Rosie Cotton of South Lane's the only one I'm actually playing myself - she's really good, but she's more for Staff of the Storyteller decks rather than Yotian Dissident ones for me. (Planning to benefit from other creature tokens rather than other cards wanting her Food.)
General "Looking for a card"-Thread
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A lot of the best artifact payoffs are either artifacts themselves or are open-ended enough that you could go artifact heavy, but don't have to (think Monastery Mentor). You still have colored ones that are unique, but Green is lacking. There are still some options if you aren't strict with actual artifact payoffs. Listing some ideas, by no means an exhaustive list for each.
You could go the sacrifice route
Intersects with ETBs (Rite of Harmony) and leaves the GY (Summoner's Sending).
Go-wide with Food/Clue makers
Go-tall with constructs
Spell velocity
Intersects nicely with Bounce (Kor Skyfisher).
You also have +1/+1 counters that can be pretty straight forward but can get spicy with proliferate and charge counters
You could go the sacrifice route
Intersects with ETBs (Rite of Harmony) and leaves the GY (Summoner's Sending).
Go-wide with Food/Clue makers
Go-tall with constructs
Spell velocity
Intersects nicely with Bounce (Kor Skyfisher).
You also have +1/+1 counters that can be pretty straight forward but can get spicy with proliferate and charge counters
Looking for: Mono-Red four-drops. Here's the cube list for reference.
I'd like:
-strong preference for one pip, the Hellriders and Hero of Oxid Ridges of the world need not apply (why does Brutal Hordechief not have a red cousin?! it's been a decade!)
-ideally it'd be good enough in aggro and also playable elsewhere, but I'll live if not
-weak preference for legendary
-relatively strong power level
Dealbreaker:
-creature types matter
-three or more pips (sorry, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell - not that I would anyway, because the below card exists...)
-Headliner Scarlett is so ugly that I cut it even though it's nearly perfect (maybe slightly too strong, but only slightly)
All I know of is
which is on the shortlist to get the slot, for now
and I'm begrudgingly running Pia and Kiran Nalaar that I don't mind keeping but wouldn't mind replacing
I'd like:
-strong preference for one pip, the Hellriders and Hero of Oxid Ridges of the world need not apply (why does Brutal Hordechief not have a red cousin?! it's been a decade!)
-ideally it'd be good enough in aggro and also playable elsewhere, but I'll live if not
-weak preference for legendary
-relatively strong power level
Dealbreaker:
-creature types matter
-three or more pips (sorry, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell - not that I would anyway, because the below card exists...)
-Headliner Scarlett is so ugly that I cut it even though it's nearly perfect (maybe slightly too strong, but only slightly)
All I know of is
which is on the shortlist to get the slot, for now
and I'm begrudgingly running Pia and Kiran Nalaar that I don't mind keeping but wouldn't mind replacing
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I was going to suggest Headliner Scarlett, but never mind 
Hasty beater that gives you cards and mana.
Edit: ravnic beat me to it with the Kavu
Pyrogoyf is a bit much for my cube, but if I wanted an alternative for slower Red decks, the classic still has game IMO.
"4 drops"
Devastator is a clean Magic card that does its job decently.
Anger is definitely a cheeky suggestion, but you have good discard enablers for it to shine in Grixis.
The scaling two drops are interesting gameplay wise, but probably too loose in your definition of 4 drops.
Yeah, I cut Pyrogoyf for power reasons (because I don't really want a Flametongue Kavu effect, especially not one that's just way better in every way)... but actual FTK is kind of nostalgic. That's good.
I've never seen Agate Instigator in my life and I'm at least a little tempted, honestly. A 2 that kills as fast at 4 as Purphoros, God of the Forge, but is a real body rather than devotion garbage. I think that might be it!
I've never seen Agate Instigator in my life and I'm at least a little tempted, honestly. A 2 that kills as fast at 4 as Purphoros, God of the Forge, but is a real body rather than devotion garbage. I think that might be it!