

Let's also assume that Bloodghast, Gravecrawler, Lotleth Troll and Vengevine are in the pre existing list.The Pitch Dredge deck that I have been writing about and advocating for the past couple of years is performing well, and may well be considered the premier Vintage Dredge deck. Is it possible to make a card like Golgari Grave-Troll a solid pick in a powerful cube environment? What kind of support cards do we need to make the deck good, and will this dilute the overall power level of the cube?

The most relevant cube archetype where the Dredge mechanic is relevant is Reanimator, but are any of these cards even good in a Reanimator deck? Stinkweed can play defence and block to put himself in the yard I guess but it's not proactive and thus likely too slow. Let's assume that the context for this question is an Unpowered 500 card cube, with a Serra Angel rating of >15.ĭarkblast is far too narrow for cube, and Loam is already super sweet with Wasteland and/or Strip Mine. Inspired by the recent unbanning of Golgari Grave-Troll I wanted to open a conversation regarding dredge cards in cube, specifically the Gravy Father himself. Matthew Watkins' Ars Arcanum MTGO Cube Analysis.Limited Resources (Cube Episodes: 59, 77, 213, 313)ģ-0 winning deck archive from the XMage Cube Group In Contention (Cube Episodes: 25, 31, 36, 71) Wtwlf's MTGS article on Cube Design Philosophy The Magic Show Episode #61 "Gleaming the Cube" Simple_Man's Cube Card of the Day Archive General ResourcesĬube Organization (no longer regularly updated) "It's like drafting hyperbole." - Evan ErwinĪ Cube is a custom draft set, typically designed to showcase the "best" cards ever printed in Magic, but sometimes with other thematic restrictions.
