Hi, I'm looking to update a couple of cardlists. I haven't kept up with all the new cards that have come out in the past year, and I'm looking for suggestions from experienced players.
I run a C/U cube for my friends that attempts to simulate the card distributions found actual Magic packs. Each pack cards pulls from two separate cardlists: one of 400 commons and another of 100 uncommons. Within the commons pool, each card is duplicated; there are only 200 unique commons for a total of 300 unique card choices. (I'm thinking of expanding the uncommons pool to 120 inclusions.)
The ratio of commons:uncommons in a pack isn't set in stone, but usually we play with 12 of the former and 2 of the latter in each pack. It takes a while to set up, but the packs are fun to open.
Mother of Runes is banned. Hymn to Tourach is absolutely-banned-from-the-freakin-cube-forever.
Here are the lists (tappedout instead of cubetutor because I'm a troglodyte, but using custom categories so you can see my guild choices plainly). COMMONS UNCOMMONS
There's discussion threads for every new set in this forum, look for the ones marked Peasant. Usually near the time of the full spoiler, people will give run-downs of what cards are worth adding or at least testing.
If it's been a year, you've basically missed out on SOI/EMN block and KLD/AER plus the latest iteration of Commander, and EMA and MM3 downgrades. Here are my top cards from those sets. I haven't actually had the chance to see the MM3 downgrades in action yet, so I'm marking them in italics:
I run a C/U cube for my friends that attempts to simulate the card distributions found actual Magic packs. Each pack cards pulls from two separate cardlists: one of 400 commons and another of 100 uncommons. Within the commons pool, each card is duplicated; there are only 200 unique commons for a total of 300 unique card choices. (I'm thinking of expanding the uncommons pool to 120 inclusions.)
The ratio of commons:uncommons in a pack isn't set in stone, but usually we play with 12 of the former and 2 of the latter in each pack. It takes a while to set up, but the packs are fun to open.
Mother of Runes is banned. Hymn to Tourach is absolutely-banned-from-the-freakin-cube-forever.
Here are the lists (tappedout instead of cubetutor because I'm a troglodyte, but using custom categories so you can see my guild choices plainly).
COMMONS
UNCOMMONS
Gaea's Anthem
Soul Ransom
Here are some more that have been decent for me, and might be for you depending on the archetypes you're pushing:
450 card Peasant cube thread. Draft it here.