They are exactly the same. Just look at the oracle text on Grave Pact...it is changed to dies as well. (they just added this formatting at a date after grave pact was printed.)
Edit : I was slightly wrong. In a team game your partner will not sac a creature to Dictate of Erebos. That is the only difference.
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Yes you can, once Recurring Nightmare resolves and puts the Kokusho into play the Bladewing will already be in the graveyard since it was a cost of the Recurring Nightmare's ability.
The Mimeoplasm, because I have tweaked it and tweaked it and tweaked it. It can be cut-throat in a cut-throat meta and combo off or if I'm in a more relaxed meta it can just have a lot of fun throwing down fatties and beating face.
Capsize for the bounce.
Not sure about the lands besides storage, was going to mention karoo lands, but they do not get better with prophet, they just stay even. (they do get better with things like treachery and such)
Honestly I hadn't even considered him for cube...I just kind of glossed right over him without thinking about it. I might be willing to give him a shot if only for a little while. Seems difficult to cast, but possible in the right deck and reanimation is always looking for the best thing it can get. Reanimating a titan t3 isn't that exciting when you could cast it t4 off of ramp. (Of course there are cases where you reanimate t1, but those are rare and generally I see t2/mostly 3 reanimations in our cube).
Mox Jet/Black Lotus - OR - Mox Diamond/Chrome Mox *but requires an extra card in hand, so would have to be on the play)
Blood Crypt/Original Dual
Dark Rit into Buried Alive, Grabbing Emrakul, Anger, and any other third creature (I'm sure there's one that would be relevent in your grave)
If Black Lotus, you would crack the black lotus for RRR, cast Buried alive for RRB, and have mana left over to Fling Emrakul at your opponent after you hit them for 15.
Turn 1 kill with Emrakul. Turn 2 if you don't have the lotus and just have the mox jet, or get Exume instead of Buried Alive, or get a pain land instead of a dual.
Conversely you could just hit Mox Jet/Chrome Mox/Mox Diamond and any black source, Exume a Griselbrand, Reanimate it, then use his draw to draw out literally any combo in existance. Now I want to proxy up a Mono Black Dredge list for Vintage or Legacy (and use Mox Diamond/Chrome Mox instead of Jet) Just to pull that **** off. Of course I would have to run something silly like Chancellor of the Annex since I'm not in blue for Force unless I want to run Pact and risk not getting an instant speed kill off of Griselbrand on my upkeep
EDIT: Forgot about that whole, shuffles ability. Third creature would have to nullify that ability, or you would have to stifle him with something.
EDIT 2: Alrighty found a pseudo workaround. You crack lotus for RRR and cast Manamorphose for UB/UR. You draw an extra card (Stifle) and have a blue source of mana (unless you get Mox Diamond, or Chrome Mox with a blue card on it). Comes out to 6-7 cards
Why are you doing all this work? Lotus, uuu, show and tell, emrakul. 3 cards. If you want him to attk t1, lotus, rrr, petal, r, any land, into the breach, emrakul. Petal can also be elvish/simian spirit guide/sol land/ any number of ritual effects.
I love recruiter in our cube. Sometimes he fetches a value/utility spell like mulldrifter/acidic slime. Sometimes he fetches a threat like kalonian hydra/hornet queen. He is a versatile card that expands red in a way that so few cards in cube do and I doubt we will ever cut him from ours.
Between me and my friend we pulled every card we wanted to try out for our cube. I went 2-1-1 and he went 4-1. Collectively the cards we pulled for our cube are...Thassa, Xenagos, u/b land, omenspeaker, Hero's downfall, polukranos, other things. Not a bad night. (we went to the midnight prerelease)
It has seen a rise in my meta just because it can counter maelstrom wanderer and one of it's cascades at the same time. Anything extra it gets is just incidental. Once saw it counter a lethal brainfreeze from an azami deck though...that was cool. Even though they just proceeded to blue sun's zenith everyone for the win.
Very interesting, probably not for cube though. Could you imagine the implications in modern if this said merfolk instead of elemental? That would be insane.
Edit : * I did not see that it made 1/0 tokens...thought it was 0/0. Making 2/1 tokens might make it viable in larger cubes. I might be testing at 540 unpowered.
Edit : I was slightly wrong. In a team game your partner will not sac a creature to Dictate of Erebos. That is the only difference.
Not sure about the lands besides storage, was going to mention karoo lands, but they do not get better with prophet, they just stay even. (they do get better with things like treachery and such)
Why are you doing all this work? Lotus, uuu, show and tell, emrakul. 3 cards. If you want him to attk t1, lotus, rrr, petal, r, any land, into the breach, emrakul. Petal can also be elvish/simian spirit guide/sol land/ any number of ritual effects.
Edit : * I did not see that it made 1/0 tokens...thought it was 0/0. Making 2/1 tokens might make it viable in larger cubes. I might be testing at 540 unpowered.