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I feel like your opponent should have waited for Gitrog to make you sac a land before bouncing it
I just got a proxy order in with all the custom cards from your cubecobra list, along with a couple from the design competition to test out in my cube. I'm throwing them all in the pool for a week or two for fun, but it's an unpowered cube, so a few of these cards aren't going to last long. Which of the customs do you think is the most broken? I'm betting on Undo, or maybe One With the Universe. Sylvan Emissary seems Jitte-ish in that it makes creature combat so unprofitable for the opponent. Excited to see how it goes!
haven't finished yet,but why play a basic forest over a trop??
edit: yeah i'm stupid,you adress that like 10 sec later
Can I just say how insane it looks to be passing both power cards??? Like maybe mox ruby could've been spicy to accelerate to 2/3 mana plays, but I see why the enchantment might be more proactive too. Very tough pick there
The 3-0 6‐0 whilst passing black lotus and mox ruby. Bonus points for style!
Hey Caleb I subscribed to the email list June 24th and I haven gotten any of the updates. Might be an issue on my end but I would hate for anyone else to miss out so I thought I would let you know(I did get the official confirmation but that's it)
I've played your cube a ton on MTGA and it often seems correct to me to pass off-colour Moxen and Sol Ring. The curve in the cube is so low (and the coloured mana requirements often so intensive) that the colourless ramp from off-colour Moxen or Sol Ring isn't always useful. It took a while to wrap my head around this but it's cool that you made a cube where the usual powerhouses aren't automatic first picks! That said, not sure if passing Lotus in this draft was right but it wasn't as crazy as it would have been in any other powered cube 😛
Lol, your reaction to the last picks in the first pack. Ahhhh.
That pack 3, oof. How the hell do you figure that one out.
I had to laugh when you caught yourself at the end saying "the problem with black lotus is… eh, no it's good".
I know he's hard-forcing fun archetypes so that we can see them as an audience (fuggin love this cube btw both as audience and player)
But the 'default splashing blue' picks in pack 3 went Black Lotus -> Tinker/Urza -> Mana Drain and that was just so painful to watch.
I definitely still overvalue MD in the context of this cube (avg cmc is wayyyyyy down from modo vintage cube) but it is the JUICE. You just can't pass the juice.
nice final game
Passes lotus
Everyone: bruh
The other people in the cube should know they're playing with caleb when they get passed a black lotus
I mean, you say the black lotus skip was a mispick, but there was that one game where exploration was absolute GAS.
Great cube, you passed by a moxen AND black lotus herself and went on to 6 – 0!
Wow, Lotus, Ruby, AND Valukut Exploration! Three of the Power 5009 all in the same pack?!
Man, you just drew pure fire every single turn in that last game, when you were at 1hp and hellbent. The opponent must've been so frustrated.
You released a video with my fave swamp monster on my bday ily
10:44 might be the best pack ive ever seen in draft, supports practically every deck type you could play
I love how you've designed a cube where a card like Valakut Exploration is stronger for a deck than Lotus or Mox!!! That's so cool and unique! Loving this cube so much
Sweet, sweet deck! Pleasure to watch it in play 👍
Hope to see some hot frog action as someone who plays two four colour frog tribal decks.
That last match was so crazy
Correct me if I’m wrong but in match 3 game 2 shouldn’t the play have been:
1.decay ravager, +1 counters go to zabaz
2.untap and ending zabaz counters disappear cause exiled?
Modular is a dies trigger so exiling the zabaz should have made that a favourable situation for you. Either way you win the match though so I guess it is kind of irrelevant
How can you not have a good day with a hand this good? Lol!! It’s always a great day when u post a Caleb Gannon synergy cube draft!!
Wow and thank you for some really entertaining matches!
Am I missing something about the Zabaz vs archbound ravager play? You just abrupt decay the ravager, counters go on Zabaz, then the opponent is tapped out and can't sac Zabaz so they go away when he prismatic endings, and he is just doing with a 2/2.