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I love scrabbling claws. It’s basically the ideal graveyard hate imo, and is great in low power environments. The opponent getting to choose is a nice bit of tension for both players. I also like it with things that make you want to target your own graveyard like eternal scourge or willow geist

Update to the main list: MID additions. I removed the spell based token suite, and shifted the spell volume archetype in Izzet more towards control. Brought back some more discard-oriented cards to red. Added a lot of artifacts. Cut a suite of lands and added some 5 color options. There's...

My first cards were from a Portal 2 starter set. The first pack of cards I ever bought was Tempest which had been out for a while. Commander Greven il-Vec looked so rad on the card packaging, I remembering being so excited

Categorize them by their cycling cost?

An alternative for low powered-cubes that I like a lot more: Izzet Guildmage Has a better floor. The cmc limitation can be much less narrow depending on your cube's spell suite.

I don’t run DFCs

Sentinel Eyes

Rimrock Knight Integrity Intervention Faerie Guidemother Fists of Flame Arc Lightning

I think Augur is pretty interesting, and Coven seems easy enough to trigger. In some green decks this is functionally a Magus of the Future, and dropping this on turn two via a mana elf seems really good (and 2/3 of coven). I see Augur going in the same deck that wants to run Collected Company

I've always wanted Increasing Vengeance to be a thing The only fork effect I've gotten a lot of mileage out of is: The Mirari Conjecture

Yeah, I like the novelty of it, but I find even Birthing Pod to be an unwelcome additional layer of consideration in draft

One benefit of Underworld Breach is that it can bring back card types that are otherwise difficult to recur....in this Izzet archetype it could be really useful to recur Thassa's Oracle or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

I found both Badgersaur and Bone Miser to be pretty awkward in the cube's curve. Curator of Mysteries and Archfiend of Ifnir kind of avoid that issue by self-cycling. I have them on standby in the event that I drop the speed/power of the cube down a notch. Yeah, Alliance wouldn't be optimal in...

I'm not sure the storm deck is quite as one-dimensional or toxic as it used to be with the printing of magecraft: Sedgemoor Witch Quandrix Apprentice Witherbloom Apprentice Professor Onyx If you are running lots of spell velocity stuff, Azorius can have a pretty explosive tokens deck that...

I really wish either Tutelage was target player rather than opponent. The trouble I have with most of the draw trigger stuff is how slow/clunky the payoffs are. Here's one draft I came up with: Ones 1 Careful Study 1 Faithless Looting 1 Firebolt Twos 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance 1 Conspiracy...

Considering cutting Murmuring Mystic, Young Pyromancer, and Saheeli, Sublime Artificer as the spells matters tokens deck is beginning to stick out more and more as I'm exploring more artifact and discard-driven synergies. I've long had an idea for a Izzet Combo deck centered around Wheel...

Near Certain: Cathar Commando Consider Dryad's Revival Moonveil Regent Cathartic Pyre Fateful Absence Foul Play Turn the Earth Willow Geist Uncertain but Interested: Memory Deluge The Meathook Massacre Sacred Fire Faithful Mending Angelfire Ignition Slogurk, the Overslime Jadar, Ghoulcaller of...

I do try to utilize some of the more "fair" resource denial options....but I'm also okay with doing unfair things sometimes :D

My cube runs plenty of cards that take away opportunities from players in the form of discard, counter magic, tax effects, and land destruction/stax so by that definition my cube is unfair

Some things I like about cards like Sinister Concoction, Aether Spellbomb, Pyrite Spellbomb and Executioner's Capsule that aren't necessarily relevant to every cube: - It gets an action spell out your hand that can be used later. Which is useful for cards like: Asylum Visitor Cursed Scroll...