Phyrexian Revoker, Reclamation Sage, and Acidic Slime are good to have around to slow the opponent down in the early-game and something like Woodfall Primus or Terastodon can slam the door once you get them online (preferably assisted by a discard outlet like Jace, Vryns Prodigy). They Unburial Rites their Griselbrand, but I have Anguished Unmaking. The two most busted Green cards in the whole Vintage Cube are Channel and Natural Order. I could also see Mind Twist, Tolarian Academy, Timetwister, Library of Alexandria, and Strip Mine entering the conversation here as cards that are plainly absurdly above rate and are all excellent at getting more mana worth of effects than your opponent. Additionally, their is one high-end spell you want: Tooth and Nail. White just happened to be open, and I had enough white cards to get to 40 in my extremely good blue deck. Beyond that, cards like Sulfuric Vortex, Mother of Runes, Entomb, Mana Leak, or anything that provides some identity to your deck are fine places to start. And for your amusement, here is my misadventures in playing White / Black Disruptive Aggro: Match 1, Game 1: I drop a Turn 1 Soldier of the Pantheon. What do you think? Its a high-powered experience where you get to draft the most expensive and powerful cards in Magic, and be paired up against somebody with just as incredible of a deck as yours. They play (Selesyna Signet) into Reclamation Sage, destroying my creature. Compare it to using Oblivion Ring on Consecrated Sphinx. Personally I dont see the appeal of Birthing Pod in Vintage Cube, but it does certainly do more for archetype diversity than all of my Mono-Green Ramp darlings that are on the outs. Copyright 2020 Star City Games. Ive 3-0ed plenty of Vintage Cubes staying mono-blue, and blue is most commonly my primary color in any two or more color decks. I swing back for 5 and break their signet with an Anguished Unmaking to keep them off mana. On balance these swaps dont do much to alter the positioning of red decks in the Cube, but Bloodthirsty Adversary offers the most for being a cheap threat that can be a big swingy play when it needs to be. Blue is the most powerful color in the Cube and there are also just more blue cards than the other colors. The decks your players will draft and build need to have the tools to be successful decks. Nobody else wants Tendrils of Agony so you should try to wheel it, and if it doesnt come back around your deck isnt going to work out anyway. Lots of pink. All you can hope to do is race. The Scarab God and Fallen Shinobi are some of the best creature threats out there. Personally, I hate this kind of deck in the Vintage Cube because its far too "fair" for my liking. How Much Does It Cost? Gulp. Which do you want: more forests for Rofellos? And yet as a deck it is much more powerful than the sum of its parts. There are some truly incredible non-basic lands to be looking out for in the cube. Counterspells, Control Magic effects, and even bounce spells are all generally pretty powerful in most Cubes and their strengths are amplified in Vintage Cube as ways to interact with opponents leveraging fast mana. We swing with everything but Ophiomancer to flip Legion's Landing. I play Spectral Procession. Entomb into Reanimate is great, and if you are able to load up on great card selection you can make it happen consistently, but cards like Buried Alive and Oonas Prowler are typically too inefficient to be competitive and it generally makes more sense to me to play good creatures that are at least somewhat castable and try to do that in an deck with Signets and other, better forms of fast mana. Its really easy to assemble these combos and make incredibly strong mana bases early on. You still want to pick up the strong tempo cards like Counterspell, Expressive Iteration, and Dack Fayden, but theres a much bigger focus around the combo. Id be remiss if I didnt mention Balance and Armageddon, as I know a lot of folks are really big on these cards. Blue is plainly the most powerful color in Vintage Cube (evidenced by the fact that the only nonartifact card in this tier is a blue card) and there are also the most blue cards in the Cube list as compared to the other colors. The Cube is incredibly expensive to put together unless proxied, which makes it a rare occurrence to see in paper. A deck with a lot of artifact mana and planeswalkers can seriously leverage a Balance, though its really tough to get all of the right cards together as theyre all high picks, and Id rather have the fast mana and planeswalkers than the Balance. When I sit down to draft vintage cube, I have about 7 decks in mind that I will choose between depending on my first several picks. The big winner with these lands is, of course, Niv-Mizzet Reborn, so I suppose theyll be fan favorites as well. The Vintage Cube has returned to Magic Online. Howdy, gamers! A secondary note: this kind of deck is one of the few homes one could justify odd duck cards like Braids, Cabal Minion or Smokestackce you are flooding the board with tokens. The swings in Vintage Cube can be a lot to handle, though I do find joy in the fact that midrange decks are just horrible. If thats your thing, thats cool, and ultimately the cost of featuring Niv in the Cube is one slot and a lot of these gold slots are replacement-level anyway. They draw 7 cards and play Liliana of the Veil, discarding Iona, Shield of Emeria, play Looter Il-Kor, and swing with Griselbrand going back up to 20. Red does serve an important role in a couple of non-aggressive archetypes though. Cathar Commando and Intrepid Adversary both cracked my Top 10 Cube Cards for Midnight Hunt and are the most significant additions with this update. width: 700px; What to avoid: 5s and 6s. Dont forget about interaction. Ramping cards like these out, especially ones with protection, are the easiest way to win the game on turn 1 or 2. Its so much more popular then and its harder to draft a strong deck when so many more players are going for it. There are some great hatebears in the Cube too in the form of Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Esper Sentinel. Shelldock Isle is also very easy to trigger. Vintage Cube is all about efficiently leveraging your mana. I play a Shambling Vent and swing with Mutavault which trades off. On the other end, the best cards to ramp into are: Craterhoof Behemoth, Ulamog, The Ceaseless Hunger, Primeval Titan and Terastodon. There are 540 cards in the MTGO Vintage Cube. The other way you get into Mono Red is that you backdoor in. Ugh. And the actual cards in your deck are so narrowly aggressive that they don't really slot well into anyone else's strategy. Mono-white aggro is my choice for the third tier 1 deck. The bar is much higher for Vintage Cube and the card is more or less replacement level by virtue of being an aggressive three-drop, but its a great option to fill out your curve once youre full up on ones and twos. Then I play Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, making an Ally token. First, let's start in the most logical place - blue decks. Regardless, the Power 9 are about as impactful as youd assume. These provide ample ways to ramp out and often fix your mana. Costing zero is really nice, but if you play Mana Crypt long enough youll lose to the coin flips some of the time. Bribery and Treachery will similarly often result in well worth the value of tapping five lands. Ill see you in the queues. Green Suns Zenith is among the more important cards for this archetype, and the difference between a green deck with or without Craterhoof Behemoth is night and day. Some packs just arent exciting, though not every 3-0 starts with a Black Lotus. }, Lorcana shows off demo decks, new cards, and more at the GAMA Expo, Dusk Till Dawn introduces Prism, Advent of Thrones as well as new Shadow Runeblade hero. Vintage Cube has the best cards in the game after all, and throwing them in a pile and saying go could lead to you having a great curve. Getting into Vintage Cube is a pretty daunting endeavor, which tends to be truer the newer to competitive Magic you are. Draftsim.com is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Karmic Guide is generally at its best alongside Reveillark, so its something of an odd substitution. Yes, Soulfire Grand Master does go infinite with Time Walk. Wheel of Misfortune has popped out and now back into the Cube relating to a bug.Its more fun than good, but its plenty fun. It just doesn't happen unless you pick them over everything, picks 1-4 out of every pack. Personally I have much more fun with Ancestral Recall, though I do currently take Oko over everything else. Or off-color mana sources? Here's the downside to Grixis: in general, you should expect that when you draft the powerful blue, black and red cards that your fellow drafters will also know this is the optimal strategy. And while some may think that's a good strategy, I tend to find them to be overrated that I am content with 1 or 2 in most decks and will always take the real win conditions, tutors, and fixing, especially true dual lands and fetchlands over the Signets. I tend to be down on Chandra, Pyromaster, but its decent out of the sideboard against green and white x/1s and to stop blocking. I imagine this is because, unlike Bribery, its not directly responsible for winning the game, but it is far more flexible and is generally worth well more than the five mana that it costs. In Pack 1 I was thinking I would end up as a Dimir deck, though the only good black card I got the entire draft was Fallen Shinobi and I didnt see any good fixing. But suppose you don't want to fight over Grixis. Some of these tiers will be exhaustive lists, while others will be a sampling of the nature of that tier, which I will make explicit in my thoughts on each category. High quality Vintage Cube Archetypes 2021-inspired gifts and merchandise. .thumb:hover span { Ancient Grudge is by far the most powerful card on the outs here, but playing with red and green mana isnt free. Jake was first introduced to Magic in 2013, and has been a regular at his LGS ever since. To top things off you can get a very consistent deck if you manage to pick up some of the tutors in black like Imperial Seal, Demonic Tutor, or Vampiric Tutor. Ill take a solid Dimir () midrange deck with incredible synergies and control payoffs over a collection of the best cards in each pack. The former Jordan Marsh, which opened with the mall in 1984 until 1996, was a throwback until its last days from department stores of its vintage: wood adornments, smoked mirrors, artificial flourscent skylit partitions and other garish, recessed lighting elements. 1 Scrubland Its always a lot of fun whether youre watching or drafting yourself, and I cant recommend it enough! .scgtour-ad { I feel bad already. All the time, for example, I might go P1 P1 Mana Drain into P1 P2 Badlands. We play a Mother of Runes which gets Force Spiked. #thumbwrap { I Tidehollow Sculler their last card and play my sword. This is perhaps deserved after the huge upgrade that white recently got with Palace Jailer being reintroduced to the Cube along with the addition of Solitude, though I will still miss the Landing. This can work, sometimes you just end up having no direction and manage to 2-1, but that isnt reliable. .thumb span { The most powerful cards are too much better than the next-best options for me to pick lands as highly as other players do. Some of the best and most powerful mana rocks are also included. Especially in League. Bad choice. It is plainly too powerful in any non-Vintage Cube and is fully capable of being the only relevant spell played in a game of Vintage Cube. This is similar to how Double Masters sets are drafted, except the two-pick rule is enabled for every single pick. Mono-Green Ramp might be my most-drafted archetype in Vintage Cube. They play Looter Il-Kor. There are more than a few cards that are half of a game-winning or infinite combo in the Cube, and knowing what they are can help you know when to pick them up or when to pass them. Library of Alexandria is perhaps one of (if not the) most powerful lands in the Cube. Id also like to direct your attention towards Channel and the many powerful bomb Eldrazi, like Emrakul, the Aeons Torn which dont always get picked. .article-footer-ad .footer-ad-text{ Lots of pink. 2023 Wizards. Simic relies on greens mana ramp but gives great payoffs in Hydroid Krasis, Oko, Thief of Crowns, and Hornet Queen. Land Destruction: You are the deck that wants Strip Mine, Wasteland and occasionally even Rishadan Port. The Vintage Cube is here for fun. Match 2, Game 1: On the draw, we Inquisition of Kozilek revealing Rishkar, Peema Renegade, Kitchen Finks, (Hazoret, the Fervent), Thragtusk, Master of the Wild Hunt and Mountain with currently only a Mountain in play. But since there are 9 green one-drop accelerants plus 5 more green 2-drop accelerants, plus, of course, colorless accelerants like the Signets, Grim Monolith, Thran Dynamo, and Coalition Relic, you should always have enough if you prioritize them. A stack of interaction, an Upheaval, and an Urza, Lord High Artificer are really all you need to actually close a game, and Id prefer the rest of my cards to look like Force of Will rather than half-combos that cant get it done on their own. All of these cards account for huge swings that far exceed the mana invested. Primeval Titan, Craterhoof Behemoth, Rofellos, Channel are top picks. The Six Decks Im Considering For The SCG Invitational At SCG CON. Mono-green is fully supported in the Cube with the long list of mana dorks backing it up. I hope the information provided here is helpful for those of you looking to tighten your skills in high-power environments. border:0; /* IE6 needs this to show large image */ Its updated semi-regularly by the Cube team, and has a few cards swapped out every time its made available on Magic Online. Maybe Mono Red saves your draft. I love casting Mystic Confluence on Turn 4. In my experience, once you have Yawgmoths Will, if anybody at the table opens Lions Eye Diamond it will come to you, which is the easiest two-card combo for making a lethal Storm turn happen. My Parallax Wave gets Cryptic Commanded but at least I take out Jace #2 on their attack.The ending is not that eventful: Dragonlord Ojutai finishes me off. We counter with Stoneforge Mystic, fetching our Sword of Body and Mind. Drop your thoughts in a comment below or head over to the official Draftsim Discord to chat about it there. Theres also the infamous pairing of Narset, Parter of Veils and a wheel effect like Wheel of Fortune. Most of them are clearly much worse than the best 30 or so cards, and some of them I hope I never have to register in any of my decks. Forest, go. Is Vintage Cube Free on MTGO? The primary nature of the October 2021 changes is with regard to the release of Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, though we are also seeing the addition of older cards as Carmen Handy grows into her role of curating the digital Cubes. Your original strategy dries up. This is what happens sometimes when your original deck dries up, you backdoor into Mono Red, and the quality is there, but you still end up about 4 solid playables short of a deck. .thumb:hover { Its almost always open, has more than enough supporting cards to get off the ground in pack one, and easily steals games from slow fair decks that didnt draft enough removal. Ryan Overturf analyzes the latest changes so you can make the most of the three-week Limited MTG experience. Its imperative to make sure that you end up in a deck that does some combination of efficiently leveraging your mana while having some ability to curb your opponents ability to do so. In the last run of Vintage Cube I noticed players were passing Oko entirely too much. Blue is the best color in Cube, hands down, and the average Cube Draft can support five blue drafters without much trouble. I equip my sword, swing and mill 10. Drafting mono-blue typically means being heavy on artifact mana, though this is a fine example of a two-color blue deck that is clearly leaning on the blue cards that I 3-0ed with: This deck is honestly a little bit of a mess, and serves as a good example of how the best cards in the format are all that matter. Here's what you're looking for when you draft Mono-Red: All the One Drops: Goblin Guide is the best, followed by Firedrinker Satyr, Grim Lavamancer, Zurgo Bellstriker, Falkenrath Gorger, Monastery Swiftspear and Jackal Pup. In case you havent heard, the Vintage Cube is back on Magic Online (MTGO) for the month of July. Looter il-Kor gets the obvious upgrade to Suspicious Stowaway, and Impulse gets the boot it probably should have gotten years ago. Theres not a lot changing in blue this time around, which shouldnt be surprising. Heres what to look out for if youre trying to get the ball rolling: The artifacts deck, while often difficult to put together completely, is still one of my favorite archetypes in the Cube. Storm specifically is more interested in Dark Ritual than most, and you should pick Yawgmoths Will on the level of a Tier 0 card. .scgtour-ad img { In the white beatdown deck Ill take something that deals damage over Armageddon every day, and I personally beat Balance more than I lose to it. Laelia, the Blade Reforged is one that Ive been playing in the original Twobert since its release and has been great there. Some two-drops: The best is Eidolon of the Great Revel, but Abbot of Keral Keep, Young Pyromancer and Harsh Mentor will all make your deck.
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