The Visual Cube: Aetherling to Zombie Infestation:F (is for foil)

And we're back. The cube took a long deserved break at @Crow13th 's house, but now has returned to the dungeon. Let's see what the F:

Here's the list:

• Faith's Fetters
• Faithless Looting
• Far / Away
• Farseek
• Fauna Shaman
• Feldon of the Third Path
• Fellwar Stone
• Figure of Destiny
• Firebolt
• Firemane Avenger
• Flametongue Kavu
• Flesh Carver
• Fleshbag Marauder
• Flickerwisp
• Flooded Strand
• Force Spike
• Forgotten Ancient
• Frost Titan
• Fungal Behemoth

January 2015 Post Tournament Review

Hey all, I think we had a great day of cubing yesterday, or at the very least an interesting one. First off, Dan was playing Rakdos and Steve was playing Boros, whhaaaa? We made a few changes to the way were are going to run the cube in 2015: 

•  We have introduced PlaidWalker Points
• Moving forward we will be using a points based system and tracking points over time, an award will be given out at the end of the year
• Win: 3 Points
• Draw: 1 Point
• Loss: 0 Points
• So, up to 9 points are given up per round.
• Timed Rounds
• We attempted to start with three 1 hour rounds, but since we have intentionally lowered the power level of the cube, it seems we are likely to increase this to 1.25 or 1.5 hour rounds
• Eliminating the Bracket
• So since we are playing 3 rounds and giving out points, we will no longer have a bracket, or necessarily a definitive winner at the end of any given cube draft.  This round for example we had 3 players with 18 points, because two of them received byes, so none of them actually played each other.  This will correct itself over time, since those who received a by this draft will be immune from a bye next round.
• Deck documentation
• Moving forward, in order to better evaluate cards and strategies, we will be documenting everyone's drafts and decklists in order to see what is (and is not) getting played/doing well.

So there are the changes, so lets dig into what happened this round, starting with..

Andy - 5 Color Blink (Rainbow Shenanigans)

So I started the draft with flametongue-kavu http://tappedout.net/mtg-card/flametongue-kavu/ and man-o-war http://tappedout.net/mtg-card/man-o-war/. So that obviously means that five color blink was way open!  Basically when I draft blink I either draft ETB creatures and then I try and get at least one of the two big Blink enablers Venser, the Sojourner and Parallax Wave.  I then prioritize cards in the following order: Removal, Mana fixing and card draw.  This priority will change based off of the ETB creatures that I have selected already.  IE if I have drafted Nekrataal, removal goes down on in priority.  If I drafted Solemn Simulacrum mana fixing goes slightly down.

Blink Effects:

Restoration Angel

Ghostly Flicker

Venser, the Sojourner

Parallax Wave

Blink Targets:

Blade Splicer

Flametongue Kavu

Man-o'-War

Mulldrifter

Restoration Angel

Riftwing Cloudskate

Snapcaster Mage

Thragtusk

Vendilion Clique

Wall of Blossoms

Quick Note about mana fixing:  Try and decide on two base colors and then draft the dual lands that has one of your main colors and one of your splash colors.  Prioritize the fetches lower than the strait up RTR or original duals.  Fetches are there best only when you have a lot of duals.

Dan: Black/Red Reanimator (Graveburn Musings)
Nothing too complicated here, drop something in the graveyard and cheat it into play

Key strategies:
We have our reanimation enablers in the form of 

Discard Spells
Putrid Imp
Undead Gladiator

This is probably where it was weakest.  Didn't have enough discard spells needed.

Reanimation Spells
Animate Dead
Reanimate
Exhume
Feldon of the Third Path

Reanimation targets
Siege-Gang Commander
Myr Battlesphere
Tombstalker (as a third option/fallback is no Reanimation drawn)

Answers
Doom Blade
Dismember
Fleshbag Marauder
Nekrataal

Combo Pieces
Feldon of the Third Path + Fleshbag Marauder

David: Blue Red Stormish

Cube Tournament 1/4/2015 Rankings

Round 1				Round 2				Round 3
Player	Dan	Dave		Player	Dan	Jake		Player	Dave	Eric
Score	6	0		Score	6	3		Score	6	0
Player	Jake	Jeff		Player	Andy	Jeff		Player	Andy	Jake
Score	6	3		Score	6	3		Score	6	0
Player	Andy	Eric		Player	Steve	Eric		Player	Steve	Jeff
Score	6	0		Score	6	0		Score	6	0
Player	Steve	Bye		Player	Dave	Bye		Player	Dan	Bye
Score	6	0		Score	6	0		Score	6	0
Totals:
Andy	18
Dan	18
Dave	12
Eric	0
Jake	12
Jeff	6
Steve	18

 

The Visual Cube: Aetherling to Zombie Infestation: On Hold

All cards are pulled ATM for the Cube we're running today, so I won't be getting back to do F until tomorrow.

Cube 1/4/2015 Final Decklists

I will update here as they come in:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cube Draft for 1/4/2015 Draft Lists

Hey all, here are the lists from tonight's draft:

Andy:
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Aquastrand Spider

Blade Splicer

Blood Crypt

Breeding Pool

Chromatic Lantern

Deep Analysis

Demonic Tutor

Detention Sphere

Dreamscape Artist

Flametongue Kavu

Flooded Strand

Ghostly Flicker

Gilded Lotus

Go for the Throat

Golgari Grave-Troll

Indrik Stomphowler

Magister of Worth

Man-o'-War

Meadowboon

Melira, Sylvok Outcast

Misty Rainforest

Mulldrifter

Ninja of the Deep Hours

Overgrown Tomb

Parallax Wave

Phyrexian Arena

Polluted Delta

Polluted Delta

Remand

Restoration Angel

Riftwing Cloudskate

Sacred Foundry

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Savannah

Snapcaster Mage

Stomping Ground

Taiga

Thragtusk

Tundra

Vampire Nighthawk

Vendilion Clique

Venser, the Sojourner

Vindicate

Wall of Blossoms

Whip of Erebos Steve: =================================================== Accorder Paladin Ajani Vengeant Arid Mesa Blood Ogre Boros Charm Burst Lightning Contagion Clasp Corpsejack Menace Disenchant Dreg Mangler Figure of Destiny Firebolt Firemane Avenger Flickerwisp Forgotten Ancient Goldnight Commander Gorehorn Minotaurs Gore-House Chainwalker Incinerate Kulrath Knight Land Tax Loyal Cathar Flip Magma Jet Manic Vandal Mimic Vat Mirror Entity Mycoloth Oblivion Ring Path to Exile Plateau Smash to Smithereens Solemn Simulacrum Spear of Heliod Spirit Loop Splatter Thug Stormblood Berserker Suture Priest Swords to Plowshares Temporal Isolation Terminus Ulasht, the Hate Seed Wheel of Fortune Windswept Heath Wonder Zealous Conscripts

Jeff:

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Ajani Goldmane

Arid Mesa

Aven Riftwatcher

Batterskull

Battle Screech

Birthing Pod

Brimaz, King of Oreskos

Call of the Herd

Cenn's Tactician

Champion of the Parish

Doomed Traveler

Elspeth Tirel

Faith's Fetters

Farseek

Fauna Shaman

Flooded Strand

Fungal Behemoth

Gavony Township

Ghor-Clan Rampager

Green Sun's Zenith

Gyre Sage

Hallowed Spiritkeeper

Jace, Architect of Thought

Llanowar Reborn

Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Mox Diamond

Nevinyrral's Disk

Rancor

Regrowth

Rhys the Redeemed

Sea Gate Oracle

Seance

Selesnya Charm

Strangleroot Geist

Sword of Fire and Ice

Tarmogoyf

Temple Garden

Thrummingbird

Titania, Protector of Argoth

Vengevine

Voice of Resurgence

Wooded Foothills

Wrath of God

Young Wolf

Zameck Guildmage

Jake:

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Abrupt Decay

Anger of the Gods

Apocalypse Hydra

Bayou

Birds of Paradise

Burning-Tree Emissary

Carrion Feeder

Clever Impersonator

Cytoplast Manipulator

Dack's Duplicate

Dreadbore

Frost Titan

Garruk Wildspeaker

Goblin Arsonist

Godless Shrine

Grave Titan

Graveborn Muse

Gravecrawler

Hell's Caretaker

Hellspark Elemental

Krosan Tusker

Lifebane Zombie

Llanowar Elves

Master Biomancer

Misty Rainforest

Monastery Swiftspear

Murderous Redcap

Necromancy

Olivia Voldaren

Plaxcaster Frogling

Quickling

Rakdos Cackler

Ral Zarek

Scavenging Ooze

Seachrome Coast

Slumbering Dragon

Spikeshot Elder

Stromkirk Noble

Sword of Body and Mind

Sword of Light and Shadow

Twilight Drover

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Verdant Catacombs

Vraska the Unseen

Watery Grave

David:

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Acidic Slime

AEtherling

Anger

Arc Trail

Ash Zealot

Ashling the Pilgrim

Bonesplitter

Chandra, Pyromaster

Chasm Skulker

Control Magic

Cosi's Trickster

Devil's Play

Dualcaster Mage

Electrolyze

Faithless Looting

Force Spike

Gemstone Mine

Geralf's Mindcrusher

Glen Elendra Archmage

Harrow

Izzet Charm

Keldon Marauders

Kird Ape

Kitchen Finks

Kor Skyfisher

Lightning Bolt

Llanowar Mentor

Memory Lapse

Miscalculation

Molten Rain

Mutavault

Ponder

Razorfin Abolisher

Rise of the Hobgoblins

Scalding Tarn

Show and Tell

Skinrender

Spurnmage Advocate

Staggershock

Steam Vents

Sword of War and Peace

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Thrummingbird

Venser, Shaper Savant

Wormfang Drake

Dan:

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Animate Dead

Badlands

Baleful Strix

Blood Scrivener

Bloodstained Mire

Bloodstained Mire

Brimstone Volley

Butcher Ghoul

Cauldron Haze

City of Brass

Clan Defiance

Cloudgoat Ranger

Desecration Demon

Dismember

Doom Blade

Duress

Everflowing Chalice

Exhume

Feldon of the Third Path

Fellwar Stone

Fleshbag Marauder

Geist of Saint Traft

Goblin Rabblemaster

Grim Lavamancer

Hellrider

Inquisition of Kozilek

Ion Storm

Journey to Nowhere

Myr Battlesphere

Nekrataal

Oona's Blackguard

Putrid Imp

Reanimate

Renegade Krasis

Reveillark

Siege-Gang Commander

Sulfuric Vortex

Tombstalker

Torch Fiend

Undead Gladiator

Vampiric Tutor

Verdant Catacombs

Volcanic Island

Windswept Heath

Wurmcoil Engine

Eric:

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Arcane Denial

Beast Within

Brago, King Eternal

Cartel Aristocrat

Chainer's Edict

Cloudstone Curio

Complicate

Counterspell

Crystal Shard

Dark Confidant

Dark Ritual

Dead Reveler

Deathrite Shaman

Enclave Cryptologist

Enlightened Tutor

Far / Away

Flesh Carver

Hallowed Fountain

Impulse

Jace's Phantasm

Liliana of the Veil

Lotleth Troll

Mana Leak

Marsh Flats

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Mindless Automaton

Mirrorweave

Mortician Beetle

Nightveil Specter

Preordain

Psychatog

Savageborn Hydra

Scalding Tarn

Skullclamp

Snuff Out

Spike Cannibal

Spike Feeder

Tragic Slip

Triskelion

Tropical Island

Underground Sea

Volrath's Shapeshifter

Waterfront Bouncer

Yavimaya Elder

Zombie Infestation

See you all Sunday!