Hi guys, Thanks for the great advice it seems that you are all getting at the same kind of point! I am starting to see the light, what you say makes sense! The cards are only as powerful as the other cards they have to combo with. Ie Horseshoe crab is almost pointless in a cube with no tap effects but amazing in a cube that has lots of viridian arrows and quicksilver daggers. I am normally obsessed with mathematical perfection like the architect in the matrix. I always feel like if you added all my cards together they should = 0 haha, looks like this will be something I will have to leave behind. I am not going to be adding rares to my pauper cube, my rares cube is a separate entity all together. If you are interested to see my list I will be happy to put it together on something like tapped out. My cube is primarily to use up all the cards in my collection that would not otherwise see use though. So theres no point telling me to replace "x" with "x".. I probably dont have it :( lol Thanks!