Continuing to hit your land drops and develop your mana into the late-game is the most important thing for green decks to do in most Cube environments, and these cards offer a lot on that front, all while, you guessed it, dying to Shock
As the game goes on, more and more Crusades hit the table, making guys like White Knight into potentially 6/6 first-striking monstrosities
Abomination of Llanowar Im a huge fan of elves being Golgari cards
This unusual black creature has no creature type at all, as per its name and its flavor
Etali, Primal Sickness gives players poison counters when it deals combat damage (in other words, infect) to a player, and a player loses the game with ten poison counters
The Mardu also get their own special fancy enchantment with All-Out Assault