Sunday, May 15, 2011

Neil Patrick Harris in the Cube

NPH, aka New Phyrexia is out making it time for some changes. We're making changes for the auto-includes, but for all the other cards we want other opinions before we put them in. They are listed below, along with cards from the corresponding section that are most likely to receive the axe in favor of the new card:

White contenders: Blade Splicer, Inquisitor Exarch, Elesh Norn, Porcelain Legionnaire, Mistral Charger, Stormfront Pegasus
White shitters: Silver Knight, Auriok Champion, Mistmeadow Skulk, Shrieking Grotesque, Leonin Skyhunter, Kor Aeronaut, Samurai of the Pale Curtain, Guardian of the Guildpact, Leonin Relic-Warder

Blue contenders: Phyrexian Metamorph, Phyrexian Ingester, Standstill, Forbid
Blue shitters: Probe, Brainstorm, Ponder, Memory Lapse, Infiltrator il-Kor, Domestication, Court Hussar, Telling Time

Black contenders: Dismember, Life's Finale, Sheoldred, Gatekeeper of Malakir, Stupor, Despise
Black shitters: Dauthi Marauder, Stinkweed Imp, Crypt Angel, Last Gasp, Decree of Pain, Hand of Cruelty, Smother, Kagemaro, Ob Nixilis, Twisted Abomination, Skeletal Vampire

Red contenders: Act of Aggression, Urabrask the Hidden, Volt Charge, Moltensteel Dragon, Molten Rain, Pillage, Jackal Pup
Red shitters: Flameblast Dragon, Urza's Rage, Ghostfire, Countryside Crusher, Pain Kami, Gathan Raiders, Changling Berserker

Green contenders: Primeval Titan, Arbor Elf, Fyndhorn Elves, Elves of Deep Shadow, Rofellos, Cloud Thrasher, Brutalizer Exarch, Primal Command, Ice Storm, Oracle of Mul Daya, Woodfall Primus
Green shitters: Abundance, Birds of Paradise, Masked Admirers, Ohran Viper, Iwamori of the Open Fist

Artifact Contenders: Etched Monstrosity, Spellskite, Black Vise
Artifact Shitters: Scroll Rack, Masticore, Molten-Tail Masticore, Juggernaut, Mask of Memory

Thinking of cutting down multicolor further, since it is our largest section and has a lot of filler cards that make the cut only because they are cards #9 and #10 of a color pair (*cough* U/R *cough*)

Multicolor shitters:
Deft Duelist, Ith High Arcanist
Divinity of Pride, Gerrard's Verdict, Castigate
Captain's Maneuver, Brion Stoutarm, Soltari Guerrillas
Glare of Subdual, Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers
Sygg River Cutthroat, Wydwen the Biting Gale, Cavern Harpy, Ghastlord of Fugue
Izzet Chronarch, Wand of the Elements, Spellbound Dragon, Dominus of Fealty, Prophetic Bolt, Nucklavee
Temporal Spring, Coiling Oracle, Lorescale Coatl, Cold-Eye Selkie
Defiler of Souls, Torrent of Souls, Wrecking Ball, Demigod of Revenge
Deity of Scars, Glissa the Traitor, Grave-Shell Scarab
Burning-Tree Shaman, Rumbling Slum, Vexing Shusher, Vithian Renegades

Land contenders: Shelldock Isle
Land shitters: Soldevi Excavations


Green
Beast from Within in for Squall Line

Artifact
(FOIL!) Sword of War and Peace in for Aether Vial
(FOIL!) Batterskull in for Engineered Explosives

Additionally, the following foils have been added:
Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
Frost Titan
Grave Titan
Garruk Wildspeaker
Orzhov Basilica
Contested War Zone
Birds of Paradise
Hero of Oxid Ridge
Golbin Wardriver
Accorder Paladin