I'm building my 540 cards Foil Pauper Cube and want to make it multicolored focused, allowing 3+ color decks. But I've not found many cubes that follow this idea. Could you guys share you opinions and experiences with this kind of cube?
I'm going with 540 cards aiming for a 6 players sealed pool along with the 8 players draft. Thanks in advance =)
1. Do note the amount of colored mana different cards require. For example, there is a world of difference between 1C and CC, as well as 1CC and 2C. I refuse to include CC cards, for example, partially for this exact reason.
2. Hybrids. Try and include a balanced roster of hybrid cards which can reasonably be expected to be played in either of their colors. This helps alleviate the problem with difficult casting costs.
3. Archetypes which are supported by 3 (or more) colors but may preferably be played with two, or two and a splash. I am not an expert on Pauper but in Peasant, these would include Reanimator (BUg) and Blink (WUx).
4. Gold sections primarily of non-gold mana costs. This includes cards like Shadow Guildmage (bad example because its blue ability is so situational) and Wild Nacatl. They play optimally when all colors are available but are easier to cast.
(5. Go Peasant. I am not sure how well Pauper supports such a cube and Peasant has a lot more variety as well as fixing for supporting the idea.)
they're tough to build but the reward is high when built right. the rest is left to the ability of the drafters.
pauper only is going to limit the power level of the cards a little bit; is there a specific reason you don't want to include uncommons, or is it a "foil-budget" factor?
cards that immediately pop into mind as must plays/favs:
KTK cycle
alara cycle
Be careful not to overdo it. My first intention building a cube was to recreate a [fixed] Invasion block limited, with lots of gold cards. Gradually, I shifted down to 5 non-fixing cards per guild, and it still feels a little cumbersome.
Going too heavily multicolored makes drafting less interesting because it makes a higher percentage of cards irrelevant once players are set in their color combinations, and it makes games more likely to be randomly just lost due to mana/color-screw. This is especially pronounced with the "hard" tri-color cards like Kederekt Creeper (rather than Wild Nacatl or Crystalization, as already mentioned), which aren't even up for consideration outside a particular color combination.
I'm building my 540 cards Foil Pauper Cube and want to make it multicolored focused, allowing 3+ color decks. But I've not found many cubes that follow this idea. Could you guys share you opinions and experiences with this kind of cube?
I'm going with 540 cards aiming for a 6 players sealed pool along with the 8 players draft. Thanks in advance =)
1. Do note the amount of colored mana different cards require. For example, there is a world of difference between 1C and CC, as well as 1CC and 2C. I refuse to include CC cards, for example, partially for this exact reason.
2. Hybrids. Try and include a balanced roster of hybrid cards which can reasonably be expected to be played in either of their colors. This helps alleviate the problem with difficult casting costs.
3. Archetypes which are supported by 3 (or more) colors but may preferably be played with two, or two and a splash. I am not an expert on Pauper but in Peasant, these would include Reanimator (BUg) and Blink (WUx).
4. Gold sections primarily of non-gold mana costs. This includes cards like Shadow Guildmage (bad example because its blue ability is so situational) and Wild Nacatl. They play optimally when all colors are available but are easier to cast.
(5. Go Peasant. I am not sure how well Pauper supports such a cube and Peasant has a lot more variety as well as fixing for supporting the idea.)
pauper only is going to limit the power level of the cards a little bit; is there a specific reason you don't want to include uncommons, or is it a "foil-budget" factor?
cards that immediately pop into mind as must plays/favs:
KTK cycle
alara cycle
Going too heavily multicolored makes drafting less interesting because it makes a higher percentage of cards irrelevant once players are set in their color combinations, and it makes games more likely to be randomly just lost due to mana/color-screw. This is especially pronounced with the "hard" tri-color cards like Kederekt Creeper (rather than Wild Nacatl or Crystalization, as already mentioned), which aren't even up for consideration outside a particular color combination.
Of other gold commons that haven't been mentioned, Temporal Spring, Jilt and Orim's Thunder are solid.