I don't like proxies, I also don't like not being able to play/design Cubes, and unless I'm willing to pony up a lot of money that's a choice I have to make. It's an easy one: play proxies.
Liliana's Reaver is the kind of effluent that the MODO Cube is full of
Ways to exploit extra cards:
BrainstormForbidAttunementFirestormFaithless LootingDevastating DreamsWild MongrelNostalgic Dreams
+ Dack Fayden
Ways to get extra cards (beyond just the usual 'draw n cards'):
Land TaxSquadron HawkLife from the Loam
Have I missed any good cards in either...
Doran obv
It's more interesting, a better card, in a colour combination that doesn't get as much help, and actually interacts in fun ways with other cards, and isn't pretty much worse than less restrictive options (cf. Loxodon Smiter)
I like Time Warps of all shapes and sizes
Oath is very hard to set up
bloodrush is cool
Madcap Skills is definitely worth a shot
Regrowth is never as good as it ought to be
You have to have gone deep in the paint for Sky Hussar to work
ugh, Keranos
Staff is awful
Servitude is fine but sooo...
There's a lot of overlap between battalion/battle cry/'horizontal pump' cards and human token makers:
Boros EliteFirefist StrikerDaring SkyjekAccorder PaladinFrontline MedicPianna, Nomad Captain
Gather the TownsfolkThatcher RevoltIncreasing Devotion