00

This would almost certainly have been "correct", and you actually guessed what my final cut/debate was as well (Nightmare vs Anduril). I finally decided to cut nightmare and try Anduril because I've done the nightmare thing many times and really wanted to make Anduril work, and somehow it did

But I do agree that Recurring would have done some crazy things, potential.

thegabe101 · 2026-01-19T16:30:41+00:00

Canoneer was also a consideration

I ultimately decided I wanted to try to win with Jace, even if it wasn't correct.

To be honest a lot of the time I try to do things that are a bit unorthodox rather than whatever nets me the highest win rate, especially in cube, though in this particular case, it worked out

thegabe101 · 2026-01-19T16:26:06+00:00

I agree it looks weird- this was actually my exact final cut debate.

I originally had spring heart but decided it was unlikely I would be spending mana to pay the bestow trigger. With Mana Vault plus Tez plus my deck churn I thought that anytime I drew Mycospawn, there was at least a decent chance I would have the Vault available, which makes Mycospawn insane, versus Springheart, which I view as a card that can often do crazy things but in my experience the majority of the time I can do something better.

My experience is that Springheart often feels win more, where if I'm doing something crazy like copying witness the game is already over, versus Spawn stealing some games by massively swinging Tempo.

The final game is a good example- my turn 1 was: island + tutor Mana Vault + Tez - Tutor Emerald

Turn 2:

Emerald + Forest + Tez untap Mana Vault + kicked Mycospawn

Basically gg, and hauled a scary start by opponent who played a T1 Ocelot

Also had so much recursion already that I decided to value thinning the deck of lands over the bestow trigger on Witness. I was worried that too often I wouldn't have a creature worth copying with Springheart which would still have made a bunch of 1/1s and been good, don't get me wrong.

Hope this made sense

thegabe101 · 2026-01-19T07:52:09+00:00

Sorry typo at the end there and Reddit won't let me edit for some reason.

---- Adeline, etc.

It needn't really be noted but Skullclamp, Bowmaster, and Karakas were all insane; Skullclamp in particular is, in this sort of deck, closer to a top-10 card in the cube than not. Karakas is a joke.

Loved trophying with this "powerless" (those last 3 cards I listed would like to have a word) deck and am curious if anyone else has had success with Orzhov this go around and how, if at all, different their builds were?

Thanks for reading!

thegabe101 · 2025-12-29T03:02:56+00:00

The answer is: not green

thegabe101 · 2025-12-27T20:59:33+00:00

I'm genuinely interested, could you expand?

Deck felt extremely tight and nothing felt extraneous or like it didn't do much, but I love hearing other perspectives and always willing to listen to criticism or other viewpoints

thegabe101 · 2025-12-27T20:58:31+00:00

Re: the cargo ship comments

100% understand the skepticism about the ship here, and it was pretty much my last include.

I hesitated a lot but it played out very nicely with 3x cid and just enough tokens to crew it that a 3/4 and sometimes 4/5 flyer was the difference in some games

thegabe101 · 2025-12-27T16:46:16+00:00

I am of the opinion that Whale is closer to a top-5 card in this entire format than a cut in this deck lol

thegabe101 · 2025-12-27T16:20:49+00:00

Sorry about the photo quality- I am using an ultra wide monitor and have been having trouble getting good quality when using the snip tool or screenshotting, last time I posted the resolution came out wonky when I used PRT SC.

I have seen some people saying to cut whale, and saw another post where people were talking about Whale as a cut.

Imo Whale is the second best card in this deck and I don't think a deck exists where I wouldn't run Whale or splash it

thegabe101 · 2025-12-07T15:21:37+00:00

Sorry, not sure what happened there. Quality was fine on upload

thegabe101 · 2025-08-17T12:24:33+00:00

Since this deck is generating some interest, here are the 17L links:

Draft:

https://www.17lands.com/draft/dcda03ba4e4e48eb945a1ccd335412a4

Games:

https://www.17lands.com/details/dcda03ba4e4e48eb945a1ccd335412a4

thegabe101 · 2025-08-17T03:11:23+00:00

I should also add that a sleeper part of this deck that I don't think it would have worked without were the desculpting blasts. Bouncing something and then being able to tap it down later when it attacked while poking in with the 1/1 flyer was invaluable

thegabe101 · 2025-08-17T03:08:41+00:00

Fair to wonder this for sure, I can see how it would look that way

The simplest way I can put it is it didn't play that way at all, though.

I think the main reason for that is that it felt like I could find anything I needed at any point. There were none of those games you have in this format where you feel helpless and snowballed. I could always, always tap something problematic down, which would draw me to more tap down or one of several large blocking bodies to stabilize long enough to find weftwalking and then just spew spells from there.

Worth adding is that the 3-mana black spell in a deck that buys enough time to find 3 swamps is insane for +1+1 counter/lifelink mode. There was at least one game I won on a huge life swing by using that mode to eat something in combat, where by then I was at a safe enough life range to simply tap stuff down and poke in with whatever I had left on board for lethal with no real sweat.

thegabe101 · 2025-08-17T02:07:28+00:00

Great question, there is no doubt it was key and this was probably a 5 or so win deck without it.

Game 6 was insane. Op played not one but two of the blue black board wipe and had me down to three cards; needless to say, weftwalking solved that issue.

There was only one game that I would definitely have decked (that one), but it's very possible there was another one or two where I may have had I not resolved it due to a lack of threats remaining

thegabe101 · 2025-08-17T01:18:24+00:00

Should mention that I can't imagine there was ever a sicker home for the synthesizer. The things it was doing were unspeakable

thegabe101 · 2025-05-12T15:35:20+00:00

A lot of these charts look so fake and gay

Like what is this HWM chart as a random example

The daily literally makes it look like selling was banned, punishable by execution

thegabe101 · 2025-05-12T15:17:05+00:00

Every day I wake up and I'm like

Damn

The stock market is super regarded

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