The infinite life rule and self-mill to win has forced me to re-evaluate some cards. Peer into the Abyss becomes a little boring when its downside is meaningless. I also don't want players to cheese a win by milling themselves with Altar of Dementia. For the most part I want players to have to draw their deck the hard way to win

One of the main design philosophies of this cube is no infinite combos. With the inclusion of The Reality Chip and Augur of Autumn allowing players to play off the top, Sensei's Divining Top becomes a possible instant win.

Lion's Eye Diamond is an overdue include, and with it I'm adding some cards that synergize well, like Containment Construct and Echo of Eons. Going forward I may try to include more discard outlets/synergies

It proved incredibly easy to copy and/or recur timewalk in this cube. This lead to games where Timewalk was cast to feel more like playing against a taking turns deck than a storm deck while removing a lot of the mana vs. cards tension that I enjoy about storm decks. I wouldn't necessarily say the card was too good for the power level of the cube (though it was very good), but it did not lead to the gameplay I'm trying to cultivate.

Pretty self explanatory. This includes swaps such as Perilous Research -> Expressive Iteration and Ill-Gotten Gains -> Search for Blex

Despite being provided with rainbow lands, decks tend to still prefer to stick to certain colors based on their ritual effects. For example the creature deck can have difficulty casting a blue card in the middle of a combo turn (see Fblthp -> Chattering Augur) and the same goes for the enchantment deck for red mana (Dragon Mantle -> Nature's Chosen)

A common problem in this cube is that each style of storm deck requires a certain density of "fodder" cards to go off that are unfortunately often hyper-specific to that particular deck. This can lead to a lot of packs that look like total garbage despite the overall higher power level of the cube. It's been an ongoing struggle of mine to reduce the amount of these inflexible fodder cards in the cube. While this update certainly hasn't fixed the problem entirely, I hope it is a step in the right direction.

This time I've mainly focused on the artifact deck's fodder. These swaps include things like Ancient Stirrings -> Abundant Harvest and Implement of Improvemnt -> Chrome Mox.

Emry is honestly one of my all-time favorite cards and was a great fit in the artifact storm deck. Unfortunately it combos too easily with Paradox Engine. One of my core design philosophies with this cube is to prevent any kind of infinite loops. If you want to storm off in this cube you're going to need to do it the hard, non-deterministic way. So one of them needed to go and given how vital Paradox Engine is to an entire sub-archetype of artifact decks it Emry had to be axed.

Your time was too short and you will be dearly missed.