I like warcraft (used as "your creatures are unblockable this turn" about 90% of the time) >> glory (very good with tokens) >= Tajic (last two are close, but since you support tokens in these colors I think the edge goes to glory.)
Dissolve > Dismiss > Exclude (Dissolve and dismiss are close)
Hedron > Dynamo > Lotus (but think they are all close).
Master warcraft vs Glory vs Tajic realllly depends on the makeup of your cube. The spectrum of possible "lower powered" cube environments are much wider than higher powered ones.
I have little experience with the cards, but guessing.
Glory of warfare > Mater warcraft > Tajic
Assume: Powered cube, supporting the artifact.dec, lots of mana rocks, lots of colorless top end (4 eldrazi + Ugin + Karn + typical artifact finishers)
Edit re: Lodestone Golem & Metalworker - both are great cards for their respective archetypes. If you support both and must choose one, go for Metalworker, it's much more necessary and unique. Lodestone is a great curve-topper for aggro, but then there are many such cards; although not many are colorless, so I'd try and find a different cut anyway
Your cube thread hasn't been updated in about 3 years, so it's hard to know what will work best in your cube without knowing the rest of what's in your cube, but if I'm right that your cube is still unpowered and a bit on the budget size, I'd rank those cards like this:
Precursor Golem > Lodestone Golem > Scroll Rack
Precursor Golem is a decent finisher for mid-range decks, and it has good synergies with blink and recursion effects. Plus 9 power and toughness spread over 3 bodies is very efficient in spite of the drawback.
Lodestone Golem is at its best in a deck full of artifacts and/or fast mana so it taxes your opponent while applying pressure, and its drawback is minimal to you. However, as Fredo pointed out it's not bad as an aggro curve topper/Juggernaut that makes the opponent's Wrath take another turn to be played (or at least turns the Lightning Bolt that was going to kill it into a Lightning Strike).
If you still don't have a full set of fetch lands, I'd avoid running Scroll Rack, because it works a lot better in decks with a lot of shuffle effects.
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I like warcraft (used as "your creatures are unblockable this turn" about 90% of the time) >> glory (very good with tokens) >= Tajic (last two are close, but since you support tokens in these colors I think the edge goes to glory.)
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Hedron > Dynamo > Lotus (but think they are all close).
Master warcraft vs Glory vs Tajic realllly depends on the makeup of your cube. The spectrum of possible "lower powered" cube environments are much wider than higher powered ones.
I have little experience with the cards, but guessing.
Glory of warfare > Mater warcraft > Tajic
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Thats really hard. They are so close, but id go Archive>Dynamo>Lotus
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In your cube? lodestone golem.
Lodestone needs a powered cube or an unpowered cube with a TON of artifact ramp to be good IMO, don't think your cube meets the second criteria.
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Assume: Powered cube, supporting the artifact.dec, lots of mana rocks, lots of colorless top end (4 eldrazi + Ugin + Karn + typical artifact finishers)
Lodestone Golem vs Metalworker, pick one
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Edit re: Lodestone Golem & Metalworker - both are great cards for their respective archetypes. If you support both and must choose one, go for Metalworker, it's much more necessary and unique. Lodestone is a great curve-topper for aggro, but then there are many such cards; although not many are colorless, so I'd try and find a different cut anyway
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Your cube thread hasn't been updated in about 3 years, so it's hard to know what will work best in your cube without knowing the rest of what's in your cube, but if I'm right that your cube is still unpowered and a bit on the budget size, I'd rank those cards like this:
Precursor Golem > Lodestone Golem > Scroll Rack
Precursor Golem is a decent finisher for mid-range decks, and it has good synergies with blink and recursion effects. Plus 9 power and toughness spread over 3 bodies is very efficient in spite of the drawback.
Lodestone Golem is at its best in a deck full of artifacts and/or fast mana so it taxes your opponent while applying pressure, and its drawback is minimal to you. However, as Fredo pointed out it's not bad as an aggro curve topper/Juggernaut that makes the opponent's Wrath take another turn to be played (or at least turns the Lightning Bolt that was going to kill it into a Lightning Strike).
If you still don't have a full set of fetch lands, I'd avoid running Scroll Rack, because it works a lot better in decks with a lot of shuffle effects.
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Tough one.
In powered lists that don't directly support sac outlets, I think the answer is liliana, but it's very close between lili/strike leader and arena.
My opinion on drana has dropped a lot , but still think she's better than the other cards here.
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Or should I cut one of the lower mana cost for this?
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