I'm going to chalk the on par with Elesh-Norn suggestion to spoiler season tinted glasses. I keep going back and forth with the MDFC's and I think my answer continues to be that if the base card isn't above average to begin with, making it an MDFC doesn't do enough to make it a cube staple.
I think of being an MDFC as a rating modifier if I were scoring these cards out of 10. The mythic cycle adds about 1.5 points to a cards rating by virtue of being able to just be played normally as untapped lands (albeit for 3 life). The rare and uncommon cycles each get a point for also being able to be tapped lands.
So going through the potentially cubeable MDFC's it looks kind of like this in my mind. The cutoff for viability within my cube would be roughly 7/10.
I feel like I mostly agree with this list. However I'm a lot lower on Kazandu mammoth then a lot of people are. It reminds me a lot of Deadbridge Goliath a 5/5 with an alternative mode that could be big value, but I just don't think its enough in either case. I'd say I'm higher on bala ged recovery though as that specific effect can be so dead in some cases that even a tapped land is a HUGE upside.
The biggest strike against Bala Ged Recovery for me is that extra mana in the cost is going to be the difference between being able to cast what you want to return on the same turn or not. Say you're at 6 mana with a regrowth and a Ravenous Chupacabra in your graveyard and you need their creature dead now. Only Regrowth is going to do that. It won't happen often, but enough to offset the advantage of the tapped land I think so ultimately they are about even and I don't need another copy of this effect.
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It's better than Sun Titan and Revillark, imho.
I think it's almost on par with Elspeth, Sun's Champion and on par with Elesh Norn.
360 card powered Chicago cube:
https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/e7r
2020 Numerical Power Rankings:
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/the-cube-forum/cube-card-and-archetype/817969-2020-numerical-cube-power-rankings
2018 CubeTutor Power Rankings:
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/the-cube-forum/cube-card-and-archetype/803301-cubetutor-power-rankings-2018-by-color-and-cmc
I think of being an MDFC as a rating modifier if I were scoring these cards out of 10. The mythic cycle adds about 1.5 points to a cards rating by virtue of being able to just be played normally as untapped lands (albeit for 3 life). The rare and uncommon cycles each get a point for also being able to be tapped lands.
So going through the potentially cubeable MDFC's it looks kind of like this in my mind. The cutoff for viability within my cube would be roughly 7/10.
Emeria's Call - Base card 5. Final card 6.5 WATCHING
Sea Gate Restoration - Base card 4. Final card 5.5
Agadeem's Awakening - Base card 5.5. Final card 7 TESTING
Shatterskull Smashing - Base card 5.5. Final card 7 TESTING
Turntimber Symbiosis - Base card 6. Final card 7.5 TESTING
Kazandu Mammoth - Base card 6.5. Final card 7.5 TESTING
Glasspool Mimic - Base card 5. Final card 6
Hagra Mauling - Base card 4.5. Final card 5.5
Ondu Inversion- Base card 2. Final card 3.
Valakut Awakening - Base card 4. Final card 5.
Bala Ged Recovery Base card 5.5. Final card 6.5 WATCHING
Jwari Disruption Base card 4.5. Final card 5.5
Tangled Florahedron Base card 4. Final card 5
thats my cube