So I found that I had a copy of my pauper cube that was redundant and deleted it on CubeTutor. Unfortunately, I deleted the wrong cube. My main cube.
Which killed the triple-digit cube number. Ashes to ashes. It’s been a while since I updated my CubeTutor list, despite updating it weekly (if not moreso) and so this may make it so that I end up updating the list.
Maybe.
However, all that being said, the pauper cube is now to its most current iteration with Ultimate Masters cards in it. I’ll likely do an article about UMA’s pauper cube implications, but other thoughts:
-Due to how bad red 1 drops were for a while, I’d always wanted to put in the 2 1-drop heroic creatures but didn’t because there weren’t enough ways to buff them. UMA’s design has some very interesting ways to do so via things like Nightbird’s Clutches and things that tap, which is a pretty brilliant workaround since it avoids the 2-for-1 awkwardness that auras have. I’ve always wanted to put in Cartouche of Zeal and Hammerhand since they do a *lot* for the mana, but it’s hard to compete with red burn when you only have 49 red cards to work with, but it’s just interesting as they represent a really awful floor as Mons’s Goblin Raiders without heroic, but absurdity if enabled. It may just be worth it, though.
-Trying the whole “value storm” thing again. Unsure if I want to take the plunge with stuff like Seething Song, Grinning Ignus, Coal Stoker and others, but overall, red seems like it’s in a nice place. I would love a good utility artifact removal effect ala Abrade but we got what we got.
-The last 3 3-0 decks were as follows:
(and I’m sure I built the RB one wrong)
-I’d also love to have more artifacts and fixing here, but it’d require cutting into something, likely WUBRG – it isn’t that I think manafixing makes control decks too good or anything like that, but I just don’t have guildgates in currently because their space enables other things – mainly, artifacts.
Is it worth the space? I think so, even if I wish that there were more good artifacts out there. When I looked at the next 5 artifacts, it was things like… Chromatic Sphere and… other assorted filler. Sphere may be better than Shield/Tooth of Chiss-Goria, though, since that pair hasn’t been in a 3-0 deck.
-Hybrids are different than multicolor, but unfortunately, CT doesn’t seem to have any way to differentiate them. There’s one less white card and one extra green card but it mostly comes out in the wash anyway.
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