[500][Unpowered][Budget][EDH][M] SCDL's Slapdashed Commander Cube of a Million Tags

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#1 Jul 3, 2014

marksmanaim

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SCDL's Slapdashed Commander Cube
A terrible cube for filthy casuals

I am a student on a small college campus, and I've recently realized that a number of my friends on said campus who play magic have been fairly limited by the size of their collections. Many of my friends are limited to only a couple EDH decks that are only really half complete, and a couple even rely completely on loaner decks. With the release of Conspiracy, I realized that a cube designed specifically for the local format of choice would be a perfect solution. So I've spent the last week or so cannibalizing my eight commander decks so I could build this cube:

This baby, held together purely by ductape, dreams, and six-drops, is the result of my efforts. This cube is designed to be a very casual friendly commander cube; specifically the cube is meant to evoke the "Battlecruiser" style of the Rise of the Eldrazi limited environment. Keep in mind that this cube is built near entirely out of my preexisting collection. While I do have some acquisitions in mind, there aren't many and they're almost all budget-friendly. I'll listen to any recommendation, but I'm going to try to keep future investments in the cube low.

Generals
Main Cube

Basic Information
Cube Size: 500 Cards in the core cube with an additional 50 generals.
Breakdown: 60 of each monocolor, 7 of each two color combo, 1 of each shard, 65 colorless nonlands, and 60 nonbasic lands
General Breakdown: 1 of each monocolor, 3 of each two color combo, 2 of each shard, and 1 of each wedge
Standard or Theme: Multiplayer Commander. It's also a bit of a slow cube.
Snow Lands: Nope.
Average Number of Players: 4-8
How Often Drafted: Newly minted

Card Selection
Proxies: Yes. Mostly generals I'm working on getting.
Powered: No.
Portal: Yes, but only reprinted cards
"Un" Cards: Booster Tutor
Banned Cards for Power-Level: Sol Ring, Omniscience
Banned Cards for "fun" factor: Jokulhaups and it's ilk

Cube Design
Standard or Multiplayer: Multiplayer
Sideboards?: No.
Color Balance: Yes.
Gold Balance: Yes.
Hybrid/Split/Kicker as Gold: Yes.
Color Triggers as Gold: No.
Perfectly Balanced CMC: That sounds like waaaay too much effort.

Drafting the commander cube is fairly straightforward, but naturally it has some special considerations. Cube drafts begin by drafting from the separate pile of Generals which come in a different type of sleeve. Generals are separated into packs of 6 and are drafted for one round. Monocolored generals are 'use at your own risk' and are always going to have difficulty amassing playables. It's recommended that if you intend to draft a monocolored deck that you take at least one multicolored general containing that color as a precautionary measure.

Once generals have been drafted the main cube is drafted. The main cube is drafted just as you would draft any other cube, except there are four rounds of drafting instead of the traditional three. Once the draft is complete, each player picks a general and constructs a 60 card deck around that general.

Special Rules:
- Generals you have drafted but are not using as your general may be switched into regular sleeves and included in your deck.
- Conversely, legendary creatures drafted from the main cube may be switched into general sleeves in lieu of using one of the generals you drafted.
- Decks include 61 cards. 60 Cards in your main deck, and your general which does not count towards that 60.
- Normal EDH color identity rules apply; you cannot use cards outside your chosen general's color identity, with one exception:
- Hybrid cards where one exactly of their colors violates your general's color identity may still be used. This does not apply to Phyrexian mana, and this does not apply to Selesnya Guildmage. (For obvious reasons)
- All extra packs (For Booster Tutor/Lore Seeker) are to be packs of 15 undrafted cards from the cube and removed from the cube afterward. If there aren't 15 cards left, no extra pack can be used.
- Starting life is 40, and commander damage rules apply. (If any one general has dealt a given player 21 points of combat damage, that player loses.)

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White Creature 1x Soul Warden 1x Soul's Attendant 1x Weathered Wayfarer 1x Suture Priest 1x Fiend Hunter 1x Flickerwisp 1x Frontline Medic 1x Kemba, Kha Regent 1x Mentor of the Meek 1x Mesa Enchantress 1x Mirran Crusader 1x Mirror Entity 1x Stonecloaker 1x Ajani's Chosen 1x Angel of Finality 1x Emeria Angel 1x Hero of Bladehold 1x Angelic Overseer 1x Archon of Justice 1x Karmic Guide 1x Reveillark 1x Shattered Angel 1x Angelic Skirmisher 1x Patron of the Kitsune 1x Requiem Angel 1x Victory's Herald 1x Angel of Serenity 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope	White Planeswalker 1x Ajani Goldmane 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant 1x Gideon Jura White Artifact Creature 1x Sanctum Gargoyle White Artifact 1x Dispeller's Capsule White Instant 1x Enlightened Tutor 1x Path to Exile 1x Swords to Plowshares 1x Oblation 1x Unexpectedly Absent 1x White Sun's Zenith White Sorcery 1x Remember the Fallen 1x Day of Judgment 1x Austere Command 1x Kirtar's Wrath 1x Phyrexian Rebirth 1x Planar Cleansing White Enchantment 1x Ethereal Armor 1x Hyena Umbra 1x Soul Snare 1x Darksteel Mutation 1x Journey to Nowhere 1x Luminarch Ascension 1x Spirit Mantle 1x Banishing Light 1x Ghostly Prison 1x Oblivion Ring 1x Vow of Duty 1x Indestructibility 1x Marshal's Anthem 1x True Conviction	White Enchantment Artifact 1x Spear of Heliod

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Blue Creature 1x Grand Architect 1x Trinket Mage 1x Archaeomancer 1x Clone 1x Glen Elendra Archmage 1x Sakashima's Student 1x Wonder 1x Mnemonic Wall 1x Mulldrifter 1x Sphinx of Lost Truths 1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir 1x Arbiter of the Ideal 1x Consecrated Sphinx 1x Deadeye Navigator 1x Draining Whelk 1x Sapphire Drake 1x Diluvian Primordial 1x Palinchron 1x Phyrexian Ingester 1x Sphinx of Uthuun 1x Tromokratis 1x Stormtide Leviathan 1x Trench Gorger	Blue Planeswalker 1x Jace Beleren 1x Tezzeret the Seeker Blue Artifact Creature 1x Etherium Sculptor 1x Master of Etherium 1x Phyrexian Metamorph Blue Instant 1x Brainstorm 1x Rapid Hybridization 1x Stifle 1x Arcane Denial 1x Cyclonic Rift 1x Dissipate 1x Spell Crumple 1x Fact or Fiction 1x Rewind 1x Jace's Ingenuity 1x Blue Sun's Zenith Blue Sorcery 1x Ponder 1x Preordain 1x Compulsive Research 1x Argivian Restoration 1x Foresee 1x Rite of Replication 1x Wash Out 1x Acquire 1x Devastation Tide 1x Recurring Insight 1x Stolen Identity 1x Curse of the Swine 1x Knowledge Exploitation	Blue Enchantment 1x Eel Umbra 1x Equilibrium 1x Propaganda 1x Traveler's Cloak 1x Control Magic 1x Leyline of Anticipation 1x Mind Unbound Blue Enchantment Artifact 1x Bident of Thassa

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Black Creature 1x Carrion Feeder 1x Deathgreeter 1x Mortician Beetle 1x Tenacious Dead 1x Viscera Seer 1x Blood Artist 1x Bloodthrone Vampire 1x Dark Confidant 1x Reassembling Skeleton 1x Bone Shredder 1x Ophiomancer 1x Pawn of Ulamog 1x Undercity Informer 1x Desecration Demon 1x Disciple of Bolas 1x Sangromancer 1x Scavenger Drake 1x Sewer Nemesis 1x Thought Gorger 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel 1x Puppeteer Clique 1x Shriekmaw 1x Vengeful Pharaoh 1x Extractor Demon 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni 1x Necropolis Regent 1x Xathrid Demon 1x Rune-Scarred Demon 1x Sepulchral Primordial	Black Artifact Creature 1x Hex Parasite Black Artifact 1x Nihil Spellbomb Black Instant 1x Booster Tutor 1x Doom Blade 1x Go for the Throat 1x Ad Nauseam 1x Moonlight Bargain 1x Rescue from the Underworld 1x Treacherous Urge 1x Death Denied Black Sorcery 1x Exhume 1x Gruesome Encore 1x Read the Bones 1x Victimize 1x Dread Return 1x Increasing Ambition 1x Rise from the Grave 1x Killing Wave 1x Life's Finale 1x Twilight's Call 1x Exsanguinate 1x Decree of Pain	Black Enchantment 1x Phyrexian Reclamation 1x Animate Dead 1x Necropotence 1x Underworld Connections 1x Diabolic Servitude 1x Grave Pact 1x Vile Requiem 1x Grave Betrayal

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Red Creature 1x Slumbering Dragon 1x Crimson Mage 1x Kiln Fiend 1x Slith Firewalker 1x Tunnel Ignus 1x Young Pyromancer 1x Goblin Ruinblaster 1x Goblin Sharpshooter 1x Pyreheart Wolf 1x Barbed Shocker 1x Felhide Spiritbinder 1x Flametongue Kavu 1x Hellrider 1x Hero of Oxid Ridge 1x Mondronen Shaman 1x Oxidda Scrapmelter 1x Rakka Mar 1x Heartless Hidetsugu 1x Hoarding Dragon 1x Wrecking Ogre 1x Capricious Efreet 1x Charmbreaker Devils 1x Flayer of the Hatebound 1x Godo, Bandit Warlord 1x Hellkite Charger 1x Inferno Titan 1x Rapacious One 1x Chancellor of the Forge 1x Hamletback Goliath 1x Knollspine Dragon 1x Spawn of Thraxes 1x Stalking Vengeance 1x Magmatic Force 1x Scourge of Kher Ridges	Red Instant 1x Reverberate 1x Wild Ricochet 1x Savage Beating 1x Word of Seizing Red Sorcery 1x Vandalblast 1x Rough // Tumble 1x Chain Reaction 1x Past in Flames 1x Shatterstorm 1x Mana Geyser 1x Mass Mutiny 1x World at War 1x Devil's Play 1x Earthquake 1x Sudden Demise 1x Tempt with Vengeance 1x Fury of the Horde 1x Insurrection Red Enchantment 1x Barrage of Expendables 1x Dragon Breath 1x Goblin Bombardment 1x Vow of Lightning 1x Elemental Mastery 1x Tooth and Claw 1x Heretic's Punishment	Red Enchantment Artifact 1x Hammer of Purphoros

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Green Creature 1x Fauna Shaman 1x Gyre Sage 1x Jade Mage 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder 1x Viridian Emissary 1x Eternal Witness 1x Farhaven Elf 1x Fierce Empath 1x Somberwald Sage 1x Verduran Enchantress 1x Wild Beastmaster 1x Brooding Saurian 1x Chameleon Colossus 1x Crowned Ceratok 1x Quirion Trailblazer 1x Acidic Slime 1x Golgari Grave-Troll 1x Kessig Cagebreakers 1x Mycoloth 1x Silklash Spider 1x Bane of Progress 1x Brutalizer Exarch 1x Deadwood Treefolk 1x Elvish Aberration 1x Hydra Omnivore 1x Soul of the Harvest 1x Krosan Tusker 1x Moldgraf Monstrosity 1x Primordial Hydra 1x Skarrg Goliath 1x Terastodon	Green Planeswalker 1x Garruk Wildspeaker Green Artifact 1x Birthing Pod Green Instant 1x Nature's Claim 1x Sprout Swarm 1x Krosan Grip 1x Relic Crush Green Sorcery 1x Prey Upon 1x Life from the Loam 1x Regrowth 1x Restore 1x Cultivate 1x Kodama's Reach 1x Lead the Stampede 1x Explosive Vegetation 1x Ranger's Path 1x Overwhelming Stampede 1x Green Sun's Zenith Green Enchantment 1x Font of Fertility 1x Night Soil 1x Survival of the Fittest 1x Fecundity 1x Moldervine Cloak 1x Snake Umbra 1x Foster 1x Asceticism 1x Doubling Season 1x Primal Vigor	Green Enchantment Artifact 1x Bow of Nylea Green Enchantment Creature 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt

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Azorius 1x Mistmeadow Witch 1x Wall of Denial 1x Godhead of Awe 1x Archon of the Triumvirate 1x Talisman of Progress 1x Aethermage's Touch 1x Righteous Authority Dimir 1x Dimir Doppelganger 1x Silent-Blade Oni 1x Baleful Strix 1x Talisman of Dominance 1x Dimir Charm 1x Forbidden Alchemy 1x Mind Grind Rakdos 1x Lightning Reaver 1x Deathbringer Thoctar 1x Deepfire Elemental 1x Rakdos Keyrune 1x Rakdos Charm 1x Skull Rend 1x Rakdos's Return Gruul 1x Polis Crusher 1x Rubblehulk 1x Gruul Signet 1x Manamorphose 1x Signal the Clans 1x Savage Twister 1x Fires of Yavimaya	Selesnya 1x Selesnya Guildmage 1x Bronzebeak Moa 1x Armada Wurm 1x Selesnya Signet 1x Selesnya Charm 1x Unflinching Courage 1x Collective Blessing Orzhov 1x Vizkopa Guildmage 1x Necrotic Sliver 1x Maw of the Obzedat 1x Magister of Worth 1x Orzhov Signet 1x Obzedat's Aid 1x Merciless Eviction Golgari 1x Lotleth Troll 1x Spiritmonger 1x Golgari Signet 1x Putrefy 1x Maelstrom Pulse 1x Jarad's Orders 1x Deathreap Ritual Simic 1x Gilder Bairn 1x Winged Coatl 1x Master Biomancer 1x Prophet of Kruphix 1x Sages of the Anima 1x Simic Signet 1x Shielding Plax	Izzet 1x Goblin Electromancer 1x Marchesa's Smuggler 1x Nin, the Pain Artist 1x Hypersonic Dragon 1x Djinn Illuminatus 1x Izzet Signet 1x Turn // Burn Boros 1x Figure of Destiny 1x Boros Reckoner 1x Boros Keyrune 1x Sunforger 1x Wear // Tear 1x Scourge of the Nobilis 1x Glory of Warfare Jund 1x Jund Charm Naya 1x Realm Razer Bant 1x Rubinia Soulsinger Esper 1x Ertai, the Corrupted Grixis 1x Breaking // Entering

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Colourless Creature 1x Artisan of Kozilek Colourless Planeswalker 1x Karn Liberated Colourless Artifact Creature 1x Agent of Acquisitions 1x Myr Retriever 1x Phyrexian Revoker 1x Alloy Myr 1x Burnished Hart 1x Pilgrim's Eye 1x Shimmer Myr 1x Canal Dredger 1x Lurking Automaton 1x Psychosis Crawler 1x Razormane Masticore 1x Steel Hellkite 1x Thopter Assembly 1x Wurmcoil Engine 1x Myr Battlesphere 1x Platinum Angel 1x Colossus of Akros Colourless Artifact 1x Everflowing Chalice 1x Tormod's Crypt 1x Basilisk Collar 1x Expedition Map 1x Mana Vault 1x Skullclamp 1x Armillary Sphere 1x Illusionist's Bracers 1x Lightning Greaves 1x Nim Deathmantle 1x Runechanter's Pike 1x Surveyor's Scope 1x Swiftfoot Boots 1x Torpor Orb 1x Champion's Helm 1x Darksteel Ingot 1x Darksteel Plate 1x Fireshrieker 1x Jar of Eyeballs 1x Loxodon Warhammer 1x Manalith 1x Mimic Vat 1x Pennon Blade 1x Quietus Spike 1x Spectral Searchlight 1x Sword of Vengeance 1x Temple Bell 1x Vessel of Endless Rest 1x Whispersilk Cloak 1x Worn Powerstone 1x Bonehoard 1x Grimoire of the Dead 1x Moonsilver Spear 1x Sword of the Paruns 1x Thran Dynamo 1x Conjurer's Closet 1x Gilded Lotus 1x Mind's Eye 1x Mirrorworks 1x Venser's Journal 1x Argentum Armor 1x Caged Sun 1x Akroma's Memorial 1x Spine of Ish Sah 1x Darksteel Forge	Colourless Land 1x Ancient Den 1x Ancient Ziggurat 1x Arcane Sanctum 1x Azorius Chancery 1x Azorius Guildgate 1x Bojuka Bog 1x Boros Garrison 1x Boros Guildgate 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All 1x Buried Ruin 1x City of Brass 1x Command Tower 1x Crumbling Necropolis 1x Dimir Aqueduct 1x Dimir Guildgate 1x Dread Statuary 1x Dryad Arbor 1x Encroaching Wastes 1x Evolving Wilds 1x Faerie Conclave 1x Golgari Guildgate 1x Golgari Rot Farm 1x Great Furnace 1x Gruul Guildgate 1x Gruul Turf 1x Izzet Boilerworks 1x Izzet Guildgate 1x Jungle Shrine 1x Kabira Crossroads 1x Kher Keep 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 1x Opal Palace 1x Orzhov Basilica 1x Orzhov Guildgate 1x Rakdos Carnarium 1x Rakdos Guildgate 1x Reliquary Tower 1x Rogue's Passage 1x Rupture Spire 1x Savage Lands 1x Seaside Citadel 1x Seat of the Synod 1x Selesnya Guildgate 1x Selesnya Sanctuary 1x Seraph Sanctuary 1x Simic Growth Chamber 1x Simic Guildgate 1x Stalking Stones 1x Tectonic Edge 1x Temple of the False God 1x Terramorphic Expanse 1x Thespian's Stage 1x Transguild Promenade 1x Tree of Tales 1x Vault of Whispers 1x Vivid Crag 1x Vivid Creek 1x Vivid Grove 1x Vivid Marsh 1x Vivid Meadow	Conspiracy 1x Power Play

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White 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails Blue 1x Thada Adel, Acquisitor Black 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One Red 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Green 1x Yeva, Nature's Herald Azorius 1x Brago, King Eternal 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 1x Bruna, Light of Alabaster Dimir 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 1x Vela the Night-Clad Rakdos 1x Lyzolda, the Blood Witch 1x Grenzo, Dungeon Warden 1x Kaervek the Merciless Gruul 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 1x Wort, the Raidmother 1x Xenagos, God of Revels	Selesnya 1x Saffi Eriksdotter 1x Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 1x Karametra, God of Harvests Orzhov 1x Ghost Council of Orzhova 1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts 1x Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter Golgari 1x Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 1x Glissa, the Traitor 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord Simic 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest 1x Prime Speaker Zegana 1x Kruphix, God of Horizons Izzet 1x Jhoira of the Ghitu 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind Boros 1x Anax and Cymede 1x Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer 1x Aurelia, the Warleader	Jund 1x Shattergang Brothers 1x Prossh, Skyraider of Kher Naya 1x Mayael the Anima 1x Uril, the Miststalker Bant 1x Derevi, Empyrial Tactician 1x Roon of the Hidden Realm Esper 1x Sydri, Galvanic Genius 1x Zur the Enchanter Grixis 1x Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge 1x Marchesa, the Black Rose Raka 1x Numot, the Devastator Dega 1x Kaalia of the Vast Necra 1x Karador, Ghost Chieftain Ana 1x The Mimeoplasm Ceta 1x Animar, Soul of Elements

(The changelog will be on cubetutor because that lets me be wonderfully lazy)

Last edited by marksmanaim: Jul 3, 2014

Check out the thread for my cube if you have the time, and tell me how terrible it is.

Generals meant to be drafted first in a single pack of 6 cards.

And here is the actual cube, meant to be drafted in 4 regular sized packs. (60 card decks)

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