The "nine lives" gag is still there, the stealing opponent's cards is there, but the focus on artifacts, though flavorful, was eventually deemed too narrow
There is actually a perfect ten copy listed on eBay for $200,000 at the time of writing, although despite there being 90 people watching the listing, none seem willing to bite at that price
As your opponents deal with these threats, most will usually end up in your graveyard, so youll be well situated to keep cheating them back into play from there once you get going
Not, you know, "Standard is flourishing" flourish, but like legitimate flourishing
The alternative is that my attacker goes unblocked, and that can either make an opponent dead or I can sacrifice the attacker myself in the post-combat main phase
I had two main plans for my cube build, a control list and a midrange one