#Magic arena tactics update
There are a few heavy-hitters entering the Cube in blue with this update as well:Ĭounter spells, draw extra cards, bounce your opponent’s stuff, take extra turns. Nexus of Fate and In Bolas’s Clutches were mercifully cut from the Cube from this iteration, but Sublime Epiphany remains as a brutal game-ender and it’s hard to argue against blue being the most powerful card in the Cube. I still generally feel that white decks in this Cube want to be full-on head-down beatdown decks or very slow controlling decks that will most commonly also be blue and/or green, and that the color is firmly in the middle of the pack on power level in the Cube. A lot of white’s strength is still tied into big payoffs like Harmonious Archon and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, but Intrepid Adversary does give me some hope for white’s ability to beat down, and Teleportation Circle gives me hope for white’s ability to durdle. There are some very powerful additions entering the Cube for white, though:Ĭaptain Eberhart and Sigardian Evangel look like awesome tools for aggressive decks, and we already know that Adeline, Resplendent Cathar is a beating. Luminarch Aspirant leaving the Cube is another blow to aggressive decks. given the Cube’s philosophy of generally trying to cast expensive spells. White remains the best color in the Cube for drafting aggressive decks, though admittedly Esper Sentinel is a downgrade from Usher of the Fallen in this department. That’s quite a lot of digital-only cards! All right, if you’re still with me, let’s break the Cube down by color to see what the most powerful new additions are! White Some of these are incredibly minor rebalances, such as Blood Artist not letting you target yourself for a better user experience, and some of these are completely made-up cards that I’ve never seen before: I know that I don’t Cube to play with cards that I’ve never seen before, so if you’re anything like me, this list will be useful in terms of not having to read cards during the draft or face any weird surprises in game. Changing a lot of cards doesn’t necessarily change any fundamentals, and my approach to Chromatic Cube is going to remain fundamentally the same for this run.īefore I get into my usual breakdown by color, I’d like to compile a list of all of the digital-only cards just so you can see them all in one place. Cubes this large are naturally going to bias players towards just drafting and playing the most individually powerful cards, which was true of this Cube before changing this would require a much more radical shift. A lot of individual cards have changed in the Cube, but mana values and types of effects have remained largely consistent. The change log is too long to present in an easily digestible way, so I’ll offer some useful notes. I’ve also ported the updated list to Cube Cobra so that you can draw your own conclusions. My article on the Cube’s debut last year will also provide some relevant background. To get a base understanding of the Cube, I’d start with McDarby’s article on the updated list that outlines the explicitly supported archetypes. If you were uncertain how Alchemy was going to impact the Arena Cubes, it seems pretty clear at this point that we’re going to see these digital-only cards in every Arena Cube offering.
The Cube remains Arena’s version of David McDarby’s Live the Dream Cube, but much of the card list has changed and this will also be the Cube’s first run with a spread of digital-only cards. It’s been one year since we first saw the Cube, and it’s much different now. My focus today, as you can imagine, is on the return of Chromatic Cube to Magic Arena from now through July 7th. This could be a quiet week if you’re like me and don’t pay much mind to cards being reprinted, but it’s been anything but.
#Magic arena tactics series
We’re a fair amount of time away from the next non-reprint set, but Double Masters 2022 is all over my feed, the 20th Anniversary Series is wrapping up on Magic Online (MTGO), and as of today there’s a Cube live on both MTGO and Magic Arena. This feels like an unusually busy week for Magic.
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