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Raymond Swanland
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Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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tax and canonist just aren't good

Finding cuts in black however is hard. It is either Damn or one of my holy cows... Damn is partly a white card, that is why it got the axe

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Pre-War Formalwear advantages:

  • it is one mana cheaper (therefore bringing down the cube average)
  • it is an artifact to support a white artifact deck
  • it supports Oswald Fiddlebender (sac Corridor Monitor, get Formalwear and return Corridor Monitor)

Resto Angel is to slow nowadays to play outside of the combo

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Terastodon -> Torsten
Terastodon has been outclassed for a long time, surviving only based on nostalgia.

Court -> Jailer
Jailer is the better card, but like court. Maybe I will reverse this some day.

Dig Through Time -> Brainsurge
I am debating whether to add Brainsurge of Stock Up

Pit Fighter -> Goblin
Obvious power creep.

Strix -> Frog
I want to play with the banned, broken cards. Cutting Strix hurts as he is still a perfectly playable card. But besides being broken, Frog fits better with the color pair. The Artifact deck in black blue never materialized

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Edric was always under powered and not well supported. The only real question is Nadu or Oko.

Necropotence never got played because of its cost. But I still want to make it work, somehow :D Let's try bob in the meantime. He is cheaper and easier to cast.

Containment Priest gets put in as anti cheat tech, obviously. But Also because I want to add more flash creatures in blue and white.

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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I am conflicted about removing Daretti. He is needed redundancy for Goblin Welder, but otherwise relatively bad. Also red's cmc is too high.

I always wanted a counters matter theme in green and since otj there are now cards that should fit into a high power cube. Goldvein Hydra can serve as glue between counter matters, artifacts and infinite mana combos.
Finding cuts was difficult however.

Joraga Treespeaker: In theory he is very powerful, but he doesn't fit into greens curve.
Zenith: Still a great card and I like that it can protect you from decking, but this cube is too small to use it as a toolbox.

Eternal Witness hasn't aged well. Evolution Witness may be even worse, but it has a ridiculous ceiling with Bill and Tumblewagg

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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feldon never did anything and Inti interacts both with aggro and discard value

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Whirler Rogue
Chrome Host Seedshark
I always liked Rogue, because I imagined her as a glue card between artifacts and rogues, but of course I never really supported rogues

Fauna Shaman
Sentinel of the Nameless City
Fauna shaman was never really played
Sentinel should further support green artifacts

Malicious Affliction
Bitter Triumph
more self discard for reanimator

Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Dark Ritual
braids didnt work out
dark ritual was in the first cube of mine, but got removed in the very first night, because my group thought that it is not good in limited. Since lsv likes the card, it now makes a comeback, after I found the original card in an old candy box I used as storage back than. I always knew that the card had to be somewhere but didnt know where exactly

Kitesail Freebooter
Deep-Cavern Bat

Smokestack
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
I want more colorless aggro cards

Looter il-Kor
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
I was looking for an upgrade for looter and now the time has come. Hopefully this and the shark allow blue to defend itself a bit better against aggro

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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I am unsure whether land tax is even good,but it is iconic and I want to try it

white aggro should get one drop 2/1's too
I like the mouse for three reasons:
-the adventure triggers spell matters cards

  • making a creature unblockable by big creatures might be the best upside against cheat decks
  • it is cute

gingerbrute:
I want colorless aggro cards

entomb:
I have recently changed my mind on entomb, it turns reanimate from a three card combo into a two card combo. I now view it more as a combo card than a useless do nothing card

adventurer is just extremely good, maybe she will turn out to be to good

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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sphinx is bad with a fetch manabase, because you dont want to shuffle in the first few turns
also i want urza for his combo potential and the artifact synergy

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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I want gold cards to feel more exciting, therefore I changed souls to Lurrus.

Teshar was never up to par. Court of Grace is in partially to keep spirit and angel tokens relevant :D

Reflector mage: I want to add more bounce

Urza's > mishra's mishras bauble is just better

Glen Elendra seems to slow. LSV says it was an allstar a few years back (and now slow), but in this cube it feels just so slow

Raymond Swanland
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Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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I toyed with the idea to add persist combo, but until I add all the cards Altar is just a trap after the removal of vizier of remedies
Also I want to see how good chrome mox is in cube

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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This is just a direct powerlevel upgrade

I changed Lutri in order to get the correct rules text

Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Thirst for Knowledge is to slow. I put it in there as glue between artifacts and self discard, but neither of these two strategies work well in blue. I bought Flash two years ago, but shied away, because I thought it might create too many non-games. With atraxa and archon I now think that there might be more fair things to do than just flash -> worm
Also Thirst never had the appropriate feeling of playing with busted cards, like Shriekmaw.

Raymond Swanland
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Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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Raymond Swanland
Isticle -

Generally, the reason to skip the other titans is because I'm good on high MV finishers at the moment. I think that Ulamog TCH does what you need your high-drop finisher to do, which is stabilize the board, which is something that Newestlamog doesn't do when it comes down. I think new Kozilek is fine, but I kind of like still having one of the OG Titans for nostalgia purposes. There's very much a part of me that wants to try the new Emrakul with masticores and Key to the City, but I do agree that it would probably pretty much just end the game rather than be fun.

Angelic Aberation may absolutely end up being a power-level outlier that ends up with a lot of non-games and gets cut, but I certainly want to try it first. Inversion Behemoth seems interesting, but I don't think it has any particularly interesting synergies with anything in the cube already, so I'm not that interested in it.

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