Cube Masters Series | Building The Cube | Green

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Philosophy of Green

  

Mana dorks, mana fixing and fatties. Green needs to take the roll of fixing, but without diluting it's powerlevel with a large majority of mana-fixing cards. It needs to offer good creature support for all strategies, from weenie to finishers, as well as powerful spells for a control splash.

  

Strengths

Mana fixing

Brutal Creatures

  

Weaknesses

Removal

UPDATED 22 FEBRUARY

Green

 

0cc

Treetop Village

1cc

Rancor

Berserk

Skyshroud Elite

Wild Nacatl

Pouncing Jaguar

Arbor Elves

Noble Hierarch

Joraga Treespeaker

Birds of Paradise

2cc

Survival of the Fittest

Regrowth

Sylvan Library

Wall of Roots

Wall of Blossoms

Sakura-tribe Elder

Lotus Cobra

Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary

Viridian Emissary

Tarmagoyf

Viridian Zealot

River Boa

Fauna Shaman

3cc

Krosan Grip

Mul Daya Channellers

Great Sable Stag

Imperious Perfect

Call of the Herd

Yavimaya Elder

Troll Ascetic

Eternal Witness

4cc

Garruk Wildspeaker

Stonewood Invocation

Chameleon Colossus

Phantom Centaur

Blastoderm

Thrun, the last troll

Vengevine

Wickerbough Elder

5cc

Plow Under

Primal Command

Deranged Hermit

Genesis

Acidic Slime

6cc+

Mold Shambler

Primevil Titan

Terrastodon

Rude awakening

CCx

Green Sun's Zenith

[Thea Steele]

Just off the top of my head, maybe Terastodon or Woodfall Primus instead of Rude Awakening. Same cost, and you can ramp/reanimate into them.

 

At 1CC, you have all the mana dorks but not all of the aggressive guys, like Jungle Lion and Pouncing Jaguar. I think it makes sense to run those if you're running Wild Nacatl.

 

Acidic Slime is a great guy and probably deserves a spot. Likewise with Kodama of the North Tree.

 

Krosan Grip is so so good. I'd find a spot for it. 

[Kieran Symington]

You should probalby replace your Llanowar Elves with Arbor Elf since as you're including the dual lands his ability is slightly better when it comes to mana production.

[Tom Reeve]

I love the hell out of Rude Awakening, and it's one of the cards that I most dread out of a slower green deck.

Scute Mob and Silhana Ledgewalker seem too 'cute' to me. Also agree that at the moment Green is all mana and top end (leaving some of the pump a little stranded probably). It's very much the 'Rock' side of green to the max, all mana guys into 4/4s. No Tarmogoyf? One possibility is to replace some of the mana guys with more aggro-friendly mana guys (for example, 2-power 2-drops like Rofellos or Viridian Emissary)

 

Some general brainstorming for creatures at the lower end of the scale - Albino Troll, Beastbreaker of Bala Ged, Blurred/Nimble Mongoose, Werebear, Dryad Sophisticate, Master of the Wild Hunt, Garruk's Companion, Lotus Cobra, Skyshroud Elite, Vinelasher Kudzu, Great Sable Stag, Imperious Perfect, Viridian Shaman

 

Def agree on Grip, Slime, and more aggressive cheap guys in general, and probably one of Primus or The Big (although I'd like to keep Rude Awakening as mentioned already.)

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Goyf should definitely be there - edited.

 

God I hate doing this while trying to work at the same time!!!

 

EDIT:

 

I agree with everything - I'm going to move green away from mana dorks and towards more support for aggro/midrange.

Tom Reeve said:

I love the hell out of Rude Awakening, and it's one of the cards that I most dread out of a slower green deck.

Scute Mob and Silhana Ledgewalker seem too 'cute' to me. Also agree that at the moment Green is all mana and top end (leaving some of the pump a little stranded probably). It's very much the 'Rock' side of green to the max, all mana guys into 4/4s. No Tarmogoyf? One possibility is to replace some of the mana guys with more aggro-friendly mana guys (for example, 2-power 2-drops like Rofellos or Viridian Emissary)

 

Some general brainstorming for creatures at the lower end of the scale - Albino Troll, Beastbreaker of Bala Ged, Blurred/Nimble Mongoose, Werebear, Dryad Sophisticate, Master of the Wild Hunt, Garruk's Companion, Lotus Cobra, Skyshroud Elite, Vinelasher Kudzu, Great Sable Stag, Imperious Perfect, Viridian Shaman

 

Def agree on Grip, Slime, and more aggressive cheap guys in general, and probably one of Primus or The Big (although I'd like to keep Rude Awakening as mentioned already.)

[Tom Reeve]

Oh man. Forgot Tooth & Nail. Might be too expensive, might not be. But yeah, green definitely does want mana dorks and ramp spells, it just also likes attacking for 2 :D (Or sometimes 3, I guess...) Mana dorks that ramp multiple mana and/or can also attack and be aggressive are pretty much the dream (Cobra, Viridian Emissary etc etc.)

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Muldaya Channellers?

 

I think T&N is too expensive, and there's a lack of really spicey top end targets (no Akroma etc).

Tom Reeve said:

Oh man. Forgot Tooth & Nail. Might be too expensive, might not be. But yeah, green definitely does want mana dorks and ramp spells, it just also likes attacking for 2 :D (Or sometimes 3, I guess...) Mana dorks that ramp multiple mana and/or can also attack and be aggressive are pretty much the dream (Cobra, Viridian Emissary etc etc.)

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UPDATED 22 FEBRUARY

[Glenn Goldsworthy]

Thrun, the last troll.  Surely this guy is rather good

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He's there. Think your internet is broken again Glen.   ;)

Glenn Goldsworthy said:

Thrun, the last troll.  Surely this guy is rather good

[James Mills]

Harmonise?

[Glenn Goldsworthy]

sorry will just give up commenting to be honest, sodding works internet

[Allan Chong]

Wild Dogs for aggro and Iwamori for mid-range aggro?