Apparently, on the back of the found card there's a number. It's a phone number owned by Wizards, with a recorded message. Apparently a bunch of random letters, with a 3/3 near the end meaning it's a creature card.
Decoding the letters gives this:
Cogwork Librarian (4)
Artifact Creature - Construct
Draft Cogwork Librarian face up. As you draft a card you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put Cogwork Librarian into that booster pack.
3/3
Conspiracy
Apparently, Conspiracy is the summer "multiplayer" product to be released in June, and its draftable. And they are doing cards that mess with the draft process itself.
Welp, I'm pretty sure even if this card doesn't end up existing, now that I've seen it I want it proxied up and in my cube.
Very nice. I lucked out and have managed to pick up everything but the Voice (and a guy at the local shop pulled one, so fingers crossed that I'll get it tonight!). I must say I really love the foiling on the cube cards in this set. The lightning on Ral Zarek, the scroll on Blood Scrivener and the hand on Aetherling all look fantastic.
I was running him in my 540 powered cube for about a year. From my perspective it was always a nostalgia inclusion, and my drafters would pick it and play it, but I don't feel like anyone was every terribly thrilled by it (plus, most of them probably shouldn't have even been playing it). I'm not sure that I ever even considered drafting it, which feels awfully telling.
I've retired him, and I can't really imagine a scenario outside of pure nostalgia that would bring him back.
Proxied him and put him in the cube today. He was in my first pack so I decided to try force him, ending up in a practically mono-blue artifact ramp/lockdown deck. I definitely found him to be a force to be reckoned with if you have any of the mana accelerators, and the minus ability a very nice option to have while trying to keep control of the board.
Also, as an added bonus I was able to ultimate him twice (ramping him and running a Tangle Wire is good times). I beat the odds and got four turns off each one.
Of course, catering to your playgroup is important, I'm (partially) joking.
Hah, that's definitely how it will make its return. And it'll be sooner rather than later if I manage to stumble into a UD foil.
As things stand I'm trying to teach my drafters to stop handing me Boros aggro every week by repeatedly winning with it. Once again, they didn't learn their lesson.
Thanks for the recommendations! I'm definitely going to make some of those changes. I added (and drafted) Grafted Wargear last night and have really been missing out not having that in my aggro decks!
In fact, there's a good reminder in there that there is still a disconnect between the physical cube and this list, as Chromatic Lantern is in and Magmaquake is out now. Hopefully it's just a swap between the two.
Masticore is currently on hiatus, because while I love the card for the sake of nostalgia, none of my drafters were ever drafting it/playing it.
Thanks for pointing out the missing guilds, I've added them in. It overall is probably a little top heavier than I would like, some of that is a remnant of trying to push reanimator early in building it.
I was running this in my cube for the better part of a year. One person would always include it in his control decks, but I don't think he ever really got much out of it. Most others weren't even willing to give a slot in their deck to it.
Cube Mission Statement and History
I created this cube about two years ago, originally with the intention of giving this whole "cube" thing a shot, and in particular because I was really upset that I didn't have anywhere that I could cast Balance. I threw together a first version of the cube in a hurried evening, and we drafted it the next day. From that rough first draft I started to build up cards that I was missing and refining the cube.
Early last year I picked up a CE set to make the jump over to powered. Towards the middle of the year I began picking up extra cube foils, which turned into an attempt to foil out the whole cube. There are still some minor upgrades that I would like to make in terms of versions, but the cube essentially 100% foiled out at this point!
Pictures of the cube as of 3/15 available here. I've taken new pictures that are more well sorted/focused that I'll be uploading shortly!
Basic Information Cube Size: 541 (if drafting with a full 12 people, I remove Booster Tutor) Standard or Theme: Standard Snow Lands: No Average Number of Players: 6-8 How Often Drafted: 1-2 times per week
Card Selection Proxies: No Powered: Yes Portal: Yes "Un" Cards: Yes (Currently Booster Tutor and Gifts Given) Banned Cards for Power-Level: No Banned Cards for Time Constraints: No Banned Cards for "fun" factor: No
Cube Design Standard or Multiplayer: Standard Sideboards?: Yes, all cards not maindecked Color Balance: Ideally, need to adjust and figure out my hybrid methodology Gold Balance: Ideally, need to adjust and figure out my hybrid methodology Hybrid/Split/Kicker as Gold: Currently listing them as gold, but thinking of hybrid as belonging to one color/colorless as far as balancing Perfectly Balanced CMC: No
I'll be setting up a thread for my cube in the next few days, but I figured it was about time to get a set of photos posted. With the Gatecrash shocks I finished foiling out my cube and am now down to only some minor upgrades left (replacing FTV with set foils, promo Regrowth and Sinkhole over CE).
I paid 100 for my first foil jace, and then I had to pay ~150 for the second one (bad times needed cash). People that want to pimp their cubes now are going to have a very hard time. I remember only paying like 30 bucks for my judge foils (fetches, demonic, sol ring, etc). Now they're all like 4 times that price!
I finished foiling my cube in October time frame, it's amazing how much everything has shot up over the last year - blue fetches (judge foil AND Zendikar) are over $100 now, Thoughtseize is absurd, Jace blew past the $300 price point. Less than a year after I started foiling and it doesn't seem like it would be feasible any more.
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Welp, I'm pretty sure even if this card doesn't end up existing, now that I've seen it I want it proxied up and in my cube.
Nice. I'd been wanting to get basically the same thing done to mine (maybe headphones instead of sunglasses?). DJ Elder is great.
Very nice. I lucked out and have managed to pick up everything but the Voice (and a guy at the local shop pulled one, so fingers crossed that I'll get it tonight!). I must say I really love the foiling on the cube cards in this set. The lightning on Ral Zarek, the scroll on Blood Scrivener and the hand on Aetherling all look fantastic.
I've retired him, and I can't really imagine a scenario outside of pure nostalgia that would bring him back.
Also, as an added bonus I was able to ultimate him twice (ramping him and running a Tangle Wire is good times). I beat the odds and got four turns off each one.
Hah, that's definitely how it will make its return. And it'll be sooner rather than later if I manage to stumble into a UD foil.
As things stand I'm trying to teach my drafters to stop handing me Boros aggro every week by repeatedly winning with it. Once again, they didn't learn their lesson.
Thanks for the recommendations! I'm definitely going to make some of those changes. I added (and drafted) Grafted Wargear last night and have really been missing out not having that in my aggro decks!
In fact, there's a good reminder in there that there is still a disconnect between the physical cube and this list, as Chromatic Lantern is in and Magmaquake is out now. Hopefully it's just a swap between the two.
Masticore is currently on hiatus, because while I love the card for the sake of nostalgia, none of my drafters were ever drafting it/playing it.
Thanks for pointing out the missing guilds, I've added them in. It overall is probably a little top heavier than I would like, some of that is a remnant of trying to push reanimator early in building it.
Friend of mine did this for me and had it at FNM tonight
Like this bonkers Boros deck that people let me draft two weeks back:
3/18/2013
I got to live the Boros Charm & Ravages of War dream!
3/30/13 - Minor Changes
Trusty Machete -> Grafted Wargear
Phyrexian Reclamation -> Oona's Prowler
Unearth -> Vampire Hexmage
Fireball -> Shrine of Burning Rage
I created this cube about two years ago, originally with the intention of giving this whole "cube" thing a shot, and in particular because I was really upset that I didn't have anywhere that I could cast Balance. I threw together a first version of the cube in a hurried evening, and we drafted it the next day. From that rough first draft I started to build up cards that I was missing and refining the cube.
Early last year I picked up a CE set to make the jump over to powered. Towards the middle of the year I began picking up extra cube foils, which turned into an attempt to foil out the whole cube. There are still some minor upgrades that I would like to make in terms of versions, but the cube essentially 100% foiled out at this point!
Pictures of the cube as of 3/15 available here. I've taken new pictures that are more well sorted/focused that I'll be uploading shortly!
Basic Information
Cube Size: 541 (if drafting with a full 12 people, I remove Booster Tutor)
Standard or Theme: Standard
Snow Lands: No
Average Number of Players: 6-8
How Often Drafted: 1-2 times per week
Card Selection
Proxies: No
Powered: Yes
Portal: Yes
"Un" Cards: Yes (Currently Booster Tutor and Gifts Given)
Banned Cards for Power-Level: No
Banned Cards for Time Constraints: No
Banned Cards for "fun" factor: No
Cube Design
Standard or Multiplayer: Standard
Sideboards?: Yes, all cards not maindecked
Color Balance: Ideally, need to adjust and figure out my hybrid methodology
Gold Balance: Ideally, need to adjust and figure out my hybrid methodology
Hybrid/Split/Kicker as Gold: Currently listing them as gold, but thinking of hybrid as belonging to one color/colorless as far as balancing
Perfectly Balanced CMC: No
Forthcoming!
1 Elite Vanguard
1 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
1 Mother of Runes
1 Savannah Lions
1 Steppe Lynx
1 Student of Warfare
1 Weathered Wayfarer
CMC 2
1 Accorder Paladin
1 Cloistered Youth
1 Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
1 Kor Skyfisher
1 Loyal Cathar
1 Precinct Captain
1 Soltari Monk
1 Soltari Priest
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Wall of Omens
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Blade Splicer
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Flickerwisp
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Mangara of Corondor
1 Mirran Crusader
1 Mirror Entity
1 Silverblade Paladin
1 Soltari Champion
CMC 4
1 Emeria Angel
1 Exalted Angel
1 Hero of Bladehold
1 Kor Sanctifiers
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Restoration Angel
1 Sublime Archangel
1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Cloudgoat Ranger
1 Karmic Guide
1 Reveillark
CMC 6+
1 Sun Titan
1 Angel of Serenity
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
1 Land Tax
1 Luminarch Ascension
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Moat
Instant
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Path to Exile
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Midnight Haunting
1 Parallax Wave
1 Karakas
1 Kor Haven
Planeswalker
1 Ajani, Caller of the Pride
1 Ajani Goldmane
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1 Elspeth Tirel
1 Gideon Jura
Sorcery
1 Balance
1 Armageddon
1 Day of Judgment
1 Ravages of War
1 Wrath of God
1 Catastrophe
1 Decree of Justice
1 Entreat the Angels
Forthcoming!
1 Enclave Cryptologist
CMC 2
1 Augur of Bolas
1 Gilded Drake
1 Looter il-Kor
1 Ludevic's Test Subject
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Sakashima's Student
1 Snapcaster Mage
CMC 3
1 Aether Adept
1 Deceiver Exarch
1 Fettergeist
1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
1 Mulldrifter
1 Old Man of the Sea
1 Pestermite
1 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Serendib Efreet
1 Trinket Mage
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Dungeon Geists
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
CMC 5
1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Morphling
CMC 6+
1 Frost Titan
1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Vedalken Shackles
1 Crystal Shard
Enchantment
1 Control Magic
1 Treachery
Instant
1 Condescend
1 Force of Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Arcane Denial
1 Counterspell
1 Daze
1 Impulse
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Leak
1 Miscalculation
1 Remand
1 Capsize
1 Forbid
1 Frantic Search
1 Intuition
1 Psionic Blast
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Cryptic Command
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Desertion
1 Gifts Given
1 Academy Ruins
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Tolarian Academy
Planeswalker
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
Sorcery
1 Ancestral Vision
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Time Walk
1 Show and Tell
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Deep Analysis
1 Bribery
1 Time Spiral
Forthcoming!
1 Carnophage
1 Diregraf Ghoul
1 Gravecrawler
1 Vampire Lacerator
CMC 2
1 Bloodghast
1 Dark Confidant
1 Dauthi Horror
1 Dauthi Slayer
1 Knight of Infamy
1 Oona's Prowler
1 Pack Rat
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Bone Shredder
1 Gatekeeper of Malakir
1 Geralf's Messenger
1 Hypnotic Specter
1 Nether Spirit
1 Phyrexian Rager
1 Vampire Nighthawk
CMC 4
1 Abyssal Persecutor
1 Bloodline Keeper
1 Nekrataal
1 Phyrexian Obliterator
1 Skinrender
1 Bloodgift Demon
1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
1 Shriekmaw
CMC 6+
1 Grave Titan
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Griselbrand
1 Animate Dead
1 Bitterblossom
1 Necromancy
1 Necropotence
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Recurring Nightmare
1 Nether Void
1 The Abyss
Instant
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Snuff Out
1 Booster Tutor
1 Dark Ritual
1 Dismember
1 Entomb
1 Tragic Slip
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Go for the Throat
1 Ultimate Price
1 Volrath's Stronghold
Planeswalker
1 Liliana of the Veil
Sorcery
1 Mind Twist
1 Duress
1 Imperial Seal
1 Reanimate
1 Thoughtseize
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Exhume
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Sign in Blood
1 Sinkhole
1 Smallpox
1 Stupor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Damnation
1 Living Death
Forthcoming!
1 Goblin Guide
1 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Greater Gargadon
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Jackal Pup
1 Reckless Waif
1 Stromkirk Noble
CMC 2
1 Ash Zealot
1 Fireslinger
1 Hellspark Elemental
1 Kargan Dragonlord
1 Keldon Marauders
1 Lightning Mauler
1 Plated Geopede
1 Stormblood Berserker
1 Torch Fiend
1 Chandra's Phoenix
1 Cunning Sparkmage
1 Imperial Recruiter
1 Keldon Vandals
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
CMC 4
1 Avalanche Riders
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Hellrider
1 Hero of Oxid Ridge
1 Instigator Gang
1 Keldon Champion
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Siege-Gang Commander
1 Thundermaw Hellkite
1 Zealous Conscripts
CMC 6+
1 Crater Hellion
1 Inferno Titan
1 Shrine of Burning Rage
Enchantment
1 Sulfuric Vortex
1 Sneak Attack
1 Splinter Twin
Instant
1 Fireblast
1 Burst Lightning
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Incinerate
1 Magma Jet
1 Searing Blaze
1 Searing Spear
1 Chaos Warp
1 Flame Javelin
1 Staggershock
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Ghitu Encampment
Planeswalker
1 Koth of the Hammer
Sorcery
1 Devil's Play
1 Rolling Earthquake
1 Chain Lightning
1 Faithless Looting
1 Firebolt
1 Rift Bolt
1 Volcanic Hammer
1 Arc Lightning
1 Flames of the Firebrand
1 Pillage
1 Stone Rain
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Wildfire
1 Bonfire of the Damned
1 Magmaquake
1 Red Sun's Zenith
Forthcoming!
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Experiment One
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Wolfbitten Captive
CMC 2
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Mayor of Avabruck
1 Mire Boa
1 River Boa
1 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Skinshifter
1 Strangleroot Geist
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Wall of Blossoms
1 Wall of Roots
1 Wild Mongrel
1 Call of the Herd
1 Champion of Lambholt
1 Eternal Witness
1 Great Sable Stag
1 Uktabi Orangutan
1 Wolfir Avenger
1 Yavimaya Elder
CMC 4
1 Deadbridge Goliath
1 Master of the Wild Hunt
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Vengevine
1 Yeva, Nature's Herald
CMC 5
1 Acidic Slime
1 Deranged Hermit
1 Genesis
1 Thornling
1 Thragtusk
1 Vorapede
1 Wolfir Silverheart
1 Mold Shambler
1 Primeval Titan
1 Terastodon
1 Woodfall Primus
1 Birthing Pod
Enchantment
1 Fastbond
1 Rancor
1 Oath of Druids
1 Survival of the Fittest
1 Sylvan Library
Instant
1 Berserk
1 Beast Within
1 Krosan Grip
1 Naturalize
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Treetop Village
Planeswalker
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
Sorcery
1 Regrowth
1 Cultivate
1 Bramblecrush
1 Natural Order
1 Plow Under
1 Channel
1 Eureka
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Ice Storm
1 Life from the Loam
1 Overrun
Forthcoming!
1 Flooded Strand
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Tundra
1 Detention Sphere
1 Celestial Colonnade
1 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
1 Venser, the Sojourner
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Absorb
Boros
1 Arid Mesa
1 Plateau
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Battlefield Forge
1 Slayers' Stronghold
1 Figure of Destiny
1 Boros Reckoner
1 Lightning Helix
1 Boros Charm
1 Ajani Vengeant
1 Aurelia, the Warleader
Dimir
1 Polluted Delta
1 Underground Sea
1 Watery Grave
1 Darkslick Shores
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Baleful Strix
1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
1 Duskmantle Seer
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Golgari
1 Bayou
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Lotleth Troll
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Vraska the Unseen
1 Stomping Ground
1 Taiga
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Copperline Gorge
1 Raging Ravine
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Kird Ape
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Sarkhan Vol
Izzet
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Steam Vents
1 Volcanic Island
1 Shivan Reef
1 Desolate Lighthouse
1 Izzet Charm
1 Electrolyze
1 Prophetic Bolt
1 Fire // Ice
Orzhov
1 Godless Shrine
1 Marsh Flats
1 Scrubland
1 Caves of Koilos
1 Vindicate
1 Lingering Souls
1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
1 Desolation Angel
Rakdos
1 Badlands
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Lavaclaw Reaches
1 Rakdos Cackler
1 Rakdos Shred-Freak
1 Terminate
1 Dreadbore
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Falkenrath Aristocrat
1 Bituminous Blast
1 Blightning
1 Savannah
1 Temple Garden
1 Windswept Heath
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Dryad Militant
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Sundering Growth
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Armada Wurm
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Loam Lion
Simic
1 Breeding Pool
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Tropical Island
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Trygon Predator
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Mystic Snake
1 Voidslime
Other
1 Wild Nacatl
1 Rafiq of the Many
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
Forthcoming!
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Spellskite
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Molten-Tail Masticore
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Precursor Golem
1 Duplicant
1 Triskelion
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Sundering Titan
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Porcelain Legionnaire
1 Metalworker
1 Moltensteel Dragon
Equipment
1 Bonesplitter
1 Skullclamp
1 Grafted Wargear
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Runechanter's Pike
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Body and Mind
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Sword of War and Peace
1 Batterskull
1 Black Lotus
1 Chrome Mox
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mind Stone
1 Coalition Relic
1 Vessel of Endless Rest
1 Gilded Lotus
Miscellaneous
1 Zuran Orb
1 Black Vise
1 Cursed Scroll
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Ankh of Mishra
1 Isochron Scepter
1 Scroll Rack
1 Winter Orb
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Forcefield
1 Mimic Vat
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Tangle Wire
1 Icy Manipulator
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Quicksilver Amulet
1 Smokestack
1 Memory Jar
1 Mindslaver
1 Karn Liberated
Forthcoming!
1 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 City of Brass
1 Tower of the Magistrate
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Grand Coliseum
1 Island of Wak-Wak
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Maze of Ith
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Mishra's Workshop
1 Mutavault
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Rishadan Port
1 Strip Mine
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Wasteland
Pack Sculler
Promo Jace
Left Wasteland
Left Dual
I'm a huge fan of the goofy concentric rectangle text box from the original duals though.
http://imgur.com/a/Y41NC#0
I finished foiling my cube in October time frame, it's amazing how much everything has shot up over the last year - blue fetches (judge foil AND Zendikar) are over $100 now, Thoughtseize is absurd, Jace blew past the $300 price point. Less than a year after I started foiling and it doesn't seem like it would be feasible any more.