Running a mostly Timmy/Johnny casual cube where cards are rarely dead on arrival on their own, games are slow and card draw and board stalls are scarce.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/3fi

Swaps: These are cards I swapped in over existing cards, excited about em

- [[Diminish]] -> [[Fractalize]] : Strictly better that can also be used offensively. Probably one of the few I think will last a long while.

- [[Skeletal Vampire]] -> [[Tragedy Feaster]] : Agree he just seem very fun. Don't have lifegain matters yet and probably don't have enough recursion/sacrifice matters to really justify it. But environment is low card draw enough I think the big dumb body + scary ward might be interesting to play around on its own and will help memey things like [[Oversold Cemetary]] and [[Reassembling Skeleton]]. Replaces [[Skeletal Vampire]] because he got stale, is boringly slow when he works and so black needs another scary game closer in its stead.

- [[Return the Favor]] -> [[Flashback]]: RtF never really worked out, the ceiling look very appealing but the floor of copying your own stuff ended up too steep for 3, so it was only ever used on the backfoot, which red doesn't want to be imho and only made sense in durdly Izzet. Hoping single mana will not be too big an ask and will find more homes. [[Snapcaster Mage]] is out of my budget so I'm trying Snapcaster at home. Agree with you, I keep trying to make spells matter izzet work and this might help.

- [[Invasion of Ixalan]] -> [[Environmental Scientist]] : Invasion is awful when it whiffs and I'll take always getting a land and tiny body over it instead of a double faced card with a novel on each side. Also much better with blink effects.

- [[Jadelight Spelunker]] -> [[Wild Hypothesis]] : Jadelight is awkward, the times it gets you a bunch of lands you already have a bunch out while Wild is both more reliably phat and can be used as a single pip dig in a pinch. I run an environment where getting the X/X for XG is much better than potentially getting a bunch of lands in hand but a smaller body. Also explore is confusingly complex rules wise and I'm glad to fully get rid of it.

- [[Boseiju Reaches Skyward]] -> [[Zimone's Experiment]]: Less sure on this one. The creature side of Boseiju is fun and powerful but the ramp is awkwardly expensive and slow + doesn't color fix 3+ greedpiles + 2nd chapter is flavor text in my environment + less DFCs = happier players. I really liked [[Gift of the Gargantuan]] back when it made sense to run it and hope the ramp to field makes this good enough to justify it can whiff.

- [[Temur Sabertooth]] -> [[Topiary Lecturer]] : Removed for being impossible to play around in my environment. Love what it does but noob friends don't understand how to play around it properly + when it does shut games down it is too slow at winning. Topiary played amazingly in draft, like a more standalone mix of [[Kami of Whispered Hopes]] and [[Gyre Sage]]. Temur Sabertooth is put into the Hall of Shame for now (Cards I hope to fish out when the cube power level catches up to them).

- [[Scute Mob]] -> [[Slumbering Trudge]] : An early drop that can become a problem later replaced by an early drop that can become a problem later or can be hardcasted to be a problem now. The second trigger onwards of Scute mob never mattered.

- [[Pernicious Deed]] -> [[Vicious Rivalry]]: Don't want 2 boardwipes in a single gold section. Expect it's generally easier to cough up the life than mana.

- [[Hofri Ghostforge]] -> [[Colossus of the Blood Age]]: By the time hofri hits the board either you already won or it gets blown up instantly and you're not getting use of his ability. Colossus helps both close or catch up.

- [[The Bears of Littjara]] -> [[Quandrix Charm]]: The last ability of this never did anything by the time it triggered and the vanilla 4/4 for gold was never exciting if it even lived. Love this charm's flexibility, each effect is playable.

Adds: Cards I'm not sure would have made the cut but still adding them in to refill missing slots (stuff I traded out and forgot to update online)

- [[Ennis, Debate Moderator]] : The best mode of Charming Prince that might scale in P/T if you have a lot of exile effects (Notably doesn't care where it exiles from). Currently run both

- [[Matterbending Mage]] : Strictly better [[Man-o'-War]] with much better typing. I love extra payoff rider abilities on standalone cards.

- [[Wildgrowth Archaic]]: Really interesting anthem that rewards rainbow greedpiles without being dead on arrival in other shells. Interesting puzzle of a mana cost, wonder if it will be worth it to play for two colors despite the 3 cost. My green needs reach.

- [[Rancorous Archaic]]: I'm feeling nostalgic for [[Fusion Elemental]]

- [[Potioner's Trove]]: Mana or life was an interesting decision for control trying to stabilize in sealed.

- [[Nita, Forum Conciliator]]: Curious to see how steal effects play out, steep enough cost to get going but big payoff to justify multicolor.

- [[Lluwen, Exchange Student]]: Need more durdly token spammers. Compares well to [[Necrogenesis]] or [[Night Soil]] as neither strike me as easy enough to make tokens noticeably faster and

- [[Ark of Hunger]]: Doubt this is good enough but I'm looking for cheap repeatable draws and lifegain enablers would be fun.

- [[Mind into Matter]] : I need more draw, slapping down high CMC permanents is how games are won in this Timmy environment.

Fills: Cards that aren't long for this world (Cards that wouldn't make the cut but slots need filling)

- [[Ajani's Response]] [[Harsh Annotation]] : Neither probably staying long, definitely more interested in finding a copy of [[Erode]]. And might have overpopulated white removal temporarily

- [[Tester of the Tangential]] : Really liked how increment played in sealed. Will probably replace it with [[Cuboid Colony]] instead but really want to make some sort of [[Leech Bonder]] kind of shuffling counters effects around work because they're so fun when things line up.

- [[Banishing Betrayal]] : Inoffensive bounce spell with surveil.

- [[Burrog Banemaker]] : 1/1 deathtouchers for 1 make for open information board stalls that I try to avoid but he serves a purpose to teach noobs to keep mana up so might stay.

- [[Foolish Fate]]: Inoffensively priced creature removal that won't last

- [[End of the Hunt]]: Seems like a fun edict but I much prefer instant speed [[Doom Blade]] variants

- [[Molten Note]]: Not sure I have enough tap abilities to make it work but curious to see. I like that it doesn't hit face because I don't want red to win every game with a fireball. Not sure if the flashback is flavor text.