This is a clear staple for even the tightest power-max Cubes. While it requires a hefty mana investment to remove something 'permanently', the tempo boost makes this more than good enough most of the time. Typically the most flexible removal spells are sorcery speed; of the few exceptions, Beast...
Pack Rat: instead of playing Lords and stuff you just activate Rat every turn to achieve the same thing, letting you play 56 other cards that are 'better' (but still worse because they're not blue)
nemesis of identity 1UU
Merfolk rogue
When ~~ enters the battlefield, choose a player.
~~ has protection from chosen player (It can't be blocked, targeted, damaged, enchanted by a source controlled by this player)
3/1.
Lyzolda's awesome, especially if you triple up on Rakdos Cacklers. Lyzolda + Murderous Redcap is also not ok. Love Unearth as well.
Planar Guide is one of those cards that seems really sweet but just avoids making the cut for me. I'm eager to give it a try though.
like, how absurd is it that Cedric Phillips is AT THE EVENT SITE DOING COVERAGE and yet all we'll have to listen to for the weekend is Zac Hill and Rich Hagon...
The official Magic coverage is like an elementary school play. Even the HoF ceremony has a tone of awkward amateurishness.
Let's not forget that the flagship Magic event had no video coverage for the first two days of play until 2012. 2012. Even Grand Prix had video coverage (though this was...
League of Legends' popularity mystifies me. Shitty game, worse community, yet gets hundreds of thousands of viewers and prize pools that dwarf Magic's (though tbh this is mainly Magic's fault).