Placed Ragavan in the Vinntage extension, to cut reds strength a little in the base cube.
Elspeth for Token decks. And a green card to even out the colors with the least cards.
Although I like Initiative it often gets mixed reception.
Add Gleemox to the extension.
With this updated I want to:
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add one initiative card in every color
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balance the mc section better
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promote some string cards to the base cube
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Koma didn't really see play. Also in the online cubes I watch it was widely ignored. So I am trying Deathclaw now also balancing the GB section
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Mawloc got promoted to the base cube. Lumberjack fills its place as an archetype signpost
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Emporer got promoted as well. Coat comes back as it is good in stealing back the initiative
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Sphinx had the same problems as Koma. Caretaker is a stringer pick I guess
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Noise Marine clunked up the 5cc section in R. INterpreter comes back as it is cheaper
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Barrowgoyf also got promoted and makes room for FtC
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To balance the mc section Command has to make room for a UB card. So LimDuls Vault is back
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WIth the previous mentioned change Dark Petition can go and Crabomition comes back for a second chance
I removed a few high Elo cards from he base cube to balance Boros a little.
Regrowth has been silently powercrept out of business. It never occured to me to cut it but now is the time to make room for the demoted IE.
- "Pre-War Formalwear" looks like a decent card. "Invert Polarity" probably looks cooler than it really is as even LSV as removed it from his cube although he was pretty excited in the first place
- "Silent Hallcreeper" is a fine card but not a must have. Trying out "Koma, Worldeater" instead
- Trying out "Sphinx of Fogotten Lore" for "Cryptic Coat" as both have evasion and Sphinx has a cool trick up its sleeve
- "Snuff Out" is promoted to the base cube making room for another black card like "Metamorphosis Fanatic"
- "Crabomination" often failed to get good cards and "Sire of Seven Deaths" is for +1 nearly unbeatable. Also it helps the green ramp theme that is still in my cube
- "Scrapheap Scrounger" was meant as a recurring threat. Now that in base cube features more recurring threats it is not really necessary from mpov and I would like to test "Scrawling Crawler" as it is a nice card with a positive Howling Mine effect and nice with Draw Sevens.
Looking at 3 drop section of creatures and reducing a little. Bring back a little more Storm support. And bring back Finale.
The latest changes had to main themes:
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Add more lands so that we reach 90 lands when playing the base cube with an extension. This means having at least 25ish lands in this cube extension.
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Improve the aristocrats archetype in the Vintage extension which meant switching cards between Legacy and Vintage extension so that there is a better balance.
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Cut storm support as the archetype is not really pulling its weight anymore in the new and faster cube environement.
While 2 resulted more or less in removing cards from the Vintage extension to make room for cards from the this Legacy extension for the latter it meant bringing back older cards that I already removed like Custodi Lich.
1 actually resulted in cards leaving the base cube mainly in the direction of the Legacy extension cube that forced out cards in the Legacy extension but also a few in this extension.
3 made room for more cards - like lands - but also helped to take up cards from the base cube.
... for UBR.