cutting these tri color split cards for simplicity's sake
wait this card sucks
moving single colored cards to 61 to fill in for nephilim. more to come
shame but these guys are terrible. will find replacements for them later
making way for more synergy cards. trollbred coming in for iwamori who isn't bad but isn't synergystic. howling giant can end the game with flicker and is also good against kill spells and resistant against blockers like plated crusher. temur sabertooth is obviously awesome and blastoderm, while great, is also not synergystic. syr faren is awesome with counters and kessig prowler is pretty meh. song of freyalise comes in for the mdfc which is alright but pretty meh compared to the red mdfc which can just end the game or kill a creature. mulch coming in for explore to fill a similar slot but supports self mill and reanimator
i want more interactivity and more synergy in the cube hence the adds. hard evidence is marginal. narset is okay but a lot better in higher power cubes. capsize was the hardest cut but the years have not been nice to it. ghostly flicker can do the same combo but for half the mana, although I will admit flicker is more difficult to assemble than just drawing 12 lands. but that's the thing, games rarely last that long without someone closing the deal. capsize was amazing like 20 years ago and cards are a lot better now, and it's getting the cut. at least it still has a home in pauper cube
when i think about it in the future, I may or may not remember this moment, but I think this might be where I go from a goodstuff cube to a synergy cube.
nekrataal and gravecaller have cousins at the same cmc and are getting replaced by a couple options to hopefully enable some spicy synergy options. whisper ties sacrifice to reanimation, alongside victimize, so hopefully that can be a blue black reanimator deck or something. crypt rats gets cut for incremental blight because you can actually cast it before dying. elspeth's nightmare gets cut for wrench mind because we have enough kill effects and the yard wipe feels pretty marginal in practice.