So I read about Ben Stark's Battlebox a few months ago and I thought it was a really cool idea. However, for a variety of reasons, I don't want to build the full thing. Does anyone have any suggestions (or a list I could just straight up copy) on how to build a 80-100 card Battlebox?
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I threw together a 100-card battlebox in about half an hour just using various cards. There's much less design involved as you can't really support archetypes due to the randomness. One of each 2-color gold card, 15 cards of each color, plus 15 artifacts. Play it, pull stuff that's too weak/strong and replace it.
I did the same thing. I just flipped through my collection, and grabbed cards that were historically good (but not broken) in limited. I made sure that there were no cards that manipulated the library,no tutors, no mana acceleration, and nothing that could bounce or kill lands. Then I made sure that I had at least 50% creatures, and it was "done". I expect I'll pull cards and add new ones as time goes on. I don't have a list, but I don't think you need one. For what you want to do, just build it! It's inherently self balancing as long as you follow the basic principles.
Are wrath effects necessary to keep the battle box format healthy? I'm considering putting together a battle box of my own, but I want to keep the card selection as different from my cube as possible, and one way to do this would be to make a peasant battle box (no rares). This would prevent me from running wrath of god and the like. Do you think that would be a problem?
I totally forgot that I started this thread. I will just try and throw one together from my collection. Thank you all for the responses and the inspiration.
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If one has worries about power level, you can level it by playing common and uncommon cards FIRST. Then editing from there.
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