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I don't post much anymore because my cube is only custom cards, but I always scroll through this thread for ideas. I thought this question was really interesting. Going through my cube, I interpreted this as "what designs have led to fun game states?" I was surprised at how few cards I could...

My cube has become 100% cards which don't exist outside of excel, set editor, or cockatrice. My cube is now too radical for me to do more than lurk on riptidelab, but I have not found this balduvian trading post you speak of. do you know de wey?

I was definitely envisioning a cube filled with premium riptide removal like volcanic hammer. Shock is now tier 1 playable in standard. We can't have that floating around in low power cubes.

Maybe I'm crazy, but this card seems pretty reasonable on its own, assuming it's not drifting around in a cube with thragtusk and friends. It either gets in for 4, eats removal, or (probably) trades with something and leaves behind 4 1/1's.

Aether chaser and Kari Zav's expertise both seem very sweet and very playable to me. Kari zev also seems good, but something about this card rubs me the wrong way. I don't keep up with story stuff, so I can't comment on that side of things, but a 1/3 with first strike and menace in red that...

Maybe I lack imagination, but assuming you have no ways to "go off" with it, this feels like a very reasonable low power substitute to a control finisher like aetherling. It untaps lands so you can protect it from removal (assuming they don't kill it in response to the trigger. It has evasion...

I had this in my cube for a long time and eventually cut it. People were always excited to build with it, but the gameplay rarely followed up. Either its a vanilla 2/2 for 3 or effectively packrat. There weren't a lot of games where it fell anywhere in between. I think that's the danger of cards...

I don't know how wizards is going to go through all the entries, but I worry that a lot of riptide cubes will be a bit too out there at first glance and may get passed over. I can't imagine they have the time to explore the intricacies of all the entries.

So they're both pretty solid beaters (though I'd give the nod to troll in that category). I see it as troll for reanimator/wombo combo shenanigans or flayer for more value oriented self mill.

A couple decks from my drafts

I'm not sure what kind of deck you wanted trick to slot into (as far as midrange, control, or tempo). But my gut says some kind of noncreature spell that fits into traditional control shells. RE: ashnod's altar. It's certainly an indicator that sacrifice matters, but with so many spawn tokens...

I agree with cutting seeker. Speaking of spells, roilmage's trick and brilliant spectrum both seem sketch. They were pretty garbo in the draft format. I realize they encourage domain, but I haven't been very drawn to blue (and white) in a lot of these drafts, so maybe something more powerful...

Here's another round of drafts. This time, I tried to draft into strategies that early cards implied as opposed to just taking the best stuff in the pack.

Delve? cubetutor doesn't have a way for me to ctrl+f through card text, but I couldn't find anything with high enough cmc to pod into eldrazi. Regardless, I don't think 1 pod would ever reach the point of being GRBS consistently. If someone can put together that level of shenanigans, it seems...

I agree with elementals being unfocused. As for birthing pod, it feels like and easy "lazy" include. People like it and the card can be shoved into any green midrange shell. The opportunity cost is 1 slot. Sometimes it won't do anything, but the fun ceiling seems pretty high.

Originally I was mardu, but it looks like I forgot to take out spike jester out in the migration to boros.

Going in blind, decks are in order of being drafted:

I wish caryatid didn't have hexproof, but I still like it more than tinder wall. Also, from an earlier post, I would opt for nexus over angel. By the time you can cast angel, I suspect you won't have too much exciting stuff in your hand. Nexus however, is an absolute blast to play with. I ran...

Agreed on the cubetutor idea.

Total theorycrafting here: I feel like wizards won't mind some number of 2x cards, especially if they seem important in the strategies you're trying to promote. I do think that going beyond 2x is probably too scary of a concept for them. I also feel like the winning cube will be some pile of...