The sudden life gain also puts you out of range of being killed by a well-timed swing from your opponents, giving you the breathing room to finish them off with your growing army
Kreines, Alison Luhrs and Chris Peeler (November 23, 2016)
Madness and mayhem are straightforward payoffs for discarding your own cards
A low opportunity cost mana sink that scales into the late-game is awesome, and Ill spoil the fact that the rest of the cycle did not make my list by saying that I believe Lair of the Hydra to be the best of the lot for Cube play
Additionally, quite often you look at first to be playing normal DFB green with slightly odd black splash, and people are confused by sudden Ernies and Angels Playing less blights and more Evil presences would also support this illusion.
Dauntless Dismantler Dauntless Dismantler combines the slowing power of a stax piece like Manglehorn with an activated ability the blows up lots of artifacts