Too-Specific Top 10 - Stax Switch (Icy ManipulatorIcy Manipulator | Art by Douglas Shuler) Rules For Thee, Not For Me Welcome to Too-Specific Top 10 , where if there isnt a category to rank our pet card at the top of, well just make one up
This card is probably most at home with commanders such as Urza, High Lord Artificer and Teferi, Temporal Archmage that can run a good number of basic lands and have built-in ways to break parity on the effect through untapping and mana production
Not only does it buff the equipped creature with +2/+0 and menace, but it also forces your opponent to sacrifice potential blockers and gives you 2/2 zombie creature tokens
Eaten Alive With the right supporting cast (i.e., Infestation Sage, Burglar Rat), Eaten Alive is disgustingly efficient removal
Nasty fast in the kill box
Sure, you have to build your deck somewhat around being able to usefully play Upheaval but given that it is such a good counter to so many of the things going on in the cube, one of the very best safety buttons in the game, that it remains one of the most feared cards in cube