As far as artifacts and lands to avoid, there's not much. I mean, as long as you guys have fun with the cards and the cube is an enjoyable experience, you're doing it right. I would caution against overdoing lands that enter the battlefield tapped though, if you want aggressive decks to be playable in more than one color.
Cheers, and happy cubing!
I discuss the Commander 2021 cards a bit in my cube thread. More than happy to talk more about them there!
Cards I'll be adding right away:
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Pest Infestation
Triplicate Titan
Cards I'll be testing and might add in later:
Combat Calligrapher
Incarnation Technique
Paradox Zone
Cards that look spicy but I probably won't add:
Promise of Loyalty
Inkshield
This destroys up to X targets, and always makes twice X tokens. So even with only 1 target, you can still pay 6G for this and make 6 bodies and Naturalize something. And this is playable on an empty board as a pseudo Secure the Wastes kind of card. This thing is pretty nuts.
While you don't get any extra tokens, you CAN use this to allow all the good combat trades to still occur. So you can block and kill one attacker, and prevent the damage that would be dealt to you. It makes less tokens, but there might be situations where you want to kill off an attacker instead, and this only fogs the player damage.
For example, if the opponent swings with 3 2/2s into your lone 2/3 blocker, you can choose to fog all 6 damage and make 6 tokens, or you could choose to block and kill one of the attackers, and fog 4 damage, making 4 tokens and killing a creature instead.
Thanks for saying so! I'm glad they're helpful for you.
Cheers, and happy cubing.
B 3-Drops : Murderous Rider / Ophiomancer / Sedgemoor Witch / Flesh Carver / Opposition Agent / Woe Strider
B Removal : Bloodchief's Thirst / Baleful Mastery / Dismember / Snuff Out / Collective Brutality / Hero's Downfall / Fatal Push (This excludes 187 creatures, sweepers, and Edict effects. Just targeted 1-for-1 removal.)
You're most welcome.
I think I like Ancient Stone Idol a bit more since the flash can easily be worth a full card on its own (in order to guarantee at least some value in case they exile the body with an O-Ring or whatever). It also has more total power invested in trampling bodies, and the token(s) form of the card isn't vulnerable to Languish/Wildfire/Deluge effects. Most importantly, it can be cast for less than what you'll pay for the Titan whenever there's attacking creatures around.
But honestly, there's just as many upsides to this, and both flying and vigilance are a big deal. The Titan is also much stronger if you're flipping it in and out of play and getting multiple death triggers.