I recently built my first cube, partly so I could teach my kids how to draft and partly just to have fun drafts with friends. I'm still working on card choice, and there are a few open slots, not to mention cards I plan to cut. And the color balance is a little off, mostly in the multicolor selection.
Here are my goals with this cube:
- Drafts will be played as both duels and multiplayer games.
- No cards are banned for power level. If it's "too powerful," add more answers.
- Combos and infinite combos are allowed and encouraged. As the odds are against all relevant cards being A) in the draft, B) drafted by the same person, C)drawn during the same game, and D)drawn and available at the same time to be used in combo, I'm fine with the occasional combo win.
- No DFCs. I like some, but I'm using clear sleeves and don't want the hassle of checklist cards.
- All five colors have ways to use and abuse ETB effects. Each color and guild has cards for a couple archetypes.
- I like cards that work well for one color deck but even better with a second color (ie. off-color flashback/aftermath, cards like Boros Fury-Shield, Ring of Kalonia cycle, Monument cycle, etc.).
- Some complete cycles to show each color's signature abilities.
- Easy mana requirements. I initially overdid this, as I have a friend who has drafted and played four color decks in multiple drafts with no mana problems (thanks to the trilands). I'm considering adding a third gold card per guild.
Good looking cube, certainly has neat cards you don't usually get to see.
I can get on board with removing all double faced cards, they're a bit of a pain for people that aren't familiar with what both sides do.
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Here are my goals with this cube:
- Drafts will be played as both duels and multiplayer games.
- No cards are banned for power level. If it's "too powerful," add more answers.
- Combos and infinite combos are allowed and encouraged. As the odds are against all relevant cards being A) in the draft, B) drafted by the same person, C)drawn during the same game, and D)drawn and available at the same time to be used in combo, I'm fine with the occasional combo win.
- No DFCs. I like some, but I'm using clear sleeves and don't want the hassle of checklist cards.
- All five colors have ways to use and abuse ETB effects. Each color and guild has cards for a couple archetypes.
- I like cards that work well for one color deck but even better with a second color (ie. off-color flashback/aftermath, cards like Boros Fury-Shield, Ring of Kalonia cycle, Monument cycle, etc.).
- Some complete cycles to show each color's signature abilities.
- Easy mana requirements. I initially overdid this, as I have a friend who has drafted and played four color decks in multiple drafts with no mana problems (thanks to the trilands). I'm considering adding a third gold card per guild.
WHITE - Blink, Lifegain, Removal
1 Aerial Responder
1 Ainok Bond-Kin
1 Boros Fury-Shield
1 Cloudgoat Ranger
1 Cloudshift
1 Coalition Honor Guard
1 Condemn
1 Crib Swap
1 Darksteel Mutation
1 Desperate Sentry
1 Disposal Mummy
1 Eiganjo Free-Riders
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Ghostly Prison
1 Gods Willing
1 Goldnight Redeemer
1 Harm's Way
1 Humble
1 Kami of False Hope
1 Kill Shot
1 Kor Skyfisher
1 Leonin Relic-Warder
1 Lingering Souls
1 Lone Missionary
1 Long Road Home
1 Mardu Woe-Reaper
1 Momentary Blink
1 Mother of Runes
1 Nearheath Pilgrim
1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Otherworldly Journey
1 Path to Exile
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Rally the Peasants
1 Razor Hippogriff
1 Safe Passage
1 Seeker of the Way
1 Soul's Attendant
1 Stonecloaker
1 Suture Priest
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Thraben Inspector
1 To Arms!
1 Topan Freeblade
1 Topplegeist
1 Unruly Mob
1 Village Bell-Ringer
1 Vizier of Deferment
1 Wall of Omens
1 War Priest of Thune
1 Watcher of the Roost
BLUE - Blink, Spellslinger, Draw
1 Augur of Bolas
1 Azure Mage
1 Brainstorm
1 Control Magic
1 Dispel
1 Elusive Spellfist
1 Familiar's Ruse
1 Fog Bank
1 Fogwalker
1 Geist of the Archives
1 Ghostly Flicker
1 Into the Roil
1 Jeskai Elder
1 Jeskai Sage
1 Looter il-Kor
1 Man-o'-War
1 Mana Leak
1 Manic Scribe
1 Mizzium Skin
1 Mnemonic Wall
1 Mulldrifter
1 Nephalia Smuggler
1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
1 Omenspeaker
1 Peregrine Drake
1 Phantasmal Bear
1 Phyrexian Ingester
1 Ponder
1 Pongify
1 Preordain
1 Prescient Chimera
1 Quickling
1 Ray of Command
1 Reality Acid
1 Reality Shift
1 Reduce in Stature
1 Remove Soul
1 Riftwing Cloudskate
1 Sage of Epityr
1 Sage Owl
1 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Siren Stormtamer
1 Skyship Plunderer
1 Tandem Lookout
1 Telling Time
1 Tidal Wave
1 Trusted Advisor
1 Unsubstantiate
1 Vedalken Mastermind
1 Whirler Rogue
1 Whisk Away
1 Willbender
1 Wingcrafter
BLACK - Removal, Recursion, Lifedrain
1 Barter in Blood
1 Blood Artist
1 Blood Seeker
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Crypt Rats
1 Curse of Disturbance
1 Death Denied
1 Deathgreeter
1 Devour Flesh
1 Diregraf Ghoul
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Gifted Aetherborn
1 Gnarled Scarhide
1 Go for the Throat
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Grim Harvest
1 Haunted Crossroads
1 Havoc Demon
1 Hooded Assassin
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Innocent Blood
1 Mardu Shadowspear
1 Marsh Flitter
1 Murder
1 Nezumi Graverobber
1 Ogre Marauder
1 Orc Sureshot
1 Pestilence
1 Phyrexian Rager
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Ruthless Ripper
1 Shriekmaw
1 Sign in Blood
1 Skinrender
1 Skull Collector
1 Spiteful Returned
1 Supernatural Stamina
1 Throat Slitter
1 Tooth Collector
1 Tormented Hero
1 Touch of Moonglove
1 Tragic Slip
1 Unburial Rites
1 Undying Evil
1 Unearth
1 Vampire Cutthroat
1 Vampire Nighthawk
1 Vampiric Rites
1 Vicious Conquistador
1 Victimize
1 Viscera Seer
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
RED - Spellslinger, Burn
1 Act of Treason
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Beetleback Chief
1 Bloodlust Inciter
1 Brute Force
1 Collateral Damage
1 Cunning Sparkmage
1 Curse of Opulence
1 Dragon Fodder
1 Fire Servant
1 Firebrand Archer
1 Flame Slash
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Fling
1 Geistblast
1 Generator Servant
1 Ghitu Slinger
1 Gibbering Fiend
1 Goblin Bombardment
1 Goblin Glory Chaser
1 Goblinslide
1 Guttersnipe
1 Hijack
1 Impact Tremors
1 Keldon Marauders
1 Kiln Fiend
1 Kird Ape
1 Lightning Mauler
1 Manic Vandal
1 Mindclaw Shaman
1 Mogg Fanatic
1 Mogg War Marshal
1 Monastery Swiftspear
1 Oni of Wild Places
1 Pillar of Flame
1 Punishing Fire
1 Pyrewild Shaman
1 Pyrohemia
1 Raptor Hatchling
1 Rigging Runner
1 Shockmaw Dragon
1 Skullcrack
1 Slice and Dice
1 Sudden Shock
1 Temur Battle Rage
1 Thermo-Alchemist
1 Tooth and Claw
1 Volcanic Fallout
1 War-Name Aspirant
1 Weaver of Lightning
1 Wild Slash
1 Wrangle
1 Young Pyromancer
GREEN - Creatures, Pump, Ramp
1 Acidic Slime
1 Ainok Survivalist
1 Ambush Viper
1 Archetype of Endurance
1 Beast Within
1 Blessings of Nature
1 Bramblewood Paragon
1 Briarhorn
1 Burst of Strength
1 Caustic Caterpillar
1 Curse of Predation
1 Devoted Druid
1 Elvish Visionary
1 Essence Warden
1 Eternal Witness
1 Farhaven Elf
1 Fertilid
1 Fists of Ironwood
1 Gaea's Anthem
1 Great Oak Guardian
1 Imperious Perfect
1 Jade Mage
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Krosan Tusker
1 Kujar Seedsculptor
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Mutagenic Growth
1 Narnam Renegade
1 Nature's Way
1 Nest Invader
1 Nightshade Peddler
1 Obsessive Skinner
1 Ordeal of Nylea
1 Pelakka Wurm
1 Rancor
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Ridgescale Tusker
1 Roaring Primadox
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Scrounging Bandar
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Snake Umbra
1 Sprout Swarm
1 Strength in Numbers
1 Temur Sabertooth
1 Terrifying Presence
1 Verdant Rebirth
1 Vines of Vastwood
1 Wasteland Viper
1 Watcher in the Web
1 Wickerbough Elder
1 Wild Nacatl
COLORLESS
1 Bane of Bala Ged
1 Bonesplitter
1 Bontu's Monument
1 Bottle Gnomes
1 Breaker of Armies
1 Burnished Hart
1 Cogwork Librarian
1 Contagion Clasp
1 Crystal Shard
1 Dead-Iron Sledge
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Epochrasite
1 Filigree Familiar
1 Gorgon Flail
1 Grafted Wargear
1 Hazoret's Monument
1 Infiltration Lens
1 Isochron Scepter
1 Kefnet's Monument
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Mind Stone
1 Oketra's Monument
1 Perilous Myr
1 Pilgrim's Eye
1 Power Play
1 Rhonas's Monument
1 Ring of Kalonia
1 Ring of Thune
1 Ring of Valkas
1 Shrine of Burning Rage
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Sylvok Lifestaff
1 Treasure Keeper
1 Ulamog's Crusher
1 Unstable Obelisk
1 Untethered Express
1 Viridian Longbow
1 Voyager Staff
1 Wall of Tanglecord
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Whispersilk Cloak
MULTICOLOR
1 Deputy of Acquittals
1 Judge's Familiar
1 Migratory Route
1 Mistmeadow Witch
1 Reflector Mage
1 Somnomancer
Boros
1 Boros Charm
1 Duergar Hedge-Mage
1 Honored Crop-Captain
1 Lightning Helix
1 Spitemare
Dimir
1 Baleful Strix
1 Countersquall
1 Dimir Guildmage
1 Inkfathom Infiltrator
1 Soul Manipulation
Golgari
1 Baloth Null
1 Golgari Guildmage
1 Hag Hedge-Mage
1 Necrogenesis
1 Putrefy
1 Quillspike
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Ghor-Clan Rampager
1 Manamorphose
1 Tattermunge Witch
1 Wild Cantor
1 Zhur-Taa Druid
Izzet
1 Blistercoil Weird
1 Bloodwater Entity
1 Izzet Guildmage
1 Noggle Hedge-Mage
1 Stormchaser Mage
1 Wee Dragonauts
Orzhov
1 Batwing Brume
1 Gwyllion Hedge-Mage
1 Kingpin's Pet
1 Mortify
1 Restoration Gearsmith
1 Unmake
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Rakdos Cackler
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Swift Warkite
1 Terminate
Selesnya
1 Behemoth Sledge
1 Dryad Militant
1 Enlisted Wurm
1 Juniper Order Ranger
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Selesnya Guildmage
Simic
1 Coiling Oracle
1 Horizon Chimera
1 Snakeform
1 Trygon Predator
NON-BASIC LAND
1 Ash Barrens
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Fertile Thicket
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Halimar Depths
1 Haunted Fengraf
1 Jungle Shrine
1 Looming Spires
1 Mirrodin's Core
1 Mortuary Mire
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Nomad Outpost
1 Opulent Palace
1 Quicksand
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Sandsteppe Citadel
1 Sandstone Bridge
1 Savage Lands
1 Seaside Citadel
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Urza's Factory
1 Zoetic Cavern
Considering
1 Claim//Fame
1 Kitchen Finks - so much $$$
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Scour From Existence
On the chopping block
1 Plaxmanta
1 Tooth and Claw
2023 Average Peasant Cube|and Discussion
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I can get on board with removing all double faced cards, they're a bit of a pain for people that aren't familiar with what both sides do.
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