ehhhhhh i disagree. Cube is so mana-inefficient and high-margin compared to Constructed (whatever we do) that 2/turn isn't much, a lot of the time. if your criticism is more that "they're either miserably amazing or miserably awful," though, I could see that and get on board.
Ashiok is great...
i'm pretty sure this idea is best if used to explore "alternate card choices" of comparable power to stuff we don't have room for. i.e. i can only have so many green five-drops, but maybe i want Thornling and Primal Command in addition to Slime and Silverheart. these kinds of cuts are painful...
i feel the same way but my playgroup doesn't
sure you can! usually the player will spill the beans and if not you can get em g2 and g3.
wadds, i instinctually dislike the "mox sapphire showing up 25% of the time" idea but i dislike the idea of not trying it more
I love those cards but neither make the cut as a '3-color bomb'
We can relax the criteria a little for Wild Nacatl since he's not really 3-color. I've tried a bunch of true 3-color cards though and they're all going to be very fringe and frequently picked 15th, so why not make them...
i wasn't joking, this is the kind of situation that will get people saying "hahah hey come over here look what i've done to CML"
what friends are for right
how about "missed triggers"? usually we just go back. I had to give one of our 19yo wunderkinden (sp?) a stern talking-to after he got all twatty about my casual friend's inability to grok Sylvan Library the first time around. stuff like that either makes me despair for that kind of person or...
yes i am a big fan of this kind of thing being a win-con. the misery and suffering of the locked-out person is greatly exceeded by everyone else's schadenfreude
In the funsies draft I think i have Tranquil Thicket and Treetop, beyond that just WWK lands, Scars fast-lands and, you know, GAEA'S CRADLE. The count is fairly low, though Utopia Sprawl does catch people off guard with "Enchant Forest" sometimes
i don't like the defenders too much, they cost 2 and 1-mana accelerants are both more fun and more powerful. i guess for non-creature ramp i like
search for tomorrow (everyone should be running this)
wayfarer's bauble
edge of autumn
rampant growth
farseek
cultivate