MTG Salvation

Hey everyone.

I am currently writing a series of primers on cube archetypes. So far I have wrote five articles, which you can access here: http://cubearchetypes.wordpress.com/

I am aiming to put a new archetype up every 2 weeks.

Oct 9th - new archetype: The Rock and His Minions

Very cool stuff. Love the pics of all your unique alters!

Love how much detail you've put in and also the formatting of the guides. Looking forward to the next one!

And truly the sexiest cube I've ever had the pleasure of drafting.

Thanks!

Just deciding which archetype to do next.

The enchantment archetype would be a challenge to do.

How about wildfire?

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The enchantment archetype would be a challenge to do.

How about wildfire?

I may tackle wildfire, but there are a few primers already on it. It's one of my most favourite decks in magic history, however, so I will do it eventually =). I am thinking of reanimator variants next. Or the rock/junk.

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I'd love to see a primer about Upheaval and the greatest of all the Gargadons!

Edit: The Opposition deck would be sweet as well. And also, I think your blog is fantastic! Keep up the good work

Thanks, working hard on my next one. Just been a busy week, but it'll be up soon.

Thanks again =).

This is a great source of information. I think this aspect of the cube is one of the harder areas to grasp, and your articles are good for anyone from beginners to drafters who need a visual to understand how certain decks work.

Got sidelined by a few crazy work weeks. Next post coming tomorrow =).

Feel free to check out the articles I did on Legitmtg.com about Cube archetypes as well, 9000. I only got about 2-3 archetypes deep until I got hung up on other things, but it looks like they are pretty similar in scope.

-AA

P.S. Here's the link for one of them: http://legitmtg.com/casual/cube-artifacts/

I was going to reference your's when I got to those archetypes =).

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Got sidelined by a few crazy work weeks. Next post coming tomorrow =).

You have approximately 9 hours left my friend!

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You have approximately 9 hours left my friend!

Just in the editing phase right now.

New post: The Rock and His Minions

Still need to hyperlink stuff, but everything else is done =).

I really like the style of your primers. Keep up the good work man!

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I really like the style of your primers. Keep up the good work man!

Thanks! Updated the first post so its a bit easier to see updates =)

Just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed your Rock article. Keep up the good work!

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Just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed your Rock article. Keep up the good work!

Thank you!

It's a deck I have played since apoc, so it was fun to write.

I hope you keep these up... as a person who is just starting out with building his own cube, these really help in identifying key elements and how they interact with other cards in a cube.

While it is all good for people to talk about adding 'packages' to their cubes etc. for specific archetypes, they don't always go into how they are meant to play/interact with the rest of the cube.

Thanks for the great work.

Thank you!

I hope to have one up this week. Doing a double master's and its been crunch time!

And, lets be honest.... hearthstone =).

very cool set of articles

I have taken a bit of a hiatus from this project for a few months with vacation/exams/life catching up with me. However, I will be writing the next article over my upcoming break. So, are their any requests for archetypes???

I primarily use wtwlf123's cube as a baseline, just as a reminder.

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I have taken a bit of a hiatus from this project for a few months with vacation/exams/life catching up with me. However, I will be writing the next article over my upcoming break. So, are their any requests for archetypes???

I primarily use wtwlf123's cube as a baseline, just as a reminder.

I'm not sure what it's called, but U\G with lots of creatures. It runs Opposition and Edric, Spymaster of Trest.

I also think counter burn is a strong archtype, but maybe it's too self explanitory for an article.

Wow, those are some amazing card alters you have there!

Thanks Star! I am constantly have them being done - totally addicted to them. I gotta update my cube page this week with the new ones. I am hoping to arrange my alters by artists for easy viewing.



Hal: I am thinking of doing a very robust article that looks over several U/X tempo variants. U/G/w is my favourite way of running the deck. I am super greedy and gotta sneak that giest in there =P.