1st pack/pick discussion CUBE! Sample C

1st pack/pick discussion CUBE! Sample C

Tombstalker
Bayou
Nucklevee
Aether Vial
Hellkite Overlord
Nekrataal
Fact or Fiction
Chronozoa
Phyrexian Plaguelord
Force of Will
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Pulse of the Fields
Waterfront Bouncer
Wistful Selkie
Survival of the Fittest

I like FOF here, as it may be one of the best card drawers in the cube.

Tombstalker is also one of the ideal finishers, working excellently after an armageddon effect, but I stick with FOF.

Once again, you then burn Wistful Selkie, a marginal card back in Eventide draft. I love what Evan Erwin has done for magic, but I disagree with many of his cube choices.

I'd have to 2nd the Tombstalker, he's an amazing finisher that can hit the table early at a significant discount.

I think I would take the aether vial here. It is a great card for most decks. You either play it in an aggro deck and it doubles your threat capacity and stops counterspells, or you play it in a control deck as a good 1 drop that can spit out your monsters while leaving counterspell backup. It is also great because you could get tinker, and this is great tinker fodder.
The other picks for me would either be force or fact. I think I would take force because I love the card, but fact is an amazing source of card advantage as well. Not sure what card is the right pick here.

these cube choices are actually from the cube cards listed in the simulated draft tool found here
http://draft.bestiaire.org/index.php

It is either Aether Vial or Fact or Fiction, as both are immensely powerful cards that don't lock you into a color (FoF is worth almost any splash). Tombstalker is a G, but he definitely isn't on the level of the other two cards.

Me? I think I would take whichever struck me at the time, I can't really choose unless I had the cards in hand.

-AA

James, I believe that draft tool is based on Evan Erwin's cube.

then his vube does indeed suck, or at the very least, is in need of a major overhaul

Fact or Fiction. EoTFoFIW