Dies to Removal

in reality the pack will not end up like this. the choice will be more like jace vs crypt or nicol bolas vs a mox

the crypt is great, no doubt, but the ring is better. over the course of a game that will probably take at least 8 turns and probably closer to 11, you have possibly killed yourself with the crypt. it is an instant include if you get the crypt but i take the ring over it every time

I don't understand the words you strung together in that question.

and now that i've looked at the full list of additions and cuts here is my opinion:

black lost a lot of it's speed, white lost some of its protection but is mostly fine, green actually lost a lot of its mana fixing but retains a lot of power cards (genesis, SoF etc), red didn't lose a whole lot but it wasn't that good anyways, blue is the winner of the colors imo losing a lot of counters but gaining recall, time walk, drain etc. it's obvious that wizards wants to push the artifact strat more in this cube (which is good because it sucked in the last cube) and they succeeded. metal worker is an amazingly powerful card (with a nut draw you could cast a colossus on turn 3), and tolarian academy is another powerful effect in addition to the moxen, lotus, signets, vault, and ring that all add extra speed to the easiest cube archetype there is.

I think sol ring is being highly undervalued in that poll (not that it really matters). My picks would go Recall, Lotus, Sol Ring. I think library is being overvalued here as the continued advantage of the ring and the moxen are imo more important than the chance to draw a few extra cards in the game. I rarely end up with a bunch of turns to be durdling around drawing cards with a full hand in cube