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  • Brain Freeze ended up being a power outlier which encouraged passive play. Trying out a simple two-word card in Radstorm which has similar magecraft benefits while accelerating the game.
  • Follow the Bodies will hopefully provide burst artifacts for the game-objects decks (e.g. Brudiclad, Pingers) while synergizing with spellslinger.
  • Drown in Dreams will hopefully help mill out with Brain Freeze's loss; straight upgrade to Stroke.

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  • Finale of Eternity getting swapped for an instant-speed version with less demanding reanimation thresholds in Black Sun's Twilight
  • Aether Snap has only been cast once in all the times this cube has been drafted. Trying out Grisly Spectacle to help the mill strategy a bit and also to increase creature removal.
  • Corpse Dance will hopefully give some instant-speed spice to Black and put large creatures into play; Legion has also been a somewhat clunky sorcery.

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  • Mysterious Stranger seems like an interesting snapcaster variant in red; Magda is cool but slightly misleading.
  • Bitter Reunion provides haste and bins a card - trying it out over the underwhelming symmetrical pinger.
  • Starstorm hates on creatures a bit too much; Final Fortune will hopefully assist the combat decks a little (and there are enough stifles / reintroducing Obeka to help mitigate the downside)

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Other considerations: Laboratory Maniac and Monumental Corruption are on the maybeboard, though I wonder if they're too polarizing. Kaervek the Merciless has never been played as a commander; if he is not a useful reanimator target he goes on the chopping block. The two Izzet split cards also might get swapped out in a coming set.