A definite pass for us. I can't see this doing reliable work for us in the format, at all. I agree with Dr. Tom about the activated ability, as a repeatable draw for 2U would be a little more tempting and at least worth testing.
On second glance, this is one of the rare/mythics I'm most interested in from this set. This is surely too weak to make it into the tightest of cubes, but for lower power, and casual cubes, I think this is a big hit. Treasure Trove was never very good, and Azure Mage was always fine, but got cut for being boring.
Kefnet the Mindful may often be weaker than Azure Mage, but he's got tons of things I'm interested in: he's full of random interactions, like landfall and Overbeing of Myth, as well as both filling your hand and giving you lands to discard in discard-synergy decks. He turns on surprisingly quickly, as wtwlf123 pointed out, and best of all, he's very skill intensive to play with and against.
All that equals up to a card that is very enriching to a format. This is one of the rares/mythics that I really think is worthwhile to try to obtain for my cube. Unfortunately, most cubes just don't have space for an Azure Mage variant.
I opened the invocation version at my prerelease so I will give him a go. He was pretty disappointing in my sealed decks but cube has a lot more strong instant speed spells so I think it will be a more common occurrence to be able to hold up the mana and draw on your opponents end step if you didn't need it. If you ever miss a land drop his ability effectively costs 3 since you can replay the lands you used to pay for his ability (a bit like kor skyfisher).
It won't matter too often but he can save your manlands, reset your Gemstone Mine or help any other landfall-esq effects.
Having seen an invocation in person I can't really say I'm a fan, the art on Kefnet is pretty hard to make out and not particularly interesting (at that scale anyway).
How has Kefnet been doing for people? I can report that he has been doing pretty well for us. I think getting to 7 is a lot easier in cube than it is in a lot of other formats. Kefnet has been fairly consistent for us, you have to do a bit of planning obviously but the pay off is a 3-drop that wins games and many colours have to way to deal with.
tested it in my unpowered 375. Was a total miss. Even the games where I was getting it out turn 2 with Ancient Tomb, it just sat there doing nothing because i had to interact with my opponent, and drawing a card, while nice, is too costly at 4
Also the bounce a land ability is a joke since no blue deck wants to NOT have all its lands out
Hard pass for me
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On spoiled card wishlisting and 'should-have-had'-isms:
Kefnet the Mindful may often be weaker than Azure Mage, but he's got tons of things I'm interested in: he's full of random interactions, like landfall and Overbeing of Myth, as well as both filling your hand and giving you lands to discard in discard-synergy decks. He turns on surprisingly quickly, as wtwlf123 pointed out, and best of all, he's very skill intensive to play with and against.
All that equals up to a card that is very enriching to a format. This is one of the rares/mythics that I really think is worthwhile to try to obtain for my cube. Unfortunately, most cubes just don't have space for an Azure Mage variant.
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It won't matter too often but he can save your manlands, reset your Gemstone Mine or help any other landfall-esq effects.
Having seen an invocation in person I can't really say I'm a fan, the art on Kefnet is pretty hard to make out and not particularly interesting (at that scale anyway).
Also the bounce a land ability is a joke since no blue deck wants to NOT have all its lands out
Hard pass for me