MTG Salvation

Ahhhhhhhh its been so long since we did away with putting combat damage on the stack that I forgot it was an issue. Sure, I'm okay with this goblin. Wizards might scratch their heads at this, but I'm okay with an updated Mogg Fanatic for cube play!

How about another Masticore?

Fluxmeld Masticore 4
Artifact Creature - Masticore
Discard a card: Fluxmeld Masticore gains flying, trample, haste, first strike, lifelink, deathtouch, or hexproof until end of turn.
2: Regenerate Fluxmeld Masticore.
4/4

Your version doesn't regen!

My masticore still "requires" a discard for it to be anything more than a hardy 4/4, so I was being a bit cheeky with the classification as a "Masticore". And though it doesn't have the ability to shoot things, it still has some nasty ways to deal with creatures. That in mind, saying it is less powerful than Thrun isn't exactly true; consider the options to have deathtouch + first strike, Deathtouch + trample, those combos plus the ability to regenerate...there's a great bit of power and flexibility with my version that makes it a really powerful creature. Heck, even flying and deathtouch to swat down pesky fliers is really valuable. There's no denying this thing would be a formidable beast to face down.

If calling it a masticore is breaking canon, then I'd just call it something else.

Tru dat. Up the CMC and P/T, drop some keywords. Give it a new name. Presto blammo, new creature which I'm too lazy to make.

Single-land Fetchlands. No life payment.

Tap, Sac, fetch a plains.

Cycle of 5.

Search for a Basic Plains card or a Plains card? The latter being too good. The former will help certain landfall cards.

Those lands thin your deck and tutor duals with impunity. It's cool if you want those for your cube, I would definitely put them in mine, as would everyone else. However, they wouldn't see print today.

I would love to see something with cascade and evoke. Just...like....anything. And something with Double Strike and Exalted at a low CMC.

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Those lands thin your deck and tutor duals with impunity. It's cool if you want those for your cube, I would definitely put them in mine, as would everyone else. However, they wouldn't see print today.

I would love to see something with cascade and evoke. Just...like....anything.

I doubt it would ever get printed just because evoke is always cheaper than the actual CMC but doesn't change the CMC, and because cascade always increases the mana cost of the spell so you are going to be able to get even more expensive free spells for a low cost investment.

Let's look at something like Aethersnipe. How much would adding cascade add to it's CMC? Maybe you could make it a 3/3 and keep the same cost, but then you're still getting unsummon plus a free 5CMC or less spell for 1UU. With any kind of library manipulation it becomes absurd. I don't think we'll ever see those two abilities together.

A man can dream.

I don't think that would see play, even in larger cubes. It has an underwhleming body, a hefty mana cost, and it doesn't immediately affect the board when it comes out. Even then, you need a card with an activated or triggered ability for it to do anything. It just isn't good enough. I could see it as a janky rare in a magic set, but I can't see it making it into anyone's cube.

It'll be ok it EDH cube I guess? And that's stretching it... lol

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Those lands thin your deck and tutor duals with impunity. It's cool if you want those for your cube, I would definitely put them in mine, as would everyone else. However, they wouldn't see print today.

I would love to see something with cascade and evoke. Just...like....anything.

I doubt it would ever get printed just because evoke is always cheaper than the actual CMC but doesn't change the CMC, and because cascade always increases the mana cost of the spell so you are going to be able to get even more expensive free spells for a low cost investment.

Let's look at something like Aethersnipe. How much would adding cascade add to it's CMC? Maybe you could make it a 3/3 and keep the same cost, but then you're still getting unsummon plus a free 5CMC or less spell for 1UU. With any kind of library manipulation it becomes absurd. I don't think we'll ever see those two abilities together.

I think it's an interesting idea. I'm looking for a baseline through a bit of experimenting.

Scornful Hermit 7G
Creature - Human
Cascade
Evoke 3GG
1/1

How about:
Hand of Kruphix - 6UG
Legendary Creature - Elemental
Flash, Cascade
UG: Return Servant of Kruphix to its owner's hand.
Evoke: 3UG
2/4

Notice that all cascade cards ever printed are multicolored, so I think we should start there. Simic seems like the perfect guild for this effect (especially for cube). Also, every evoke card is an elemental, so the flavor should match that.

Adding on the bounce to hand ability would make this card feel very mythic, on par with Prime Speaker Zegana. This card has inevitability in spades. For the cheap price of 3UUGG (7 mana!), you get a free spell out of your deck every turn. Even opponent's turns!

If this is better or worse than Simic Sky Swallower for this slot is up to debate.

I don't think that card being better than SSS is up for debate haha I'd rather pay 7 mana for a 6/6 flying, trample, shroud creature than the chance to cascade into who knows what. I do appreciate the effort and that people liked my idea

If this isn't the goofiest card submitted in recent memory, I don't know what is:

Whispering Murid 1UU
Creature - Rat Spirit
Flying
When Whispering Murid enters the battlefield, each player discards a card.
Cascade
Evoke 1B
1/1

A pseudo-Dimir flying rat spirit with evoke and cascade. Sure, why not? I'm being a little bit cute by making having both players discard but still giving the caster a freebie.

The problem with the first two proposed cascade cards is that you would never, ever cast the first one for its actual cost so it might as well just be a 5 mana sorcery that says "reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with CMC 7 or less. You may cast it for free." The second is essentially the same thing except you're slightly more likely to cast it in super ramp. Either way, I don't think they are remotely close for cube.

I think the spirit rat might be printable, but I wouldn't play it. Dimir would have way to many reactive spells to hit that would just be horrendous. You would need to be in exactly UB tempo for it to be decent. Either way, I doubt wizards is ever bringing back cascade. Have they ever brought back a free spell mechanic (besides delve)? Every one they do ends up being broken, delve included now because of treasure cruise.

Okay, make the rat an elemental and RB and give it trample or something instead of flying and bada bing bada boom.

Mindthrasher 1BR
Creature - Elemental
Haste
When Mindthrasher enters the battlefield, each player discards a card.
Cascade
Evoke 1B
2/1

el. oh. el.

So now that you got your wish (kinda), are you going to test Daretti in your cube?

Next time actually write out an ultimate, saves WOTC the trouble of coming up with a decent one for the actual card (and failing).