MTG Salvation

I omit the tri-lands and vivids to prevent 3-4 colour value decks being too prevalent, since in early renditions of my cube they proved the dominant archetype.

I think they're the third best, as minor synergy is better than none, my general thoughts is I don't run karoos due to them being specifically very powerful for defensive decks, whereas this gives green, imo the weakest colour a minor boost but not affecting others if we compare to guildgates.

Counters tend to not be especially parasitic if supported right, I know for a fact G/R aggro enjoys extra counters and the beefy beater Renata or Trollbred Guardian offer and R/W tokens likes the Mentor creatures/Basri's Acolyte style creatures for team buffs. Hell even U/W flicker has put some of the ETB counter creatures to work in the past for me. Green tends not to peak with creatures but just has a consistently great average creature especially in terms of stats. Imo though leaning some degree into fixing helps the midrangey and ramp centric green decks.

At 450 I run a gold system of 4 actual gold cards mostly for enabling the colour pair and one generically playable hybrid which keeps things consistent enough without too many dead cards.

Typically the best green decks from experience tend to be G/U/x or G/B/x goodstuff since they can shore up on weaknesses on green more easily, and generally just play good 4s and 5s. After that G/W counters tends to be good if supported, and I've made efforts to make sure G/R aggro performs well in my cube. I do find however good green decks lean very heavily on specific cards more than other colours which is why I've often found them less consistent.

With the release of Kaldheim and more importantly the snow dual cycle, is it perhaps time to re-evaluate cards like Nature's Lore, Into the North and Farseek? Being able to fetch duals off of a ramp spell is something we've not been able to really do barring the Coldsnap half-cycle.