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She fits both graveyard strategies and fatty cheating decks. In addition to any creature-based combo decks you might play.

I don't think it's good enough. I think 2 mana is too much for a discard-first card parity rummage effect. Chart a Course is the industry standard for what this kind of effect should be doing in cube.

Oko has been testing well. I really like both Nissa and Krasis, but with the redundancy at the XGU casting costs, I figured I could cut one of them for Oko for the sake of variety. For now, I'll be giving Nissa's spot to Oko and seeing how I feel about him vs Krasis vs the lack of Nissa in the long run.

Narset if you're pullinng off draw-7 combo shenanigans. Otherwise, Jace. I like both more than Mu.

All of the cards other than Nissa and Krasis support a specific deck (and even those technically support Simic Ramp, which is a popular shell). Which decks they go into should be relatively apparent, and a card-by-card analysis isn't something I have time to outline at the moment.

I plan on testing Oko over one of those two cards since there's some redundancy between those two. Over the coming weeks, I'll test out and see which of those XGU spells is bebtter suited sit out to give Oko a chance to prove his worth, but nothing is finalized as of yet.

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This is really minor but I noticed that Tormenting Voice isn't in your cube. The card seems pretty good in a lot of combo based archetypes. Is it just a bit too weak to make it into the cube?

Thrill of Possibility is a strictly better version of that card, and I don't run that one either...

Soulherder might've been the nail in Brago's coffin for the cube.

Being a generic goodstuff card isn't a negative quality for cube cards. There are a ton of them in the cube, and lots of them are awesome. It becomes relevant is when it is directly competing against cards that are important because of the specific decks they help enable. Oko is one of the cards in that position.

I've been playtesting Oko since he was spoiled, and the card is good. Once I can settle on a cut I'm comfortable making for him, he'll likely get slotted into the cube. But it won't be at the expense of a card that supports a specific archetype, because those cards are too important.

Yes. Those cards weren't pet cards, they went in to support the new combo decks and deepen the older archetypes with more cards @ 720.

My opinion on Oko is exactly the same as it was. And as it's been discussed in my article/thread, and in the Oko thread. And on Twitter.

Card is good. If you have room, play it. If your other Simic cards are too important, don't cut them for Oko, since he's just a good card & isn't needed to bolster any specific strategies.

Card is strong, and randomly obnoxious. If you can find room for it, play it. It's one of the best generically powerful options out there; easily in the top 3-4 without question. If a bunch of your cards are utilized to support specific decks, they may be too important to cut for a goodstuff 'walker, but if you have any wiggle room, find a way to play him. I'm always looking for a Simic spot to open up so I can slot him in. Getting banned in standard and plummeting in price would be a nice catalyst to scoop one up on the cheap.

It has been very good for us so far.

Card is still good. It's currently on the outside looking in, but that's more to do with competition in that multicolor slot and less to do with Tasigur itself.

Angel > Oketra, but probably neither.

Liliana >> Ob Nix.

Koth >> Chandra.

Dragonspeaker > Masterless.

Druid ≥ Branchwalker, but probably neither.

Goreclaw > Surrak, but probably neither.

Teferi > Mage

Your cube probably wants both of those cards or neither of them.

It wasn't in my cube in 2015.