For others... Here's my summary, explanations, and request for feedback.
I started my cube a few years ago after seeing it in a local game store and then researching further online. I read several starter guides and mostly read things on here. After a while I focused solely on standard but would play my cube with friends in a casual kitchen environment and the cube consisted of mostly cards from M10 til now... Eventually I added some older cards here and there.
Needless to say I now enjoy cube, cube theory, and the idea of saving long term money vs spending tons of money to stay current with the competitive standard environment. I'm a bit of a collector as well as competitive player so I've previously been anti proxies. Which when building a gauntlet for purposes of being competitive in standard proves to be costly. Yes it'd be cheaper if I was willing to proxy but in that regard I'm stubborn.
Prelude aside, I am now tweaking and working on collecting a cube with a list derived from cross comparing four (EDIT: NOW 11 CUBES) of my favorite cubes or cube designers... I built a database that culminated in a final card count of 1148. At least 3 of the 11 cubes I chose shared 647 cards. This was my starting point. I then added more choice cards to round out the 720. (EDIT: This was a lot of work up front but certainly helped me come to a tighter and more improved cube than my previous card pool... 11 specifically chosen and similar cubes gave me a more reasonable overlap of cards chosen... I chose 11 cubes who have profiles on here or were in discussions or are updated on cube theory)
I went ahead and decided to Proxy the Power9. If the playgroup says no Power9 I have the cube at 729 to be able to simply pre make packs and be able to have back to back drafts accommodating 8 players and not have to re shuffle and re pack between drafts. Plus, 720 allows me more cards to choose from, which I like because cutting cards is tough. I'll say that I will likely keep the 647 that were shared among the 11 cubes and tweak and move other cards as necessary.
Please feel free to draft it and provide feedback.
Thank you all for reading this and I look forward to your help and feedback. Special thanks to Usman, Brian, WtWlf123, and of course Wizards for their ideas and thoughts on cube design that has got me into this.
I house the cube in three 2013 Fatpacks glued together and the inside cardboard was brought to the outside and colored silver.
All lands are uniformed Zendikar basics.
While 7 of the 11 cubes I pulled from shared Lone Missionary... I spoke with a friend of mine who has cubed forever and he said aggro hates facing it... Red in particular. And if he himself was running white aggro, he'd rather a different card.
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/26628
For others... Here's my summary, explanations, and request for feedback.
I started my cube a few years ago after seeing it in a local game store and then researching further online. I read several starter guides and mostly read things on here. After a while I focused solely on standard but would play my cube with friends in a casual kitchen environment and the cube consisted of mostly cards from M10 til now... Eventually I added some older cards here and there.
Needless to say I now enjoy cube, cube theory, and the idea of saving long term money vs spending tons of money to stay current with the competitive standard environment. I'm a bit of a collector as well as competitive player so I've previously been anti proxies. Which when building a gauntlet for purposes of being competitive in standard proves to be costly. Yes it'd be cheaper if I was willing to proxy but in that regard I'm stubborn.
Prelude aside, I am now tweaking and working on collecting a cube with a list derived from cross comparing four (EDIT: NOW 11 CUBES) of my favorite cubes or cube designers... I built a database that culminated in a final card count of 1148. At least 3 of the 11 cubes I chose shared 647 cards. This was my starting point. I then added more choice cards to round out the 720. (EDIT: This was a lot of work up front but certainly helped me come to a tighter and more improved cube than my previous card pool... 11 specifically chosen and similar cubes gave me a more reasonable overlap of cards chosen... I chose 11 cubes who have profiles on here or were in discussions or are updated on cube theory)
I went ahead and decided to Proxy the Power9. If the playgroup says no Power9 I have the cube at 729 to be able to simply pre make packs and be able to have back to back drafts accommodating 8 players and not have to re shuffle and re pack between drafts. Plus, 720 allows me more cards to choose from, which I like because cutting cards is tough. I'll say that I will likely keep the 647 that were shared among the 11 cubes and tweak and move other cards as necessary.
I've uploaded my cube to cubetutor...
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/26628
Please feel free to draft it and provide feedback.
Thank you all for reading this and I look forward to your help and feedback. Special thanks to Usman, Brian, WtWlf123, and of course Wizards for their ideas and thoughts on cube design that has got me into this.
Benny's Motivational Writing
All lands are uniformed Zendikar basics.
Benny's Motivational Writing
Lone Missionary OUT
Gather the Townsfolk IN
Cheap bodies, and no life gain.
Other option would be Decree of Justice but I think I'll play to the earlier curve for White for now.
Benny's Motivational Writing
Benny's Motivational Writing