Whoops! Had 3 cards left over after the last batch of cuts, so remedying that!

And with these cuts, that gets us to the first full version of the cube!

Was intended to be in the initial culling but an error occurred so I'm rectifying it.

Still a few cards to trim in , , and before I can call this cube "finished" in any sense, but I have trimmed out a lot of the excess that doesn't feel super irrelevant.

Aluren and Forgotten Ancient are being added to the Maybeboard as opposed to being cut wholesale. Aluren feels a bit too unfair, but it is technically a balanced card and could result in some interesting decks. Ancient feels like one of the best payoffs to any pseudo-storm deck. If I do add it back in, I may also consider Brain Freeze, seeing as it's the best Premodern-legal storm payoff.

In the initial importing, I accidentally brought in an elephant token over the card that creates it (Elephant Guide) so I'm fixing that before culling green cards.

Dropping five cards that I don't think are all that great, and bringing in a great recursion tool that I forgot was around in Premodern.

Paring a color down to 87!

As the title implies, this is the initial push to remove cards that don't feel like they have a place in the cube (as well as correct my mistake in forgetting to add Arrogant Wurm into a cube with several discard enablers as well as the most important boi, Basking Rootwalla).

Oh yeah, and I also added Lotus Petal for those more combo-focused decks.

With the wild imbalance in multicolor cards, I figured it'd be best to pare down each pair to 2 inclusions. This puts less strain on the limited fixing, and helps each pair focus on a plan.

Hardest changes were in , where I had to trim both Pernicious Deed and Life // Death in order to bring the count down to 2. Each has their own value to several strategies - Deed is a powerful boardwipe that has additional benefit in Enchantress decks, and Life // Death can double as both a reanimator card and a lands card. Ultimately, it came down to Squandered Resources and Cadaverous Bloom being too interesting to turn away from. If I had to reconsider, I'd swap Bloom for Life // Death, and I'll keep both of these cards in mind for future revisions.

Finally, Dismantling Blow, Orcish Lumberjack, and Tinder Wall have all ben shifted to their mono-color sections. Though the Lumberjack in particular isn't great without forests in play, and the other two are better when you care about the other color, they're all important role players that I don't want to count in the multicolor column, seeing as how the other cards in their original sections still have immense amounts of value to be had.

I love a good Astral Slide and Lightning Rift deck, but the plan is too reliant on mediocre cards that other decks wouldn't want to take. If this wasn't limited to 2003 as the cutoff of card printings, I'd gladly add in some of the powerful 1-mana cyclers out of Ikoria, but unfortunately for the strategy as it stands it isn't staying.

A handful of cards with cycling will be sticking around, simply because they're still good cards.