Due to the emphasis on searching, a Gishki Deck can be stopped cold by cards like Thunder Dragon Colossus, Droll & Lock Bird, and Thunder King Rai-Oh
This cards multiple abilities direct damage, lifegain, killing artifacts, and destroying enchantments makes it very versatile and gives you good mana sinks if your hand is running low on cards
It doesnt work with Flash, which is the best of all the "cheat a big thing into play" cards, and Channel is too green and too risky to be good in Cube these days
This triples the damage caused by spells and abilities that do exactly one damage, changing them from a plink into a lightning bolt, as well as from one power weenies
This can be before blockers are declared, after blockers are declared but before combat damage is dealt, during combat after combat damage is dealt, during the postcombat main phase, during the end step, or, in some unusual cases, during the cleanup step
If either target is illegal as Chocobo Kick resolves, no damage will be dealt