Comments on: Windmill Slam: Summer 2014 Cube

By: frizzell66

frizzell66 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:35:02 +0000

No one wants to talk about Moxes and whether they should take a land slot or a spell slot?

I personally split the difference with them. If I have two, it’s an easy decision to run them in place of 1 land. If you only have 1 of them, then it is definitely more dependent on your curve and your color distribution. With your deck (3 colors and wanting to get to aetherling) I would have run it as a spell.

By: Willd

Willd — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:49:49 +0000

burt I had the same thought but it doesn’t work because Denis had bitterblossom in play, meaning he doesn’t have to sac the titan.

Also remanding the real prophetic bolt had me facepalming pretty hard. The only worse play was the opponent not killing the hero with it on the next turn (and not doing anything else relevant either).

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:29:56 +0000

I don’t think I could have resisted that Basalt Monolith when I already had Wake Thrasher in my pile.

Though the consistency of the UB land was probably correct.

But…but…attacking with an arbitrarily large Wake Thrasher!

By: Rik Speed.

Rik Speed. — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:30:43 +0000

thanks for the comments about picking the cards you like, versus the “correct” pick! that’s exactly how I approach cube, too, and it was nice to hear someone has a similar philosophy… in other news, just got passed both Library of Alexandria AND Mox Pearl, FOURTH pick…

By: burt

burt — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:03:23 +0000

At the end of round 1 you should have held your creatures back to ‘chump’ the titan, then next turn you could balance and destroy the titan and all the extra land he’d put into play.

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:15:34 +0000

Yes, Banzaitron. Yes it would have. I realised this after the recording

By: Banzaitron

Banzaitron — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:05:27 +0000

Wouldn’t Remanding the Copy return nothing to his hand, instead of y’now, a Prophetic Bolt?