Springleaf Drum

Well, I, I was also doing, like...

When I was building all the practice offense decks, uh, like Grand Gran, Springleaf Drum.

Unfortunate news about Grand Gran.

True.

I think the five mana activated ability on this is, is strong, but is just a little bit too weak for an environment so suited to aggressive stuff.

Um, Springleaf Drum is a card that has been in the cube, I think, from the beginning, and I have now realized that people are just not playing Springleaf Drum, and I think this is not a Springleaf Drum cube.

I think you mostly wanna play this when you care about the artifact.

It's sort of like a land or care about the fixing, and neither of those are things that you really care about in this cube.

Most of the cuts, almost all of the cuts from this cube, I'm making 28 changes to this cube outside of the 10 swaps in the, in the mana base.

Um, almost all of these are cards that people just, like, did not put in their deck.

So we've already talked about a lot of them, you know, Capital City, Springleaf Drum, some of the green cards, um, some of the, like, like Tarrian, some of the red cards like Thunderhead Gunner.

Beyond that, I'm making a couple changes to black-white, uh, the black-white gold cards that are in this cube, and a couple changes to blue-green, which we'll get to in a second.

But playing a lot of usual suspects plus a few things.

So Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, Mox Amber, Mox Diamond, Mox Opal, Mana Vault, Sol Ring, Springleaf Drum, Arcane Signet, Talisman of Progress, Tataru Taru, Thought Vessel, Bender's Waterskin, and Relic of Legends.

Also Gleaming Splendor and Smothering Tide that I've categorized elsewhere.

A few notes.

Often with a three-mana commander, I might not be playing things like Mox Amber and Springleaf Drum.

I'm playing them here because it's just that important to me to get extra mana eventually, and these are cheap ways to get more mana, even if they're not giving me more mana on the first turn.

Relic of Legends is really important.