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My favorite Gifts deck I've ever had was an Emrakul deck where I'd use it as a form of super ramp for Emrakul, the Promised End or as a means of setting up reanimation: "] Ones 1 Fyndhorn Elves 1 Oath of Nissa 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald Twos 1 Exhume 1 Go for the Throat 1 Grasp of Darkness 1...

Hmm I can't think of a strong card that I haven't run because of the art, but for each card I try to run the version I find most aesthetically pleasing from a art and border/frame perspective. I'm a huge fan of the old frames and the shooting star, I'll often look for versions of cards in that...

Holy shit Yawgmoth is so freaking cool. The payoff that Aristocrat decks needed for a long time. I'm so excited to run this in W/B Humans or as a curve topper for recursive aggressive decks. You can have a really really disgusting turn with Gravecrawlers and enough black mana. I currently have...

Gideon of the Trials vs. Gideon Blackblade Trials is more generically useful in a handful of different archetypes, but Blackblade is a sweet card for W/x aggressive strategies that can be cashed it to remove a roadblock later in the game.

Ranger Captain is pretty awesome too. Being able to sac on your opponent's upkeep/draw step to prevent them from playing a T4 wrath to stabilize the board is exactly the kind of reach you need in W/x aggressive decks to get across the finish line. White 3s are incredibly crowded nowadays but...

Holy shit, this is the exact card I needed for Welder/Daretti strategies to take off. A second pseudo-Welder effect AND weird Red artifact Entomb variant stapled to a body is all I've ever wanted. I'm definitely going to revisit a U/R centric Artifact archetype after this set is released. This...

I was actually going off the artifact archetype because I didn't really have anything big drawing me towards it in my environment, but Urza makes me want to revisit it altogether. Two bodies, a weird callback to Tolarian Academy, and a mana sink all in one? This card is incredible. I like...

Yes, that card is Flusterstorm. It's going to be the buy-a-box promo for Horizons.

I think FTK is probably the best red 4 for Cube. Powerful effect, will usually trade off with two things off the ETB + body, and it's super splashable. I'd play it in any R/x I'd draft, from aggro to midrange to even control as a kill spell + body. It's just so versatile. There are cards with...

I don't know if you want to just be making a 1/1 each turn at 5 mana. Maybe in a very low powered environment she can be average, but I'd probably just ignore her 9/10 times honestly. She's just not very threatening at all. Unless you've already got Batterskull or some sword out on the field to...

I think all of the 3 CMC options are fine to run, I'm a little more wary about Liliana though. That static ability changes it from a decent card into something that can completely warp the game around her. I do think she has interesting play to her, but I'm not exactly sure where her power level...

It really depends on your removal suite and how fast your environment is. Transmuter will not be active until T5 in most scenarios, which is kind of late in many games unless you're able to drop something big ahead of the curve off of it. If you can get it out on T3 to speed it up by one, that...

It's a shame because he's one of my favorite planeswalker cards ever, but he doesn't quite slot into the decks that I envision him being put into. I love using him as a control finisher that you plop onto the field after dealing with your opponent's side of the board, but the typical drafter...

Onder hit the nail on the head, signets are just highly underrated piecing of fixing with how they can accelerate you and help you fix colors in strategies that usually don't have access to it. Splashes are made easier, you push your gameplan forward by one whole turn, and there's very little...

If Arc Lightning is that high a pick in your environment, then this with consistent looting effects might be too strong. It also depends on how often Lightning is a 2/1 split and how big of a hit that ends up being tempo wise. If 1/1 splits as the base case are fine, then this will be okay...

Alright, my final testing/inclusion list with the set spoiled are the following cards: Decent number of cards to test out with this set. They're giving R/G colors some interesting tools to work with, I'm a fan of the simple designs of both Viv and Domri as I've pointed out...

Wow Kefnet is incredible. 4/5 flier for 4 is already ahead of the curve, having the god recursion is just gravy. Becomes nutty with any instant speed card draw letting you do normally sorcery speed stuff on your opponent's turn. Looters have even great utility with this on the field. Like Gnoll...

Pig is incredibly pushed. I will never play it in Cube, but I will laugh maniacally in EDH.

I'm quite interested in seeing this. The Monarch mechanic is a good way to encourage interaction and aggressiveness in multiplayer formats where players tend to turtle up and build up their bases before going off, but I haven't had good experiences with it in a 1 on 1 scenario. It's been...

Makes sense, I know a lot of people who prefer movies to TV shows as the escape for a little over 2 hours is just what they need, but series that can be 10+ hours long per season are much more difficult to get into. It's a little different if you do pick up the show early enough to where it's...