Welcome back the final installment of my series. This week, I’ll be looking at the unguilded cards and making updates from Dragon’s Maze. Be sure to check out the sidebar if you missed any of the earlier parts. I can’t wait to actually start building this Cube. I’m done with school until August and I have Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm sitting next to me, a fully rebuilt bankroll on Magic Online (thank you, Gatecrash), and a pile of other video games that have gone neglected all year—and all I can think about is what 3-drops blue needs. First, let’s tackle the unguilded cards. I’ve thought about a few ways to implement this, and I think the simplest is to treat it as a sub-Cube and build it as I would any other Cube with a few caveats. I’m going to use two main criteria for selecting unguilded cards: objective power and synergy with guilds. The first one should be fairly obvious. These are cards that are always good, the likes of which you will typically see in normal Cubes—cards such as Dark Confidant and Faith's Fetters. If a card makes the cut or is close to making the cut in a typical nonthemed Cube, it should be an auto-include here. The second criterion selects cards that work particularly well with a specific guild. Take a card like Belltower Sphinx for example. It’s not a card you would expect to see in a typical Cube, but because it has very good synergy with Dimir, it’s a good candidate for this Cube. Beyond that, my standard criteria of “sweet rares” or “high-pick commons and uncommons” still apply.
I’m actually going to start with artifacts and lands. I’m not expecting that I’ll want too many of them, and once I have them pinned down, I’ll know how many cards I can allocate to each color. Here’s a quick list of cards I want at first glance: Artifacts – Bottled Cloister, Chromatic Lantern, Pithing Needle, Prophetic Prism, Sword of the Paruns, Volatile RigLands –Transguild Promenade I have two hundred cards to allocate among the unguilded cards, and in the interest of having the same number of cards in each color, I’m going to cut two of the above cards. Transguild Promenade is an easy cut since it has never been a card I’ve been happy to play, even when it was called Rupture Spire. The other cut is debatable, but I think it’s Sword of the Paruns. While powerful, it is a bit clunky. During the course of figuring out what unguilded cards to include, I found that I was often stretching for playables. Once I made it to the point at which I was asking myself if I really needed Gutter SkulkandTavern Swindler, I saw a problem. This seemed silly to me when I had the opposite problem with the guild cards: too many to choose from. For that reason, I’m going to increase the allocation of guild cards in the Cube and go up to thirty cards each. I’ll go over new additions to each guild in the next section. That leaves me with a hundred fifty-five cards to split among five colors, or thirty-one cards each. I won’t go into too much detail in each color, as it should be fairly straightforward by now.
Full Ravnica Cube – Unguilded] [White Creatures] Precinct Captain Keening Apparition Mistral Charger Veteran Armorer Concordia Pegasus Fencing Ace Freewind Equenaut Nightguard Patrol Sunspire Griffin Haazda Snare Squad Guardian of the Guildpact Hunted Lammasu Sandsower Divebomber Griffin Guardian of the Gateless Angelic Skirmisher Auratouched Mage Angel of Serenity [/White Creatures] [White Spells] Condemn Smite Swift Justice Ethereal Armor Renounce the Guilds Arrest Avenging Arrow Withstand Faith's Fetters Gideon, Champion of Justice Holy Mantle Angelic Edict Knightly Valor [/White Spells] [Blue Creatures] Faerie Impostor Crosstown Courier Lore Broker Metropolis Sprite Sage's Row Denizen Stealer of Secrets Wind Drake Runewing Snapping Drake Vedalken Entrancer Belltower Sphinx Voidwielder Aetherling Sapphire Drake Vedalken Dismisser [/Blue Creatures] [Blue Spells] Rapid Hybridization Repeal Syncopate Agoraphobia Peel from Reality Remand Runner's Bane Cancel Compulsive Research Halcyon Glaze Infiltrator's Magemark Aetherize Flight of Fancy Jace, Architect of Thought Dream Leash Followed Footsteps [/Blue Spells] [Black Creatures] Blood Scrivener Daggerdrome Imp Dark Confidant Drekavac Pack Rat Wight of Precinct Six Corpse Blockade Daggerclaw Imp Undercity Informer Balustrade Spy Desecration Demon Keening Banshee Ogre Jailbreaker Ogre Slumlord Necropolis Regent Skeletal Vampire Lord of the Void [/Black Creatures] [Black Spells] Death's Approach Disembowel Killing Glare Devour Flesh Last Gasp Ultimate Price Douse in Gloom Seal of Doom Stab Wound Underworld Connections Grisly Spectacle Strands of Undeath Assassin's Strike Hex [/Black Spells] [Red Creatures] Foundry Street Denizen Frenzied Goblin Scorched Rusalka Ash Zealot Riot Piker Sell-Sword Brute Sparkmage Apprentice Ember Beast Guttersnipe Lobber Crew Cinder Elemental Ogre Gatecrasher Viashino Fangtail Hunted Dragon Hammerfist Giant Hellkite Tyrant Molten Primordial [/Red Creatures] [Red Spells] Mugging Seal of Fire Fiery Conclusion Madcap Skills Act of Treason Annihilating Fire Char Galvanic Arc Flame Fusillade Homing Lightning Traitorous Instinct Goblin Rally Punish the Enemy Explosive Impact [/Red Spells] [Green Creatures] Birds of Paradise Centaur's Herald Dryad Sophisticate Gatecreeper Vine Greenside Watcher Skylasher Vinelasher Kudzu Axebane Guardian Civic Wayfinder Silhana Starfletcher Trophy Hunter Crowned Ceratok Ivy Lane Denizen Nullmage Shepherd Towering Indrik Bramble Elemental Indrik Stomphowler Ursapine Primordial Sage Giant Adephage Protean Hulk [/Green Creatures] [Green Spells] Giant Growth Slime Molding Utopia Sprawl Farseek Naturalize Savage Surge Aerial Predation Miming Slime Chorus of Might Wurmweaver Coil [/Green Spells] [/cardlist
The only thing left then is to update the guilds with cards from Dragon’s Maze. Since I’m adding four cards to each guild, the new cards don’t have to be strictly from the new set, and in many cases, cards from previous sets that were previously close to making the cut have made their ways in. One change I made across the board was cutting Keyrunes altogether. Honestly, they kind of suck, and there’s plenty of mana-fixing already. I was already planning on not including the new Cluestones, and I couldn’t really come up with a good justification for including Keyrunes over them. Let’s just quickly go through the updates. For reference, you can find the card lists in previous articles. Check the sidebar at the top. Dimir was covered in Part 1, Boros, Golgari, and Selesnya were in Part 2, Izzet, Gruul, and Orzhov were in Part 3, and Azorius, Rakdos, and Simic were in Part 4.
So there you have it: The Full Ravnica Cube is complete! Here’s a handy Google Docs link for you to view it in its entirety. If you’re trying to build this Cube and are short cards, be sure to check out my Cubing on a Budget article for tips. I can’t wait to put this together and start cubing away until the wee hours of morning with my friends. I hope those of you brave enough to build your own Full Ravnica Cubes will have just as much fun as I do. Until next time, Nassim Ketita arcticninja on Magic Onlinehttp://www.youtube.com/nketita
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