MTG Salvation

I'm trying to get one card originating in every set in my cube (that is solid, and unlikely to be cut). Unglued sticks out as the most difficult set to find a staple from. I've got Fowl Play in, and it's not terrible, but it's certainly not the best. Looking at only cards that play within the reasonable limits of black border, here are the playable cards I've found. I'm wondering if anybody has experience with these cards in cube, and if any of them are better than they look. Free-for-All and Jack-in-the-Mox look like they have real potential.

These are playable, but quite mediocre:

• Fowl Play
  
• Timmy, Power Gamer

These are the ones I'm most interested in:

• Gerrymandering
  
• Goblin Tutor
  
• Free-for-All
  
• Jack-in-the-Mox

These are potentially playable, but are mostly just expensive chaos cards:

• Mine, Mine, Mine!
  
• Once More With Feeling
  
• Burning Cinder Fury of Crimson Chaos Fire
  
• Incoming!
  
• Mirror Mirror

Jack-in-the-Mox can function as the one true mox in my cube. I don't think it's overpowered, and I do think it's good enough. Surely somebody here has tried that card. Goblin Tutor is probably bad, since it has two whiff options instead of one. Free-For-All looks like a pretty interesting four mana wrath for a creature light blue deck. It's splashable, gets rid of creatures immediately, and can get you some stuff you have no right to.

Jack-in-the-Mox is great if you support Un- cards. Blacker Lotus is also amazing if you errata it so you don't have to tear it up.

I would go with jack-in-the-Mox. I play it myself and it’s great.

Any thoughts on Free-for-All?

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I've cubed with a number of Unglued cards, though I'm currently not running any.

Jack-in-the-Mox is a strong card. The die roll sometimes leads to feel-bads on both sides, but less so than Mana Crypt. When it blows up right away, it sucks but it very much feels like you signed up for it, and the damage is capped at 5. When it survives multiple taps but the game goes long, it doesn't feel so bad for the other player because it eventually stops being a real factor. If the game ends quickly, it's okay because it wasn't expected to blow up in only 2-3 taps. I still ended up cutting it just for being too random.

Free-for-All was a serviceable wrath in blue, though it's less good against haste creatures, since they might get an attack back before you get a blocker out of it. I think I ended up cutting it just for being too much of a color pie bend. I'll probably give it another chance at some point.

Once More With Feeling was a very strong reset, mostly for aggro, but the WWWW was way too limiting and it hardly ever saw play.

Mine, Mine, Mine! was just bad. When you play it, it could just get Disenchanted while you can't play a spell the same turn, and if you don't have a good instant speed play up, the opponent gets a free turn to play any card.

Incoming! was a very fun go huge button in ramp decks, and a cute minigame when pulling out Ankh of Mishra. I ended up cutting it for less silly mana cheat enablers, but it's a fine choice.

Thanks. Gonna try Jack-in-the-Mox and Free-for-All. That'll free me up to cut Fowl Play for better removal.

My group and I agreed that Incoming! didn't seem like something we wanted to do.

[[Mesa Chicken]] - 2/2 for 2 with optional flying isn't bad.

[[Squirrel Farm]] - Show your true MtG knowledge or die by Squirrel

[[The Cheese Stands Alone]] - Legitimate card reprinted in normal magic as [[Barren Glory]], in cube not terribly useful.