Write up soon...

For simplicity and a slight added cost to the effect I am adjusting Hylda's Icy Crown to Icy Manipulator. (At the time of writing Cube Cobra is bugged and displays the change as Frolicking Familiar for some reason)

There a lot of exciting additions from OTJ. I am also taking the opportunity to make a few revisions in other areas: examining white, updating some multicolor cards etc. I will be making a few more adjustments to dovetail these edits with ideas I have brewing.

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Playing with both of these cards in OTJ limited reminded me how clean yet relatively powerful both of these effects are and I am excited to try them out here.

MKM has added a few cards most notably a huge update to the lands base! Temples are being replaced with the new surveil lands. A couple of adjustments to power level (Seasoned Hallowblade and Underrealm Lich) and some exciting new cards. Demand Answers, Steamcore Scholar, and Aftermath Analyst I am particularly interested in.

I included snow initially as there are a couple of snow cards that I think are really cool to play with. However, the snow theme itself is a little antithetical to the "Simple Cube" moniker as it requires extra explanation for a relatively small number of cards. In addition I am cutting some power outliers and cards that are excessively complex without too much benefit. Additionally I am trying to push some tempo/aggro slots and reduce the quantity/power of the 2-for-1s to reduce the viability of multicolor piles.

Very happy with these edits! LCI despite being a complicated set overall, has a bunch of pretty clean designs. Most notably some neat new discard outlets as well as a bunch of dinos. I have been frustrated with Greens threat base and getting a bunch of solid performers without walls of text is nice.

As far as cuts, everything is pretty self explanatory. Generally, the cuts are stuff that was too strong, too weird, or too wordy. I am of course happy to lose all of these things.