[387][Peasant+] Reason's Cube

#1 Jan 20, 2014

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This is my cube build, I figured I'd throw it on here as an educational resource and a reference. I've only cubed a few times lately, but I still keep it up-to-date with new cards. My old playgroup was 6-8 players, more recently I've been playing it with 3-5 players so that's why my cube is now 387 cards large, from about 435.

For 3-5 player drafts, I've been using "auction draft."

I forget where I read about this or if I made it up, but if somebody else out there made this exact format, the credit goes to them. Its premise is rather simple; every player starts with a certain amount of currency and can use it to bid on mini booster packs. The winner of the bid takes the pack and pays the bid. This goes on until all players are out of money, or only one player remains with enough currency to purchase packs. He or she receives packs at an incremental monetary amount. Here's the full rundown:

Give each player 150 credits to spend. You can track this by writing it down on a sheet of paper, by using poker chips, or using lands to represent different values of currency.
Choose a player at random to be the starting dealer. Give them a D20 set to 1. The D20 will be used to track the minimum bid as well as signal who is the current dealer.
Flop a pack of cards. I do a pack of 7 cards all-revealed.
Players begin bidding on the pack, starting with the player with the D20. That player must bid a minimum of the value with a D20. A player can't bid with more credits than he or she has. The minimum increment of a bid from the previous bid is 1. When a player passes, that player is out of the bidding for the current pack. When all players but one have passed, that player receives the pack and has the winning bid amount deducted from his or her credits. The cards in the pack become hidden information.
The D20 is passed onto the next player in clockwise order. If the D20 to the starting dealer, it is incremented by 1. If the starting dealer has run out of credits, the next player in clockwise order becomes the starting dealer.
Repeat from step 3 unless all players but one have greater credits than the minimum starting bid.
The last player is repeatedly forced to buy packs at the minimum bid value. These cards are public information before the player receives them, so every other player gets a chance to see what cards this player has received.

Feel free to tweak the values in dark green to whatever you'd like after trying this format out a few times. These values have worked well for me, but these can easily be changed to cater to the playgroup. Have fun and tell me how it goes!

Disclaimer: I have a wonky color sorting system. I do not sort them as played. I understand the value in a system that sorts them where they "belong," however I have reasons for my categorization due to the way I shuffle and keep my cube. Feel free to ask me questions about my system but you likely won't be able to convince me to change how I do it.

Additionally, I intend to reduce my colored sections based on my hybrids at some point. The issue is that I keep changing up my hybrid section, so it would be a nuisance for me to keep everything perfectly balanced at the moment, so the hybrid cards currently go on top of everything else. This is why my cube is greater than 360 cards.

Cube Size: 387
Breakdown: 53 Each Color, 5 per guild, 38 Colorless, 14 unguilded Lands

Format: Peasant + Painlands/Fastlands
Portal: Yes

Un-Cards: No

Functional Reprints: Yes

Average # of Players: 3-6

Banned: Sol Ring, Library of Alexandria, Mana Drain

White is primarily interested in fielding lots of efficient weenies and lots of tokens, then pushing them through. White has a bunch of good tricks up its sleeve. It secondarily supports control, as it has lots of versatile removal and a powerful finisher in Cloudgoat Ranger. However, White must be paired with other colors to get card advantage or reach.

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Blue is a big control color. It has great creatures for walling out your opponent while improving your draws, and great evasive finishers. Its bounce spells and counterspells allow you to manipulate the flow of the game, and card draw spells allow you to keep trading 1-for-1. It secondarily supports tempo, through evasive beaters and its versatile suite of bounce and counters.

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Black is an all-in aggressive color when it wants to be, deploying great 1-drops at the cost of health and a flurry of evasive attackers backed by cheap removal. However, it is also home to many 187 creatures and reanimation spells, allowing it to grind out advantage in a long game.

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Red simultaneous has great aggro support with devastating anti-aggro capabilities. It runs cheap weenies that push through damage alongside burn and abilities that prevent opponents from blocking, before unloading a ton of fire into your opponent's face. All of red's split damage spells allow you to devastate aggressive decks, sweeping their field while you clean up with a big finisher and an X-spell.

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1x Trusty Machete
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Hooray for another Peasant cube thread! Can you go into a little more detail about your auction draft format? I'm always looking for different ways to draft with smaller groups.

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i was also curious about the auction draft...

on first glance it seems like you're running too many 3 drops in black...I'd probably cut ravenous skirge for fledgling djinn

how's court street denizen been working out for you? i including it upon its release, but it ended up feeling really clunky to me.

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@Auction Draft:
I forget where I read about this or if I made it up, but if somebody else out there made this exact format, the credit goes to them. Its premise is rather simple; every player starts with a certain amount of currency and can use it to bid on mini booster packs. The winner of the bid takes the pack and pays the bid. This goes on until all players are out of money, or only one player remains with enough currency to purchase packs. He or she receives packs at an incremental monetary amount. Here's the full rundown:

Give each player 150 credits to spend. You can track this by writing it down on a sheet of paper, by using poker chips, or using lands to represent different values of currency.
Choose a player at random to be the starting dealer. Give them a D20 set to 1. The D20 will be used to track the minimum bid as well as signal who is the current dealer.
Flop a pack of cards. I do a pack of 7 cards all-revealed.
Players begin bidding on the pack, starting with the player with the D20. That player must bid a minimum of the value with a D20. A player can't bid with more credits than he or she has. The minimum increment of a bid from the previous bid is 1. When a player passes, that player is out of the bidding for the current pack. When all players but one have passed, that player receives the pack and has the winning bid amount deducted from his or her credits. The cards in the pack become hidden information.
The D20 is passed onto the next player in clockwise order. If the D20 to the starting dealer, it is incremented by 1. If the starting dealer has run out of credits, the next player in clockwise order becomes the starting dealer.
Repeat from step 3 unless all players but one have greater credits than the minimum starting bid.
The last player is repeatedly forced to buy packs at the minimum bid value. These cards are public information before the player receives them, so every other player gets a chance to see what cards this player has received.

Feel free to tweak the values in dark green to whatever you'd like after trying this format out a few times. These values have worked well for me, but these can easily be changed to cater to the playgroup. Have fun and tell me how it goes!

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on first glance it seems like you're running too many 3 drops in black...I'd probably cut ravenous skirge for fledgling djinn

how's court street denizen been working out for you? i including it upon its release, but it ended up feeling really clunky to me.

Black's 3-drops puts me at an awkward spot. Many of them have the scary mana cost of 1BB, which is a drawback unless you have Mogis's Marauder or Gray Merchant of Asphodel in your hand. I'd probably rather cut one of them before a 2B creature. I do want to make room for Fledgling Djinn though!

Court Street Denizen has definitely underperformed from how I expected it to be. The "white creature" condition is a lot harder to match than it seems at first, and while the synergy is cute with Cenn's Enlistment and Midnight Haunting, the CSD into Cloudgoat Ranger thing doesn't happen often enough for a gray ogre to be worth it. It's probably the same reason I cut Goldnight Commander; I don't want to invest in a lot more dudes after a 3 or 4 drop in order to get value. If these guys can only get 1-2 activations and have horrible bodies when you get none, I'd rather run a guy that's consistent.

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-I've taken out Rogue's Passage for Worn Powerstone. This fair Sol Ring should allow green to have something to ramp into on turn 2 that'll let them hit 6 mana on T3 for some impressive plays.
-I've swapped the Shardlands for Vivids. They go into many more decks without favoring allied colors over enemy colors.
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I am immediately taking and altering auction drafting for use in my 2-man format. I will show you the augments when I work out the bugs

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Lemme know how that goes. With the current rules for Auction Draft, it doesn't work very well for 2 players.

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Here's a list of cards I'm (weakly to strongly) interested in from Born of the Gods:

Akroan Phalanx

Archetype of Courage

Ghostblade Eidolon

Ornitharch

Flitterstep Eidolon

Drown in Sorrow

Spiteful Returned

Archetype of Aggression

Reckless Reveler

Satyr Nyx-Smith

Scouring Sands

Stormcaller of Keranos

Thunder Brute

Graverobber Spider

Noble Quarry

Satyr Wayfinder

Fanatic of Xenagos
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After a second look over, the changes I'll most likely do are:

For white, this will give the color another good finisher as well as offensive power in Archetype. The Denizen never worked out the way I wanted it to, because either Kor Hookmaster and/or Master of Diversion is better in most decks. Midnight Haunting just doesn't do enough at instant speed, so it's coming out for another Overrun.
Court Street Denizen -> Archetype of Courage
Voice of All -> Ornitharch
Midnight Haunting -> Swell of Courage

In black, I'm going to take out Barter in Blood because nobody is really running that card ever. This lets me slot in a more aggressive removal spell that does what you want instead. I also want to fit Spiteful Returned in, but I just don't know what to take out for it. Anybody have suggestions?
Barter in Blood -> Ashes to Ashes
??? -> Spiteful Returned

Red has had a land destruction theme for a while in my cube, but it's never been really exploited by my players and it's probably too hit or miss. I'm going to opt out of it in favor of more direct firepower as well as some more control elements.
Pillage -> Reckless Reveler
Goblin Ruinblaster -> Satyr Nyx-Smith
Molten Rain -> Acidic Soil
Tectonic Rift -> Archetype of Aggression
Glare Wielder -> Thunder Brute

Basic, simple switches for green. Nobody plays Slaughterhorn! The lack of the 3rd toughness is huge. Also, players no longer use green for creature swarms, so Tromp the Domains has become considerably less useful.
Avacyn's Pilgrim -> Elvish Mystic
Slaughterhorn -> Trusted Forcemage
Tromp the Domains -> Howlgeist

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I think there's always enough tokens/chumps floating around in my cube now that Calcite Snapper and Blastoderm aren't amazing offensively. And it's like you said, Ashes to Ashes is great and I've wanted it back in my cube for a while now.

Volcanic Dragon is probably better, but I wanted the Brute to get a chance to see play. If he doesn't work out, it'll be a super easy swap.

I haven't gotten to play with Erebos's Emissary since I put it in my cube. I can't necessarily say if I want to keep him or not. I like the fact that it's a 3B 4-cost card unlike many of the other black staples and that it supports an archetype at the same time. An alternative consideration is Marsh Flitter. I run Artisan of Kozilek but I don't run Ulamog's Crusher. I might bring Dance of the Dead back sometime.

I forgot about Everflame Eidolon! I definitely wanted to test him out as well. How has he been in your cube?

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Marsh Flitter is great, easily one of my favorite black creatures.

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Wow. Everybody loves Marsh Flitter that much? I cut it when I downsized my cube from 440->390, but I definitely have fond memories of it. It's got tokens, come into play effects, and it's a sizable evasive body for a splashable black cost. Maybe I'll cut a 3-drop for it?

Makes me really wish I had a copy of Imperial Recruiter now.

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I like, but don't love, Marsh Flitter. It's a good card that supports a lot of different archetypes, but doesn't ever excel in any of them. It's at/near the bottom of the totem pole of black four-drops in my cube, so it's still got a spot, but I could see a day when it gets cut.

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I think marsh flitter is decidedly average, but it has significant upside depending on the boardstate and the cards you back it up with.

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Hey Leelue, did you ever get around to using a modified auction draft for your 2-player draft?

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#17 Mar 22, 2014
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Oh, that was complicated. I'll get back to you

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Why you should take your hybrids out of your gold section
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#18 Apr 7, 2014
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Sure, sounds good. We should make a post in the peasant forum about different ways to cube!

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#19 Apr 7, 2014
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I did, days ago

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#20 Apr 8, 2014
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Welp more people should post in it! I missed it, but I'll help contribute to it sometime.

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