Best of Draft Cube

[Thomas David Baker]

A cube of the best common and uncommon draft picks from the last 22 sets. Here's what we have so far.

What do you think?

Lists particularly in need of review by people who know what they are doing are: ROE, COK, BOK, SOK, LRW, MOR, GPT, DIS, 5DN.

# ROE Beastbreaker of Bala Ged Brimstone Mage Corpsehatch Dawnglare Invoker Domestication Enclave Cryptologist Flame Slash Forked Bolt Hada Spy Patrol Heat Ray Joraga Treespeaker Last Kiss Narcolepsy Nirkana Cutthroat Oust Pelakka Wurm Smite Staggershock Vendetta Wall of Omens # WWK Bestial Menace Calcite Snapper Cunning Sparkmage Leatherback Baloth Loam Lion Refraction Trap Searing Blaze Tideforce Elemental Tomb Hex Vapor Snare # ZEN Baloth Woodcrasher Burst Lightning Disfigure Gatekeeper of Malakir Grazing Gladehart Hideous End Inferno Trap Journey to Nowhere Kor Skyfisher Living Tsunami Marsh Casualties Merfolk Seastalkers Plated Geopede Punishing Fire River Boa Shepherd of the Lost Torch Slinger Trusty Machete Vampire Nighthawk Vines of Vastwood	# M10 Air Elemental Armored Ascension Blinding Mage Cudgel Troll Doom Blade Dragon Whelp Fireball Goblin Artillery Harm's Way Howl of the Night Pack Lightning Bolt Merfolk Looter Mind Control Overrun Pacifism Pyroclasm Serra Angel Sleep Tendrils of Corruption # ARB Behemoth Sledge Bituminous Blast Bloodbraid Elf Enlisted Wurm Esper Stormblade Marisi's Twinclaws Qasali Pridemage Slave of Bolas Terminate Vengeful Rebirth # CFX Ember Weaver Esper Cormorants Grixis Slavedriver Parasitic Strix Path to Exile Sedraxis Alchemist Shambling Remains Viashino Slaughtermaster Volcanic Fallout Wild Leotau # ALA Agony Warp Branching Bolt Bull Cerodon Executioner's Capsule Fatestitcher Infest Jund Charm Knight of the Skyward Eye Magma Spray Naya Charm Necrogenesis Oblivion Ring Resounding Thunder Rhox Charger Rhox War Monk Sprouting Thrinax Tower Gargoyle Vithian Stinger Wild Nacatl Woolly Thoctar	# EVE Ballynock Trapper Cankerous Thirst Desecrator Hag Hatchet Bully Noggle Bandit Puncture Blast Savage Conception Snakeform Unmake Wickerbough Elder # SHM Biting Tether Boggart Ram-Gang Burn Trail Devoted Druid Firespout Grief Tyrant Hungry Spriggan Incremental Blight Kitchen Finks Kulrath Knight Mistmeadow Witch Murderous Redcap Plumeveil Prison Term Rune-Cervin Rider Seedcradle Witch Silkbind Faerie Spectral Procession Torrent of Souls Trip Noose # MOR Boldwyr Intimidator Meadowboon Obsidian Battle-Axe Rivals' Duel Spitebellows Stonybrook Schoolmaster Swell of Courage Thornbite Staff Violet Pall War-Spike Changeling # LRW Briarhorn Changeling Berserker Cloudgoat Ranger Crib Swap Dreamspoiler Witches Eyeblight's Ending Final Revels Goldmeadow Harrier Imperious Perfect Knight of Meadowgrain Lash Out Makeshift Mannequin Marsh Flitter Mulldrifter Nameless Inversion Neck Snap Shriekmaw Tarfire Thundercloud Shaman Warren Pilferers	# FUT Arc Blade Foresee Gathan Raiders Ichor Slick Imperiosaur Infiltrator il-Kor Kavu Primarch Nacatl War-Pride Spin into Myth Sprout Swarm # PLC Calciderm Shaper Parasite Necrotic Sliver Deadwood Treefolk Shade of Trokair Harmonize Pyrohemia Dead / Gone Enslave Stonecloaker # TSP Basalt Gargoyle Brine Elemental Careful Consideration Castle Raptors Crookclaw Transmuter Durkwood Baloth Errant Ephemeron Firemaw Kavu Griffin Guide Looter il-Kor Nightshade Assassin Riftwing Cloudskate Spiketail Drakeling Sporesower Thallid Strangling Soot Sudden Death Sulfurous Blast Temporal Isolation Tromp the Domains Weatherseed Totem
# GPT Blind Hunter Electrolyze Gelectrode Mortify Pillory of the Sleepless Repeal Savage Twister Thunderheads Wee Dragonauts Wildsize # DIS Condemn Guardian of the Guildpact Leafdrake Roost Minister of Impediments Plumes of Peace Rakdos Guildmage Rakdos Ickspitter Rise / Fall Sky Hussar Wrecking Ball # RAV Belltower Sphinx Boros Guildmage Carven Caryatid Compulsive Research Drooling Groodion Faith's Fetters Galvanic Arc Greater Mossdog Keening Banshee Lightning Helix Mark of Eviction Moldervine Cloak Moroii Oathsworn Giant Putrefy Selesnya Guildmage Shambling Shell Trophy Hunter Vedalken Dismisser Watchwolf	# SOK Captive Flame Death Denied Ghost-Lit Raider Hail of Arrows Hand of Cruelty Hand of Honor Manriki-Gusari O-Naginata Rushing-Tide Zubera Stampeding Serrow # BOK Genju of the Cedars Genju of the Falls Genju of the Fields Genju of the Spires Horobi's Whisper Matsu-Tribe Sniper Ninja of the Deep Hours Okiba-Gang Shinobi Shimmering Glasskite Throat Slitter # COK Befoul Cage of Hands Distress Ghostly Prison Hanabi Blast Hideous Laughter Hinder Kabuto Moth Kami of Ancient Law Kitsune Blademaster Mystic Restraints Nezumi Graverobber No-Dachi Otherworldly Journey Pull Under Rend Flesh Ronin Houndmaster Sakura-Tribe Elder Samurai of the Pale Curtain Sensei's Divining Top	# 5DN Cranial Plating Devour in Shadow Eternal Witness Furnace Whelp Grafted Wargear Loxodon Anchorite Magma Jet Sunburst Manta Vedalken Mastermind Vulshok Sorcerer # DST Barbed Lightning Chittering Rats Juggernaut Leonin Battlemage Leonin Bola Loxodon Mystic Nemesis Mask Skullclamp Test of Faith Vulshok Morningstar # MIR Aether Spellbomb Barter in Blood Betrayal of Flesh Blinding Beam Bonesplitter Crystal Shard Grab the Reins Icy Manipulator Isochron Scepter Leonin Skyhunter Lightning Greaves Loxodon Warhammer Mask of Memory One Dozen Eyes Predator's Strike Pyrite Spellbomb Slith Firewalker Terror Thirst for Knowledge Viridian Shaman	# Fixing Akoum Refuge Graypelt Refuge Jwar Isle Refuge Kazandu Refuge Sejiri Refuge Rupture Spire Arcane Sanctum Crumbling Necropolis Jungle Shrine Savage Lands Seaside Citadel Azorius Chancery Boros Garrison Dimir Aqueduct Golgari Rot Farm Gruul Turf Izzet Boilerworks Orzhov Basilica Rakdos Carnarium Selesnya Sanctuary Simic Growth Chamber Azorius Signet Boros Signet Dimir Signet Golgari Signet Gruul Signet Izzet Signet Orzhov Signet Rakdos Signet Selesnya Signet Simic Signet

[Thomas David Baker]

I had it on my TSP list but Charlie did not. Might be an oversight. How often do you Flashback it in draft? It's pretty good anyway I guess.

Paul Hodgson said:

Ohh, can't see Dread Return in the list...

[Dan Barrett]

Put spec proc back in!!!

Thomas David Baker said:

I had it on my TSP list but Charlie did not. Might be an oversight. How often do you Flashback it in draft? It's pretty good anyway I guess.

Paul Hodgson said:

Ohh, can't see Dread Return in the list...

[Charlie Grover]

Dread return is really not that good... especially in this cube where I dont expect many great reanimating targets. Spec Proc should probably be in though.

[Thomas David Baker]

Winstoned with Ben Lei tonight.

A few cards that definitely shouldn't be in there (I think they've all been mentioned already):

Briarberry Cohort
Skeletal Shard
Eye of Nowhere

Will try and find some time before Saturday to work out some tweaks (like Eugene's Kamigawa changes) so if anyone has anything they're sitting on let me know.

What shall we drop for Spectral Procession?

[Daniel Royde]

Switch crystal shard for skeletal.
What's wrong with cohorts, too boring?

[Thomas David Baker]

Conditional 2/2 flier for 2? It's not exactly Weatherseed Totem or Firespout, is it?

I /guess/ he can stay.

[Ben Titmarsh]

I never played Mirrodin, but was Crystal Shard really a first pick? Seems fairly weak.

Daniel Royde said:

Switch crystal shard for skeletal.
What's wrong with cohorts, too boring?

[Kieran Symington]

I never played Mirrodin either, but surely a card that means your opponent can never tap out to cast anything seems pretty good. And if they don't, you return one of your own guys and reuse a CIP ability.

Ben Titmarsh said:

I never played Mirrodin, but was Crystal Shard really a first pick? Seems fairly weak

[Kieran Symington]

I guess I just have fond memories of the sick starts you could have with multiples of this guy - something that can't happen in this format! Maybe you should cut him for Spectral Procession as that seems to be what people want to see.

Thomas David Baker said:

Conditional 2/2 flier for 2? It's not exactly Weatherseed Totem or Firespout, is it?

I /guess/ he can stay.

[Dan Barrett]

It's in a lot of "proper cubes" - try it with mulldrifter, nekretaal etc and you'll be sold.

Plus your opp. can never tap out.

Ben Titmarsh said:

I never played Mirrodin, but was Crystal Shard really a first pick? Seems fairly weak.

Daniel Royde said:

Switch crystal shard for skeletal.
What's wrong with cohorts, too boring?

[Daniel Royde]

It wasn't as good in mirrodin as it is in cube. It is very good and fun in cube.

Ben Titmarsh said:

I never played Mirrodin, but was Crystal Shard really a first pick? Seems fairly weak.

Daniel Royde said:

Switch crystal shard for skeletal.
What's wrong with cohorts, too boring?

[Paul Hodgson]

Yep, shard is fabulous.

For COK - Stone Rain? Really? How about Cage of Hands, Blood Rites, Frostwielder or one of the Hondens (Blue one is fine by itself).

Daniel Royde said:

It wasn't as good in mirrodin as it is in cube. It is very good and fun in cube.

Ben Titmarsh said:

I never played Mirrodin, but was Crystal Shard really a first pick? Seems fairly weak.

Daniel Royde said:

Switch crystal shard for skeletal.
What's wrong with cohorts, too boring?