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I feel like Devourer is cooler, especially if you can support it? I had a pretty janky casual deck from around TBD came out that used it with Grave Strength.

The only Retrace cards that I could actually see running are: Oona's Grace Raven's Crime Flame Jab Reality Scramble Throes of Chaos Call the Skybreaker Oona's Grace might seem weird, but it's basically "all your lands have Cycling {2}{U}". It's something I'd play in a slow, grindy cube...

Enhanced Surveillance + Otherworldly Gaze is kinda insane.

The haste is the bit I'm interested in, is the thing. I'd love a version of the Stormchaser that was, like, a 1/1 for {1}{R}.

I dunno if I'd say that it's worse, necessarily, since you get the creature (albeit temporarily). Like, you could theoretically use Preacher to repeatedly steal creatures from your opponent before combat on their turn, and then chump their attackers with their own creatures. --- On a...

I think that's more of a How To Keep An Izzet Mage Busy thing than a generic "new spells might break things" — that card was very consciously designed with the goal of being kinda broken in conjunction with anything that cares about casting Instants/Sorceries, after all. That said... "all...

Preacher sits in a weird spot, where it wants you to have good removal (because you're generally going to get their worst creature) and bad removal (because it's a 1/1 for {1}{W}{W} with no inherent protective abilities). That said... test that fire-and-brimstone out! Fun fact, there are only...

Yeah... I feel like the passive ability is fine (a 2/2 for 1UU that makes bodies when you counter stuff is a little parasitic, but it's ultimately not going to break anyone's back), it's just that it has that big "tap all the feesh to counter target spell" ability. If you can't use that...

Master is probably a more interesting card (unless your cube is bad at blue devotion, I guess?) Mentor is a card I've always wanted to love, but it keeps countering my affection. :(

Yeah, it was a definite missed opportunity — the problem with non-creature subtypes is that WotC is generally very averse to reusing old ones unless they're very popular (see: all the support Gates got recently). No one's clamoring for more Arcane or Trap cards, and so they're basically just...

The power ceiling honestly depends on the Splice card. They were very conservative with the costs of Arcane cards in Kamigawa. That said, a lot of the cards with cheap splice costs basically turn into one-card archetypes if you can combine them with ANY instant/sorcery (picking one per color)...

On the topic of "specialized removal", I love this thing for my "constrained CMCs" cubes: Inscription of Ruin It's a Mind Rot, Sorcery-speed Smother (which is pretty dang good when it hits almost everything in the cube... but not everything), or tiny reanimator spell as needed, and then turns...

I'm surprised that your Boros Artifacts list doesn't have this majestic lad on it: Experimental Synthesizer That card is honestly pretty nuts if you're bouncing/flickering artifacts.

Oops, sorry, the rule only applies to Instants and Sorceries. Another version of the same idea that I had post-Strixhaven was to combine Arcane and Lesson into a single type. If you pull up a list of Sorcery-speed Arcane spells and a list of Strixhaven Lessons, they look *surprisingly* similar...

Hello, it's me again, with another unnecessary cube idea. The rules are thus: The idea here is that this mana base actually does something rather interesting: On T1 You can produce either {c}{c} or one mana of any color. On T2+ Assume that your third gate was Izzet Guildgate. You may do any...

I've also considered replacing Surveil with Scry (or vice-versa). Has anyone given this a try?

One of my cubes has an "all spells are arcane" rule, with the following package of cards supporting it: Oyobi, Who Splits The Heavens Dampen Thought Psychic Puppetry Soulless Revival Thief of Hope Desperate Ritual Glacial Ray Budoka Pupil Long-Forgotten Gohei If I was going to do that in the...

I mean, that requires you to have an untapped land and three specific combo pieces in your hand on T1. In a format that's singleton for all three of those pieces. If someone opens with that hand, clap them on the back and congratulate them on hitting the roughly 0.35% chance of that happening. :p

I could see Grim Discovery + Prismatic Vistas being worth it if Bx Domain/Landfall is a thing in your cube. :p More seriously... Regrowth effects kinda suck unless your format has ways to abuse them. Like, theoretically there's a format where casting Regrowth to get back your Brushwagg is a...

It was actually going to be... Prosperous Partnership vs. Stimulus Package RGW draft environment, except all the lands are untapped Rx duals (so it's effectively White vs. Green, with Red as "colorless"). Will this ever be made? I dunno.