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"Better", but less interesting. Let's not go replacing the card with more interactions and lines of play for a vanilla substitute.

Have to take Haste into the equation.

I ended up maindecking all the non-creature cards there. Went heavy on the wrath plan, and cut all the creatures below 4CMC. Certainly in Pack 1 the draft was looking like a steaming pile, but technically I was open to all five colors.

Either way, it's not a deck, to answer the OP. I think this type of thing can be a component of a deck, with Leechridden Swamp being interesting because of fetchability, but, it's pretty inefficient as far as closing power goes.

http://riptidelab.com/december-5th-8-man-cube-draft/

The meaning of the <> mana symbol.

I think Dom was looking for Pod shenanigans in the draft. Specifically, a Delve card -> pod it into a 9 or 10 drop. Do we want these plays, and if so, which cards would work as pod targets (that would also see play elsewhere)?

Ruinblaster is probably more powerful, but Avalanche Riders has more interactions. Because I put such an emphasis on sacrifice effects, Riders is the more natural fit for my current list, but I ran Ruinblaster back in the day.

Singleton aside, what are we looking for in our discard spells?

Mox Diamond is great, and has lots of (okay, a few) interactions. Turn 1 Fetch, Mox Diamond, Life from the Loam is a perfectly fine start. One of the stronger ways to use it is to put out hard-to-remove permanents. Turn 1 Bitterblossom, that sort of thing.

It's more that you can strip the wrath out of their hand. They're not specifically anti-control, but I think they're more effective against control. If you can strip the wrath out of their hand your win percentage goes way up. Taking out any given aggro card (and losing 2 life in the process)...

I personally felt that the players in this draft were not taking fixing or splashing aggressively enough, and blue was super open. I got one pack with a two-card pack of Venser, Shaper Savant and Cryptic Command. I would have played Cryptic if I wasn't super overloaded on 4-drops, but did...

I was thinking more along the lines of Thoughtsieze

Note that red (and other aggro strategies) should have a large chunk of "virtual card advantage", defined as the difference in hand size when you kill them.

Thanks, it's for an article, so the first one is perfect.

Someone made a comment about having difficulty fighting blue's card advantage. Wondering if there are things we can give to other colors. For my part, my deck really didn't want to see recursive threats. If someone had been hitting me with Hallowed Spiritkeepers and Shambling Remains and that...

I think Crystallization is the best option here. I actually already run gift of orzhova, and hobgoblins doesn't feel like where this cube wants to be.

Engineered Explosives is amazing. I run a super fast format, and it's great here. 3 mana, kill two aggro one-drops. 4 mana, wreck your bitterblossom. That happened tonight. EE sees play in high-powered constructed, and Ratchet Bomb sees play nowhere.