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I really wish that they'd spoil the tokens alongside the cards that made them. Give me Arlinn and her AWOO puppies in one batch.

I feel like it depends heavily on what you're copying, honestly. Dual Strike giving you two Lightning Bolts for RR is a waste of everyone's time. Using it alongside Harrow to ramp out four basics for 2RG and a sac'd land, on the other hand, feels solid to me. Which makes me think that Fork...

So, on a different topic... I think Galvanic Iteration could have some sweet play patterns, but I'm still a little wary of cubing fork effects, because they tend to be very mana-intensive for minimum gain (other than, like, Dual Strike). If only Wild Ricochet cost 1RR...

My friend. Runeflare Trap No, seriously, Runeflare Trap is hilarious with wheels, especially wheels up to 7. There's also Molten Psyche, which is a wheel + payoff.

Blessed Defiance In all seriousness, though, Traveler is a classic for a reason. The problem with something like Witness or Martyr is that they're fundamentally defensive creatures. Yeah, sure, if you have equipment floating around they essentially act like removal... but a lot of times...

My big hesitation on Urza's Hot Tub is that drafting around it is going to introduce a lot of cognitive load. Like you draft a single bomb with "the" in the name and now every card with "the" in the name is a better draft pick.

My opinion on unfair strategies is that the best ones do something flashy-but-disruptable. To use reanimator as an example, one of these two creatures is way less obnoxious to see on T2: Inkwell Leviathan Apex Altisaur

I wasn't actually planning on building that cube, honest! I'm just vaguely curious about how you'd even design around it — Yugioh-style "name tribal" seems overly cute, after all.

... Has anyone actually cubed Urza's Hot Tub? Someone has to have, right?

The D&D set was weird for me, because it didn't actually use a lot of Forgotten Realms specific lore outside of some of the legendary creatures/planeswalkers. ... Now I wish it had been an Eberron (post-WW2 pulp fantasy, with velociraptor-riding halflings, elemental-powered trains, and robot...

I always feel so inferior to everyone else in these spoiler threads, because I don't have strong, clearly-explainable metrics for cube inclusions. Part of this is that my cubes tend to have wildly different design ethos. For example, I'm making the following swaps in the Capitalism Cube...

Isn't that the way fair vs. unfair is used in a constructed context?

The thing is... I don't think Briarbridge Tracker fits in the same slot as Tireless Tracker/Tireless Provisioner/Evolution Sage. Unlike those three cards, it isn't a value engine that cares about lands — it's an above-average beater with a little bit of extra value when it enters the battlefield.

One card that was briefly mentioned in the thread that I actually really like: Briarbridge Tracker It's just solid. And it gestures meaningfully towards Ye Olde Gx Token Deck without requiring you to build around it. Sometimes it's effectively a vigilant 4/3 for 2G that leaves behind a Clue...

Yeah, I'm looking at Eloise and Briarbridge Tracker for the Capitalism Cube.

No love for Eloise? I mean, other than @blacksmithy. I know that you'd prefer it if she was a 3/3 for UB or something like that.

I kinda like... The card isn't a novel, it has a fair stat-line, and surveiling whenever you sacrifice a Clue (or, say, a Treasure) is pretty neat.

Also... hey, does anyone here have a Heroic/Prowess/Magecraft theme that includes White?

I was just coming to the thread to post those two. Cathar Commando in particular looks like an incredibly versatile little weenie.

Oh well. At least we got Werebolt: