#7 Alakazam ex 201/165 Special Illustration Rare Like most cards from this set, Alakazam has retained its value quite well
You may pay alternative costs, such as impending costs, rather than the spell's mana cost
I generally prefer to have tournament legal cards in the Cube, but these five have been featured in the Cube for years
UW Tide Control: I wasnt sure about this matchup going in but I was hoping a few early Call of the Herds and Mox Diamond plus Sylvan Library would be enough to catch me up from my lands getting hit
While it still plays a part for those of us not willing to shell out the cash for the mostly superior options, it suffers both from not being able to selectively keep your creatures while killing your opponents' and from sometimes not being able to wipe out the creatures with tons of +1/+1 counters on them
This means you can feasibly clone the same creature each turn for 3 mana (looking at you Etali, Primal Conqueror)