Jason has asked me to post this publicly so we can have a common point of reference and a discussion regarding some of the ideas herein. He has proposed the following courses of action to help with some of the fixing in the cube:
Replace one set of guildgates (=the least useful fixing) with a set of the Baldur pick-a-color gates (to keep gate synergy) plus a set of either thriving lands or (my preference) alaran panoramas.
Get a full megacycle of the 3-color tap lands, or even triomes.
Get a full megacycle of signets or talismans since they're both ramp and fixing.
Add a few of the common fetch lands (evolving wilds, terminal moraine, etc). Probably don't need the rare ones.
Add in some any-color fixing, like darksteel ingot, rupture spire, and the like. (There's 1 gateway plaza now & not much else).
He proposed that this would be a collective/collaborative change independent of the iterative changes we made each week. What do you think about the proposal?