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My opinion on unfair strategies is that the best ones do something flashy-but-disruptable. To use reanimator as an example, one of these two creatures is way less obnoxious to see on T2: Inkwell Leviathan Apex Altisaur

I wasn't actually planning on building that cube, honest! I'm just vaguely curious about how you'd even design around it — Yugioh-style "name tribal" seems overly cute, after all.

... Has anyone actually cubed Urza's Hot Tub? Someone has to have, right?

The D&D set was weird for me, because it didn't actually use a lot of Forgotten Realms specific lore outside of some of the legendary creatures/planeswalkers. ... Now I wish it had been an Eberron (post-WW2 pulp fantasy, with velociraptor-riding halflings, elemental-powered trains, and robot...

I always feel so inferior to everyone else in these spoiler threads, because I don't have strong, clearly-explainable metrics for cube inclusions. Part of this is that my cubes tend to have wildly different design ethos. For example, I'm making the following swaps in the Capitalism Cube...

Isn't that the way fair vs. unfair is used in a constructed context?

The thing is... I don't think Briarbridge Tracker fits in the same slot as Tireless Tracker/Tireless Provisioner/Evolution Sage. Unlike those three cards, it isn't a value engine that cares about lands — it's an above-average beater with a little bit of extra value when it enters the battlefield.

One card that was briefly mentioned in the thread that I actually really like: Briarbridge Tracker It's just solid. And it gestures meaningfully towards Ye Olde Gx Token Deck without requiring you to build around it. Sometimes it's effectively a vigilant 4/3 for 2G that leaves behind a Clue...

Yeah, I'm looking at Eloise and Briarbridge Tracker for the Capitalism Cube.

No love for Eloise? I mean, other than @blacksmithy. I know that you'd prefer it if she was a 3/3 for UB or something like that.

I kinda like... The card isn't a novel, it has a fair stat-line, and surveiling whenever you sacrifice a Clue (or, say, a Treasure) is pretty neat.

Also... hey, does anyone here have a Heroic/Prowess/Magecraft theme that includes White?

I was just coming to the thread to post those two. Cathar Commando in particular looks like an incredibly versatile little weenie.

Oh well. At least we got Werebolt:

I guess you could grab a sharpie and errata the old faithfuls to use Daybound/Nightbound? And then conspicuously don't mention the whole "you can't transform them through other means lol" thing. ... Oh god. This is why Tovolar has to have that damn "transform any number of human werewolves"...

I thought Ravnic's Madness theme had less to do with using actual Madness cards and more to do with having cards that are better in your graveyard than your hand, like Honored Hydra? Or am I misremembering?

"This source" is WotC's official mechanics article for Midnight Hunt. EDIT: But yeah, your post perfectly encapsulates why this is so damn annoying.

Someone just brought it to my attention that, in contrast to what's written on the actual cards, Daybound/Nightbound cards are incapable of transforming through other means. I'm pretty annoyed by this.

Why not Stampede Driver ?

@Velrun To be entirely fair, that was a typo on my part. I meant to type it the other way around.