A significantly more large-scale update with the goal of slightly reducing raw power in favor of solidifying guild strategies. I want to make substitutions that make it more rewarding to successfully draft archetypes and see color combinations working together, rather than relying on "good stuff" piles. This also should reward more focused drafters that can navigate signals and identify the synergies within the cube. Will probably get more brave with this over time (including narrower cards that work well with one strategy), but starting small. The main targets here are proliferate and sacrifice since they need the most help in stamping their identity in the cube.

Additionally, I'm lumping in small updates for Strixhaven, and polishing up some choices to further push aggro into viability, especially in and color pairs.

• Reduce "generically powerful" cards and emphasize +1/+1 counter and token aggro strategies.
• Slightly reduce number of removal slots for more unique effects benefitting white archetypes (shouldn't have more spot removal than ).
  | New | Old |
  |---|---|
  |Dryad Militant|Goldmeadow Harrier|
  |Release the Dogs|Midnight Haunting|
  |Basri's Solidarity|Blessed Alliance|
  |Miraculous Recovery|Custodi Squire|
  |Patron of the Valiant|Serra Angel|
  |Seasoned Hallowblade|Accorder Paladin|
  |Fearless Fledgling|Oblivion Ring|
  |Mother of Runes (Unban!)|Council Guardian|
  |Settle Beyond Reality|Conclave Tribunal|
  |Ardenvale Tactician|Vryn Wingmare|
  |Mana Tithe|Niblis of the Urn|

• Reduce "generically powerful" cards and support more proliferate enablers.
• Ensure new selections also support either skies/blink archetypes or the prowess decks.
• Give control a few unique build-around tools / win conditions.
  | New | Old |
  |---|---|
  |Frost Trickster|Frost Lynx|
  |Illusory Ambusher|Serra Sphinx|
  |Brineborn Cutthroat|Nightveil Sprite|
  |Aven Eternal|Eldrazi Skyspawner|
  |Faerie Vandal|Merfolk Looter|
  |Think Twice|Faerie Seer|
  |Repeal|Triton Tactics|
  |Rescuer Sphinx|Nevermaker|
  |Skywise Teachings|Persuasion|

• Replace underperformers without squashing aggro strategies.
• Provide better “sacrifice” effects and token generators to supplement the guild archetype.
• Make sure that reigns supreme in terms of removal in the cube.
  | New | Old |
  |---|---|
  |Poison the Cup|Murder|
  |Sling-Gang Lieutenant|Death Denied|
  |Call of the Death-Dweller|Gurmag Angler|
  |Tormented Hero|Dead Weight|
  |Umbral Juke|Snuff Out|
  |Vampiric Rites|Nantuko Husk|
  |Incremental Blight|Terror|

• Reduce number of redundant burn spells in favor for other aggro effects. This will diversify what the color can do while ensuring control decks don’t hog all the red cards to use as removal spells.
  | New | Old |
  |---|---|
  |Lava Dart|Sanctuary Smasher|
  |Rigging Runner|Searing Blaze|
  |The Flame of Keld|Rolling Thunder|
  |Claim the Firstborn|Wild Slash|

• Eliminate “generically powerful” cards and replace them with support for the +1/+1 counter and ramp archetypes.
• Slightly reduce removal power in favor of punchy combat tricks / card selection (to boost aggro, etc.)
  | New | Old |
  |---|---|
  |Snakeskin Veil|Blossoming Defense|
  |Vastwood Surge|Kodama’s Reach|
  |Emergent Sequence|Prey Upon|
  |Devouring Tendrils|Barkhide Troll|
  |Wild Nacatl|Basking Rootwalla|
  |Fyndhorn Elves|Bond of Fluorishing|
  |Become Immense|Great Oak Guardian (Ban!)|
  |Winding Way|Beast Within|

• Doing some housecleaning here by removing frequent last-picks or cards that are past their prime. In particular, giving proliferate a small boost in this section.
  | New | Old |
  |---|---|
  |Contagion Clasp|Cogwork Librarian|
  |Bonder’s Ornament|Icy Manipulator|

• Work to eliminate “sacred cow” cards and focus on top picks for the desired guild archetypes. The affected cards should give a noticeable bump to ramp, stompy/aggro, sacrifice, and reanimator.
  | New | Old |
  |---|---|
  |Fall of the Imposter|Appeal//Authority|
  |Quandrix Cultivator|Trygon Predator|
  |Voltaic Brawler|Burning-Tree Emissary|
  |Domri’s Ambush|Rhythm of the Wild|
  |Rip Apart|Boros Charm|
  |Sprite Dragon|Prophetic Bolt|
  |Mayhem Devil|Blightning|
  |Angrath’s Rampage|Terminate|
  |Angel of Despair|Tidehollow Sculler|