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Yeah, I think you need Planeswalkers to break symmetry with Deed. Same with Death Cloud. As for X spells, how about Sphinx's Revelation or Hydroid Krasis? I feel like Gain life + draw cards is a good combination for a control deck to turn the corner.

Pernicious Deed is another wrath option. Cryptic Command/Sleep/Evacuation? You could use wrath-adjacent Big Spells that help you stablise (Cruel Ultimatum is what specifically springs to mind). Maybe more Sagas like The Mirari Conjecture could support slower decks, since you have to stick...

Yeah, especially when it provides lasting, repeatable value. Prowess is cool because it tips combat and pushes damage, but it goes away afterwards. I'm honestly starting to reconsider classics like Young Pyromancer because it can very hard to overcome if not answered immediately. Briarbridge...

It's like Evoke, but with no downside!

Focus This update is primarily about reducing snowballing, fixing some cost-reduced-by-big-GY stuff missed in the last update, and continuing to use iconic, simple cards over less succinct and resonant ones. White Cast Out -> Pacifism White already has a 4-cost removal spell, for which the...

Life from the loam + Academy Ruins + Engineered Explosives (or Mindslaver !!) is a classic. You could also use Volrath's Stronghold or Hall of Heliod's Generosity for similar loops. Or you can stick in Raven's Crime/Flame Jab for the grind. LftL is basically great. Intuition itself also acts...

Time for another update! In this one, I felt like the "graveyard matters" theme was a bit mushy. In particular, the delve cards and the flashback have an awkward tension - mechanically (delving away a card with flashback is sad), but also strategically: Delve cards want the GY to filled fast so...

How do we feel about Rager and Big Rager in cubes these days?

Master of Waves? Tempest Djinn? Vedalken Shackles?

I guess stuff "leaves the graveyard" like Quintorius, Field Historian would also work, or other things that work with self-mill like Escape/Delve/Undergrowth. But one option is to run multiple copies of Burning Vengeance, work flashback etc. into the cube and not go too deep looking for other...

Nanonox, could you elaborate on your thought progression? Is it: Themes listed in OP -> packages which support those themes + some cool standalone packages -> combinations of those packages and glue cards make the archetypes you're now delving into? Or is there more back-and-forth?

There's a lot of overlap with the article about Green Artifacts as well

I got very confused reading Basri's "Exert" and then a bunch of cards with "Exhaust". Took me a second to work out they were different words! Saddle and Mount being the same but different is also confusing. Although I do like legends with a related cycling ability, a neat way to handle...

It is not :(

You are probably right that it wouldn't be a robust solution. I also agree that using native rarity would be ideal, but I was looking for ways to avoid constraining myself with it.