Half the cards with escalate have seen a good amount of cube play since they were released and even more impressively the other half wouldn't be bad cards in cube, they would all see some play and do some valuable work
It sounds pretty sweet, but what happens when you play against people who know about Sphinxs Revelation
Sliver Swarm is bringing this beloved Sliver back from the brink of extinction, but if you want to buy it now, it'll cost you a pretty penny.
that's why I prefer it over Sakura-Tribe Elder
Kind of like the end condition of a Gate deck, if we have enough different lands among those three types, for just three mana, we can turn Monument of Perfection into a 9/9 artifact creature with toxic 9
As of now, WotCs reserved list policy is simple: Reserved cards will never be printed again in a functionally identical form