I play Scapeshift in Modern and I love the deck. Valakut is often great on it's own especially with omen, even without the combo kill. Seems sorta awkward to make work in cube, it either takes up slots or would be weird in a utility land draft. Any thoughts?
Potential synergy with fetches, oracle/courser, seismic assault and other "lands matter" cards.
Valakut is a pretty interesting card and I've thought about tossing it into my Utility Land Draft pile before. The key is creating an environment where the components are potentially useful (read: maindeckable, not have niche gamestate applications while never making a final 40) without the full set of "valakut support".
As for Valakut itself, the first thing people see when they think of the card is mono-red. A deck filled with Mountains. This doesn't really happen in my environment, and even the mostly mono-red decks are playing various utility lands. Triggering Valakut (without assistance) requires at least 7 lands in play, and more for each non-Mountain you play.
Prismatic Omen is interesting in a Domain setting (and maybe I should just have it in Eldrazi Domain anyways?) and / or with multicolor decks, but the reward for the fixing it provides and land-type bonuses needs to be enough to justify a card. I am sure there are interesting ways you can make Prismatic Omen viable, with or without Valakut. The question is, does a Valakut
need Prismatic omen in play to be useful?
Scapeshift is probably the narrowest of the bunch. It does stuff, but it's at the 4CMC slot and I would cut it almost every time I drafted it. I know there are Loam interactions and Landfall triggers, but a cube where Scapeshift is not super narrow is hard to envision.
Primeval Titan is awesome but people already know that.
Looking forward to ideas / discussion on this topic.
