MTG Salvation

Yes. It's still good.

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Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse, City of Ass, Ash Barrens, and an Shimmerdrift Vale
or
Thriving Heath, Thriving Isle, Thriving Moor, Thriving Bluff and Thriving Grove

The first group, but without Shimmerdrift Vale.

Berserker ≥ Chaser. Honestly, they're both really close to one another, and I'm far closer to saying neither than having to pick one.

Valkyrie > Shepherd. Lifelink is big and the activated ability has synergy with a lot of what black's looking to do.

Thirst > Behold. Thirst feeds the 'yard, and can generate the same CA for less mana ...all of which can be paid at instant speed.

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Excited to play this alongside Starnheim Unleashed. Both cards are solid for white control decks which increases the power of foretell for both cards.

Additional exciting thing about having them both is that they require exactly the opposite approaches to play into them as an aggro deck. If it's Doomskar, you want to avoid committing anything else you care about to the board, to avoid overextending into a wrath. If it's Starnheim Unleashed, you want to commit more to the board so you can race around the 4/4 vigilant blocker.

Good points by both of you guys. Independently, I was super on the fence about either of the cards. But their synergy together (and how much the simple presence of one influences the other) makes me want to test them both out together. Thanks.

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I think if you're convincing your opponent to play fewer creatures, it's still doing something useful.

True enough. Perhaps the mind games this allows you to play can equate to buying extra time. May have to test and see!

Another potential problem is that if you don't take the time to foretell it somewhere in your curve, you can't ever cast it for less than 5 mana. Something like Shatter the Sky might be more reliable as both a topdeck and an on-curve play for that reason. Not a dealbreaker or anything, I think this card is fine, but something to keep an eye out for. It feels like I'm doomed to either foretell the card (telegraphing the effect) or spending 5 mana on it.

How much value does this lose if it telegraphs itself 100% of the time it's foretold? If it's the only foretell card in the cube, it seems like it would be hard to trap the opponent into overextending into it. It might be hard to maximize the value of this card unless we get at least a few more foretell cards to bluff with. Seems about on par with Fumigate to me. I'd be happy to be wrong though.

This cycle was a missed opportunity to make fixing utility lands. Take Gates of Istfell, for example. Starting with a Coastal Tower as a baseline goes a really long way to making a card like Memorial to Genius worthwhile in comparison to an ETBT plains... Adding mana fixing would greatly reduce the opportunity cost of playing these kinds of cards.

When you look at this land ...it enters the battlefield tapped, doesn't fix your mana, and doesn't do anything until you can afford to pay the 7 mana to activate it. It's just not something I'm interested in.

This is sweet for Pauper cubes and snow cubes... but it's everything I dislike about Expanse/Wilds with pretty much none of the upsides. I don't think I'll be playing this.

I think this is worse than Falkenrath Aristocrat, and even supporting both Aristocrats and the persist combo, I don't think I want/need both. Fine card though. It also can't sacrifice itself to dodge exile/feed Blood Artists.

It enters tapped and doesn't provide the fixing effect until you have 6+ lands out. And the activated ability just isn't relevant. I don't think this looks like something I would be willing to draft from a cube pack. Maybe in multiplayer cubes that are more likely to hit the 6+ land requirement? In a slower environment, that threshold (and the ETBT clause) will be easier to swallow maybe? IDK.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't really see this one for my cube.

I like the versatility the card offers. A Serra Angel as early as T3, a 4-mana Serra Angel, or a foretold scaleable angel-army finisher. Kinda cool. I'll probably test it out.

It might still be fine; the effect is powerful. But it's certainly much harder to break without interacting with tokens.

It's a neat way to turn on my Oath of Druids against creature-light decks, lol.