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Ah yeah, I forgot about landfall, which I curiously don't run in my cube. Less poisonous than I thought in that case :) It's certainly a card that can put more lands onto the battlefield in one turn than any other single card can on turn (save maybe Fastbond, but how realistically can you put...

If you support Life from the Loam (a card which I squadroned) it could have some uses maybe, and it thins out your deck? Still seems pretty poisonous though...

Yes it is, but essentially you're just casting it on your normal turn, had you been on the play. I.e., when you power out Gideon on t4, you make your 5-drop before your opponent can make his 5-drop, exactly as if you had been on the play. The turn after that you still have to make do with 5 mana...

It might be weird, but what if we abolished the rule that the starting player skips his or her first draw step? What if instead the non-starting player gets a gold token and gets to scry 2 after keeping an opener? What is so bad about Wrath on turn 3 anyway? That means you're playing a 2 for 1...

If it made Shivan Dragons instead of Furnace Whelps it would totally be playable.

He doesn't need to ult though. If Karn had only the first two abilities he would still be a beast.

I have to admit I swapped out Oblivion Ring for Banishing Light for the express purpose of preventing shenanigans. The reverse side of figuring this interaction out for the first time is the time where you don't figure it out yourself, but feel totally cheated because your opponent uses his...

True, but refreshing your Wave is very powerful as well. I also run some instant enchantment removal for the perma-exile interaction. Edit: That's to say, I don't run it for the express purpose of interacting with Wave this way, it just happens to.

Gideon Jura is top for me. It just does savage things to your opponent's board state and readily mops up your opponent after you've stabilized. I actually cut it from my cube because it does the same thing too well every time.

I played someone else's cube a while back and ended up with a sweet blue white control deck. In the finals I played a mono red aggro deck. We played something like seven games, and the player who went first won every single time. Either I could mount defenses quick enough, or I got slaughtered...

Yeah, there are a few shenanigans in my cube as well, but I'm okay with that. No Venser, but I do have... flickerwisp Brago, King eternal

Or, what if the player going second gets to scry 1 after keeping his or her hand?

Or a colorless lotus.

Yeah, see the Print this Wizards thread though for some recent ideas for a custom black planeswalker :) Karn is expensive, but a beast when he comes down. I've seen unwinnable games turned around by Karn.

So, play two! I think Greater Gargadon is a pretty smooth sac outlet as well, and if you splash green... Well, you all know which card I am talking about :)

Or you could do partial mulligans plus first mulligan is free. Works pretty well in commander :p

Karn, by the way, is near the top of Top for me. If he were any cheaper he would be broken, because games sure do feel like they're done and over when he hits the battlefield!

To be honest it would feel best if it was a real Magic card, but in the end the looks aren't as important as the feel. When you shuffle your deck, when your opponent cuts your deck, when you pick up your cards, when you casually rearrange the cards in your hand... All of these are negatively...

These are the planeswalkers in my cube, except for Ajani Steadfast, and how I would rate them. Broken (would always first pick, and draft so I could support this, and my opponents would weep rivers of salty sadness if I drew it) None Top (would almost always first pick) Karn Liberated Elspeth...

This is definitely not a book. If I'm generous I could call it a short story. Nevertheless, it made my eyes tear and I may have giggled :D http://www.touchofembellishment.com/2012/01/show-and-tell.html