From that pack, I'd probably cut green and take Wickerbough Elder. There are plenty of red and black cards there, so depending on what the next packs fed me, I feel like I could go into either GR or GB pretty safely.
Why did you decide to go up to 1000 cards? I had trouble getting my C/U list up to where it is now without including some sub par cards until recent sets. I think even a rare cube has problems going that large without including some cards that aren't that great.
I agree with eidolon on the point regarding size of the cube - I'd recommend doing a bit of trimming to get the cube down to 720 - this still gives you enough cards to make packs for 16 players and lets you increase the power level overall and gives a good balance between consistency for different archetypes (the more cards the more variance) while still keeping things fairly mixed up and unexpected each draft - especially if you are doing 8 man or less pods.
Agreed with the others. I see your reasoning, but I don't agree with it. If I'm drafting a cube, I don't want to see cards in my packs that I feel are simply bad. I don't want to draft an on color card that probably won't make my deck because it's not good enough. I also don't want to be forced to include sub par cards in my deck because that all I could get. If you want to keep a larger cube, I'd highly recommend going down to 720 or so. For C/U, though, I feel like 500 is probably the max before you start including some pretty bad options for cards.
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Why did you decide to go up to 1000 cards? I had trouble getting my C/U list up to where it is now without including some sub par cards until recent sets. I think even a rare cube has problems going that large without including some cards that aren't that great.
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