I had a "Manland of Choice" slot in my ULD for a while, that let a drafter choose one of:
Celestial Colonnade
Creeping Tar Pit
Lavaclaw Reaches
Raging Ravine
Stirring Wildwood
but have since cut the slot because it was nearly always first picked as strong fixing with upside. I've also changed my...
A 2-0 deck I drafted and played against my brothers last night in a three person draft of my cube. My cube is very similar to yours Jason. This is probably a solid multi-colored aggro list if you want one for the gauntlet.
One
1 Kird Ape
1 Stromkirk Noble
1 Zurgo Bellstriker
1 Birds of Paradise...
Yeah, I really dislike that CFB doesn't have a consistent image size for their articles. It makes reading their sideboard guides and articles like this much more difficult
Hm. Interesting how this could extend to all artifacts. Do we like these guys more:
Wurmcoil Engine
Batterskull
if their costs are <><><><><><> and <><><><><> respectively?
I agree that Thoughtseize was very oppressive for most of its time in Standard (Mono-black then Abzan). I'm just saying that clearly didn't stop Wizards from printing it, and we might see a worse card than Thoughtseize (IOK) printed too.