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Intuition Squee, Goblin Nabob Gigapede Wonder 'Pede Go I love Gigapede. You'd probably need to run very few token makers for it to be remotely relevant.

I'd vote for weirding wood....one of the biggest buzzkills of ramp in cube and draft is drawing it late game when it's irrelevant. Weirding wood doesn't have that issue as it at least replaces itself.

I love Engineered Explosives....easy include imo Obviously works better the leaner your curve is

Maybe it was just the vibe/crew...couldn't put my finger on it. It's the first time I've cubed and didn't have fun. I'm also not sure that I'm in love with the environment I've crafted...it's a little laborious and intense at times.

Ran my cube a couple weeks ago and it was an immensely unsatisfactory experience. Switching to limited drafting for a few weeks to cleanse my palate before I host another cube night.

Buried Alive ?

I prefer Cruel, but mostly because it's a unique sneak out via dream halls or mizzix's mastery...I probably wouldn't run it if it was only applicable in a Control build.

Cratermaker for me. I run a high artifact count, and the lack of summoning sickness is great. I have plenty of filtering effects with the Wheels, and sift effects like Faithless Looting

Devotion seems like an easier option to explore as hybrids have crossover appeal, and can keep it from being an instantly draftable archetype. You'll likely be guaranteed to wheel the swamp matters cards as they have less utility in multicolor archetypes. On the surface, that doesn't add up to a...

That's what I suspected....thanks fellas

How do people feel about: Scourge of Nel Toth? I'm not sure if it has a place in my cube, but I got this little package stuck in my head: Gifts Ungiven binning Haunted Dead Scourge of Nel Toth

Yeah they're definitely on the clunky side. I stand by that this is one of the best cards in the archetype: Magus of the Wheel

key to the city LIghtning axe

Have you considered: Thespian's Stage Functional ramp with a bounceland on the board...can target opponent's lands. I think it'd be a pretty savvy include. Vesuva as well, but obv too spendy for the cube budget.

Added a fourth archetype to each guild. Forgot about Boros artifact aggro. Went with hatebears/company for Selesnya. Made some differentiation between the sacrifice deck and dredge deck in Golgari...though they do crossover into each other.

Cycling lands do fall in line with the whole negative variance reduction. I'd just prefer to see them have utility beyond the bounceland synergy...Grim Discovery and Skeletal Scrying are good.

I love the idea of running the cycle lands, but I'm not sure there's enough synergy outside of simic to warrant it.

Definitely. Blue's draw suite has been heavily curated, and the emphasis of the graveyard functioning as a second hand means that red's looting and wheel effects become very powerful, and also funny things like decks occasionally running Golgari Grave-Troll with no access to green mana just to...

Wildfire definitely exists in rakdos. Rakdos, gruul, and izzet easily have 4th archetypes....many other colors have fringe strategies that crystallize when the drafting stars align. I think that's an advantage of using this format for communicating archetypes...you already started seeing...

Updated the original post to include a brief summary, archetype breakdown and snapshots for each strategy. Not 100% happy, but even laying out everything in this manner is highlighting some discrepancies, redundancies, and lack of imagination in some archetypes. I'll update the pivot cards and...