Everyone wants to play their fun cards, and from flipping Chaos Orb to dropping the Where fifth of Who/What/When/Where/Why, everything is on tap
With an abundance of lands, you can easily make them into creatures and not worry too much about losing a couple
Creature - Knight Wraith Color tag templates(None) Notion Thief Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card
Part of the time we had either player earn the effect if they won, but also tried a version where only the person who generated the skirmish token got an effect
Cube games tend to clutter
It is most akin to countermagic in that it can deal with anything, it is one of the few things than can stop instants and sorceries from happening and it suffers the drawback of being time critical