If you want to skip straight to the card list, please know I'm just looking for tips for cards to add or take out and some feedback in general.
Last Edit 11/8/2012
Back story
So I can comfortably say my only real magic experience has been cube drafting (shout out to pro player Nick Spagnolo for introducing me). I mainly played his cube but was introduced to a few others through his friends in NYC and Long Island.
A few years later (now) I've just been playing normal board games like Dominion, Catan, Alhambra, Race for the Galaxy, Agricola, Cosmic Encounter, etc. and found myself getting bored. So I ordered up a ton of commons and sleeves to proxy myself a cube for my gaming group.
I put a lot of effort into making the cube, trying to make it powered yet still fun, easy enough to teach new people both magic the gathering and cube drafting, balanced with tons of different deck types. I decided on the rather large 540 so that our usual group of about 6 could do two drafts one after the other and see completely new cards.
I'm uploading it now after my first edit adding Return to Ravnica and getting rid of some stuff that wasn't being taken advantage of in our group.
The biggest part of my edit was Black just seemed so underused that I overhauled it, and you'll see a plethora of Green/Black in Multicolor as I try to make Black/Green a viable fun choice and I also put in some land destruction and other support cards so red and black was a more playable combination as well
Again, I'm just looking for some tips about cards in or out and some general feedback. Having played little magic outside cube drafting, I'm sure I could use some tips.
So here's the list:
69 Black
71 Blue
71 Green
71 Red
71 White
67 Multicolor
60 Artifacts
60 Land
I'm using a master list to make all my edits to the cube, and then going back and editing several smaller lists which is what I'm copying from to paste here. So apparently the smaller lists (which I did myself not through a program) had some flaws.
Thanks for the data, but how did you get so much data so fast? Whatever program you're using is pretty phenomenal.
Just going to comment on your blue for now (just one section at a time) since your list is a bit difficult to read without having it sorted by CMC.
Creaturewise, the ninjas, plaxmanta, faerie imposter, and husher all seem very week compared to the rest of the field. Why not try Coralhelm Commander? I got my face smashed in with it several times today, in a 360.
Blustersquall and Flusterstorm also seem very weak unless you're scrapping for counters, and even then I'd run Memory Lapse, Remand, and Arcane Denial over those. Time Spiral is another insane card that you're missing.
Last Edit 11/8/2012
So I can comfortably say my only real magic experience has been cube drafting (shout out to pro player Nick Spagnolo for introducing me). I mainly played his cube but was introduced to a few others through his friends in NYC and Long Island.
A few years later (now) I've just been playing normal board games like Dominion, Catan, Alhambra, Race for the Galaxy, Agricola, Cosmic Encounter, etc. and found myself getting bored. So I ordered up a ton of commons and sleeves to proxy myself a cube for my gaming group.
I put a lot of effort into making the cube, trying to make it powered yet still fun, easy enough to teach new people both magic the gathering and cube drafting, balanced with tons of different deck types. I decided on the rather large 540 so that our usual group of about 6 could do two drafts one after the other and see completely new cards.
I'm uploading it now after my first edit adding Return to Ravnica and getting rid of some stuff that wasn't being taken advantage of in our group.
The biggest part of my edit was Black just seemed so underused that I overhauled it, and you'll see a plethora of Green/Black in Multicolor as I try to make Black/Green a viable fun choice and I also put in some land destruction and other support cards so red and black was a more playable combination as well
Again, I'm just looking for some tips about cards in or out and some general feedback. Having played little magic outside cube drafting, I'm sure I could use some tips.
69 Black
71 Blue
71 Green
71 Red
71 White
67 Multicolor
60 Artifacts
60 Land
Black:
Creatures
Spells
Blue
Creature
Spells
Green
Creatures
Spells
Red
Creature
Spells
White
Creatures
Spells
Multicolor
Artifacts
Lands
-bonda
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This was posted a little later at night than I should have (as you quickly were able to tell by mistakes).
I do appreciate how quickly you responded though, and how incredibly precise you were
I'm using a master list to make all my edits to the cube, and then going back and editing several smaller lists which is what I'm copying from to paste here. So apparently the smaller lists (which I did myself not through a program) had some flaws.
Thanks for the data, but how did you get so much data so fast? Whatever program you're using is pretty phenomenal.
Anyways, thanks for the deep analysis.
Creaturewise, the ninjas, plaxmanta, faerie imposter, and husher all seem very week compared to the rest of the field. Why not try Coralhelm Commander? I got my face smashed in with it several times today, in a 360.
Blustersquall and Flusterstorm also seem very weak unless you're scrapping for counters, and even then I'd run Memory Lapse, Remand, and Arcane Denial over those. Time Spiral is another insane card that you're missing.