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This update focuses on lands, improving support for Jund counters, Jeskai Artifacts, and Sultai Graveyard, as well as increasing and improving removal, and finally trimming lifegain and some "defenders".

Lands in Hands

The big change here is bumping both Ash Barrens and Fabled Passage up to 4 each. I've avoided fetchlands until now, but this change improves both fixing and also land-focused graveyard synergies, most notably with Slogurk, the Overslime and Centaur Vinecrasher.

Faerie Conclave, Mystic Sanctuary, and Dakmor Salvage have also been added, bolstering the "lands that do things" category.

Joy Sparks

• Enthusiastic Mechanaut, Arcbound Shikari, Glassdust Hulk and Malcator, Purity Overseer all signpost and support Jeskai artifacts. Though artifact synergies occur throughout the cube, they are most prevalent in those colours. Golems are another sub-theme I adore, which Hulk and Malcator help support wonderfully.

• Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel has taken the place of Good-Fortune Unicorn. Yannik also overlaps with both flicker and counter strategies, but gives players more decisions to make when distributing the counters. Unicorn has been a nice include for a few decks, but it felt a bit bland despite its solid effect.

Notable Potables

• Wither Hither — Negative counters have felt fairly rare during play, so Twinblade Slasher, Scarscale Ritual, and Rendclaw Trow have been added. Additionally, Puncture Blast can both target players and hit harder than Puncture Bolt, which I think is worth the extra mana. Rustrazor Butcher is a big question mark at the moment, but I'm very curious to see how it plays out.

• Grave Yard — Several Sultai cards have been added to improve the graveyard as an effective resource. Green cards such as Conduit of Worlds, Edge of Autumn, the re-added Centaur Vinecrasher, and more situationally Llanowar Loamspeaker help to synergise with lands hitting the graveyard. Blue and black cards like Clay Revenant, Combat Courier, Boneyard Mycodrax, and Dogged Detective each feature abilities to ensure they remain useful even after being killed or milled.

Added Removal

Removal count has been increased, as well as a slight improvement on their general ability to handle larger threats.

• White Where'd Ya Go — Chains of Custody, Soul Partition, and Fateful Absence all exile, and help tax the opponent in different ways.
• Blue Bye For Now — As the general curve tends downwards, Fading Hope triggers the scry from 76% of creatures.
• Red Just Light it on Fire — Nahiri's Sacrifice raises the ceiling on an Arc Trail-like effect, and Spitebellows is likely to handle most larger targets.
• Golgari Glen Moss — Cankerbloom and Drown in Ichor help sweeten the deal for both positive and negative counter strategies.
• Black Come Back — Black Sun's Twilight and Inscription of Ruin include optional creature reanimation effects.

Curious Companions

Skorpekh Lord, Bygone Bishop, and Devilish Valet are cards that I hope will play well, but will be keeping an eye on for power and play pattern issues.

Fond Farewells

• An Old Friend — Cogwork Librarian is a wonderful card that my group has enjoyed, but as most sessions have been Grid or Winston drafts, it usually pops up only to be a bit irrelevant.
• See You Soon — Expressive Iteration, Ghor-Clan Rampager, and Scavenger Grounds are all very likely to be included again at some point in the future, but are currently stepping aside to make room for newer auditions.
• Smell Ya Later — Laelia, the Blade Reforged and Master of Death are a bit repetitive, and aren't quite what I'm looking for power-wise.