Green Sucks Less!

Granted we've only done one draft with the new cards, but we had three green players and the green decks did some exciting things. I drafted a committed ramp deck that sought to end the game with an early Vigor or Eldrazi Conscription, a timely Rude Awakening, or a large Gelatinous Genesis. Against Phil I played turn 3 Triskelion turn 4 Gelatinous Genesis for x=3, proceeding to crush crush him, and I won multiple games with entwined Rude Awakening. We'll see how green fares in future drafts.

Playing with the new cards and talking with our play group revealed some minor changes that needed to be made, and also that we're bat-shit crazy.

Diabolic Servitude in for Dark Ritual
Somehow Servitude got cut, and we've been thinking of putting it back in for a while. Ritual has been okay but not amazing.

Zo-Zu the Punisher in for Stingscourger
Been meaning to get this guy in for a while, since he is a house in monored.

Farhaven Elf in for Wildsize
This guy got left out of the changes to green but deserves to be in. Problem solved!

Sarkhan the Mad in for Void
Planeswalkers are OP, not sure what we were smoking when we took him out...

If there are other cards you want to see in or out, let us know!

With the release of Mirrodin Besieged comes time to update the cube. This time around though we are not just making card changes however.

We've decided that hybrid and gold as separate categories is not working out the way we would like. Firstly, that structure resulted in multiple cards that were very underwhelming but made the cut because we needed a fifth U/R hybrid or an eighth R/W gold. Secondly, with the way we build our draft pools, almost every hyrbid card was in an eight-man draft, taking a lot of the randomness out of that part of the pool. Hybrid and gold are now one category with 10 cards of each color pair, 6 tricolor cards and 5 colorless Eldrazi.

Now on with the changes!

White
In	Out
Mirran Crusader	White Knight
Leonin Skyhunter	Spectral Lynx
Accorder Paladin	Kami of Ancient Law
Leonin Relic-Warder	Harm's Way
Hero of Bladehold	Breath of Life
White Sun's Zenith	Fuedkiller's Verdict

Blue
In	Out
Consecrated Sphinx	Palinchron
Treasure Mage	Plaxmanta

Black
In	Out
Dauthi Marauder	Daggerclaw Imp
Go for the Throat	Nezumi Cutthroat
Black Sun's Zenith	Mutilate
Massacre Wurm	Laquatus's Champion

Red
In	Out
Ghostfire	Carbonize
Slagstorm	Molten Disaster
Goblin Wardriver	Sulfur Elemental
Hero of Oxid Ridge	Hoarding Dragon

Green
In	Out
Ifh-Biff Efreet	Deadwood Treefolk
Iwamori of the Open Fist	Kavu Titan
Abundance	Ohran Viper
Natural Order	Kodama of the North Tree
Silvos, Rogue Elemental	Reclaim
Farhaven Elf	Wall of Blossoms
Rude Awakening	Wild Mongrel
Gaea's Revenge	Civic Wayfinder
Gigapede	Borderland Ranger
Avenger of Zendikar	Bellowing Tanglewurm
Green Sun's Zenith	Imperious Perfect
Thrun, the Last Troll	Leatherback Baloth
Explore	Squirrel Nest
Terastodon	Garruk's Packleader
Sylvan Library	Lotus Cobra
Ondu Giant	Seedborn Muse

Land
In	Out
Karakas	Windbrisk Heights
Soldevi Excacations	Faerie Conclave
Contested Warzone	Urza's Factory
Evolving Wilds	Thawing Glaciers

Artifacts
In	Out
Sword of Feast and Famine	Livewire Lash
Thopter Assembly	Trigon of Rage
Myr Battlesphere	Stuffy Doll
Myr Turbine	Chimeric Mass
Spine of Ish Sah	Crystal Ball
Bonehoard	Empyrial Plate

Multicolor
In	Out
Glissa the Traitor	Gleancrawler
	Murkfiend Leige
	Overbeing of Myth
	Vorosh, the Hunter
	Firemane Angel
	Flame-Kin Zealot
	Skyknight Legionnaire
	Lightning Angel
	Oros, the Avenger
	Intet, the Dreamer
	Iridescent Angel
	Thistledown Liege
	Mirrorweave
	Watchwolf
	Mystic Enforcer
	Mercy Killing
	Inkfathom Infiltrator
	Moroii
	Dimir Guildmage
	Death Grasp
	Deathbringer Liege
	Orzhov Pontiff
	Sarkhan the Mad
	Ashenmoor Gouger
	Blazing Specter
	Cankerous Thirst
	Golgari Guildmage
	Consume Strength
	Plaxcaster Frogling
	Spellbreaker Behemoth
	Fires of Yavimaya
	Hull Breach
	Call the Skybreaker
	Double Negative
	Frenetic Efreet